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When lock-ins impede value co-creation in service

When lock-ins impede value co-creation in service PurposeThis paper aims to demonstrate the relevance of identifying lock-ins that characterise a service, showing how lock-ins or impediments reinforce the status quo and prevent change. It provides an understanding of the factors hindering the development of value co-creation in this service.Design/methodology/approachThe study is based on 19 semi-structured interviews with representatives of the Swedish waste management industry. It focusses on the difficulties that waste management companies encounter when they try to collaborate with their industrial customers to develop waste prevention services.FindingsFour lock-ins that impede collaborative ways of working are identified: a business model based on short-term transactions rather than long-term relationships, a low level of self-confidence among waste managers regarding their competence to offer waste prevention services, non-supportive legal and economic institutional factors and existing waste processing infrastructures.Research limitations/implicationsBased on a case of waste services and to provide a better understanding of the rationale of value co-creation, this paper points to the generic relevance of investigating situations in which value co-creation encounters difficulties.Practical implicationsThe authors identify the fact that lock-ins impeding value co-creation can act as a roadmap for the development of new services.Originality/valueBy focusing on a case of unsuccessful value co-creation, the paper offers a counterpoint to cases of successful value co-creation. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences Emerald Publishing

When lock-ins impede value co-creation in service

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Emerald Publishing
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1756-669X
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10.1108/IJQSS-10-2016-0072
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Abstract

PurposeThis paper aims to demonstrate the relevance of identifying lock-ins that characterise a service, showing how lock-ins or impediments reinforce the status quo and prevent change. It provides an understanding of the factors hindering the development of value co-creation in this service.Design/methodology/approachThe study is based on 19 semi-structured interviews with representatives of the Swedish waste management industry. It focusses on the difficulties that waste management companies encounter when they try to collaborate with their industrial customers to develop waste prevention services.FindingsFour lock-ins that impede collaborative ways of working are identified: a business model based on short-term transactions rather than long-term relationships, a low level of self-confidence among waste managers regarding their competence to offer waste prevention services, non-supportive legal and economic institutional factors and existing waste processing infrastructures.Research limitations/implicationsBased on a case of waste services and to provide a better understanding of the rationale of value co-creation, this paper points to the generic relevance of investigating situations in which value co-creation encounters difficulties.Practical implicationsThe authors identify the fact that lock-ins impeding value co-creation can act as a roadmap for the development of new services.Originality/valueBy focusing on a case of unsuccessful value co-creation, the paper offers a counterpoint to cases of successful value co-creation.

Journal

International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences – Emerald Publishing

Published: Mar 19, 2018

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