Zeithaml, Valarie A.

Services marketing: integrating customer focus across the firm. / Valarie A. Zeithaml, Mary Jo Bitner, Dwayne D. Gremler. - 6th ed. - New York: McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2013. - xxvii, 642 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: 1. Foundations for services marketing: Introduction to services -- Conceptual framework of the book: the gaps model of service quality -- 2. Focus on the customer: Customer expectations of service -- Customer perceptions of service -- 3. Understanding customer requirements: Listening to customers through research -- Building customer relationships -- Service recovery -- 4. Aligning service design and standards: Service innovation and design -- Customer-defined service standards -- Physical evidence and the servicescape -- 5. Delivering and performing service: Employees' roles in service delivery -- Customers' roles in service delivery -- Managing demand and capacity -- 6. Managing service promises: Integrated service marketing communications -- Pricing of services -- 7. Service and the bottom line: The financial and economic impact of service --

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Service industries--Marketing.
Customer services.
Marketing.

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