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The relationship between productivity and customer satisfaction is complex. Service Quality and Productivity Management describes that the quality and productivity are twin paths in creating value for both customers and organizations. This book describes how to improve service quality and productivity, and discusses how to use key tools (including customer feedback systems) to achieve this. This book is the 12th volume in the Winning in Service Markets Series by services marketing expert Jochen...

Readers experience the managerial lives and issues of global marketeers in more than 20 different countries, markets, and socio-political environments with this book. In the position of decision makers, readers should develop skills in analysis and problem solving. Comprehensive topic coverage exposes readers to a range of current global marketing issues: marketing strategy, opportunity analysis, product policy, marketing communication, pricing, marketing research and marketing programme formula...

Nation branding--a set of ideas rooted in Western marketing--gained popularity in the post-communist world by promising a quick fix for the identity malaise of "transitional" societies. Since 1989, almost every country in Central and Eastern Europe has engaged in nation branding initiatives of varying scope and sophistication. For the first time, this volume collects in one place studies that examine the practices and discourses of the nation branding undertaken in these countries. In addition t...

Marketing strategy is constantly adapting in the changing environment of international business. To retain or extend a grasp of existing markets, organizations need to keep abreast of commercial innovation, social change, economic developments and the ever-shifting political climate. Within this uncertain framework, marketing practices are tried and tested, and succeed or fail. Aimed at the reader with at least some prior knowledge of the field, this study draws together an international body of...

Music can say so much. It can make us laugh or cry - it can make us remember our first kiss as though it was just yesterday. Just one chord in a film score is enough to tell us that someone is hiding behind the curtain. We can even hear how a person is feeling just by the sound of their voice. By understanding how such processes work, we are able to create sounds that trigger the desired associations in a branding context. John Groves, a music consultant and composer with a long track record of...

Sales Management is a comprehensive textbook designed to meet the requirements of management students specializing in Marketing at post graduate level. It covers the entire arena of theoretical and practical aspects of sales management as a subject, and uses numerous industrial examples, exhibits, and illustrations for learning. The book is divided in 5 parts. The first part, Personal Selling, begins with an overview of the key concepts of personal selling with various approaches and strategie...

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This text has been updated to include ethical concerns, standardization/adaptation, and export performance factors.

This is the fourth edition of Marketing tourism in South Africa by UCT senior lecturer Richard George. This new and updated edition is suitable for universities, universities of technologies and colleges where Tourism Marketing or Marketing for Tourism is taught. This course is taught mainly at first or second year and sometimes at third year as part of a National Diploma in Tourism Management, a BCom (Tourism) or a post-graduate diploma in Tourism. Up-to-date statistics, analysis of important...

This book is the first to cover marketing management issues in geographically remote industrial clusters (GRICs). The phenomena of GRICs have increased in importance, especially in the Nordic countries, due to changes in industry structures as well as political ambitions. The practice of marketing and marketing management is not singular to industry clusters in Nordic countries. Remote areas in parts of the United States, South and Central America, and South East Asia exhibit similar tendencies....