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Environmental changes such as increasing competitive pressure and rising customer power force companies to rethink their way of doing business and to implement a service-oriented business logic. As a result, companies more and more aim at offering solutions instead of selling products in order...
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Early services literature and the original service-dominant logic (SDL) work of Vargo and Lush (Journal of Marketing 68 … to create value, we show that widely used e-services such as YouTube are based on relationships in which such provider … and customer roles can vary significantly. However, we also assert that in the case of e-services, value is created …
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The concept of need is embedded in economic systems. Since the concept originates in individual psychology, it is not well understood at the organizational level and other higher systemic levels. We address this gap by drawing on research on human needs, on organizations, and on value...
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A little over a decade now, there have been sweeping procurement reforms in most developing countries. The orchestrators of these reforms - mostly the World Bank and other international financial institutions, have cited financial mismanagement and the lack of transparency in public financial...
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The aim of this contribution is to discuss the evolution of marketing, arguing whether it is accomplishing a paradigm change. Starting from previous definitions of paradigm, we adopt the viable systems approach (<i><sc>v</sc>S<sc>a</sc></i>) as a general interpretation key useful for interpreting the evolution of...
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a manufacturing firm is augmented with intangible services. In this paper, servitization is addressed broadly as a …
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-3962 (print), ISSN 2164-3970 (online), was published by Services Science Global (SSG) from 2009 to 2011 as issues under ISBN 978-1-4276-2090-3.] …
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Services Science Global (SSG) from 2009 to 2011 as issues under ISBN 978-1-4276-2090-3.] …
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The purpose of this research is demonstrating that the network strategy influences the complex tourist product quality and if the firms pursue a co-planning value strategy, this latter affects marketing choices of tourist product. Authors propose a theoretical model which represents an...
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The purpose of this paper is to empirically study challenges faced by product and service providers when innovating openly with customers in business-to-business (B-to-B) markets. The study aims to fill the research gap of how the challenges vary in different types of customer involvement in...
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