W. Earl Sasser

12.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
39 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

W. Earl Sasser is a scholar working on Management Information Systems, Marketing and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. According to data from OpenAlex, W. Earl Sasser has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Management Information Systems, 5 papers in Marketing and 5 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Recurrent topics in W. Earl Sasser's work include Customer Service Quality and Loyalty (5 papers), Service and Product Innovation (3 papers) and Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management (2 papers). W. Earl Sasser is often cited by papers focused on Customer Service Quality and Loyalty (5 papers), Service and Product Innovation (3 papers) and Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management (2 papers). W. Earl Sasser collaborates with scholars based in United States. W. Earl Sasser's 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 and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Communications of the ACM and The Review of Economics and Statistics.

In The Last Decade

W. Earl Sasser

34 papers receiving 7.1k citations

Hit Papers

Zero defections: quality comes to services. 1990 2026 2002 2014 1990 1994 1990 1000 2.0k 3.0k

Peers

W. Earl Sasser
Comparison fields: 5 of 128
  • 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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James L. Heskett United States
Robert B. Woodruff United States
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Leonard A. Schlesinger United States
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Carol Surprenant United States
Christopher Lovelock United States
Patricia M. Doney United States
Francis Buttle Australia
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Countries citing papers authored by W. Earl Sasser

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Fields of papers citing papers by W. Earl Sasser

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of W. Earl Sasser

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of W. Earl Sasser. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of W. Earl Sasser based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with W. Earl Sasser. W. Earl Sasser is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
1
Southwest Airlines : in a different world
4
2
Ownership Quotient: Putting the Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage
34
3
The Value Profit Chain: Treat Employees Like Customers and Customers Like Employees
90
4
Sea pines racquet club
1
5
World Bank and Knowledge Management, The: The Case of the Urban Services Thematic Group
4
6
The Lifetime value of customers
1
7
Putting the Service-Profit Chain to Work breakdown →
2507
8
Ritz-Carlton: Using Information Systems to Better Serve the Customer
7
9
The service-profit link
0
10
Mobilizing people for breakthrough service
2
11
The service management course : cases and readings
16
12
The service management course
9
13
Service Breakthroughs: Changing the Rules of the Game (Прорыв в сфере услуг: изменение правил игры)
1
14
Cases in Operations Management: Strategy and Structure
1
15
Burger King Corp.
6
16
Management of Service Operations: Text, Cases and Readings
178
17
Managers with Impact: Verstile and Inconsistent.
3
18 216
19 36
20 1

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