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Measuring patients' perceived hospital service quality: A case study of Nepal's Private Hospitals
Get PDFWith the shift in focus to patient recognizing healthcare to be different compared to other services, service quality measurement needs to be tuned specifically to healthcare. The purpose of this paper is to describe hospital service quality of Nepal's private hospital as perceived by Nepalese patients and to which patients’ satisfaction of health service quality impact upon their behavioral intention. Descriptive survey study design was adopted for this study. Survey method and 400 questionnaires were distributed to the out- patient. Only four private hospitals were evaluated in Kathmandu City. The data was analyzed using simple linear regression Analysis was applied to envisage the relation between dependent and independent variables. The researcher found that there exists a correlation between customer satisfaction and behavioral intention. Also, hospital service quality has an impact upon customer satisfaction. From the findings the researcher concludes to develop the right approaches personalization need to be improved which stabilizes the system appropriately and be contextualized to the true environment of the Nepalese consumers. Healthcare provider and hospital management should allocate the effort towards personalization to maximize patient satisfaction and to improve the perceived quality of healthcare services
Influences of Celebrity Endorsement on Thai Male Consumers’ Attitudes and Purchase Intention of Male Cosmetics: The Case of Lee Dong Wook in Boy de CHANEL
Get PDFPurpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of celebrity endorsement on the attitudes of Thai male consumers, which lead to male cosmetics purchase intentions, by using a case study of famous male cosmetics advertisements.
Design/Methodology/Approach – To purpose the new conceptual model, this study has explored previous research and adapted some models to be more relevant. A self-administered survey was used to collect the primary data. Inferential analysis was done by multiple linear regression (MLR) to test the hypotheses.
Findings – The results show partial support of hypotheses, such that trustworthiness and relevance are the only 2 factors in celebrity’s attributes that influence attitudes toward advertisements and attitudes toward products. Moreover, both attitudinal variables are significantly linked with male cosmetics purchase intentions.
Limitations/Implications – This study is relatively novel in terms of the industry that it aimed to study, male cosmetics. Previous articles related to this industry, and research using the PATER model, are scarce. Future studies can pinpoint more into this model and this industry. Furthermore, the familiarity between consumers and ads elements might play a role, according to the results. Hence, Thai ads might be used to study in future research on Thai male consumers
IMPORTANCE AND PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF DISTANCE EDUCATION FOR RADIO AND TELEVISION UNIVERSITY OF CHINA STUDENTS IN CHINA
Get PDFThis study aims to measure students’ perception on importance and performance of Radio and Television University of China (RTUC), with intention to help improve the university’s business. Student satisfaction is one of the important indexes of university ranking, and it is also an important reference index when students choose university. As a radio and television university, its students are mainly adults who have entered the social work, students in order to be more competitive in the workplace to promote the continuing education of academic qualifications. Unlike full-time students who are influenced by a variety of factors, adult students will focus on student satisfaction when choosing a school, so improving college satisfaction is important for RTUC enrollment, and studying the impact criteria of different variables on student satisfaction can help RTUC improve student satisfaction and thus better help universities attract students to enroll. Variables effecting RTUC’s students’ satisfaction in the distance education industry of china includes eight attributes: they are, RTUC’s general service, registration guide, tutorial, practice, learning material, examination, media, and, cost/value for money. Survey conducted on RTUC’s 401 students via questionnaire of 44 questions finds no significant difference between their perceptions on importance and performance of all variables. This is a research use quantitative method and use important and performance analysis to evaluate the result
Identification of Impact of Atmospheric Attributes upon Buying Intention of Customers in Bhat Bhateni Supermarket in Nepal
Get PDFThe rise of supermarket business through changing consumer’s behavior in the cities of Nepal, atmospheric attributes, as an integrated part of supermarket business, has become a strategic tool in creating persuasive channel in a supermarket. The purpose of this paper is to describe atmospheric attributes of Bhat Bhateni Supermarket in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal and to which the impact made by these attributes towards buying intention of customers of the store. There were 400 questionnaires distributed to the customers who have at least visited Bhat Bhateni Supermarket once. The analysis of Multiple Linear Regression and Simple Linear Regression Analysis was applied to visualize the relation between dependent and independent variables. The findings of the research described the Nepalese consumers’ views on the atmosphere of Supermarket in Kathmandu Valley and to identify the extent to which atmospheric attributes of Kathmandu Valley’s Supermarket has impact upon Nepalese consumers’ buying intention. The researcher suggests room for improvement to the Nepalese marketers who use store surrounding and atmosphere as a marketing tool in Nepal’s supermarket industry. There exist an impact of general interior of the store, store layout or the interior display and human variables of the store. Therefore, the atmospheric attributes play a key role in the success of supermarket
Investigation of Chinese Expatriates' Satisfaction and Loyalty to Visiting the Leading and Luxury Shopping Complexes in Bangkok Metropolis
Get PDFPurpose: This research study aims to determine the extent to which Chinese expatriates are drawn to visit the leading and luxury shopping complexes in Bangkok Metropolis, by measuring the shopping complexes’ CRM attributes, their utilitarian value and their atmosphere. Attributes of customer relationship management (CRM)in this study include: the behavior of the employees; quality of customer service; relationship development; and interaction management. Research design, data and methodology: Chinese expatriates living in Greater Bangkok are asked to express their satisfaction and loyalty towards the shopping complexes. This study uses a quantitative research design. Questionnaire is distributed to the sample size of 150 customers. Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) and Simple Linear Regression (SLR) are used to analyzed the results. Results: The study finds that all the CRM elements, except relationship development have an impact on Chinese expatriate customers’ satisfaction and loyalty, while both the shopping complexes’ utilitarian value and their atmosphere have an impact on Chinese expatriate customers’ satisfaction and loyalty to the shopping complexes. Limitations/Implication: The results can be useful for the shopping complexes’ CRM planners to design specific communication and customer intimacy specifically catered to Chinese expatriate customers, of which population continues to rise as a result of growing businesses between Thailand and China.
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Utilitarian value, Atmosphere, Customer Satisfaction, Customer Loyalty, Chinese Expatriates
JEL Classification Code: D83, M31, O14, J11, F6
Factors Influencing Undergraduate Students’ Loyalty: A Study of Thai Private Universities Offering International Programs
Get PDFThis study aims to identify factors that influence undergraduate students’ loyalty on their universities. The focus is on the international programs offered at six prominent Thai private universities in the greater Bangkok Metropolis and the outskirts area. A quantitative survey research method was employed. The respondents were Thai and International students who are between ages 18 and 25. An online survey was conducted using questionnaire distributed to 360 students. The researcher used quota sampling method in which 60 responses were obtained from each of the six universities. Results from Multiple Linear Regression analysis indicate that university image, reputation, functional service quality and student perceived value impact student satisfaction. University reputation scores highest on the students’ satisfaction (Beta = 0.755), followed by the students’ perceived value (Beta = 0.677), university image (Beta = 0.562) and functional service quality (Beta = 0.542), respectively. Results from Simple Linear Regression indicate that university image also impacts the students’ loyalty at the beta value (β) of 0.573. The findings conclude that Thai private universities should maintain and enhance university trustworthiness and heritage, such as campus culture, to build a favorable university image. It is also concluded that university reputation has the strongest impact on student satisfaction whereas student satisfaction has massive impact on student loyalty. Students from different universities do not express loyalty differently while students of different years of study hold distinct views when expressing loyalty to their respective universities
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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