In addressing the need for a service brand orientation, this
study makes a number of contributions. First, this article develops
the organizational-level construct of SBO, advancing dialogue with
respect to measuring the elusive hospitality organizational service
orientation. Second, this study builds on prior work (Burmann
et al., 2009; Lytle and Timmerman, 2006) to establish SBO as an
antecedent to employee customer orientation, the individual-level
manifestation of service orientation.