It is an era of customer delight. The conventional measures implemented by the service organizations tend to be inadquate to attract customers persistendly. We examine the current status of two‐wheeler service stations in terms of their strategies and actions adopted in managing the service stations. The important factors to achieve customer satisfaction in two‐wheeler service industry are identified. Data collected for this study encompasses: (1) questionnaire survey of the service stations, (2) questionnaire survey of the customers (3) formal interviews with the managers and representatives of the manufacturing units, and (4) informal interview with service personnel and the customers. The specific contribution of our research in lies in identificaion and categorizing the factors in Indian context.
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January 01 2008
Two‐wheeler service sector in India: factors of importance for sustainable growth Available to Purchase
Virupaxi Bagodi;
Virupaxi Bagodi
Department of Industrial & Production Engineering, BVB College of Engineering & Technology, HUBLI – 580031, Karnataka, India
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Biswajit Mahanty
Biswajit Mahanty
Department of Industrial Engineering & Management, Indian Institute of Technology
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2049-3207
Print ISSN: 0972-7981
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2008
Journal of Advances in Management Research (2008) 5 (1): 21–27.
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Bagodi V, Mahanty B (2008), "Two‐wheeler service sector in India: factors of importance for sustainable growth". Journal of Advances in Management Research, Vol. 5 No. 1 pp. 21–27, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/97279810880001264
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