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Here are listed books on Service Management, including books on the Support Services Industry.  

Essence of Services Marketing, Adrian Payne, 1993, 253 pages, approx. $20.
This book can best be described as an encyclopedia or compendium of service management tools and concepts.  It doesn't have the full background descriptions you might find in a textbook, but if you're a service marketing professional looking for a book to keep on your shelf to refresh your memory -- or if you've confronted some new concept in a presentation - you'll find great value in this book.  Topics include: developing a service mission, relationship marketing, market segmentation, positioning a service, the service marketing mix (people, process, place, price, etc.), service quality tools, and customer retention.  I have used this book as a mini-textbook in a one-day service management course at Northeastern University.  
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Services Marketing, Valerie Zeithaml and Mary Jo Bitner, McGraw-Hill, McGraw-Hill Textbook, 1996, approx. $80.
This is a complete textbook that I use for an undergraduate class on Service Management.  For a service marketing professional, this book may be a bit pedestrian, but if you're looking to teach yourself the full breadth of services marketing concepts, I can highly recommend this book.  The text is organized around the Gap Model, which was developed and rigorously validated by the Zeithaml and other colleagues.  The Gap Model examines the various organizational factors that can cause a perception-expectation gap on the part of our customers, specifically, 1) not understanding customer needs, 2) service designs not matching customer requirements, 3) the service operation not delivering to the design, and 4) shortcomings in communications with our customers.  A real strength of the book is its description of how customer expectations are formed, again based upon the authors' academic research.  

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Managing Customer Value: Creating Quality & Service That Customers Can See, , Bradley Gale, Robert Chapman Wood, 1994.  Approximately $25.
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Customer Service for Dummies,
by Keith Bailey, Karen Leland, IDG, 1995.  384 pages.  Approximately $20.
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The Art of Software Support: Design and Operation of Support Centers and Help Desks, by Francoise Tourniaire & Richard Farrell, 1996, Hardcover, approx. $45.  

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Delivering World-Class Technical Support, Lori Laub, Kay Khandphur, 336 pages (October 1996),  John Wiley & Sons; approx. $32.
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Breakthrough Customer Service : Best Practices of Leaders in Customer Support, Stanley A. Brown (Editor), John Wiley & Sons, 1998 approx. $45, 416 pages
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