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Firms’ investments in customer relationships reduce perceived innovativeness!

guest article by Tor W. Andreassen, Line Lervik-Olsen, and Seidali Kurtmollaiev from the CSI at NHH According to Harvard-professor Clayton Christensen, there are three types of innovations: Innovations that reduce costs and improve efficiency....

We need to talk about vulnerable consumers

Interview with Mark Rosenbaum, University of South Carolina. Many consumers report overt or subtle discrimination in service contexts. And when it happens, it’s bad news for everyone. Obviously, it’s bad for...

Service research in low-income countries

guest article by Heiko Gebauer Being a service researcher means thinking about your next research question, most appropriate theoretical lenses, and best-suited research methods. In addition, we think that it...

Engagement: Managerially alluring, academically divisive and ripe for research

guest article by Robert Ciuchita, finalist of the SERVSIG Best Dissertation Award 2017 (granted by Maastricht U) “Engagement is becoming paramount. A marketer’s greatest achievement is an engaged customer”. The Economist...

Results of the global network of service research at CTF Karlstad

guest article by Anders Gustafsson and David E. Bowen We conclude with an introduction to eight contributions of a special issue of the Journal of Business Research that are designed...

Pataphysics And Service Research

guest article by Danilo Brozović, Finalist of the SERVSIG Best Dissertation Award 2017 (granted by Maastricht U)  When the opportunity to contribute to the SERVSIG blog and the newsletter arose, I was...

Transformative Service Collaborative

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality… Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” Martin Luther King, 1963   We...

Social Dynamics Of Service Interactions

guest article by Alexander Henkel, Finalist of the SERVSIG Best Dissertation Award 2017 (granted by Maastricht U)  Social Dynamics Of Service Interactions Services have taken on a prominent role in society...

Where it all began: the history of La Londe Services Conference

guest article by Pierre Eiglier, Professor Emeritus, IAE Aix Graduate School of Management  The French La Londe Conference in Service Management did not begin in the Côte d’Azur La Londe resort area...

Innovation And Creative Destruction In Retailing

Guest article by Tor Andreassen. This article is part of the CSI Annual Report 2016. The full report can be downloaded here. In Norway, several industries are earmarked for restructuring. Two...

‘Wear’ to Next? – What Wearable Technology Means for Service Research

Guest article by R. Elena Frâncu, Benjamin Lucas, and Martin Wetzels Introduction Forecasts point to worldwide spending on wearable devices reaching $19 billion by 2018 (Feigenbaum, 2015) and reaching a...

Advancing the Research Frontier of Service Growth in Product Firms

guest article by Christian Kowalkowski Guest article about the Industrial Marketing Management 2017 special sections on Servitization and Deservitization. Service growth in product firms has become one of the most...