Ostensibly, customer service lies in the area of marketing and strategy, however Service-Ability is also about management and organizational behaviour, and the book ranges deeply into these areas to make its point. The scope of Marketing has changed in the last ten years and the books key...

1 Introduction -- 2 Conceptual Background -- 3 Method -- 4 Study 1: A Service Robot Acceptance Model: Customer Acceptance of Humanoid Robots During Service Encounters -- 5 Study 2: A Cross-Country Comparison of Attitudes toward Humanoid Service Robots -- 6 Study 3: Beyond the Call of Duty: The...

Discussing the latest research and theory in customer satisfaction and services marketing, the topics include: the measurement of the managerial impact on service quality improvement; new methods of assessing the various elements of service quality; and philosophies of the nature of customer value