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