TY - BOOK AU - Wilson,Alan M. TI - Services marketing: integrating customer focus across the firm SN - 9780077131715 AV - HF5415.13 W69 PY - 2012/// CY - Maidenhead, Berkshire PB - McGraw-Hill Higher Education KW - Service industries KW - Marketing KW - Customer services N1 - Previous edition: 2008; Pt. 1. Foundations for services marketing. Introduction to services -- Consumer behaviour in services -- Customer expectations of service -- Customer perceptions of service -- Conceptual framework of the book: The gaps model of service quality -- pt. 2. Understanding customer requirements. Listening to customers through research -- Building customer relationships -- pt. 3. Aligning service design and standards. Service innovation and design -- Customer-defined service standards -- Physical evidence and the servicescape -- pt. 4. Delivering and performing service. Employees' roles in service delivery -- Customers' roles in service delivery -- Delivering service through intermediaries and electronic channels -- Managing demand and capacity -- Service recovery -- pt. 5. Managing service promises. Integrated services marketing communications -- Pricing of services -- pt. 6. Service and the bottom line. The financial impact of service quality ER -