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Handbook of Service Science

  • Approaches Service Science as a coherent discipline and as a family of research programs, in a full-length research article format
  • Provides a compendium of perspectives from engineering, science, business and legal, both academic and practical
  • Includes contributions from an acclaimed pool of experts from industry and academia
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (32 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
  2. Context: Origins

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
  3. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Paul P. Maglio, Cheryl A. Kieliszewski, James C. Spohrer
      Pages 1-8
  4. Context: Origins

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
    2. The Service Profit Chain

      • James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser Jr
      Pages 19-29
    3. Winning the Service Game

      • Benjamin Schneider, David E. Bowen
      Pages 31-59
    4. Customer Equity

      • Roland T. Rust, Gaurav Bhalla
      Pages 61-78
    5. Service Worlds

      • John R. Bryson, Peter W. Daniels
      Pages 79-104
  5. Context: Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
    2. The Unified Service Theory

      • Scott E. Sampson
      Pages 107-131
    3. Advancing Service Science with Service-Dominant Logic

      • Stephen L. Vargo, Robert F. Lusch, Melissa Archpru Akaka
      Pages 133-156
    4. Toward a Science of Service Systems

      • James C. Spohrer, Paul P. Maglio
      Pages 157-194
  6. Research and Practice: Design

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195
    2. Technology’s Impact on the Gaps Model of Service Quality

      • Mary Jo Bitner, Valarie A. Zeithaml, Dwayne D. Gremler
      Pages 197-218
    3. Seven Contexts for Service System Design

      • Robert J. Glushko
      Pages 219-249
    4. Business Architectures for the Design of Enterprise Service Systems

      • Susanne Glissmann, Jorge Sanz
      Pages 251-282
    5. A Service Practice Approach

      • Cheryl A. Kieliszewski, John H. Bailey, Jeanette Blomberg
      Pages 283-305
  7. Research and Practice: Operations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 307-307

About this book

As the service sector expands into the global economy, a new science of service is emerging, one that is dedicated to encouraging service innovation by applying scientific understanding, engineering discipline, and management practice to designing, improving, and scaling service systems.

Handbook of Service Science takes the first major steps to clarifying the definition, role, and future of this nascent field. Incorporating work by scholars from across the spectrum of service research, the volume presents multidisciplinary perspectives on the nature and theory of service, on current research and practice in design, operations, delivery, and innovation of service, and on future opportunities and potential of service research.

Handbook of Service Science provides a comprehensive reference suitable for a wide-reaching audience including researchers, practitioners, managers, and students who aspire to learn about or to create a deeper scientific foundation for service design and engineering, service experience and marketing, and service management and innovation.

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From the reviews:

“This handbook can be considered as an ultimate handbook of service research that one should read and have. … this is an easy-to-read book that provides a rich set of both strong theoretical background and industry evidence of the relatively new and dynamically emerging approach of SSMED for studying service. … the book is ideal to both new and mature researchers in the field of service research. … a useful reading for researchers, academics, and professionals involved and interested in service research.” (Marianna Sigala, Journal of Consumer Marketing, Vol. 28 (5), 2011)

Editors and Affiliations

  • IBM Research - Almaden, San Jose, USA

    Paul P. Maglio, Cheryl A. Kieliszewski, James C. Spohrer

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Softcover Book USD 249.99
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