TY - BOOK AU - Lovelock,Christopher H. AU - Patterson,Paul AU - Wirtz,Jochen TI - Services marketing: an Asia-Pacific and Australian perspective SN - 9781486002702 U1 - 658.80091823 23 PY - 2015///] CY - Melbourne, Vic PB - Pearson Australia KW - Service industries KW - Southeast Asia KW - Marketing KW - Australia KW - Customer services N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part 1: Understanding the nature of service products and markets. 1. Marketing in the service economy -- 2. Customer behaviour, culture and service encounters -- 3. Positioning services in competitive markets -- Part 2: Building the service model and creating customer value. 4. Developing service products: core and supplementary service elements -- 5. Distributing services through physcial and electronic channels -- 6. Understanding costs and developing pricing strategy -- 7. Balancing productive capacity and demand -- 8. Integrated services marketing communications -- 9. Managing people for service advantage -- 10. Crafting the service envrionment -- Part 3: Challenges for senior management. 11. Managing the customer service function -- 12. Customer satisfaction and service quality -- 13. Managing relationships and building loyalty -- 14. Handling customer complaints and managing service recovery -- Part 4: Cases ER -