Services Marketing / Edition 7

by Christopher H Lovelock, Jochen Wirtz

Overview

The fundamentals of services marketing presented in a strategic marketing framework.

Organized around a strategic marketing framework Services Marketing guides readers into the consumer and competitive environments in services marketing.

The marketing framework has been restructured for this edition to reflect what is happening in services marketing today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780136107217
Publisher:	Prentice Hall
Publication date:	02/02/2010
Series:	Pearson Custom Business Resources Series
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	648
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 10.90(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

As a team, Christopher Lovelock and Jochen Wirtz provide a blend of skills and experience that’s ideally suited to writing an authoritative and engaging services marketing text. This book marks their second collaboration on an edition of Services Marketing. Since first meeting in 1992, they’ve worked together on a variety of projects, including cases, articles, conference papers, two Asian adaptations of earlier editions of Services Marketing, and Services Marketing in Asia: A Case Book. In 2005, both were actively involved in planning the American Marketing Association’s biennial Service Research Conference, hosted that year by the National University of Singapore and attended by participants from 22 countries on five continents.

Christopher Lovelock is one of the pioneers of services marketing. Based in Massachusetts, he consults and gives seminars and workshops for managers around the world, with a particular focus on strategic planning in services and managing the customer experience. Since 2001, he has been an adjunct professor at the Yale School of Management, where he teaches an MBA services marketing course.

After obtaining a BCom and an MA in economics from the University of Edinburgh, he worked in advertising with the London office of J. Walter Thompson Co. and then in corporate planning with Canadian Industries Ltd. in Montreal. Later, he obtained an MBA from Harvard and a PhD from Stanford, where he was also a postdoctoral fellow.

Professor Lovelock’s distinguished academic career has included 11 years on the faculty of the Harvard Business School and two years as a visiting professor at IMD inSwitzerland. He has also held faculty appointments at Berkeley, Stanford, and the Sloan School at MIT, as well as visiting professorships at INSEAD in France and The University of Queensland in Australia.

Author or co-author of over 60 articles, more than 100 teaching cases, and 26 books, Dr Lovelock has seen his work translated into ten languages. He serves on the editorial review boards of the International Journal of Service Industry Management, Journal of Service Research, Service Industries Journal, Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly, and Marketing Management, and is also an ad hoc reviewer for the Journal of Marketing.

Widely acknowledged as a thought leader in services, Christopher Lovelock has been honored by the American Marketing Association’s prestigious Award for Career Contributions in the Services Discipline. In 2005 his article with Evert Gummesson, “Whither Services Marketing? In Search of a New Paradigm and Fresh Perspectives” won the AMA’s Best Services Article Award and was a finalist for the IBM award for the best article in the Journal of Service Research. Earlier, he received a best article award from the Journal of Marketing. Recognized many times for excellence in case writing, he has twice won top honors in the BusinessWeek “European Case of the Year” Award.

Jochen Wirtz has worked in the field of services for more than 18 years, and holds a Ph.D. in services marketing from the London Business School. He is a tenured associate professor at the National University of Singapore, where he teaches services marketing in executive, MBA, and undergraduate programs and is co-director of the dual degree UCLA – NUS Executive MBA Program.

Professor Wirtz’s research focuses on service management topics, including customer satisfaction, service guarantees and revenue management. He has published over 60 academic articles, 80 conference papers, and some 50 book chapters, and is co-author of ten books, including his latest book Flying High in a Competitive Industry – Cost-effective Service Excellence at Singapore Airlines (McGraw Hill, 2006).

Professor Wirtz has received seven awards for outstanding teaching at the NUS Business School and in 2003 was honored by the prestigious, university-wide “Outstanding Educator Award” at the National University of Singapore. His six research awards include the Emerald Literati Club 2003 Award for Excellence for the year’s most outstanding article in the International Journal of Service Industry Management. He serveson the editorial review boards of seven academic journals, including the International Journal of Service Industry Management, Journal of Service Research, and Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly, and is also an ad hoc reviewer for the Journal of Consumer Research and Journal of Marketing. Professor Wirtz chaired the American Marketing Association’s biennial Service Research Conference in 2005, and in 2006 he was the Chair for the Services Marketing Track at the Academy of Marketing Science Annual Conference.

Dr Wirtz has been an active management consultant, working with international consulting firms, including Accenture, Arthur D, Little, and KPMG, and major service firms in the areas of strategy, business development and customer feedback systems. Originally from Germany, Jochen Wirtz spent seven years in London before moving to Asia.

