All Outputs (38)

Happiness and co-creation of value: Playing the blues (2021)
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Little has been written about co-creational aspects of happiness. Happiness is generally treated in the marketing literature as an individual outcome of exchange. However, the notion of value in exchange has been challenged by service-dominant (S-D)... Read More about Happiness and co-creation of value: Playing the blues.

Inertia, boredom, and complacency in business-to-business relationships: Identifying and interpreting antecedents and manifestations (2021)
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While opportunism, a ‘dark side’ construct, has been discussed at length, inertia, boredom, and complacency, have received less attention. This is surprising given their detrimental effect on relationships. This study identifies antecedents and manif... Read More about Inertia, boredom, and complacency in business-to-business relationships: Identifying and interpreting antecedents and manifestations.

Resource integration: Adopting a paradox perspective to inform the management of tensions in customer resource allocation (2020)
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Service-dominant logic maintains that value is created collaboratively through a process of resource integration. Knowledge-intensive business services, the context for this study, are heavily dependent on customer resources for the fulfilment of the... Read More about Resource integration: Adopting a paradox perspective to inform the management of tensions in customer resource allocation.

Marketing Agency/Client Service-For-Service Provision in an Age of Digital Transformation (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019, © 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Purpose: To explore changes in agency/client value co-creation, at a time when digital transformation is having a major impact on the marketing communications process. The theoretical framework of the res... Read More about Marketing Agency/Client Service-For-Service Provision in an Age of Digital Transformation.

Resource integration for co-creation between marketing agencies and clients (2018)
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© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: Resource integration is a central idea within service-dominant logic (S-D logic), but there has been little scholarly research on this aspect of theory. This paper aims to explore resource integration betw... Read More about Resource integration for co-creation between marketing agencies and clients.

Service-dominant logic as a framework for exploring research utilization (2018)
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© The Author(s) 2018. This article links service-dominant (S-D) logic to the call for better theoretical frameworks to understand research utilization in business and management. It contributes to explaining what happens in cocreating knowledge betwe... Read More about Service-dominant logic as a framework for exploring research utilization.

Branding in a digital world: Discussion based on an interview with Paul Geddes CEO of Direct Line Group (2018)
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In an interview, Paul Geddes, CEO of Direct Line outlines his thoughts on how branding has changed since he started his career in fast moving consumer goods, at Procter and Gamble. The purpose of the article is to present a leading practitioner’s vie... Read More about Branding in a digital world: Discussion based on an interview with Paul Geddes CEO of Direct Line Group.

Achieving wider impact in business and management: analysing the case studies from REF 2014 (2017)
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© 2017, © 2017 Society for Research into Higher Education. Universities, across the globe, are increasingly judged on social and economic impact. An important initiative in the UK is the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014, which assessed the wi... Read More about Achieving wider impact in business and management: analysing the case studies from REF 2014.

Antecedents to value diminution: A dyadic perspective (2016)
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© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. The purpose of this article is to identify the antecedents of diminished value in business-to-business exchange. There is only a limited amount of research on value destruction in the context of service-dominant (S-D) lo... Read More about Antecedents to value diminution: A dyadic perspective.

An examination of the dimensions and antecedents of institutionalized creativity (2016)
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© 2016 Elsevier Inc. While the benefits of buyer-seller relationships have been discussed at length, 'dark side' constructs that can beset longer-term relationships have received less attention. One such construct, which has been identified in the co... Read More about An examination of the dimensions and antecedents of institutionalized creativity.

Co-creation: moving towards a framework for creating innovation in the Triple Helix (2014)
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© 2014 Taylor & Francis. The objective of the paper is to demonstrate how the theoretical ideas of service-dominant logic (S-D logic) can usefully be applied to innovation through collaboration among university, industry and government. The debate... Read More about Co-creation: moving towards a framework for creating innovation in the Triple Helix.

Consumer resistance to internet-based services: Implications for real estate customer service (2014)
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Internet-based applications are very commonplace within business and personal contexts. Online banking, chat based customer service, and shopping are just some of the e-functions that permeate our day-to-day lives. Some consumers, though, show great... Read More about Consumer resistance to internet-based services: Implications for real estate customer service.

An examination of consumers' resistance to computer-based technologies (2013)
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Purpose: This paper aims to provide a better understanding of non-adoption of technological interfaces. The majority of diffusion research on technological innovations does not distinguish clearly between non-adoption and resistance behavior and assu... Read More about An examination of consumers' resistance to computer-based technologies.

Adopting selfservice technology to do more with less (2013)
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Employees have traditionally played a major role in the customer's service experience. Yet selfservice technology (SST) replaces the customerservice employee experience with a customertechnology experience. This paper seeks to use a servicedomina... Read More about Adopting selfservice technology to do more with less.

Service co-creation and value realisation (2012)
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The notion of value co-creation is central to the discourse of Service-Dominant Logic (S-D logic) yet there remains little agreement among academics seeking to explain or research the value co-creation process. We distinguish service co-creation from... Read More about Service co-creation and value realisation.

Marketing as an applied science: Lessons from other business disciplines (2012)
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Purpose: This paper seeks to investigate what the marketing field can learn, with regard to the academic/practitioner divide, from other management disciplines that have a range of different relationships with their respective practitioners. Design/m... Read More about Marketing as an applied science: Lessons from other business disciplines.

Adopters and non-adopters of internet banking: A segmentation study (2012)
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Purpose: This study examines internet banking adoption and resistance behaviour in Greece in order to develop profiles of adopters and non-adopters of the service. The aim is to illustrate customers' resistance behaviour towards internet banking. The... Read More about Adopters and non-adopters of internet banking: A segmentation study.

Scholarship that matters: Academic-practitioner engagement in business and management (2011)
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Our research explores academic-practitioner engagement by undertaking interviews with academics, practitioners, and other experts with relevant engagement experience. The findings highlight the problem of thinking narrowly about the different ways in... Read More about Scholarship that matters: Academic-practitioner engagement in business and management.

Strategic thinking in family businesses (2010)
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Abstract: This practitioner orientated paper seeks to understand better how management knowledge is created, shared and disseminated in family businesses (FBs). It outlines the initial findings from an exploratory study with senior managers of 20 FBs... Read More about Strategic thinking in family businesses.

Innovation and the children of the revolution: Facebook and value co-creation (2010)
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