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Internal and external drivers for quality certification in the service industry: Do they have different impacts on success?
This paper presents the results of a study of hotels that are certified for
quality management to identify the reasons for seeking quality certification. The authors
analyse whether internal or external drivers for seeking certification have different
impacts on benefits and the use of quality tools in the hotel industry. The analysis groups
hotels according to the importance of their internal reasons for certification, and uses
cluster analysis to identify the significant differences between groups of hotels. The
findings for the 32 hotels analysed show that hotels that pursued certification for internal
reasons develop better quality tools and have increased levels of benefit