Recent studies on the Service-Dominant (S-D) logic perspective highlighted the importance of customer value. In this perspective, value is seen to be created, determined, and perceived by the customer through use or `value-in-use', which directly highlights the importance of customer participation in the service delivery process. This study used the Vargo and Lusch (2016) practice approach to understand how customers perceive the use of the self-checkout system and how value co-creation impacts the use of the self-checkout system in retail stores. This study carried out qualitative research on a retail store in Sweden, and data was collected using a semi-structured structured interview. The thematic approach was used to identify, analyze, and report patterns within the data. The data were further categorized into four themes – Convenience, Need for Communication, Cooperation, and Intention to Co-create. The result highlighted the factors influencing customer perception and intention toward the self-checkout system. The study further showed that customer’s intention to co-create is recognized as an effective practice in SST, and customer co-creation intention in SST is essential in determining their co-creation practices  Overall, this study showed that customer perceived value is determined by customer participation.

Despite much interest in service quality and various other service quality measures, scholars appear to have overlooked the overall concept of quality. More specifically, previous research has yet to integrate the effect of the customer network and customer knowledge into the measurement of quality. In this work, it is posited that the evaluation of quality is based on both the delivered value from the provider as well as the value developed from the relationships among customers and between customers and providers. This research examines quality as a broad and complex issue, and uses the “Big Quality” concept within the context of routine healthcare service. The last few decades have witnessed interest and activities surrounding the subject of quality and value co-creation. These are core features of Service-Dominant (S-D) logic theory. In this theory, the customer is a collaborative partner who co-creates value with the firm. Customers create value through the strength of their relations and network, and they take a central role in value actualization as value co-creator. I propose to examine the relationship between quality and the constructs of value co-creation. As well, due to the pivotal role of the decision-making process in customer satisfaction, I will also operationalize the value co-creation construct. Building upon the “Big Quality” concept, this study suggests a new approach by extending the quality concept to include the value-creation concept in Service Dominant Logic. This study identifies the associated constructs and determinants of Big Quality in routine healthcare management service, and examines the relationship among the associated quality constructs, customer satisfaction, and customer commitment. This study employed an online survey methodology to collect data. In data analysis, I used the variance-based structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) approach to confirm the factor structure, proposed model, and test the research hypotheses. The results show that the customer’s participation in in-role and extra-role behaviors are positively associated with their perceived quality, satisfaction, and commitment level. The major contribution of this study to decision sciences and the service quality literature is the development of a comprehensive framework explaining the importance of value co-creation within the context of healthcare quality. Finally, this work examines perceived service quality as a key factor of customer satisfaction and the relationship of Big Quality with commitment level in healthcare service management.

This paper explores value co-creation and value co-destruction with a focus on the social practices embedded in the online brand community “My Starbucks Idea (MSI).” The objectives of the research are accomplished through a detailed explanation of the study’s stages, starting with the Research design/Planning, and followed by the Community Entry (Entrée), Data collection, Limitations, and Ethical implications. Since the study is exploratory in character, the qualitative research strategy was used. As Bryman and Bell (2011) note, qualitative research gives particular attention to words rather than numbers in the gathering and interpretation of data. This study applied a modified ‘netnographic’ approach, a new qualitative method devised specifically to investigate consumer behaviour vis-à-vis cultures and communities present on the Internet (Kozinets 1998). This study identifies three elements of practice: stalking, gossip, and exhibitionism. It also supports the idea stated by Echeverri & Skålén (2011) that there is no positive without a negative in interactive value formation. Although those authors’ work was focused on the provider-customer interface, the idea proves applicable to the online brand community (OBC) used for illustration in this study. The present study also draws attention to a vital characteristic of practice often forgotten: ‘Language’ as an enabler of all other elements (Whittington 2006). The paper contributes to the knowledge in the practice theory domain, and thus consumer culture, especially relating to OBCs. When using OBCs as a marketing tool, considerable ingenuity must be employed by business managers to gain strategic information and feedback from online forum discussions. Such information can help in the company’s strategic decision making. By building relationships and gaining new customers through the process of collaboration, managers can become more like brand storytellers. Also, such communication can be channelled as a means to create greater awareness, both of the brand and the users’ experiences, along with aiding in the development of better services and products to meet customers’ needs. In the current study, consent was an ethical concern that limited the scope and path taken by the paper. The ten-week research period was another limiting factor in properly covering all of the contextualized consumption activities and gaining sufficient experience within the MSI community.

