Steve Baron is Professor of Marketing, and Director of the Centre for Experiential Consumption Studies at the University of Liverpool, UK. He is joint author of a book on Services Marketing (Third Edition, Palgrave, 2008), and also joint author of Relationship Marketing (SAGE, 2009). He has published work in many academic journals, including Journal of Service Research, Journal of Services Marketing, International Journal of Service Industry Management, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Business Research and International Journal of Market Research. He is Deputy Editor of Journal of Customer Behaviour, and on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Journal of Services Marketing, Service Science, and Service Business: an International Journal.