{"title":"Inventory Service Target in Quick Response Fashion Retail Supply Chains","authors":"T. Choi","doi":"10.1287/SERV.2016.0146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/SERV.2016.0146","url":null,"abstract":"Different fashion brands have different inventory service targets. To achieve the desirable inventory service level without the need of holding a lot of inventory, fashion companies commonly adopt the quick response practice. In this paper, we conduct an analytical study on the influence played by the inventory service target on quick response fashion retail supply chains. To be specific, we consider the case when the fashion retailer, who is the channel leader, aims to achieve an inventory service target in its inventory planning. We explore impacts of the inventory service-targeted quick response program, in terms of expected profit, and profit risk on the fashion retailer, the fashion manufacturer, and the fashion supply chain system. We also examine the quick response's impact on social welfare. We show how three practical contracts, namely, the fixed-fee contract, the wholesale pricing contract, and the product variety contract, can be employed to achieve a win-win situation in the fashion retail supply chain system with the adoption of the inventory service-targeted quick response program. Closed-form managerial insights on how the inventory service target affects the expected benefit of quick response, the reduction of profit risk under quick response, the expected gain of social welfare, the achievability of the win-win situation, and the setting of contractual parameters, are derived.","PeriodicalId":225278,"journal":{"name":"Service Science archive","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130068266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Commentary-Smart Service Systems: Bridging the Silos","authors":"R. Larson","doi":"10.1287/SERV.2016.0140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/SERV.2016.0140","url":null,"abstract":"To strengthen service science as an academic discipline, we need to bridge disciplinary silos. A strongly connected network of silo-to-silo bridges can facilitate a generation of foundational knowledge and best practices needed to foster substantive continuing innovation in service system design. Such innovation can have an enormous impact on service system performance and thus quality of life for users of these systems. Drawing from insights gained from discussions at the \"Smarter Service Systems through Innovation Partnerships and Transdisciplinary Research\" workshop, held by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the National Science Foundation during November 20-21, 2014, we explore the challenges facing researchers, system designers, and industry players seeking to drive innovation in service system design. We then present ideas in three major areas for surmounting those challenges: a designing service systems with human beings not just technology in mind, b fostering transdisciplinary research, and c forging new kinds of partnerships among diverse stakeholders.","PeriodicalId":225278,"journal":{"name":"Service Science archive","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126012062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stakeholder Integration for Service Innovation in German Medium-Sized Enterprises","authors":"J. Jonas, Angela Roth, Kathrin M. Möslein","doi":"10.1287/SERV.2016.0152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/SERV.2016.0152","url":null,"abstract":"This multiple case study explores stakeholder integration as a multidimensional process in service systems. Applying a service-dominant S-D logic perspective to service innovation, the empirical study identifies which internal and external stakeholders are being integrated in service innovation, at which stage of the process, and in which mode. It explores the practice of stakeholder integration as a multidimensional process in the context of medium-sized information technology and manufacturing firms and thereby demonstrates, among others, that stakeholder integration is foremost implemented as reactive integration. Mutual cocreation, the bidirectional exchange between stakeholders, is put into practice only with internal stakeholders. The exploratory approach shows how the indirect integration and interdependencies of stakeholder integration represent challenges for service innovation.","PeriodicalId":225278,"journal":{"name":"Service Science archive","volume":"246 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121676074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of Collaboration in Service Innovation Across Manufacturing and Service Sectors","authors":"Cong Feng, K. Sivakumar","doi":"10.1287/SERV.2016.0135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/SERV.2016.0135","url":null,"abstract":"This study empirically demonstrates the impact of service innovation on innovation performance for manufacturing and service firms and finds that the effect of service innovation on innovation performance is greater for service firms than manufacturing firms. In addition, the results show that the relationship between the propensity for service innovation and three types of collaboration vertical, horizontal, and third-party collaboration is significant. Furthermore, this study finds that vertical and third-party collaborations are more beneficial than horizontal collaboration for service firms. This research advances the discourse on service innovation in two ways. First, it offers a stronger justification for examining and fostering innovation generation in service industries. Second, the findings regarding the comparative impact of collaboration highlight the desirability of stronger collaborations with channel members whose interests are aligned with the firm and neutral entities whose interests are not in conflict with the firm than with competitors whose interests are likely not aligned with the focal firm. In short, the research presents a detailed and nuanced view of the antecedents and consequences of service innovation.","PeriodicalId":225278,"journal":{"name":"Service Science archive","volume":"141 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132200345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jaakko Siltaloppi, Kaisa Koskela-Huotari, S. Vargo
