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Review Paper on the Commitment to Service Quality and Relationship with other Constructs

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In the service sector scenario there are several challenges and changes face by the organization where commitment of service quality plays important role in reaching the service organization goals by delivering the better service to customers. This literature review paper summarized the previous literature on the commitment to service quality. Review base on the published articles and papers over 30 years, our research covers various research areas perspectives on commitment to service quality. This literature review bring to better understanding commitment to service quality and indicated that there is hug gape in the literature and ignore the this constructs.
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