英文摘要 |
Museums are typically non-profit organizations, which have more sophisticated service targets than profit-making organizations. Thus, it is more difficult for museums to control service quality and satisfaction. This is a major challenge for the museum operation and management. This work is a case study at the National Science and Technology Museum (NSTM), where we investigated the visitors' recognition and satisfaction of our service quality. We designed our study by applying both the SERVQUAL measurement table by Parasuraman Zeithamal and Berry (1998) and the ''Expectation- Perception Disconfirmation Model'' by Oliver (1980). In this study, we surveyed 221 museum visitors, and used the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to explore the correlation between visitors' pre-visit expectations, post-visit recognition, overall satisfaction, and loyalty. Our study found that visitors are positive on the NSTM service quality, but there exists a bigger discrepancy between the pre-visit expectations and post-visit recognition about the ticket pricing and information delivery. Besides, both the pre-visit expectations and post-visit recognition have a certain impacts on the loyalty of museum visitors. Their pre-visit expectations also impact their overall satisfaction. The research result of this study can become a guide to the future and on-going studies on NSTM and other museums like NSTM. It can be a reference as well in planning the operation and management strategies for other museums to better satisfy the needs and expectations of their visitors, and to extensively achieve their educational goals with entertainments. |