{"title":"Institutional Complexity as a Driver for Innovation in Service Ecosystems","authors":"Jaakko Siltaloppi, Kaisa Koskela-Huotari, S. Vargo","doi":"10.1287/SERV.2016.0151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/SERV.2016.0151","url":null,"abstract":"This paper extends research on innovation as institutional change within service science and service-dominant S-D logic by conceptualizing the emergence of novel solutions in service ecosystems. We pay particular attention to how actors individuals and organizations are able to create new solutions that change the very institutional arrangements that guide and constrain them. We propose that institutional complexity-the multiplicity of institutional arrangements confronting actors with conflicting prescriptions for action-drives the emergence of novelty. Institutional complexity reduces the influence of prevailing institutions by activating conscious problem solving and making available multiple institutional \"toolkits.\" These dynamic toolkits consist of the cultural norms and meanings, as well as material practices, associated with specific institutional arrangements, with which actors can jointly reconstruct and change value cocreation practices and advance change in the institutional arrangements of service ecosystems. This paper contributes to service science and S-D logic by providing a more comprehensive understanding of innovation driven by institutional complexity, in which the stability of institutional arrangements is reconciled with the actor-driven creation of novel solutions constitutive of institutional change.","PeriodicalId":225278,"journal":{"name":"Service Science archive","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121867698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Underpinnings of User Participation in Service Provider-Hosted Online Communities","authors":"Puneet Kaur","doi":"10.1287/SERV.2016.0136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/SERV.2016.0136","url":null,"abstract":"The recent emergence of social media-based brand communities is seen as an effective channel for practicing user-centric service innovation. However, user participation is the major hurdle in their sustainability. Despite the growing popularity of these brand communities, there has been only limited research examining the factors affecting user intention to continue using these communities. Teenagers represent an important demographic group, not only as the dominant users, but also in their value and potential in contributing toward successful business. To date, no previous research has investigated the participation behaviour of teenagers in these communities. To address this research gap, the present study examines the factors affecting teenagers' intention to continue participating in Facebook-based brand communities. The roles of social and individual factors in the formulation of their attitudes to participation are examined. The relationship between users' attitudes, activity levels, and continuation intentions are explored. The study findings suggest that self-efficacy, hedonic motivation, reciprocal benefit, and social influence have a positive impact on user attitude. Among these, self-efficacy has the strongest influence. Furthermore, attitude, continuation intention, and activity levels are significantly related. The findings have implications for organisations intending to use social media-based brand communities to practice user-centric service innovation.","PeriodicalId":225278,"journal":{"name":"Service Science archive","volume":"86 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114010403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ville Eloranta, Lauri Orkoneva, Esko Hakanen, T. Turunen
{"title":"Using Platforms to Pursue Strategic Opportunities in Service-Driven Manufacturing","authors":"Ville Eloranta, Lauri Orkoneva, Esko Hakanen, T. Turunen","doi":"10.1287/SERV.2016.0155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/SERV.2016.0155","url":null,"abstract":"Strategy research posits that in dynamic environments, firms must base their strategies not on leveraging the past, but on fostering constant change. This research explores how platforms can be used as semistructures to pursue strategic opportunities in manufacturers' service networks. A platform strategy combining product and organization approaches is identified at the interfirm level. The results show that platforms are perceived to extend the physical product's capacity to produce new usage scenarios, facilitate interfirm information flows and enable collective benefits, and create awareness of new value potentials. The study calls for more research regarding a systemic approach to solution business.","PeriodicalId":225278,"journal":{"name":"Service Science archive","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122398017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Triadic Value Propositions: When It Takes More Than Two to Tango","authors":"C. Kowalkowski, Daniel Kindström, Per Carlborg","doi":"10.1287/SERV.2016.0145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/SERV.2016.0145","url":null,"abstract":"Value propositions are reciprocal resource-integration promises and value alignment mechanisms operating to and from actors seeking an equitable exchange. In a business triad, any change in the relationship between two actors also affects relationships with the third actor, influencing resource integration and value creation at the value constellation level. This study of the development of a triadic value proposition analyzes how the discontinuous effects of a new service initiative alter the relationships among actors in a manufacturer-dealer-user triad. A qualitative empirical inquiry examines a 10-year process, in which a leading industry incumbent enters the service business by crafting a triadic value proposition. As the value proposition evolves over time, the network ties-and thus the interdependence among manufacturer, dealer, and user-strengthen. The findings offer firms a better understanding of how to involve and collaborate with key actors to initiate discontinuous changes at the firm and network levels. These insights are particularly timely in light of the difficulties that product firms face when intermediaries are decisive for the success of their service-led growth initiatives.","PeriodicalId":225278,"journal":{"name":"Service Science archive","volume":"139 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123597343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to the Special Issue on Multiactor Value Creation in Service Innovation: Collaborative Value Creation in Service","authors":"R. Rajala, F. Gallouj, M. Toivonen","doi":"10.1287/SERV.2016.0157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/SERV.2016.0157","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":225278,"journal":{"name":"Service Science archive","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126704866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interactional Service Innovation with Social Media Users","authors":"Miha Uratnik","doi":"10.1287/SERV.2016.0149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/SERV.2016.0149","url":null,"abstract":"The pervasive availability of social media is changing user interaction in service innovation. However, we lack information on how to leverage interactional service innovation with social media. This paper draws from an analytical framework constructed according to mixed qualitative research, deriving a model and functions of its agents in social media innovation. The findings indicate that organizations interact with the social media and reduce diseconomies of scope; however, they also codestroy value. Hence, we explain how companies leverage sustainable innovation with social media users in the co-production and co-creation of value. We conclude the findings and results with the theoretical propositions, and the conclusion follows an outline of the contributions, future research, and managerial implications.","PeriodicalId":225278,"journal":{"name":"Service Science archive","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130899145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}