ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Service Research Insights and Ideas offers authoritative coverage of current scholarship in the expanding discipline of service research.
Original chapters from the world’s leading specialists in the discipline explore foundations and innovations in services, highlighting important issues relating to service providers, customers, and service design. The volume goes beyond previous publications by drawing together material from different functional areas, including marketing, human resource management, and service process design and operations. These topics are important in helping readers become knowledgeable about how different functional areas interact to create a successful customer experience.
This book is ideal as a first port of call for postgraduate students desiring to get up to speed quickly in the services discipline. It is also a must-read for academics new to services who want to access cutting-edge research.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|106 pages
Foundations
part II|90 pages
Innovation in service operations
part III|83 pages
Organizing the service business
chapter 11|13 pages
Front line service providers with two jobs
part IV|107 pages
Service design, delivery, and customer engagement
part V|112 pages
Ethics, responsibility, and culture