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Hervé Corvellec.

Hervé Corvellec

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Hervé Corvellec.

When lock-ins impede value co-creation in service

Author

  • Anette Svingstedt
  • Hervé Corvellec

Summary, in English

Purpose: This 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/approach: The 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. Findings: Four 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/implications: Based 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 implications: The authors identify the fact that lock-ins impeding value co-creation can act as a roadmap for the development of new services. Originality/value: By focusing on a case of unsuccessful value co-creation, the paper offers a counterpoint to cases of successful value co-creation.

Department/s

  • Department of Service Studies

Publishing year

2018

Language

English

Pages

2-15

Publication/Series

International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences

Volume

10

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Topic

  • Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified

Keywords

  • lock-in
  • Waste prevention

Status

Published

Project

  • Projekttitel: Att förebygga verksamhetsavfall: in- och upplåsningar

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1756-669X