Service Quality in Banking: Developing and Testing Measurement Instrument with Latvian Sample Data
Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis 2013
Jeļena Titko, Nataļja Lāce, Konstantins Kozlovskis

The paper highlights the importance of managing service quality in banking that can positively affect customer satisfaction. The goal of the given study is to develop an instrument for measuring service quality perceived by Latvian banks’ retail customers and to determine the most important contributors to customer satisfaction. To achieve this purpose, randomly selected customers of Latvian banks were surveyed, using the authors’ developed questionnaire. The proposed instrument was tested for reliability and validity, using techniques of confirmatory factor analysis. Exploratory factor analysis yielded five service quality dimensions (factors) that allowed constructing customer satisfaction factor model EPICA: E – expenses, P – product, I – image, C – competence and emotional intellect, A – access. The subsequent correlation analysis revealed that the strongest relationship is between customer satisfaction and C factor. The results of the current research are crucially important for Latvian banks’ executives because the majority of previous studies in the related field offered measurement scales adequate for measuring service quality in other industries. Besides, the proposed questionnaire is exclusively developed for Latvia and considers Latvian banking sector specifics.


Atslēgas vārdi
retail banking, service quality, factor analysis, EPICA model.
DOI
10.11118/actaun201361020507

Titko, J., Lāce, N., Kozlovskis, K. Service Quality in Banking: Developing and Testing Measurement Instrument with Latvian Sample Data. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2013, Vol.61, No.2, 507.-515.lpp. ISSN 1211-8516. Pieejams: doi:10.11118/actaun201361020507

Publikācijas valoda
English (en)
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