37228 - Services Marketing

Academic Year 2016/2017

  • 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

  1. Producing and delivering services : what is it?
  2. Customer behavior before and during the experience
  3. Employees’ role in service delivery
  4. The Servicescape
  5. Service quality and Customer Satisfaction
  6. Pricing

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

Readings/Bibliography

Services Marketing”

Valarie Zeithaml, Mary Jo Bitner, and Dwayne Gremler, McGraw-Hill 2012

Only chapters: 1, 3, 5, 11, 12, 17

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