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How do actors coordinate for value creation?: A signaling and screening perspective on resource integration
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Service Research Center (from 2013).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6162-590x
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Service Research Center (from 2013). Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, NOR.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2705-0836
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Service Research Center (from 2013). Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, NOR.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5605-9285
2022 (English)In: Journal of Services Marketing, E-ISSN 0887-6045, Vol. 36, no 9, p. 18-26Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Purpose Although service research typically asserts that institutions coordinate actors' value creation processes, institutions and resources are not necessarily transparent, aligned, or pre-existing. This paper aims to develop a more granular perspective on how actors coordinate for value. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on the established concepts of signaling and screening theory, this paper adopts a service marketing perspective to explore how independent heterogeneous actors coordinate for value creation at the individual level. Illustrative cases of corporate startup collaborations are presented in support of the proposed conceptual framework. Findings Actors share and acquire information through signaling and screening activities in a coordinative dialogue with other actors. These resource integration activities (for resource creation and matching) affect actors' valuations and future actions. Originality/value The one-sided explanations of coordination in the existing literature reflect the dominance of the institutional theory. By contrast, the proposed agency-oriented perspective based on the integration of signaling and screening functions offers a more granular conceptualization of the resource integration process. As well as capturing how actors use coordinating dialogue to match resources and institutions, this account also shows that matching is a core element of resource integration rather than an antecedent. The findings indicate paths for future research that focus on the actor.

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2022. Vol. 36, no 9, p. 18-26
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Resource integration, Coordination, Signaling, Screening, Matching, Resource asymmetry, Value creation
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Business Administration
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Business Administration
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-89449DOI: 10.1108/JSM-02-2020-0068ISI: 000774823600002Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85127786633OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-89449DiVA, id: diva2:1651118
Available from: 2022-04-11 Created: 2022-04-11 Last updated: 2024-07-04Bibliographically approved

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