Services Marketing: People, Technology, Strategy (Eighth Edition) - Hardcover

Wirtz, Jochen; Lovelock, Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1944659005 ISBN 13: 9781944659004

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Inc (USA), 2016

Synopsis

Services Marketing: People, Technology, Strategy is the eighth edition of the globally leading textbook for Services Marketing by Jochen Wirtz and Christopher Lovelock, extensively updated to feature the latest academic research, industry trends, and technology, social media and case examples. This textbook takes on a strong managerial approach presented through a coherent and progressive pedagogical framework rooted in solid academic research. Featuring cases and examples from all over the world, Services Marketing: People, Technology, Strategy is suitable for students who want to gain a wider managerial view of Services Marketing.The textbook will be accompanied by supplementary materials for the educators, which include an instructor's manual for course instruction purposes, a test bank designed for each chapter to assess students' learning and understanding of the concepts learnt, and teaching slides for course presentation during classes. There will also be a course website for new and updated materials for easy access by educators and students alike.

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Review

It is a superbly researched and comprehensive work, witnessed by the extraordinary list of acknowledgements of contributions by global colleagues. It presents a well-developed managerial and global perspective, organization and inclusive content that make it the exemplar among services marketing texts that should well serve both professional and advanced academic needs. It is the premier services marketing source for university marketing faculty, advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and marketing professionals. --Professon Emeritus Merlin Simpson, Pacific Lutheran University

About the Author

Jochen Wirtz is Professor of Marketing at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and an international fellow of the Service Research Center at Karlstad University, Sweden. Dr Wirtz holds a PhD in services marketing from the London Business School and has worked in the field of services for more than 25 years.

Professor Wirtz was the founding director of the dual degree UCLA-NUS Executive MBA Program (ranked fourth globally in the Financial Times 2015 EMBA rankings, and third in the EIU 2015 rankings) from 2002 to 2014, an Associate Fellow at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford from 2008 to 2013, and a founding member of the NUS Teaching Academy (the NUS think-tank on education matters) from 2009 to 2015.

The late Christopher Lovelock was one of the pioneers of services marketing. He consulted and gave seminars and workshops for managers around the world, with a particular focus on strategic planning in services and managing the customer experience. From 2001 to 2008, he had been an adjunct professor at the Yale School of Management, where he taught services marketing in the MBA program.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Inc (USA)
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1944659005
• ISBN 13: 9781944659004
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 800