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Inseparability is a term used in marketing to describe a key quality of services as distinct from goods, namely the characteristic that a service has which renders it impossible to divorce the supply or production of the service from its consumption. [1] Other key characteristics of services include perishability, intangibility and variability ...
Perishability is used in marketing to describe the way in which service capacity cannot be stored for sale in the future. It is a key concept of services marketing. [1] Other key characteristics of services include intangibility, inseparability, fluctuating demand, pricing of services, heterogeneity and variability.
Operations management for services has the functional responsibility for producing the services of an organization and providing them directly to its customers. [1]: 6–7 It specifically deals with decisions required by operations managers for simultaneous production and consumption of an intangible product. These decisions concern the process ...
Service personnel are important because they are the face of the company and represent the company's values to customers. Customers are important because they are the reason for being in business and are the source of revenue. Service firms must manage interactions between customers and interactions between employees and customers. [83]
A service is an act or use for which a consumer, company, or government is willing to pay. [1] Examples include work done by barbers, doctors, lawyers, mechanics, banks, insurance companies, and so on. Public services are those that society (nation state, fiscal union or region) as a whole pays for.
Intangibility refers to the lack of palpable or tactile property making it difficult to assess service quality. [1] [2] [3] According to Zeithaml et al. (1985, p. 33), “Because services are performances, rather than objects, they cannot be seen, felt, tasted, or touched in the same manner in which goods can be sensed.” [4] As a result, intangibility has historically been seen as the most ...
For public sector contracting purposes, the electricity supply is defined among goods rather than services in the European Union, [2] whereas under United States federal procurement regulations, it is treated as a service. [3] Goods are normally structural and can be transferred in an instant while services are delivered over a period of time.
From the viewpoint of business administration, service quality is an achievement in customer service. [4] It reflects at each service encounter. Customers form service expectations from past experiences, word of mouth and marketing communications. [5] In general, customers compare perceived service with expected service, and if the former falls ...