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These books and textbooks are available resources for teaching SSME-related courses.

200 references hosted at San Jose State University.

Alphabetical list, by author, with the top ten in bold:

  • Adams, John (1995/2000) Risk. Routledge, London, UK.
  • Alter, S. (2006) The Work System Method: Connecting People, Processes, and IT for Business Results. Work System Press.
  • Apte, U. (2007) Managing Information Economy: Current Research Issues (Annals of Information Systems). Springer.
  • Bieberstein, N., Bose, S., Fiammante, M., Jones, K., and Shah, R. (2005) Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Compass: Business Value, Planning, and Enterprise Roadmap (DeveloperWorks). Indianapolis, IN: Pearson Education, IBM Press.
  • Beinhocker, Eric D. (2006) The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics. Harvard Business School Press. Cambridge, MA.
  • Boisot, Max H. (2002) Knowledge Assets: Securing Competitive Advantage in the Information Economy. Oxford University Press. Oxford, UK.
  • Bryson, J.R., Daniels, P.W., and Warf, B. (2004) Service worlds: People, organizations, technologies. New York: Routledge.
  • Chase, Richard B., F. Robert Jacobs, Nicholas J. Aquilano (2004) Operations Management for Competitive Advantage. Instructor Edition. Tenth Edition. McGraw Hill Irwin. New York, NY.
  • Cohen, Linda and Allie Young (2006) Multisourcing: Moving Beyond Outsourcing to Achieve Growth and Agility. Harvard Business School Press. Boston, MA.
  • Cross, R., Parker, A., (2004) The Hidden Power of Social Networks, Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
  • Davis, M., Heinke, J. (2003) Managing Services, Using Technology to Create Value. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill Irwin.
  • Davis, Mark M. and Janelle Heineke (2005) Operations Management: Integrating Manufacturing and Services. Fifth Edition. McGraw-Hill Irwin. Boston, MA.
  • Denove, Chris and Power, James. (2006) Satisfaction: How Every Great Company Listens to the Voice of the Customer. USA: Penguin Group, Portfolio Hardcover.
  • Fagin, Ronald, Joseph Y. Halpern, Yoram Moses, and Moshe Y. Vardi (2003) Reasoning About Knowledge. MIT Press. Cambridge, MA.
  • Fitzsimmons & Fitzsimmons (2003) Service management. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
  • Gadrey, J. and Gallouj, F., (2002) Productivity, Innovation and Knowledge in Services, New Economic and Socio-Economic Approaches. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
  • Glushko, R.J. and McGrath, T. (2005) Document Engineering: Analyzing and Designing for Business Informatics and Web Services. The MIT Press.
  • Gronroos, C. (1990) Service marketing and management. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.
  • Gutek, Barbara A. (1995) The Dynamics of Service: Reflections on the Changing Nature of Customer/Provider Interactions. Jossey-Bass Publishers. San Francisco, CA.
  • Hefley and Murphy. (Eds) (2008) Service Science, Management and Engineering (SSME): Education for the 21st Century Springer
  • Heracleous, Wirtz and Pangarkar. (2006) Flying High in a Competitive Industry Cost Effective Service Excellence at Singapore Airlines. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
  • Herzenberg, S.A., Alic, J.A., Wial, H. (1998) New Rules for a New Economy, Employment and Opportunity in Postindustrial America. USA: Cornell University Press.
  • Heskett, J., Sasser, W. E., and Schlesinger, L. (1997) The Service Profit Chain, New York, NY: Free Press.
  • Inasiti, M., Levien, R. (2004) The Keystone Advantage. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
  • Kelly, K. (1998) New Rules for the New Economy, 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World. New York, USA: Penguin Books.
  • Kuhn, Thomas S., (1996) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, University Of Chicago Press; 3 edition
  • Laudon, K., Laudon, J. (2003) Management Information Systems. Upper Saddle River, NJ, USA: Prentice Hall.
  • Lusch, R.F. and Vargo, S.L. (2006) The Service-dominant Logic of Marketing: Dialog, Debate, and Directions. M.E. Sharpe.
  • Lovelock, C & Wirtz, J. (2004) Services Marketing, People, Technology and Strategy. USA: Pearson Prentice Hall.
