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Inseparability
Inseparability is a term used in marketing to describe a key quality of services as distinct from goods, namely the characteristic that a service has which renders it impossible to divorce the supply or production of the service from its consumption. Other key characteristics of services include perishability, intangibility and variability (or heterogeneity). Although the notion of inseparability has become received wisdom in the marketing and services marketing literature over the past few decades, more recent research has challenged inseparability as a distinguishing characteristic of services.
Article summary
Inseparability is a term used in marketing to describe a key quality of services as distinct from goods, namely the characteristic that a service has which renders it impossible to divorce the supply or production of the service from its consumption. Other key characteristics of services include perishability, intangibility and variability (or heterogeneity). Although the notion of inseparability has become received wisdom in the marketing and services marketing literature over the past few decades, more recent research has challenged inseparability as a distinguishing characteristic of services.
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- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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