Service quality as an antecedent in enhancing customers’ behavioural intentions: a case study of Malaysian army medical centers

Azman Ismail, and Ilyani Ranlan Rose, and Nur Afiqah Foboy, (2016) Service quality as an antecedent in enhancing customers’ behavioural intentions: a case study of Malaysian army medical centers. Geografia : Malaysian Journal of Society and Space, 12 (2). pp. 179-190. ISSN 2180-2491

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Abstract

Behavioural intention is a customer preference to use services provided by service providers and this preference manifests itself in the form of the customer’s readiness to recommend, intention to repurchase, and deliver positive words of mouth regarding the services provided. This has a lot to do with the ability of providers to effectively offer services which are not only tangible but also reliable, responsive, reassuring, and empathic. Extant studies in this field reveal that the ability of service providers to appropriately deliver these qualities in performing daily job may have a significant impact on customers’ behavioural intentions. Even though this relationship has been studied widely the role of service quality as an important antecedent has been relatively ignored in current organizational quality research literature. In this light, this study was undertaken to measure the relationship between service quality and behavioural intention. Primary data were gathered from 128 customers and eleven administrative staff and doctors of the military hospitals in Peninsular Malaysia. The outcome of a SmartPLS path model analysis confirmed that the ability of organizations to properly implement quality in medical services would enhance the intention of customers to continuously use the services.

Item Type:Article
Keywords:Behavioural intention; Customers; Medical centers; Service providers; Service quality; SmartPLS
Journal:Geografia ; Malaysian Journal of Society and Space
ID Code:9823
Deposited By: ms aida -
Deposited On:07 Jun 2016 03:55
Last Modified:14 Dec 2016 06:50

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