網際網路與行動運算興起改變了人類的消費行為模式，消費者/顧客因為科技的進步而更方便、更願意分享其使用的經驗與意見，並且在價值加值過程中的角色也起了變化，顧客與企業藉由共同生產而創造更多的價值。在競爭激烈的旅遊市場中，強調旅遊體驗訴求的深度旅遊業亦受到了很大的衝擊。本研究探討深度旅遊之價值共創的方法與價值內涵，並以趣吧旅行社為深入個案研究的對象，所得到的主要研究結論如下： 結論一、深度旅遊業者之員工的觀察力和人文素養越高，則其所設計與開發的商品，越能凸顯深度旅遊的特性與價值。 結論二、深度旅遊業者之顧客，若越符合業者定義之目標客群，則越能夠在深度旅遊之中獲得新知、感受、與自我提升。 結論三、深度旅遊業者透過事前期望服務與實際感受服務的管理，建立共創價值。 結論四、深度旅遊業者在與顧客共創價值時，會善用達人做為重要的互動介面，並以顧客與達人間的旅遊體驗做為其提升共創價值的基礎。 結論五、深度旅遊業者會透過有效的風險告知與危機處理機制來提升顧客的實際服務感受。 / Internet service and mobile computing changing the patterns of the consumer behavior. Consumer or customer are more willing to share their experiences and opinions because of advances in technology, and their role in value-adding process has changed. Customers and enterprises create more value by co-production. In the highly competitive tourism market, emphasizing the depth of travel experience demands of tourism has also been a great impact. This study explores the value of in-depth tourism and the connotation of value co-creation; and study the case of Tripbaa on-line travel agency. The main conclusions are as follows: 1.The deeper the observation and the humanistic accomplishment of the employees of the in-depth travel industry, the more services they design and develop can highlight the characteristics and value of in-depth travel. 2.In-depth tourism customers, if more in line with industry-defined target customer base, the more able to get new knowledge, experience, and ego-enhancement. 3.In-depth travel agency create value through the expectations of the service and the actual experience of service management. 4.In value co-creation, travel agency will make good use of experts as an important interactive interface, and enhance the value which created by travel experience of customers and travel experts. 5.In-depth travel agency will be through effective risk notification and crisis management mechanism to enhance the customer's actual service experience.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-13T14:09:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Luiza Vasques Piccioli.pdf: 4068332 bytes, checksum: a47638a822b0b54d95ac608b8bd4134f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-27 / This study is dedicated to the analysis of the Value Co-Creation Management and its relation to the market oriented strategy in foreign and Brazilian multinational companies. It is based on a theory review in which three main topics are discussed: (1) Marketing concepts evolution and the strategic orientation to market; (2) competitive advantage development and the value co-creation management; (3) foreign and Brazilian multinational companies, subsidiaries' role and the global Marketing management. The qualitative nature research developed on the market used the methodology of multiple case studies, following the protocol proposed by Yin (2001). This study was performed in 4 multinational companies, among them two Brazilian and two foreign ones, directly with the areas that are responsible for value co-creation management. In total, eight interviews were performed, being two per company, between the months of October and December 2012. After analysis, the research pointed not only to market orientation as a predecessor of co-creation management, but also to the value discipline chosen by the company as a strategical driver to co-creation implementation. In relation to Brazilian and foreign multinational companies, it was possible to identify that the management style is related to the organizations characteristics rather than their nationalities. As a contribute, this study fills a gap by bringing closer the subjects of Marketing orientation of co-creation practices and co-creation management in multinational companies. / Este estudo tem como objetivo analisar a gestão da co-criação de valor e sua integração com a estratégia de orientação para mercado em empresas multinacionais estrangeiras e brasileiras. O estudo do tema parte de uma revisão teórica, em que são considerados três tópicos: (1) a evolução dos conceitos de marketing e a orientação estratégica para mercado; (2) a construção de vantagem competitiva e a gestão da co-criação de valor; (3) as empresas multinacionais estrangeiras e brasileiras, o papel das subsidiárias e a gestão do marketing global. A pesquisa de campo, de natureza qualitativa, utilizou o método de estudo de caso múltiplo, seguindo o esquema protocolar proposto por Yin (2001). Este estudo foi realizado junto a quatro empresas multinacionais, sendo duas multinacionais estrangeiras e duas empresas multinacionais brasileiras, junto as áreas responsáveis pela gestão da co-criação de valor. Foram realizadas oito entrevistas, com dois profissionais de cada empresa pesquisada. As entrevistas ocorreram entre os meses de outubro e dezembro de 2012. Os resultados desta pesquisa apontam não apenas a orientação para mercado como um antecedente da gestão da co-criação, mas também a disciplina de valor escolhida pela empresa como uma diretriz estratégica para a implementação da co-criação. Com relação à comparação entre empresas multinacionais brasileiras e estrangeiras, foi possível verificar que a forma de gestão está atrelada as características organizacionais das empresas multinacionais e não a sua nacionalidade. Como contribuições, este estudo preenche uma lacuna ao aproximar o tema orientação para mercado da prática da co-criação e a gestão da co-criação em empresas multinacionais.

