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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793121803321

Autore

Whyte Grafton

Titolo

The V-model of service quality : an exploration of African customer service delivery metrics / / by Grafton Whyte (University of Namibia, Namibia)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

United Kingdom : , : Emerald Publishing, , 2018

ISBN

1-78769-605-7

1-78769-603-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (157 pages)

Collana

Emerald points

Disciplina

658.812

Soggetti

Customer services - Africa

Customer relations - Africa - Management

Business & Economics, Customer Relations

Customer services

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Grafton Whyte introduces and explores a new academic theory for customer service delivery for Africa, aimed at addressing issues of poor customer service and poor service delivery. The V-Model of Service Quality (VMSQ) offers a powerful tool for measuring service quality, augmented by a service exchange model to provide a general framework for services, describe core components and provide contexts within which the VMSQ can operate. The VMSQ provides an indication of where problems may lie in a service operation, and an additional African Management Matrix identifies some of the historical and contextual barriers that need to be overcome by African managers to achieve effective customer service delivery. This book grounds the theoretical interventions in data drawn from case studies in the Sub-Saharan African context to make the models applicable to both researchers and working managers. It looks at the complex question of customer service delivery in Africa, and embraces both concepts of customer service and service delivery.