SERVICES MARKETING 4/E:

                                                      People, Technology, Strategy

                        

TABLE OF CONTENTS         

 Preface

About the Author and Contributors

 

PART I: UNDERSTANDING SERVICES

 1.    DISTINCTIVE ASPECTS OF SERVICE MANAGEMENT

2.    CUSTOMER INVOLVEMENT IN SERVICE PROCESSES

3.    MANAGING SERVICE ENCOUNTERS

 Readings

·       Stephen Grove and Raymond Fisk, “Service Theater: An Analytical Framework for Services Marketing”  (Specially commissioned for this book)

·         Mary Jo Bitner, Bernard Booms, and Lois Mohr, “Critical Service Encounters: The Employee’s Viewpoint” Journal of Marketing, 1994

 

PART II: FOCUS ON CUSTOMERS AND MANAGING RELATIONSHIPS

4.        CUSTOMER BEHAVIOR IN SERVICE SETTINGS

5.        TARGETING CUSTOMERS, MANAGING RELATIONSHIPS, AND BUILDING LOYALTY

6.        COMPLAINT HANDLING AND SERVICE RECOVERY

Reading

·         Leonard Berry and A. Parasuraman, “Listening to the Customer: The Concept of a Service Quality Information System” Sloan Management Review, 1997.

 

Part III: CREATING VALUE IN A COMPETITIVE MARKET

7.       POSITIONING A SERVICE IN THE MARKETPLACE

8.       CREATING THE SERVICE PRODUCT AND ADDING VALUE

9.       PRICING STRATEGIES FOR SERVICES

10.     CUSTOMER EDUCATION AND SERVICE PROMOTION

Readings

·         Lynn Shostack, “Service Positioning through Structural Change” Journal of Marketing 1987

·         Sheryl Kimes and Richard Chase, “The Strategic Levers of Yield Management” Journal of Service Research, 1998.

 

Part IV: PLANNING AND MANAGING SERVICE DELIVERY

 11.     CREATING DELIVERY SYSTEMS IN PLACE, CYBERSPACE, AND TIME

12.      ENHANCING VALUE BY IMPROVING PRODUCTIVITY AND QUALITY

13.      BALANCING DEMAND AND CAPACITY

14.      MANAGING CUSTOMER WAITING LINES AND RESERVATIONS

Readings

·         Ismo Vuorinen, Raija Jarvinen, and Uolevi Lehtinen, “Content and Measurement of Productivity in the Service Sector” International. Journal of Service Industry Management,1998

·         John Deighton,  “Service Markets and the Internet” (specially commissioned for this book)

  

Part V:  ISSUES FOR SENIOR MANAGEMENT

15.     MANAGING PEOPLE IN SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS

16.     ORGANIZING FOR SERVICE LEADERSHIP

17.     INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL STRATEGIES IN SERVICE  MANAGEMENT

18.     TECHNOLOGY AND SERVICE STRATEGY

Readings

·         Henry Mintzberg and Ludo Van der Heyden, “Organigraphs: Drawing How Companies Really Work” Harvard Business Review, 1999

§         James Heskett et al, “Putting the Service Profit Chain to Work, Harvard Business Review, 1994

·         Javier Reynoso, “The Evolution of Services Management in Developing Countries: Insights from Latin America(specially commissioned)

 

CASES

Note on Studying and Learning from Cases

Lovelock, "Four Customers in Search of Solutions"  

Lovelock, “Sullivan’s Auto World Ford” (updated)

Lovelock and Morgan, “Euro Disney: An American in Paris(revised)

Lovelock and Bless, “BT: Telephone Account Management”

Lovelock, “Museum of  Fine Arts, Boston(new)

Larréché, Lovelock, and Parmenter, “First Direct: Branchless Banking” (new)

Narayandas, VerticalNet (www.verticalnet.com) (new)

Lovelock, “Menton Bank” (updated)

Lovelock and Price, “R Cubed” (new)

Lovelock, “Peters & Champlain”

 

Index

 


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