地方經營大約在西元兩千年開始陸續獲得各國重視，城市、鄉村乃至於郊區的實際經營案例、研究發現陸續提出，一場對於地區競爭力的討論與行動大幅展開，然而這場對話中對地方經營方式探討卻顯得相對稀少，但經營方式卻是強化經營、提升競爭力的關鍵要素。因此，本研究希望從此方向進行探索性研究，期望能有助於相關學術與實務的發展。 創意時代來臨、網際網路使用普及化、自我意識提升等，改變過去價值由供應者單一創造的模式，也突顯出使用者參與創造的需求。讓地方採用「價值共創」的方式進行經營，背後應該有可供解釋的理由與成果。因此本研究期盼藉由研究結果回答三點研究問題：（1）地方如何啟動價值共創活動？（2）地方價值共創活動關鍵影響要素為何？（3）共創活動如何影響地方經營？ 本研究藉由文獻與學理回顧，進一步探討地方價值共創活動之內涵。以價值共創、地方資本觀點為基礎，將描述價值創造過程的商業模式略作調整，發展出個案研究的概念性研究架構。研究架構將地方價值共創活動分為價值主張、關鍵資源、關鍵流程、經營成果四個部分，其中經營成果採用地方資本四構面進行觀察。本研究採用單一個案研究法。透過三十年的長期觀察，淬取出三個具有代表性、足夠影響規模的共創活動，以上述概念性架構進行深入探討。 本研究所得到的初步結論：（1）資源不足、認同共創必要性、共創氛圍是影響地方在不同階段採取價值共創進行地方經營之原因。（2）關鍵流程為強化價值主張內涵與論述、資源取得與整合、經營成果在地累積與提升之共同之基礎。（3）共創活動為地方向外擴大人力資本的取得並深化既有人力資本、發展社會資本，進而強化該地的人為資本與自然資本。 / Many countries have put emphasis on local management since 2000 and there are more and more practical cases or studies for city, urban and rural area management. The debates and the actions about the competitiveness of a place has started; however, the exploration of the approach of local management appears quite less even though that is the key to enforce place management and increase competitiveness. Therefore, this purpose of the thesis is to focus the direction to express an explorative studies. I expect it could make some contribution for the academic and practical development of this field. In the era of creativeness with the universality of Internet and the awareness of self-consciousness, the model which values are only created by suppliers has changed and the demand of users’ participation has also become stronger. There are some explanations or achievements for a place to take the way of “Value Co-Creation” to manage; therefore, the thesis aims to answer three research questions: (1) How does a place start the value co-creation activities? (2) What is the key factor of value co-creation activities in a place? (3) How does a value co-creation activity affect the management of a place? The thesis will firstly explore the significance of value co-creation activity in a place through literature review. Using “value co-creation,” local capitalism as basis, I make some adjustments in the business model, which portrays the process of “value creation” to develop the conceptual structure of case study. My research structure is divided into four parts: value proposition, key resource, key process and management performance explained by local capital. The thesis adopts individual case research method, and focuses on three representative and influential activities in the Yilan region, which are totaly observed case for 30 years. The conclusions of the thesis are as the following: (1) lacking resources, recognition for the necessary of co-creation and the co-creative atmosphere are the reasons that affect a place to take “value co-creation” for the local management in different stages. (2) The key process is to strengthen the content and statement of value proposition, to acquire and integrate the resources, and to improve and localize the management performance. (3) The co-creation activities can expand the acquirements of external human capital and reinforce internal one, increase social capital and enrich the human-made capital and natural capital.

