Services Marketing: 5th edition

by Mary Jo Bitner (Author), Mary Jo Bitner (Author), Dwayne Gremler (Author), Valarie Zeithaml (Author)

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  Paperback
  2008

  $9.72

  This textbook provides a comprehensive review and analysis of services marketing issues, practice and strategy. Customer behaviour, expectations and perceptions are discussed early on in the text to form the basis for understanding services marketing strategy later on, and the managerial content is framed by the GAPS model.

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  Paperback
  2002

  $3.48

  Services Marketing, 3rd Edition , 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 this 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.

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  Hardcover
  1996

  $100.79

  This title introduces a ground-breaking approach to the services marketing course. It replaces the 4Ps with the Gaps model of service quality. The Gaps service quality model makes explicit the difference between the marketing of goods and the marketing of services, as well as the differences between the way the principles of marketing course handles the marketing mix and the way the service marketing course does. Written by extremely well-respected people in services marketing, this book is the first integrated services marketing text in the field. It covers topics of critical importance for the 1990s, such as service quality, links between marketing and other disciplines (e.g. production and operations management and human resources management), and transforming a product firm into a service firm. The text ends with six comprehensive cases.