First analyses regarding the basic characteristics and marketing opportunities of services were performed several decades ago. These ‘service management’ efforts underwent multiple conceptual transitions between the 1970s and 2000, ultimately resulting in a new conceptualization called ‘Service-Dominant Logic’ (SD Logic). This evolutionary concept, which is based on the idea of using goods as a mechanism for service provision, provides “a framework for theorizing, confirming, and refining the theoretical foundation of Service Science” (cf. Lusch et al., 2008). Because the locus of value creation is moved towards a collaborative process of co-creation between multiple parties, it creates new opportunities for service provision (Vargo & Lusch, 2008a; 2008b). What makes the concept so relevant and interesting from a scientific as well as business-economic point of view, is that it leads to “an understanding of all marketing and management as being fundamentally about service, since service exchange is seen as offering the roots of economy and society” (cf. Gummesson et al., p. 11).
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