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Teaching and sharing knowledge matter for us and is part of our DNA. We provide resources online and offline to improve your teaching and learning. Check out our teaching section. Teaching section

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Teaching Note: Customer Satisfaction, Customer Loyalty, & Financial Performance in the Banking Sector

Teaching note by Vikas Mittal Banking is an essential service. According to a 2015 FDIC national survey, 68% of U.S. households use banking services. According to a Gallup report, worldwide, access...

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CfP JSM: Challenges and Opportunities for Services Marketers in a Culturally Diverse Global Marketplace

Special Issue of the Journal of Services Marketing Challenges and Opportunities for Services Marketers in a Culturally Diverse Global Marketplace deadlines: Jun 2017 Guest Co-Editors Dr. Piyush Sharma, Curtin University Dr....

Deadline extended: Service Innovation in Emerging Economies in Loughborough

Deadline extended to Thusday, Jan 12th! Workshop organized by the Centre for Service Management: 25th and 26th January 2017 To date, much service innovation work has focused on developed economies. Going forward,...

Special Issue: The Silk Road and the Service Industries

Issue of the  the Service Industries Journal The Silk Road and the Service Industries Deadline: August 1, 2017 Guest Editor Dogan Gursoy, Washington State University (dgursoy@wsu.edu) Li Pan, Zhejiang Normal University (li.pan@zjnu.edu.cn) The Silk Road or Silk...

CfP JACR: Special Issue on Consumer Response to the Evolving Retailing Landscape

Special Issue of the  Journal of the Association for Consumer Research Consumer Response to the Evolving Retailing Landscape Co-Editors: Barbara E. Kahn, University of Pennsylvania Jeff Inman, University of Pittsburgh...

CfP SIJ – Refugee Crisis and Human Exploitation: the Role of Service Industries

Special Issue of the Service Industries Journal Refugee Crisis and Human Exploitation: the Role of Service Industries Deadline: May 1st, 2017 The current refugee crisis in Europe has received much...

Service Articles in the Journal of Business Research (Nov 2016)

For information about the alert system methodology go here For article of the JBR special issue edited by Jonas Holmqvist, Yves Van Vaerenbergh, and Christian Grönroos on language use in...

Service Articles in Non-Service-Specific Journals (Nov 2016)

Today we identify service articles published in Marketing, Management, Operations, Productions, Information Systems & Practioner-oriented Journals in November 2016. For more information about the alert system methodology go here For service articles...

Virtual Reality – Limitless Possibilities for Service Design

Guest Article by Benjamin Lucas and Kay Schröder  Introduction Virtual reality (VR) has triggered a wave of new possibilities for creating and enhancing customer experiences, and is helping service designers...

Let’s use our service DNA to make a difference!

Guest article by Bart Larivière, Recipient of the 2016 SERVSIG Emerging Service Scholar Award Somewhere over the North Atlantic Ocean, flying from New York to Brussels – unlike other passengers – I...

The End of US-Centrism in Marketing Academia

Guest article by: Roland T. Rust  After World War 2 the major countries of Europe and Asia were largely destroyed, and their economies took years to recover. This created a Golden...

Impressions & Photos of 5th LTAS in NYC

Guest article by Sertan Kabadayi, PhD  The Marketing Area at the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University hosted the fifth edition of the Let’s Talk About Service (LTAS) workshop in...