TY - BOOK AU - Zeithaml,Valarie A. AU - Bitner,Mary Jo AU - Gremler,Dwayne D. TI - Services marketing :integrating customer focus across the firm. SN - 0072961945 (alk. paper) AV - HD9980.5.Z45 U1 - 658.8 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Boston PB - McGraw-Hill/Irwin KW - Service industries KW - Marketing KW - Customer services N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents: Foundations for services marketing: Introduction to services -- Conceptual framework of the book: the gaps model of service quality -- Focus on the consumer: Consumer behaviour in services -- Customer expectations of service -- Customer perceptions of service -- Understanding customer requirements: Listening to customers through research -- Building customer relationships -- Service recovery -- Aligning service design and standards: Service development and design -- Customer-defined service standards -- Physical evidence and the servicescape -- Delivering and performing service: Employee's roles in service delivery -- Customers' roles in services delivery -- Delivering service through intermediaries and electronic channels -- Managing demand and capacity -- Managing service promises: Intergrated services marketing communications -- Pricing of services -- Service and the bottom line: The Financial and economic impact of service UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0619/2004065642-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0619/2004065642-t.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0737/2004065642-b.html ER -