Journal Article: Recent submissions
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Do warranties influence perceptions of service quality?: a study of the automobile repair and service industry
(© 1998 Published by Elsevier Ltd., 1998)The relationship between customers' overall evaluation of service quality and five factors — perceived fairness, empathy, responsiveness, reliability, and convenience — was examined in the automobile repair and service ... -
Delivering primary education in Bangladesh: enabling the field personnel
(© 1998 Published by MCB UP Ltd., 1998)To transform the population of Bangladesh into a more literate and numerate group so that higher‐order nation building objectives can be attained, primary education has a vital role to play. Its effective delivery depends ... -
Determinants of customer satisfaction with hospitals: a managerial model
(© 1998 Published by MCB UP Ltd., 1998)States that rapid changes in the environment have exerted significant pressures on hospitals to incorporate patient satisfaction in their strategic stance and quest for market share and long‐term viability. This study ... -
Service quality in public and private hospitals in urban Bangladesh: a comparative study
(© 2000 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd., 2000)This study compared the quality of services provided by private and public hospitals in urban Bangladesh. Using twenty-four scale items, patient perceptions were sought on five aspects of service quality including ... -
Public and private hospitals in Bangladesh: service quality and predictors of hospital choice
(© 2000 Published by Oxford University Press, 2000)This study compares the quality of services provided by public and private hospitals in Bangladesh. The premise of the paper was that the quality of hospital services would be contingent on the incentive structure under ... -
Service quality perceptions and patient satisfaction: a study of hospitals in a developing country
(© 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd., 2001)Patients’ perceptions about health services seem to have been largely ignored by health care providers in developing countries. That such perceptions, especially about service quality, might shape confidence and subsequent ... -
Revitalizing higher education in Bangladesh: insights from alumni and policy prescriptions
(© 2003 Published by Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2003)Higher education in Bangladesh must become more responsive to the needs of a major constituency: its students. How this might be accomplished is examined in this study using a nine-factor model to explain the satisfaction ... -
Political leadership and legitimacy among the urban elite in Bangladesh
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A multivariate model of perceived quality in a developing country
(© 2007 Published by Taylor & Francis Online, 2007)This paper integrates past research and proposes a framework for the analysis of consumer perceptions of quality in a developing country. In this framework, consumer-perceived quality is hypothesized to be formed from ... -
Satisfaction with food services: insights from a college cafeteria
(© 2007 Taylor & Francis Online, 2007)College students' food service needs is an important area that needs more research. While the importance of offering quality education is paramount, for many colleges that are embattled in their quest to retain students, ... -
Participation in the workplace: gender perspectives from Bangladesh
(© 2004 Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2004)Studies on participation in organizational decision making in the context of developing countries are limited, especially from a gender perspective. Based on a survey of government and private sector employees in Dhaka, ... -
Customer satisfaction in the restaurant industry: an examination of the transaction-specific model
(© 2006 Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2006)Purpose – To determine the factors that explain customer satisfaction in the full service restaurant industry. Design/methodology/approach – Secondary research and qualitative interviews were used to build the model ... -
Patient satisfaction with health services in Bangladesh
(© 2007 The Author, Oxford University Press in association with The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine., 2007)Concern over the quality of health care services in Bangladesh has led to loss of faith in public and private hospitals, low utilization of public health facilities, and increasing outflow of Bangladeshi patients to ... -
The effect of board’s quality on performance: a study of Canadian firms
(© 2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2007)We investigate the impact of board’s quality as defined by a Score published in a Canadian National Newspaper on the performance of the firm. Based on the current literature, we ranked the boards of 219 Canadian firms ... -
Caring for children: a model of healthcare service quality in Bangladesh
(© 2008 The Author, Oxford University Press, 2008)Objective This study assesses the links between service quality and patient satisfaction in the context of health services delivered to children in a developing country. With the growing importance of patients' voice in ... -
Service experiences in hospitals in Bangladesh: are there gender inequities?
(© Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2010)Purpose – The disparities faced by women, especially in Bangladesh, have a long and contentious history. From education and employment to health care and other social products, the marginalization of women has been stark. ... -
Choice and evaluation of hospitals in Bangladesh: insights from patients and policy implications
(© University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dept. of Health Policy & Administration., 1998)Various aspects of health care services in Bangladesh, especially in the public sector, are not well documented. Based on a survey, this paper attempts to gain insights into the health care area from the perspectives of ... -
Usage of academic libraries: the role of service quality, resources, and user characteristics
(© Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001)Competitive pressures from different information providers; widely available information resources; rising costs of books, serials, and electronic resources; and emerging new technologies and services providing information ... -
Family planning field workers in Bangladesh as influence agents: some policy implications
(© Department of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health University of North Carolina, 2011-10)The family planning program in Bangladesh is one of the country’s success stories. However, in the quest to gain cost efficiencies, there are suggestions to scale back the role of the family planning field workers so ... -
Explaining user satisfaction with academic libraries: strategic implications
(© American Library Association, Chicago, 1998-03)Competitive pressures, information availability, rising costs, and an increasingly aware and selective student population mandate that academic libraries become more user focused. This calls for a better understanding of ...