  • Moulton-Reger, S. (2006) Can Two Rights Make a Wrong? Insights from IBM Tangible Culture Approach. Upper Saddle River, NJ: IBMPress.
  • Normann, Richard (2001) Reframing Business: When the Map Changes the Landscape. Wiley, Chichester, New Sussex
  • Perez, Carlota, (2003) Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages, Edward Elgar Pub
  • Pink, D.H. (2002) Free Agent Nation. New York, NY. Warner Books
  • Reichheld, F.E. (1996) The Loyalty Effect, The Hidden Force Behind Growth, Profilts, and Lasting Value. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
  • Rogers, Everett M., (2003) Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition, Free Press
  • Rouse, W.B. (2007) People and Organizations: Explorations of Human-Centered Design. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Press.
  • Rouse, W.B., Editor. (2006) Enterprise Transformation. Understanding and Enabling Fundamental Change. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Press.
  • Rust, Roland, Valarie Zeithaml, and Katherine Lemon (2000) Driving Customer Equity : How Customer Lifetime Value is Reshaping Corporate Strategy. Free Press.
  • Sampson (2001) Understanding service businesses. John Wiley: New York, NY.
  • Sasser, E. (1978) Management of service operations: Text, cases, and readings. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
  • Sanford, L., Taylor, D. (2005) Let Go to Grow, Escaping the Commodity Trap. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
  • Schneider, Benjamin and White, Susan S. (2003) Service Quality: Research Perspectives (Foundations for Organizational Science), Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
  • Spath, Dieter; Fnrich, Klaus-Peter (Eds.) (2007), Advances in Service Innovations Springer
  • Spitzer, Dean R., (2007) Transforming Performance Measurement: Rethinking the Way We Measure and Drive Organizational Success, AMACOM
  • Stauss, B.; Engelmann, K.; Kremer, A.; Luhn, A. (Eds.) (2008), Services Science Fundamentals, Challenges and Future Developments Springer
  • Sterman, John D. (2000) Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World. Irwin McGraw-Hill. Boston, MA.
  • Teboul, James (2006) Service is Front Stage: Positioning Services for Value Advantage. Insead Business Press.
  • Terrill, C. and Middlebrooks, A. (2000) Market Leadership Strategies for Service Companies, Creating Growth, Profits, and Customer Loyalty. Chicago, Illinois, USA: NTC Business Books.
  • Triplett, J.E. and Bosworth, B. (2004) Productivity in the U.S. Services Sector, New Sources of Economic Growth, Washington D.C., USA: Brookings Institution Press.
  • Tushman, M.L., Oeilly III, C.A., (2002) Winning through Innovation, Boston, MA, Harvard Business School Press
  • Utterback, James M. (1996) Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation, Harvard Business School Press; 2Rev Ed edition
  • Weinberg, G.M. (1975) An introduction to general systems thinking. New York: Wiley.
  • Womack, J.P., Jones, D.T. (2005) Lean Solutions. New York, NY: Free Press.
  • Wooldridge, Michael. (2002) Introduction to MultiAgent Systems. New York: Wiley.
  • Zeithaml, Valerie A. (2004) Service Quality (Relevant Knowledge). Cambridge, MA: Marketing Science Institute.
  • Zeithaml, Valerie A., Mary Jo Bitner, Dwayne D. Gremler (2006) Services Marketing: Integrating Customer Focus Across the Firm. 4th Edition. McGraw-Hill Irwin. New York, NY.
  • Zhang, Liang-Jie (2007) Modern Technologies in Web Services Research. IGI Publishing. Hershey, PA.
  • Zysman, J. and Cohen, S.S. (1988) Manufacturing Matters, New York, USA: Basic Books.

SSME Highlights

Cambridge Service Science, Management and Engineering Symposium, White Paper

IBM Systems Journal, special issue on Service Science, Management and Engineering

Book Series; Service Science: Research and Innovations in the Service Economy, Springer (Pub)

New book: Service Science, Management and Engineering: Education for the 21st Century (Hefley, Murphy (Eds.)

New book, Services Science Fundamentals, Challenges and Future Developments, Stauss, Englemann, Kremer, Luhn (Eds.)

Frontiers in Service 2008


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