The service-dominant logic perspective on service innovation in service systems

Author(s):  
Julia M. Jonas
MIS Quarterly ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert F. Lusch ◽  
◽  
Satish Nambisan ◽  

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 457-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Lindhult ◽  
Koteshwar Chirumalla ◽  
Pejvak Oghazi ◽  
Vinit Parida

Author(s):  
Maria Åkesson ◽  
Per Skålén ◽  
Bo Edvardsson ◽  
Anna Stålhammar

Purpose This article investigates the role of frontline employees in service innovation from a service-dominant logic perspective. Frontline employees lack a formal innovation obligation. Service innovation is a resource integration process resulting in the creation of new value propositions. Design/methodology/approach A case study of service innovation projects that includes three different businesses in the IT sector and personal interviews with 25 frontline employees. Findings The findings suggest that frontline employees contribute to service innovation by test-driving potential value propositions. Three types of value proposition test-driving have been identified: cognitive, practical, and discursive. The findings suggest interdependencies between the different modes of value proposition test-driving, as well as specific phases of the service innovation process dominated by one form or another. Research limitations/implications Value proposition test-driving offers a fruitful context for managers to involve frontline employees and use their creativity and expertise. The case study approach, however, limits the statistical generalizability of the findings. Originality/value The study is novel in that it (a) introduces the notion of value proposition test-driving for service innovation; (b) provides a systematic empirical analysis of how frontline employees contribute to service innovation by test-driving value propositions; (c) offers a service innovation model informed by the service-dominant logic; and (d) contributes to the service-dominant logic by detailing how service innovation occurs in practice.


Author(s):  
Taimoor Basharat

This is a conceptual article written to apply I-S-P-A-R model which was presented in 2009 by research scholars Maglio, Vargo, Caswel and Spohrer on the Mentoring in Service Dominant Logic (SDL) perspective. The author has taken a deep insight of mentoring which is a part of training and development: a function of the Human Resource Management in Good Dominant Logic (GDL) perspective. For this research, a wide range of literatures is reviewed and many disciplines have been explored which include mentoring roles, need, responsibilities, and context. Here, it is worthy to mention that mentoring and supervision are two different terms and both have different roles, too. Roles of supervisors are: boss, teacher, evaluator, expert and counselor; whereas mentoring consisted of assisting, befriending, guiding, advising and counseling. In service science, all the service systems do not fulfill the requirement to be a service system. There is also presented I-S-P-A-R which stands for Interact-Serve-Propose-Agree-Realize model of service system interactions episodes. This model is applied on mentoring in SDL perspective. At the end of this article, a conclusion is drawn and areas for further research have been mentioned.


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