Services Marketing,
5th Edition

Part I: AN OVERVIEW OF SERVICES MARKETING.
1. An Introduction to Services.
2. The Service Sector: Supersectors and Ethical Considerations.
3. Fundamental Differences between Goods and Services.
4. Services Consumer Behavior.
Part II: THE TACTICAL SERVICES MARKETING MIX
5. The Service Delivery Process.
6. The Pricing of Services.
7. Developing the Service Communication Strategy.
8. Managing the Firm’s Physical Evidence.
9. People as Strategy: Managing Service Employees.
10. People as Strategy: Managing Service Consumers.
Part III: ASSESSING AND IMPLEMENTING SUCCESSFUL SERVICE STRATEGIES
11. Defining and Measuring Customer Satisfaction.
12. Defining and Measuring Service Quality.
13. Complaint & Service Recovery Management.
14. Customer Loyalty & Retention.
15. Pulling the Pieces together: Creating a World Class Service Culture.

• K. Douglas Hoffman

  K. Douglas Hoffman is a Professor of Marketing and a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University. He received his B.S. from The Ohio State University, and his M.B.A. and D.B.A. from the University of Kentucky. Professor Hoffman’s teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate levels spans nearly 30 years while holding tenure track positions at Colorado State University, the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and Mississippi State University. In addition, he has taught as a visiting professor at the Helsinki School of Business and Economics (Helsinki, Finland), the Institute of Industrial Policy Studies (Seoul, South Korea), Thammasat University (Bangkok, Thailand), and Cornell-Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).Professor Hoffman is an accomplished scholar in the services marketing area. He has written numerous journal and conference proceedings articles on teaching scholarship that have appeared in a variety of publication outlets. His teaching scholarship has also expanded into the co-authorship of three textbooks including SERVICES MARKETING: CONCEPTS, STRATEGIES & CASES, 5E, published by Cengage. Professor Hoffman has received numerous teaching awards at the college, university and national discipline levels, including the prestigious Board of Governors Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. He was also named University Distinguished Teaching Scholar -- a lifetime appointment in 2007. Professor Hoffman is a former editor of Marketing Education Review. His current research and consulting activities are primarily in the areas of sales/service interface, customer service/satisfaction, service failure and recovery, and services marketing education.

• John E.G. Bateson

  John E. G Bateson is a Visiting Professor of Management at the Cass Business School and is an independent consultant and company chairman. Previously, he served as Group Chief Executive of the SHL Group, the global leader in psychometric testing for jobs. SHL was listed on the London Stock Exchange and taken private by Dr. Bateson in 2006. Dr. Bateson was also a senior vice president with Gemini Consulting and a Member of the Group Executive Committee of the Cap Gemini Group. He was Associate Professor of Marketing at the London Business School, England, and taught as a visiting associate professor at the Stanford Business School. Prior to teaching, he worked as a brand manager with Lever Brothers and marketing manager with Philips.Dr. Bateson holds an undergraduate degree from Imperial College, London; a master's degree from London Business School; and a Doctorate in marketing from the Harvard Business School. He has published extensively in the services marketing literature, including the Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Retailing, Marketing Science, and Journal of Consumer Research. He is also the author of SERVICES MARKETING: CONCEPTS, STRATEGIES & CASES (Cengage) and MARKETING PUBLIC TRANSIT: A STRATEGIC APPROACH (Praeger).Dr. Bateson was actively involved with the formation of the services division of the American Marketing Association. He served on the Services Council for four years and has chaired sessions of the AMA Services Marketing Conference.

• Significant updates and revisions highlight the latest in services marketing concepts and practices. Updated coverage in every chapter emphasizes emerging topics, such as managing employees, managing service customers, implementing service recovery programs, understanding service supersectors and ethical considerations, and creating a world-class service culture.

• Sustainability & Services in Action Boxes PROVIDE UNIQUE EMPHASIS. Perhaps the first services marketing book to incorporate sustainability throughout, this edition addresses sustainable services marketing practices in a variety of global industries.

• The book highlights how, despite the intangible nature of service products, the companies producing these services are some of the world’s largest consumers of earth’s natural resources. These box features emphasize industries and topics including green hotels, banking, airlines, restaurants, universities, Vail Resorts, TerraPass, and Starbucks.

• New chapter-opening vignettes spotlights service issues in real companies. These compelling, real-life situations draw the attention of readers and set the stage for the chapter topics that followed. Familiar companies, including Buri al Arab Hotel, Qatar Airlines, Planet Fitness, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Pay What You Can Restaurants, "Dinner in the Sky," and RateMyProfessor.com, are featured.

• More than 50 video links illustrate key service concepts. Prepared specifically to meet the needs of current users, these Video Links are cross referenced by chapter. The videos offer a blend of humorous and serious content to bring services marketing practices alive in your classroom and help you establish a more interactive atmosphere for learning.

• Global Services in Action Boxes focus on international services marketing practices. In response to the growth of service economies throughout the world, this edition’s global services feature demonstrates the subtle adjustments to international services marketing strategies that are necessary to become a world-class service organization. Boxes highlight medical tourism, Katitche Point Great House, tipping etiquette, ethnic pricing, dark dining, personal selling approaches around the world, and international considerations for creating world class service cultures.

