Service innovation in digitalized product platforms: An illustration of the implications of generativity on remote diagnostics of public transport buses
Autor: | Maria Åkesson, Michel Thomsen, Soumitra Chowdhury |
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Rok vydání: | 2021 |
Předmět: |
Process management
Sociology and Political Science Generativity business.industry 020209 energy 05 social sciences Control (management) Human Factors and Ergonomics 02 engineering and technology Education Public transport Manufacturing 0502 economics and business 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Business logic Remote diagnostics Business Product (category theory) Business and International Management Service innovation 050203 business & management |
Zdroj: | Technology in Society. 65:101589 |
ISSN: | 0160-791X |
Popis: | The digitalization of products stimulates service innovation and new business opportunities for industrial manufacturing firms. These opportunities are driven by generativity, which denotes digital technology's capacity in enabling organizations to innovate. While generativity on the one hand provides opportunities for digital service innovation, on the other hand it challenges the traditional business logic of industrial manufacturing firms. The traditional stable product-centric businesses where resources of a product platform are controlled by industrial manufacturing firms become destabilized and driven towards a flexible service innovation. The aim of this research is to explore the implications of generativity for service innovation in digitalized product platforms. We show the paradoxical relationship between generativity and control by following a bus manufacturer's endeavour in service innovation with digitalized public transport buses. We contribute with empirical illustrations of the implications for service innovation with three different degrees of control in digitalized product platforms. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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