在這個新媒體服務竄起的時代，許多中小型商家卻難以充分利用新媒體在顧客生命週期(customer life cycle)管理的過程中提升顧客參與行為。而在所有新媒體當中，搜尋引擎又被認為是獲取和發展新顧客最有效的方式之一。因此本研究在搜尋引擎的基礎上提出了一個藉由合作營銷活動最大化顧客參與的新架構。 我們利用在顧客參與平台上建構反向鏈結以及長尾關鍵字服務來實現我們的架構。通過針對中小型商家和顧客的控制實驗，我們驗證了該架構的可用性和效果。我們發現兩種服務對於增進網路能見度以及搜尋精準度都有明顯的提升。而高網路能見度及高搜尋精準度可以幫助中小型商家提升顧客參與行為，不論是在顧客參與平台或是其官方網站。因此本研究認為中小型商家可以利用顧客參與平台上的服務來建立合作營銷活動，以促進顧客參與行為。在這個過程中，不僅有利於顧客對於品牌態度的建立也有助於其轉變為中小型商家忠實顧客的可能性。 / Facing the fast-changing trend of service economy upon new media, most small and medium enterprises (SMEs) don’t have the capability to utilize new media to stimulate customer engagement behavior (CEB) through customer life cycle (acquisition, development, and retention). In all the new media, search engine is the most helpful way on acquiring and developing new customers, thus we propose a new framework based on search engine to maximizing the CEB through brand alliance-based campaign (which is a popular marketing strategy for SMEs to acquire new customers). According to our framework, the study implements two search engine services including inlink building service and long tail keyword service on engagement site. With conducting controlled experiments toward SMEs and customers, we testify our system by SMEs and the effects of services toward the customers. We find that inlink building service and long tail keyword service increase both on high search targetability and web visibility for customers. With high web visibility and search targeatbiliy, CEB can be stimulated on engagement site and also target sites of SMEs. Thus we conclude that SMEs can use brand alliance-based campaign with our services as a trigger to stimulate CEB. With increment on engagement behavior, customer’s brand attitudes then increase and in the end become loyal customers to the SMEs.

在這個充滿繁多新媒體時代，使用者面臨到眾多資料和快速變動的環境，使用者在媒體的使用行為和選擇上更加依賴各種推薦平台的建議。除此之外，隨著社群媒體的興起，許多的推薦平台整合了社群的人們關係來提供更準確的建議和選擇。雖然推薦系統在影響使用者的使用行為有顯著的效果，然而企業和品牌卻鮮少去關注或了解如何增加顧客參與行為在整合社群媒體的推薦平台上。顧客參與行為並不只有傳統的交易行為，而是包含了所有直接和間接影響企業品牌的行為，像是使用者回饋、口碑傳播等。而且，現今尚未有清楚明確的定義哪些關鍵因素，會影響顧客參與行為在社群化推薦推薦系統，來藉此獲得顧客關注，形成正向生態系統。 本研究中，我們根據達人在社群化推薦平台中具有重要的影響力的觀點，以促進重塑達人知識來改變原有達人的行為和態度，藉此影響所有一般使用者在社群化推薦平台的顧客參與行為。我們提出新的架構和系統來幫助中小型商家在推薦平台上影響更多的推薦達人，獲得更多的顧客參與。我們建立商家參與後台來幫助中小型商家可以洞悉達人的行為，我們也建立了重新塑造資訊的系統，提供達人所需要的訊息文章，藉此來改變達人的知識和行為。此研究發現，達人的行為會受到娛樂型、知識型和激勵型的文章訊息影響行為，一般使用者也會受到達人行為影響。此外我們藉由品牌合作角度來幫助得到更多的顧客參與行為，我們發現中小型商家可以在社群化推薦平台獲得顧客參與且建立一個正向機制循環。 / With the highly dynamic trend of service economy, the firms are increasingly to co-create value with brand alliance to advance their competition advantage. On the other hand, with the massive information on the new media, the referrals provided by recommender systems in combination with social media have significantly impact on customer behavior. In light of these trends, the markers and firms should aim to increase the customer engagement behavior (CEB) which goes beyond the traditional transactions including purchase and non-purchase behavior on social recommenders. In this research, we focus on the role of mavens who are powerful influencers on the social recommender. We propose a new conceptual framework for facilitating to impact the maven’s knowledge and behavior and increase the CEB on the social recommender for Small/Middle Enterprise (SME). We establish the SME support engagement site for increasing the CEB on social recommender and framing knowledge context to influence maven for achieving the insight of the maven’s behavior. As the result of research, we discover that maven engagement behavior would be influenced by the entertainment, information and incentive types in context from the brand alliance perspective and the non-maven are willing to be affected by maven behavior. Moreover, with this discovery, the SME can increase the customer engagement behavior on the social recommender

