Services Marketing: Integrating Customer - Softcover

Valarie A. Zeithaml

Softcover

ISBN 10: 007716931X ISBN 13: 9780077169312

Publisher: Mc Graw Hill Education (Uk), 2016

Synopsis

European economies are now dominated by services, and virtually all companies view service as critical to retaining their customers today and in the future. In its third European edition, Services Marketing : Integrating Customer Focus across the Firm  provides full coverage of the foundations of services marketing, placing the distinctive gaps model at the center of this approach. Drawing on the most recent research and using up-to-date and topical examples, the book focuses on the development of customer relationships through quality service, out lining the core concepts and theories in services marketing today. New and updated material in this new edition include: ·        -   New content on the role of digital marketing and social media has been added throughout to reflect the latest developments in this dynamic field ·          -  Increased coverage of Service dominant logic regarding the creation of value and the understanding of customer relationships ·          -  New examples and case studies added from global and innovative companies including AirBnB, IKEA, Disneyland, Scandinavia Airlines, and Skyscanner

About this title

About the Author:

Alan Wilson is Professor of Marketing and a previous Head of theMarketing Department within the University of Strathclyde Business School.Before joining the university, he was a senior consultant and executive trainerwithin the services division of a London-based marketing consultancy practiceand prior to that an Associate Director of a leading London-based marketingresearch agency. He specialises in the marketing of services and has a PhD inthe subject. He is a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Marketing andthe Market Research Society. His book, Marketing Research: An IntegratedApproach, is in its third edition and he has published in a wide range ofmarketing and service management journals, for which he has won a number ofawards and prizes. Professor Wilson has delivered high-level executive trainingto a wide range of service organisations in the banking, hospitality,professional service and business-to-business service sectors and has beeninvited to deliver lectures and seminars on both services marketing and marketingresearch in a variety of countries throughout the world. He also regularly actsas a marketing and marketing research adviser to a number of Scottish andUK-based service organisations.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mc Graw Hill Education (Uk)
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 007716931X
• ISBN 13: 9780077169312
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3