Customer Integration in Service Innovation: An Exploratory Study

Prominent industry projects, as well as an extensive literature suggest the importance of customer integration for companies' innovation success. This appears to be especially true for service firms, which inherently build on customer interaction. Despite this appreciation of the approach, ther...

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Autores principales: Straub,Tim, Kohler,Marc, Hottum,Peter, Arrass,Volker, Welter,Dennis
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Publicado: Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios 2013
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-272420130004000032014-01-29Customer Integration in Service Innovation: An Exploratory StudyStraub,TimKohler,MarcHottum,PeterArrass,VolkerWelter,Dennis customer integration customer roles open innovation service innovation service management Prominent industry projects, as well as an extensive literature suggest the importance of customer integration for companies' innovation success. This appears to be especially true for service firms, which inherently build on customer interaction. Despite this appreciation of the approach, there are comparably few empirical analyses of the positive and negative effects of customer integration. In this exploratory study, we build on established customer role concepts to study the status quo of customer integration in industry, as well as reservations against the roles and negative experiences from customer integration projects. The study reveals a gap between reservations and actual negative experiences in losing know-how, as well as a positive effect of experience in customer integration on perceived benefits for the companyinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y NegociosJournal of technology management & innovation v.8 n.3 20132013-11-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-27242013000400003en10.4067/S0718-27242013000400003
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topic customer integration
customer roles
open innovation
service innovation
service management
spellingShingle customer integration
customer roles
open innovation
service innovation
service management
Straub,Tim
Kohler,Marc
Hottum,Peter
Arrass,Volker
Welter,Dennis
Customer Integration in Service Innovation: An Exploratory Study
description Prominent industry projects, as well as an extensive literature suggest the importance of customer integration for companies' innovation success. This appears to be especially true for service firms, which inherently build on customer interaction. Despite this appreciation of the approach, there are comparably few empirical analyses of the positive and negative effects of customer integration. In this exploratory study, we build on established customer role concepts to study the status quo of customer integration in industry, as well as reservations against the roles and negative experiences from customer integration projects. The study reveals a gap between reservations and actual negative experiences in losing know-how, as well as a positive effect of experience in customer integration on perceived benefits for the company
author Straub,Tim
Kohler,Marc
Hottum,Peter
Arrass,Volker
Welter,Dennis
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Kohler,Marc
Hottum,Peter
Arrass,Volker
Welter,Dennis
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title Customer Integration in Service Innovation: An Exploratory Study
title_short Customer Integration in Service Innovation: An Exploratory Study
title_full Customer Integration in Service Innovation: An Exploratory Study
title_fullStr Customer Integration in Service Innovation: An Exploratory Study
title_full_unstemmed Customer Integration in Service Innovation: An Exploratory Study
title_sort customer integration in service innovation: an exploratory study
publisher Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios
publishDate 2013
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