Services Marketing, 4/e, by Zeithaml and Bitner provides a comprehensive review and analysis of services marketing issues, practice, and strategy. Utilizing the GAPS Model of Service Quality as an organizing framework the structure of the text offers part openers that sequentially build the model gap by gap. Each part of the book includes multiple chapters with strategies for understanding and closing the critical gaps. Customer behavior, expectations, and perceptions are discussed early in the text to form the basis for understanding services marketing strategy and the managerial content, in the rest of the text, is framed by the GAPS model. Additionally, the authors continue to refine conceptual frameworks for developing effective services marketing strategy and have incorporated more coverage of the use of technology and business-to-business applications in this edition.
Table of contents:
PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS FOR SERVICES MARKETING Chapter 1. Introduction to Services Chapter 2. Conceptual Framework for the Book: The Gaps Model of Service Quality PART TWO: FOCUS ON THE CUSTOMER Chapter 3. Consumer Behavior in Services Chapter 4. Customer Expectations in Services Chapter 5. Customer Perceptions in Services PART THREE: UNDERSTANDING CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS Chapter 6. Listening to Customers through Research Chapter 7. Building Customer Relationships Chapter 8. Service Recovery PART FOUR: ALIGNING STRATEGY, SERVICE DESIGN, AND STANDARDS Chapter 9. Service Development and Design Chapter 10. Customer-Defined Service Standards Chapter 11. Physical Evidence and the Servicescape PART FIVE: DELIVERING AND PERFORMING SERVICE Chapter 12. Employees’ Roles in Service Delivery Chapter 13. Customers’ Roles in Service Delivery Chapter 14. Delivering Service through Intermediaries and Electronic Channels Chapter 15. Managing Demand and Capacity PART SIX: MANAGING SERVICE PROMISES Chapter 16. Integrated Services Marketing Communications Chapter 17. Pricing of Services PART SEVEN: OUTCOMES OF SERVICE INVESTMENTS Chapter 18. The Financial and Economic Effect of Services CASES
Table of contents:
PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS FOR SERVICES MARKETING Chapter 1. Introduction to Services Chapter 2. Conceptual Framework for the Book: The Gaps Model of Service Quality PART TWO: FOCUS ON THE CUSTOMER Chapter 3. Consumer Behavior in Services Chapter 4. Customer Expectations in Services Chapter 5. Customer Perceptions in Services PART THREE: UNDERSTANDING CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS Chapter 6. Listening to Customers through Research Chapter 7. Building Customer Relationships Chapter 8. Service Recovery PART FOUR: ALIGNING STRATEGY, SERVICE DESIGN, AND STANDARDS Chapter 9. Service Development and Design Chapter 10. Customer-Defined Service Standards Chapter 11. Physical Evidence and the Servicescape PART FIVE: DELIVERING AND PERFORMING SERVICE Chapter 12. Employees’ Roles in Service Delivery Chapter 13. Customers’ Roles in Service Delivery Chapter 14. Delivering Service through Intermediaries and Electronic Channels Chapter 15. Managing Demand and Capacity PART SIX: MANAGING SERVICE PROMISES Chapter 16. Integrated Services Marketing Communications Chapter 17. Pricing of Services PART SEVEN: OUTCOMES OF SERVICE INVESTMENTS Chapter 18. The Financial and Economic Effect of Services CASES