The academic and business understanding of how Business Models through Service Logic co-creates, proposes, and captures value in extensive and complex Networked Systems is at its first daylight, specifically in the context of Service Systems with their Ecologies. With the complexity emerging in the Service Economies along with the advances in Information and Communication Technology such as the Cloud and Big Data, to describe and define the business operations, units, and value propositions consequently is done by business modeling and innovation of the company to acquire a current or new capitalization strategy, control and execution. Open Business Models such as the Business Model Canvas are easily integrated in existing or new Enterprises and Service Systems, and aim to facilitate the development of private as well as public entities in adapting, accessing, and integrating operant and operand resources by the ever-so-more used Service Logic. A Service Business Model has the academia and business recognized Service-Dominant Logic (S-D Logic) as a foundation for sensemaking in complex Networked Systems and Service Economies. The authors have conducted 20 face-to-face interviews with private and public company managers at all levels, review of literature in the Business Model and Service Logic fields, and also reviewed case studies from IBM on Business Models and its Leadership, Strategy and Technology (and Services) – which is a natural extension of our Interdisciplinary and Systems Sciences studies with S-D Logic at Karlstad Business School and Karlstad University for the past four years. The author’s research, interviews and IBM’s case studies show a need for further conceptualization and sensemaking of the Value Co-Creations and Propositions in Service Eco-System settings – and also decision-making assistance for managers designing, innovating and using Service Business Models to create sustainable Ecologies. Moreover, a Leadership perspective with a systems level strategy in Service Eco-Systems through externally-faced Value Propositions with the ability to create opportunities needs to be developed through a systems thinking. Furthermore, the quality of interaction, shared information, and influence in Dyad Perspective to facilitate Triad Relationships captures value – which is facilitated by the new Service Canvas Business Model. We argue for a multiple perspective in Service Business Models to cater both partner and customer perspective with internally- and externally-faced Value Propositions to Co-Create or Capture Value – we see that this requires an objective (objectification) foundation for consensus; the 4C model. We contend that Service Eco-Systems cannot scale or sustain without the proper use of Technology specifically Communication but also Information, which determine most of the quality in modern and digital service interactions and perspectives. Our interviews, reviews, and cumulative research in Service Business Models and Eco-Systems with IBM case studies are all strong foundations for current and future research but also for business practice today.

近年來，中小企業(SMEs)於經濟中扮演與日俱增的重要性，使得產官學界希望能知道更多如何提升其企業績效的方法。本研究定義企業主動積極性(proactivity)為一關鍵影響因子，可使企業預期改變、想要改變，進而執行改變，以提高企業績效。本研究亦視資訊科技基礎下之協同合作(IT-enabled collaboration)為增加企業主動積極性各面向的可能方法。本研究採用個案研究(case study)，對象為臺灣宜蘭縣枕山休閒農業區。研究結果顯示，中小企業確實可透過資訊科技基礎下之協同合作，塑造其企業主動積極性，進而提升企業績效。本研究亦可協助中小企業認識企業主動積極的重要性，並協助其透過資訊科技基礎下的協同合作，增加其主動積極性。 / The emerging importance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has led to an increased interest in how to improve performance. In our research framework, we define proactivity as an essential factor that enables a company to anticipate change, to have the desire to make a change, and to implement that change to improve the performance of SMEs. We hypothesize that Information Technology (IT)-enabled collaboration has the potential to help firms achieve all dimensions of proactivity. To verify the research framework, a case study was conducted in the Mt. Pillow Leisure Agricultural Area in Yilan County, located in the northeast of Taiwan. Our research found that SMEs can enhance their performance after developing proactivity through IT platform-based cooperation. The results of this study can assist SMEs in improving their performance by signaling the importance of proactivity and assisting SMEs in improving their proactivity through IT-enabled collaboration.