Now in its seventh edition, Principles of Services Marketing has been revised and updated throughout to reflect the most recent developments in this fast-moving and exciting sector. With a stronger emphasis on emerging and global economies, it's been restructured to give clearer focus on key issues of efficiency, accessibility and customer experience. This authoritative text develops an indispensable framework for understanding services, their effective marketing and how this drives value creation. Key Features: opening vignettes introduce a chapter's key themes with short examples that...

The seventh edition of The Business Environment has been perfectly tailored to cover the core topics that will be studied on an introductory Business Environment module. This fully updated new edition provides comprehensive coverage of the varying factors that make up the business environment, with a particular focus on how these factors impact business organisations and the decisions organisations make. Key Features: Up-to-date coverage The business environment continues to evolve, and this new edition takes on board recent issues including: The after-effects of the 'credit crunch' The...