The intangibility of services presents a number of problems for the
measurement of quality and customer satisfaction. Proposes a simple
index which can be applied to ordinal or cardinal data and will provide
a convenient aggregate summary of the extent to which a product or
service meets consumer expectations. The index, though simple, is
robust, and is applied to the problem of analysing the quality of
banking services provided to small firms in the United Kingdom.
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