since the 1970s, services marketing has grown into a major sub discipline of marketing. it is constantly claimed – but is refuted in the article – that services are now the dominant economic activity in developed countries and keeps growing while the two traditional goods sectors, manufacturing and agriculture, are declining. in today's competitive world, having expertise, knowledge and ma...

This study was conducted in 2016 with the aim of studying the mediating role of quality services in the relationship between state marketing and customer satisfaction. The population of this study includes all staff and customers of Melli Bank of Shiraz; that among these, 150 people were selected by simple random sampling method. Reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha and composite relia...

for any organization sound marketing strategy and quality assurance play vital role in the growth of the organization. the price, quality and service, service centers, friendly attitude, discounts on sales, esthetics, store location and appearance, ease of operations, guarantees and warranties, adopting new ideas, and flexible payments terms were considered to study the perceptions of the respo...

There are two logics or mindsets from which to consider and motivate a transition from goods to service(s). The first, “goods-dominant (G-D) logic”, views services in terms of a type of (e.g., intangible) good and implies that goods production and distribution practices should be modified to deal with the differences between tangible goods and services. The second logic, “service-dominant (S-D)...

-Service is any act or performance that one party offers to another that is essentially intangible and does not result in any ownership. The majorities of the challenges in service marketing arises from the basic characteristics of services like intangibility, heterogeneity, inseparability and perishability and are constantly known as IHIP. These characteristics have been staples of service res...