37228 - Services Marketing

Academic Year 2020/2021

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Innovation and Organization of Culture and the Arts (cod. 0902)

Learning outcomes

The student is expected to learn the elements of marketing within the service sector which are applicable to cultural organizations.

Course contents

The intent of this course is to introduce, discuss, and analyze several topics important to service businesses. After completing this course, the student should:

Gain an appreciation for the challenges inherent in marketing and managing services, and in developing/delivering quality service.

Learn strategies, tools, and approaches for addressing the challenges of services management and marketing.

Develop essential knowledge on the various components of the “services marketing mix” as well as key issues in managing service quality.

Become a more perceptive and effective manager (and consumer) through understanding the complexities of service design, delivery, and communication—all aimed at building sustainable service brands.

Further develop communication skills and critical thinking through written projects, cases, in-class discussions, and other assignments

Course Contents

1. Course introduction - producing and delivering services, the servuction model and its implication for theory and practice

2.Customer behavior before and during the service experience

3. Employees’ role in service delivery

4. The Servicescape

5. Service quality and Customer Satisfaction

6. Measuring Customer satisfaction: the tools

7. Pricing

 

The course will be delivered during the months of January- March

Readings/Bibliography

Services Marketing: People, Technology, Strategy, Jochen Wirtz and Christopher Lovelock Eight Edition, World Scientific Publishing. ONLY Chapters 1, 2, 4 ,6, 8, 10, 11, 14

Case studies

Teaching methods

Presentation and Interactive teaching on concepts; discussion of case studies

Assessment methods

Written exam made of open-ended questions

Office hours

See the website of Chiara Orsingher

SDGs

Quality education Decent work and economic growth

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.