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Introduction to Service Branding and Servicescapes

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The importance of branding services has been highlighted by various researchers. Research has also shown that servicescape quality has an impact on determining customer affective and behavioural responses to services. This section presents five very unique cases that cover service branding and servicescapes.

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Mutum, D.S. (2017). Introduction to Service Branding and Servicescapes. In: Roy, S., Mutum, D., Nguyen, B. (eds) Services Marketing Cases in Emerging Markets. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32970-3_7

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