The impact of logistics service quality through the perceived organizational image on performance: cold chain logistics provider in Thailand

The impact of logistics service quality and perceived organizational image on firm performance, are explored using the structural equation modeling analysis for Thailand's cold chain logistics provider. The objectives of this study were to direct, indirect, and total impact of logistics service quality through perceived organizational image on the performance of cold chain logistics providers, assessed by customers receiving services from cold chain logistics service companies. This quantitative research method uses a questionnaire to collect data from 541 respondents. Moreover, the results obtained from logistics service quality have a significant enhancing effect on the perceived organizational image, and both have significant positive effects on performance. Additionally, the role of the perceived organizational image as a mediating variable between logistics service quality and performance is emphasized. Logistics service quality has the most direct significant effect on perceived organizational image. Additionally, corporate image perception significantly mediates the relationship between service quality and logistics efficiency. These findings have contributions, relevant support, and benefits in academic, managerial, and important implications for cold chain providers in Thailand. It empirically demonstrates that the impact of logistics service quality can be supported through the perceived organizational image. This image is built on past experiences, emotions, and perceptions about the organization's reputation and the quality of its logistics services, including management logistic flow.