Table of Contents

PART I — UNDERSTANDING SERVICE PRODUCTS, CONSUMERS, AND MARKETS

Chapter 1: New Perspectives on Marketing in the Service Economy

Chapter 2: Consumer Behavior in a Services Context

Chapter 3: Positioning Services in Competitive Markets

PART II — APPLYING THE 4Ps OF MARKETING TO SERVICES

Chapter 4: Developing Service Products: Core and Supplementary Elements

Chapter 5: Distributing Services through Physical and Electronic Channels

Chapter 6: Setting Prices and Implementing Revenue Management

Chapter 7: Promoting Services and Educating Customers

PART III — MANAGING THE CUSTOMER INTERFACE

Chapter 8: Designing and Managing Service Processes

Chapter 9: Balancing Demand and Productive Capacity

Chapter 10: Crafting the Service Environment

Chapter 11: Managing People for Service Advantage

PART IV — IMPLEMENTING PROFITABLE SERVICE STRATEGIES

Chapter 12: Managing Relationships and Building Loyalty

Chapter 13: Complaint Handling and Service Recovery

Chapter 14: Improving Service Quality and Productivity

Chapter 15: Striving for Service Leadership

Introduction

The world of services has changed in dramatic ways since the first edition of Services Marketing. This new edition represents a significant revision, restructuring, and updating of the book to reflect the challenges facing service managers in the early 21st century. We've pooled our skills in teaching, consulting, and research to create a versatile, flexible text for instructors teaching in a variety of environments.

Services Marketing, Fifth Edition, takes a strongly managerial perspective, but the text is rooted in solid academic research, complemented by memorable concepts and frameworks. We designed the book to bridge the all-too-frequent gap between the real world and academic theory. Practical management applications are reinforced by numerous in-text boxed examples within the 15 chapters, along with 8 up-to-date readings from leading thinkers in the field and 15 superb classroom-tested cases. Additional cases, teaching materials, and instructor aids are available on the course Web site.

Preparing this new edition of Services Marketing has been an exciting challenge. Services marketing, once a tiny academic field championed by a handful of pioneering professors, has become a thriving area of activity. Our new edition reflects growing research efforts in both academia and business. Student interest in courses that focus on various aspects of managing service organizations, including marketing, makes a great deal of sense from a career standpoint, as most business school graduates will be going to work in service industries, and managers report that manufacturing-based models of business practice are not always useful to them.

WHAT'S NEW IN THE FIFTH EDITION?

This edition has been both streamlined and restructured to sharpen the focus on essentials and to add in-depth coverage of new concepts and ideas.

New Topics, New Structure

• The book features coverage of the latest research and developments in the service sector, ranging from customer relationship management (CRM) and Six Sigma quality to revenue (yield) management and customer feedback systems. In addition, there is substantive coverage of consumer behavior, people-management issues, branding, business-to-business services, and technology-based services.
• We emphasize that marketing strategy takes place in a highly competitive environment, reflecting our belief that service firms must be competitively positioned as well as customer focused.
• All chapters feature expanded references, with new published research findings being added to every topic.
• The text has been streamlined to avoid unnecessary repetition and restructured to ensure an enhanced sequencing of topics. Despite the addition of new material, tighter editing has resulted in a leaner and more effective set of chapters.
• We have streamlined the number of chapters to 15 (down from 18 in the previous edition). Every chapter has been revised, and some have been retitled to reflect a more focused emphasis. Material on technology and international strategy will now be found throughout the book rather than being presented in separate chapters. Coverage of demand and capacity management, queuing, and reservations has been consolidated in a single chapter, with material on revenue management being transferred to the pricing chapter.
• Particular attention has been paid to making this new edition stimulating and highly readable. The result is a text that is clear, focused, and designed to capture student interest. Boxed inserts within each chapter feature numerous interesting examples that describe important research findings, illustrate practical applications of important service marketing concepts, and present best practices in services marketing. Many of these inserts are new to this edition.

New Readings

• Six of the eight readings are new to this edition. They are drawn from recent issues of Business Week, Harvard Business Review, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Service Research, and Marketing Management.
• The readings have been selected to complement the text and explore key issues in greater depth. Selected for their readability and potential to stimulate classroom discussion, they present important insights from thoughtful practitioners and such leading service professors as Leonard Berry, Richard Chase, Raymond Fisk, Stephen Grove, Sheryl Kimes, Katherine Lemon, Roland Rust, and Valarie Zeithaml.

New Cases

The book features an exceptional selection of up-to-date, classroom-tested cases of varying lengths and levels of difficulty. We wrote a majority of the cases ourselves, and most are unavailable elsewhere. Others are drawn from the case collections of Harvard, INSEAD, and Yale.

