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 transnationalsservice business models, operations and productivitymanaging service employeeshow service firms engage in product and process innovationmarketing, customers and service experiencesinternationalization of service businessesthe ongoing servitization of manufacturing This unique textbook is an ideal resource for upper undergraduate and postgraduate students studying service businesses and practitioners.
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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.
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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 transnationalsservice business models, operations and productivitymanaging service employeeshow service firms engage in product and process innovationmarketing, customers and service experiencesinternationalization of service businessesthe ongoing servitization of manufacturingThisunique textbook is an ideal resource for upper undergraduate and postgraduate students studying service businesses and practitioners.
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Includes power point slides for instructors Each chapter includes an international case study Provides a unique, integrated approach to service management

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9783030520595
Publisert
2020-11-27
Utgiver
Vendor
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Høyde
254 mm
Bredde
178 mm
Aldersnivå
Graduate, P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Biographical note

John R. Bryson is Professor of Enterprise and Competitiveness at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK. His research interests include understanding the growth and dynamics of knowledge-intensive service firms, innovation and services, the interactions between services and manufacturing and the impacts of robotics and artificial intelligence on services. 

Jon Sundbo is Professor in Business Administration and Innovation at Roskilde University, Denmark. His research interests include service firms and the service economy, innovation, service processes, marketing and the management of service firms.

Lars Fuglsang is Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University. He currently leads the research group on Innovation in Service and Experiences. His research interests include how institutional and organizational frameworks are created to deal with the impacts of innovation, technology and other forms of change on business and society.

Peter W. Daniels was Emeritus Professor of Geography in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham. His research focused on advanced business and professional services.