• E-Services in Action Boxes highlight the dynamic nature of online service marketing practices. This special feature provides examples of popular and leading online companies and topics, such as Zappos.com; hotel marketing; Goggle.com; social media sites including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn; online airline pricing, and the ins and outs of online customer satisfaction.

• SIGNIFICANT UPDATES AND REVISIONS HIGHLIGHT THE LATEST IN SERVICES MARKETING CONCEPTS AND PRACTICES. Updated coverage in every chapter emphasizes emerging topics, such as managing employees, managing service customers, implementing service recovery programs, understanding service supersectors and ethical considerations, and creating a world-class service culture.

• UPDATED OR SIGNIFICANTLY REVISED CHAPTERS DELIVER THE LATEST IN SERVICE MARKETING CONCEPTS AND PRACTICES. Discover the latest information in chapters pertaining to the introduction of service marketing, managing employees, managing service customers, implementing service recovery programs, understanding service supersectors and ethical considerations, and creating a world-class service culture.

• STREAMLINED 15-CHAPTER VERSION PERFECTLY FITS MOST SEMESTER OR QUARTER UNIVERSITY SCHEDULES. As a result of this revision, you’ll find an effectively integrated service marketing text that incorporates online, global, sustainability and ethical considerations within one book, while providing the latest in service marketing concepts and practices.

• CHAPTER-OPENING QUOTES DIRECT STUDENT ATTENTION TO CHAPTER CONTENT. Every chapter begins with a managerially-oriented, thought-provoking quote that is directly pertinent to chapter content. Quotes, such as “Washrooms will always tell if your company cares about its customers” and “The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory,” set the practical application tone for each chapter.

• LEARNING OBJECTIVES ESTABLISH THE FRAMEWORK FOR EVERY CHAPTER. You can more efficiently organize class lectures with this tool. Students can also use the Learning Objectives to organize class notes as they study for essay-oriented exams.

• END-OF-CHAPTER REVIEW QUESTIONS REINFORCE UNDERSTANDING. Every chapter concludes with ten constructive review questions that are intentionally written to reinforce students’ comprehension and application of chapter content. Answers for review questions are provided in the Instructor’s Manual for your convenience.

• MARGIN AND END-OF-CHAPTER GLOSSARIES CLARIFY INDUSTRY TERMS. Key terms are highlighted in every chapter within the text and are clearly defined in the adjacent margin. For student study, all key terms are presented again at the end of each chapter in order of appearance and are re-defined in a convenient end-of-chapter glossary.

• END-OF-CHAPTER CASES ILLUSTRATE, DEEPEN, AND EXTEND CHAPTER CONCEPTS. These cases, purposely brief in nature but long on application, represent a variety of service industries. They offer students an opportunity to further internalize services marketing concepts. Answers for end-of-chapter cases are provided in the Instructor’s Manual for your convenience.

• INSTRUCTORS’ RESOURCES PROVIDE VALUABLE TOOLS FOR PREPARATION AND ASSESSMENT. An Updated Instructors Manual provides chapter outlines, PowerPoints®, answers to review questions and cases and an updated test bank. Instructor’s Resource CD-ROM includes the Instructor’s Manual, Test Bank, PowerPoint® Lecture Slides, and Cognero. An expanded Test Bank includes multiple-choice questions and new short-answer essay questions, while the Cognero Computerized Testing program allows you to create tests in minutes. In addition, the test items are available for a variety of Learning Management Systems such as Blackboard, Desire 2 learn, Moodle, and more. The Instructor Support website places downloadable supplements at your fingertips.

• LEARNING OBJECTIVES ESTABLISH THE FRAMEWORK FOR EVERY CHAPTER. These helpful learning objectives help you more efficiently organize class notes as you study for essay-oriented exams.

• NEW CHAPTER-OPENING VIGNETTES SPOTLIGHTS SERVICE ISSUES IN REAL COMPANIES. These compelling, real-life situations draw your attention and set the stage for the chapter topics that followed. Familiar companies, including Buri al Arab Hotel, Qatar Airlines, Planet Fitness, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Pay What You Can Restaurants, "Dinner in the Sky," and RateMyProfessor.com, are featured.

• SUSTAINABILITY & SERVICES IN ACTION BOXES PROVIDE UNIQUE EMPHASIS. Perhaps the first services marketing book to incorporate sustainability throughout, this edition addresses sustainable services marketing practices in a variety of global industries. The book highlights how, despite the intangible nature of service products, the companies producing these services are some of the world’s largest consumers of earth’s natural resources. These box features emphasize industries and topics including green hotels, banking, airlines, restaurants, universities, Vail Resorts, TerraPass, and Starbucks.

• GLOBAL SERVICES IN ACTION BOXES FOCUS ON INTERNATIONAL SERVICES MARKETING PRACTICES. In response to the growth of service economies throughout the world, this edition’s global services feature demonstrates the subtle adjustments to international services marketing strategies that are necessary to become a world-class service organization. Boxes highlight medical tourism, Katitche Point Great House, tipping etiquette, ethnic pricing, dark dining, personal selling approaches around the world, and international considerations for creating world class service cultures.

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