• To offer instructors greater choice, the number of cases has been expanded from 10 to 15 (including a three-part series of short cases that can be taught in a single class or separately, as desired). The new selection provides a broader coverage of both service issues and application areas.
• Twelve of the cases are new to this edition. Most are copyrighted 2003 or 2004. All three of those cases carried over from the previous edition have been updated.

New and Improved Teaching Resources

• Revised and enlarged supplements include an excellent online instructor's manual.
• To further enhance the mix of teaching materials, several popular cases from previous editions of the book are being made available on the Web site for Services Marketing.
• Additional cases that may be downloaded from the Web site include several new cases dealing primarily with nonprofit service organizations. The Web site also includes a "Note on Studying and Learning from Cases" for students.
• Detailed teaching notes are provided for all cases, including teaching objectives, suggested study questions, in-depth analysis of each question, and helpful hints on teaching strategy.
• Instructors can now select from more than 250 online PowerPoint slides, keyed to each chapter. These materials include both text slides and graphics. All slides have been designed to be clear, comprehensible, and easily readable.

TARGET AUDIENCES AND COURSES

This text is equally suitable for courses directed at advanced undergraduates or MBA and EMBA students. Services Marketing, Fifth Edition, places marketing issues within a broader general management context. Whatever a manager's specific job may be, he or she has to understand and acknowledge the close ties that link the marketing, operations, and human resource functions. With that perspective in mind, this book has been designed so that instructors can make selective use of chapters, readings, and cases to teach courses of various lengths and formats in either services marketing or service management.

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES OF THE BOOK

Key features of this highly readable book include its strong managerial orientation and strategic focus, use of memorable conceptual frameworks that have been classroom tested for relevance to both undergraduate and MBA students, incorporation of key academic research findings, use of interesting examples to link theory to practice, and inclusion of carefully selected readings and cases to accompany the text chapters.

Services Marketing is designed to complement the materials found in traditional marketing principles texts. It avoids sweeping and often misleading generalizations about services, recognizing explicitly that the differences between specific categories of services (based on the nature of the underlying service process) may be as important to student understanding as the broader differences between goods marketing and services marketing. It also draws a distinction between the marketing of services and the marketing of goods through service.

The book shows how various technologies—and information technology in particular—are changing the nature of service delivery and can offer innovative ways for service providers and customers to relate to each other. (This is the people side of the business.)

The service sector of the economy can best be characterized by its diversity. No single conceptual model suffices to cover marketing-relevant issues among organizations ranging from huge international corporations (in such fields as airlines, banking, insurance, telecommunications, freight transportation, and professional services) to locally owned and operated small businesses, such as restaurants, laundries, taxis, optometrists, and many business-to-business services. In response, Services Marketing offers a carefully designed "toolbox" for service managers, teaching students how different concepts, frameworks, and analytical procedures can best be used to examine and resolve the challenges faced by managers in a variety of situations. Once introduced, many of these tools reappear in subsequent chapters.

Throughout the book, we stress the importance for service marketers of to understand the operational processes underlying service creation and delivery. These processes are grouped into four categories, each of which has distinctive implications for the nature of service encounters, the roles played by customers and service personnel, the strategic application of information technology to delivery systems, and management practice.

PEDAGOGICAL AIDS

In response to adopter requests, the following pedagogical enhancements are available for the text:

• An introduction to each chapter highlights key issues and questions to be addressed.
• Four types of boxed inserts accompany many of the chapters:
• Best Practice in Action (demonstrations the application of best practices)
• Research Insights (summaries of highly relevant rigorous academic research)
• Service Perspectives (in-depth examples that illustrate key concepts)
• Management Memo (reviews of key concepts that apply to service management)
• Interesting graphics, including reproductions of ads, are included to enhance both visual appeal and student learning.
• Review Questions and Applications Exercises are located at the end of each chapter.
• Each case includes suggested study questions.
• The Instructor's Resource Manual for Services Marketing includes the following:
• Detailed course design and teaching hints, as well as two sample course outlines
• Chapter-by-chapter teaching suggestions, along with discussion of learning objectives and sample responses to study questions and exercises
• An overview of each reading, with suggestions on how to use it and the best chapter(s) with which to assign the reading in question
• A description of 16 suggested student exercises and 5 comprehensive projects (designed for either individual or team use)
• Detailed teaching notes for each of the cases, as well as suggestions for possible chapters with which they might be paired.

Editorial Reviews

A text for use in MBA and executive MBA courses, designed to complement material found in traditional marketing principles texts. Offers a strong managerial orientation and strategic focus in an integrated approach to studying services that places marketing issues within a broader general management context. This fourth edition contains four new chapters, seven new readings, five new cases, and more coverage of consumer behavior, people management, and Internet- based services. Lovelock gives seminars and workshops. He was on the faculty of Harvard Business School for 11 years. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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