service
Let an agent explain services by type, quality, consumer rights and economic role, and separate religious, military and sporting senses.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain services by type, quality, consumer rights and economic role, and separate religious, military and sporting senses.
An economic activity in which one party provides value to another through work, expertise or access rather than transfer of ownership of goods, such as healthcare, transport, banking, repairs, education and digital services; services make up the largest share of output in many economies.
What it is for: Meeting needs through activities and expertise.
It can be distinguish services from goods; understand consumer rights for services; assess service quality; separate other senses of service.
Distinguishing features
Intangible
Produced and consumed together
Varies with provider
Hard to store
What it looks like
Not a physical product; delivered through people, processes and platforms.
How it is recognised
Activities performed for customers
Contracts and service agreements
Goods are tangible items
Related models
is a kind of - category
is contrasted with - counterpart
is delivered under - contract
includes - kind
In practice
Families and kinds
personal services
professional services
public services
financial and digital services
repair and maintenance services
Standards and regulation
EU Services Directive
Consumer rights rules on services and cancellation
ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 20000 for service management
Failure modes and hazards
Services not provided with reasonable care
Unfair contract terms
Unlicensed providers
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.service-6
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Concept What a service is.
Services differ from goods.
Goods
Goods versus services.
Goods
Goods versus services.
- Is this transaction a service, goods or a mix? boundary
- Why does the difference matter legally? provenance
Economy
Service sector.
Economy
Service sector.
- What share of output and jobs do services account for here, according to official statistics? provenance
- For which year? provenance
Rights Consumer protection.
Consumers have rights.
Care
Reasonable care.
Care
Reasonable care.
- What rights apply if a service is not carried out with reasonable care? provenance
- What remedies exist? provenance
Cancel
Cancellation.
Cancel
Cancellation.
- Is there a right to cancel this service contract? provenance
- How is it exercised? action
Quality Service quality.
Quality can be assessed.
Measure
Quality measures.
Measure
Quality measures.
- How is service quality measured, such as by reliability and responsiveness? definition
- Which frameworks are used? provenance
Provider
Checking providers.
Provider
Checking providers.
- Is the provider licensed or registered where required? provenance
- What do independent reviews say? provenance
Senses Disambiguation.
Service has many senses.
Religious
Worship service.
Religious
Religious sense.
- Is a religious service meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
Other
Military and sport.
Other
Other senses.
- Is military service, a serve in tennis or a public service meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should service sectors be separate entries?
- How should consumer rules be localised?
- How should other senses be split off?