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The importance of service quality as an indicator of customer satisfaction and organisational performance is widely acknowledged and has led to a major research thrust which has focused on a number of industries within the service sector. Some of the research relating to defining and measuring service quality is reviewed and a number of suggestions are made as to how measurement instruments such as SERVQUAL might be improved.
Lewis et al. (Fri,) studied this question.