- Title
- Keep up the good work in research universities : an importance-performance analysis
- Creator
- Padlee, Siti; Reimers, Vaughan; Mokhlis, Safiek; Anuar, Marhana; Ahmad, Azlinzuraini
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/173320
- Identifier
- vital:14663
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ausmj.2019.10.002
- Identifier
- ISBN:1441-3582 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- The objective of this study was to measure academics’ perceptions towards three key dimensions of a higher education institution (HEI) – teaching quality, research quality and internationalisation – the latter two of which have received relatively scant attention in the context of service quality. Using five Malaysian universities as its context, and importance–performance analysis (IPA) as its method of analysis, the study found that the five universities performed well in relation to 14 of the 26 attributes. However, for each of the three dimensions there was a common theme in regards to the service attributes that fell short of expectations. In the case of teaching quality, this theme related to learning, for research quality it was research collaboration, and for internationalisation, it was international recognition. This study makes two key contributions to new knowledge. Firstly, it measures academic perceptions towards service quality as it relates to research and internationalisation, and secondly, it measures such perceptions using IPA. One of the key findings of the study is that the attitudes of those responsible for providing service quality (i.e. academics) may well differ from the HEI decision-makers that endeavour to manage it. © 2019 Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy
- Publisher
- Elsevier Australia
- Relation
- Australasian Marketing Journal Vol. 28, no. 2 (2020), p. 128-138
- Rights
- Copyright © 2019 Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 15 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services; Academics; Importance–performance analysis; Research universities; Service quality
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