TY - BOOK AU - Whyte,Grafton TI - The V-model of service quality: an exploration of African customer service delivery metrics T2 - Emerald points SN - 9781787696037 (e-book) AV - HF5415.5 .W49 2018 U1 - 658.812 23 PB - Emerald Publishing Limited KW - Customer services KW - Africa KW - Customer relations KW - Management KW - Business & Economics, Customer Relations KW - bisacsh KW - bicssc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Grafton Whyte introduces and explores a new academic theory for customer service delivery for Africa, aimed at addressing issues of poor customer service and poor service delivery. The V-Model of Service Quality (VMSQ) offers a powerful tool for measuring service quality, augmented by a service exchange model to provide a general framework for services, describe core components and provide contexts within which the VMSQ can operate. The VMSQ provides an indication of where problems may lie in a service operation, and an additional African Management Matrix identifies some of the historical and contextual barriers that need to be overcome by African managers to achieve effective customer service delivery. This book grounds the theoretical interventions in data drawn from case studies in the Sub-Saharan African context to make the models applicable to both researchers and working managers. It looks at the complex question of customer service delivery in Africa, and embraces both concepts of customer service and service delivery UR - https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781787696037 ER -