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        Barriers to customer-orientation : A case applied and explained

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        Halliday, Sue
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        2299/6826
        Abstract
        This paper illustrates that a crucial dimension to any strategy to deliver customer-orientation is that of the organisation's cultural dynamics. If these are ignored, implementation may well fail. Within the marketing discipline this issue is, however, usually only touched upon. Reports on a grounded study of the implementation of a customer-oriented policy at the customer interface. Nineteen pregnant women and 32 midwives were observed and questioned during a longitudinal study of perceptions of service quality in maternity care. A dynamic, explanatory model of organisational cultural issues is here used to analyse part of this empirical study. These findings indicate that organisational cultural issues form a barrier to creating a customer-oriented capability within midwifery. For, whilst the customer or pregnant woman is looking for time spent on personal reassurance, by being informed and guided, midwives are finding meaning and value from myths symbolising a golden past in the face of an unwelcome present and uncertain future.
        Publication date
        2002
        Published in
        European Journal of Marketing
        Published version
        https://doi.org/10.1108/03090560210412737
        Other links
        http://hdl.handle.net/2299/6826
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