W. Earl Sasser

34 papers receiving 7.1k citations

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W. Earl Sasser
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  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 6.7k
  • Marketing 4.6k
  • Sociology and Political Science 2.3k
  • Information Systems and Management 1.7k
  • Strategy and Management 1.5k
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All Works

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Southwest Airlines : in a different world
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Ownership Quotient: Putting the Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage
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The Value Profit Chain: Treat Employees Like Customers and Customers Like Employees
90
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Sea pines racquet club
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World Bank and Knowledge Management, The: The Case of the Urban Services Thematic Group
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The Lifetime value of customers
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Putting the Service-Profit Chain to Workbreakdown →
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Ritz-Carlton: Using Information Systems to Better Serve the Customer
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The service-profit link
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Mobilizing people for breakthrough service
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The service management course : cases and readings
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The service management course
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Service Breakthroughs: Changing the Rules of the Game (Прорыв в сфере услуг: изменение правил игры)
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Cases in Operations Management: Strategy and Structure
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Burger King Corp.
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Management of Service Operations: Text, Cases and Readings
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Managers with Impact: Verstile and Inconsistent.
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About W. Earl Sasser

W. Earl Sasser is a scholar working on Management Information Systems, Marketing and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, having authored 39 papers that have together received 8.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Customer Service Quality and Loyalty (5 papers), Service and Product Innovation (3 papers) and Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (6.7k citations), Marketing (4.6k citations) and Information Systems and Management (1.7k citations). W. Earl Sasser has collaborated with scholars based in United States. Frequent co-authors include Frederick F. Reichheld, James L. Heskett, Leonard A. Schlesinger, Thomas O. Jones, Gary W. Loveman, Christopher W. L. Hart, D. Daryl Wyckoff, Thomas H. Naylor, Donald S. Burdick and William H. Wallace. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Communications of the ACM and The Review of Economics and Statistics.

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