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Bringing Value Creation through Service to Practice

Guest article by Bo Edvardsson. How do we communicate and explain what we do as service scholars? We have a message and contribution to business and practice! But, are we...

For 2024, I want more of the human element in digital services

Guest article by Tor W. Andreassen. The rapid technological development within digitalization, automation, AI, and GenAI has changed the way we live, work, and interact with businesses and people. One...

To Boldly Go…To Explore Strange New Service Worlds…

Guest article by Martin Wetzels, Christopher Lovelock Career Contributions Award Recipient 2023. The world as we know it has been changing at an ever-increasing pace, or as Mr. Spock puts it in...

Navigating the Shift from Upstream to Downstream Innovations: A Guide for Innovation Leaders

Guest article by Per Kristensson and Tor W Andreassen. There is a shift in innovation focus from upstream efficiency focus to downstream value creation for customers. In his seminal book...

The Sharing Economy beyond the Mainstream: Community-based efforts

Guest article by Hugo Guyader, Pia A. Albinsson, Yasanthi B. Perera, and Stephanie J. Lawson. Collaborative Consumption From ridesharing to crowdfunding to various peer-to-peer provided accommodation options and beyond, the...

Unlocking the Circular Promise: The Case of Servitization

Guest article by Katrien Verleye, Lisa Antonissen, Marie-Julie De Bruyne, and Arne De Keyser. Service and other scholars have robustly embraced servitization, identifying it as the adoption of service-based strategies...

Blockchain: Transforming the Sharing Economy

Guest article by Thijs Zwienenberg, Simon Hazée, Arne De Keyser, and Martin Paul Fritze. Blockchain technology has become the talk of the town, poised to revolutionize various aspects of our...

What is wrong with the Sharing Economy and how to fix it

Guest article by Sabine Benoit. The initial idea and promise of the sharing economy was to make use of our idle resources. Unfortunately, it failed.  As a matter of fact,...

From AI to Sustainability: How Actor Ecosystem Readiness (AER) Shapes Today’s Service Encounters

Guest article by Ilias Danatzis, Ingo O. Karpen, and Michael Kleinaltenkamp, winners of the SERVSIG Best Service Article Award. We are honoured to receive SERVSIG’s Best Service Article Award for our 2022 paper...

Turning Challenges into Opportunities: Thriving Amidst Change

Guest article by Tor W. Andreassen. Change is the only constant in life. In all our roles—as citizens, employees, customers, investors, or leaders—we must navigate the ever-present currents of change,...

The Delicate Dance of Managing Customer Experience

Guest article by Yasin Sahhar, finalist of the 2023 SERVSIG Best Dissertation Award. Being a finalist for the SERVSIG Best Dissertation Award is a great privilege. I once again thank the flourishing...

Deepening Our Theorizing on Customer Experience: A Phenomenological Perspective

Guest article by Yasin Sahhar, finalist of the 2023 SERVSIG Best Dissertation Award. It is a privilege to be among the finalists for the SERVSIG Best Dissertation Award – I thank the...