Managing Service Firms: The Power of Managerial Marketing by Per Skalen

Based on a conceptual analysis of marketing texts, particularly service marketing texts, and a case study of a service firm that utilizes approaches to managing organizations that have been developed within the boundaries of marketing, this book presents a critical examination of marketing as a managerial practice. Skalen focuses in particular on the managerial research tradition and managerial practice referred to as service marketing (sometimes service management), which is seen as a 'dominant managerial logic' by many marketing scholars.