Do quality consultants offer a quality service?
By: VIADIU, Frederic Marimon
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Contributor(s): FA, Martí Casadesús | SAIZARBITORIA, Iñaki Heras.
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ArticlePublisher: Oxfordshire : Routledge, September 2002Total Quality Management 13, 6, p. 797-811Abstract: By the end of year 2000, more than 3800 Spanish companies had been ISO certified (ISO, 2001). Aiming for a quality certification is still the most extended practice leading to quality 80Abstract: contracted external consultancy services to help them implement quality system (Casadesus, 1998); Despite that, there is no clear evidence that consultancy contributed to enhancing the implementation of quality systems. In this article, we present empirical research on this issue, in a sample of Spanish companies. We use SERVQUAL methodology to study several factors: potential benefits obtained by customers of quality consultancy services, customers' perceived quality and benefits provided by the consultant, relationship between the quality of the consultant companies and their size and, finally, the cost of the quality consultant services
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By the end of year 2000, more than 3800 Spanish companies had been ISO certified (ISO, 2001). Aiming for a quality certification is still the most extended practice leading to quality 80
contracted external consultancy services to help them implement quality system (Casadesus, 1998); Despite that, there is no clear evidence that consultancy contributed to enhancing the implementation of quality systems. In this article, we present empirical research on this issue, in a sample of Spanish companies. We use SERVQUAL methodology to study several factors: potential benefits obtained by customers of quality consultancy services, customers' perceived quality and benefits provided by the consultant, relationship between the quality of the consultant companies and their size and, finally, the cost of the quality consultant services
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