34518 - Service Strategy and Marketing

Academic Year 2012/2013

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Business Administration (cod. 0897)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student will be familiar with some advanced concepts and techniques of the management of services companies. In particular, the student will be able to analyze and take decisions about the whole service process, from the development of the service concept to its evaluation.

Course contents

PLEASE NOTE: The course starts in February 2013
The service delivery system. Customers' roles in service delivery. Employees' role in service delivery. The service profit chain. Customer satisfaction and its effects on customer loyalty. The service recovery. Word-of-mouth and customer referrals.

Readings/Bibliography

Collection of selected readings extracted from italian and english textbooks available at "Asterisco"Via Belle Arti 35 (next to the Bigiavi library) Students not attending classes have to study alao "Services Marketing"Zeithaml, Bitner and Gremler, McGraw Hill
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http://www.unibo.it/CMSUniboWeb/UniboMappe/

Teaching methods

Lessons on the topics of the syllabus and case study analysis and presentation by the students

Assessment methods

Written exam featuring one or a combination of the followings:
open-ended questions, exercices, definitions

Teaching tools

Slides. Slides are not distributed to students as they only serve as a track to discuss the issues that are developed in the recommended readings.
Talks of invited speakers (managers and academics)

Links to further information

http://www2.sa.unibo.it/docenti/chiara.orsingher/

Office hours

See the website of Chiara Orsingher