Full Description
This textbook offers a fully integrated approach to the theory and practice of service management, exploring the operational dynamics, management issues and business models deployed by service firms. It builds on recent developments in service science as an interdisciplinary research area with emphasis on integration, adaptability, optimization, sustainability and rapid technological adoption.
The book explores seven fundamental processes that are key to successfully managing service businesses, helping students gain insights into:
how to manage service businesses, with coverage of both small firms and large transnationals
service business models, operations and productivity
managing service employees
how service firms engage in product and process innovation
marketing, customers and service experiences
internationalization of service businesses
the ongoing servitization of manufacturing
This unique textbook is an ideal resource for upper undergraduate and postgraduate students studying service businesses and practitioners.
Contents
1. Reading and Managing Service Businesses.- 2. Service Research and Service Theory.- 3. Business Models and Service Strategy.- 4. Techno Service Worlds? Digitization of Service Businesses.- 5. Service Operations and Productivity.- 6. Service Personnel and their Management.- 7. Process and Product Innovation in Service Businesses.- 8. Customer First: Understanding Customers.- 9. Marketing Services.- 10. Internationalizing Service Businesses.- 11. Supply Chains and Logistics Services.- 12. Servitization and Manufacturing Companies.- 13. Measuring Company Performance and Customer Satisfaction.- 14. Reading and Managing Service Businesses: An Integrated Case Study Approach.
