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Institutional Complexity as a Driver for Innovation in Service Ecosystems
Aalto University School of Science.
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Service Research Center (from 2013).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2062-0931
University of Hawai’i at Manoa.
2016 (English)In: Service Science, ISSN 2164-3962, E-ISSN 2164-3970, Vol. 8, no 3, p. 333-343Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

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. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2016. Vol. 8, no 3, p. 333-343
Keywords [en]
Innovation, institutional complexity, service ecosystems, service-dominant logic, service science
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Business Administration
Research subject
Business Administration
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-55325DOI: 10.1287/serv.2016.0151ISI: 000390566500007OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-55325DiVA, id: diva2:1113851
Available from: 2017-06-22 Created: 2017-06-22 Last updated: 2019-06-17Bibliographically approved
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1. The evolution of markets - A service ecosystems perspective
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The evolution of markets - A service ecosystems perspective
2018 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This conceptual dissertation aims to build an integrative and transdisciplinary framework of market evolution by reconnecting the study of innovations and markets, with help from the service ecosystems perspective. The service ecosystems perspective offers a processual, systemic, and institutional view on value creation, which is grounded in the axiomatic assumptions of service-dominant (S-D) logic. Hence, the dissertation departs from the premise that value, when perceived, is always cocreated by multiple, institutionally guided actors in service ecosystems through service exchange and the integration of resources. The dissertation extends the conceptualizations of innovations and markets from a service ecosystems perspective, with the help of institutional theory. The resulting transcending conceptualizations are then used to reconcile the paradoxical tensions identified in the conceptualizations of innovations within service research and markets within marketing literature in order to synthesize their substantial contributions into a cohesive framework of market evolution. By connecting insights from five appended papers and the reconciled literatures, the dissertation develops a recursive four-phase process model of market evolution as institutional dynamics of multi-dimensional value cocreation structures. The model explains how innovations as proto-institutional value cocreation structures emerge and how markets as institutionalized value cocreation structures evolve through institutional work carried out by multiple actors aiming to either maintain or disrupt a prevailing market. By beginning to unravel the institutional processes and market shaping strategies contributing to market evolution, the dissertation provides guidance to actors who are interested in markets and their development.

Abstract [en]

This conceptual dissertation builds an integrative and transdisciplinary framework of market evolution by drawing on and extending the service ecosystems perspective. With the help of institutional theory, the dissertation develops transcending conceptualizations of markets and innovations to reconcile and reconnect the discussion on markets in marketing literature and innovations in service research. By synthesizing insights from the reconciled literatures and five appended papers, the dissertation develops a recursive, four-phase process model of market evolution as institutional dynamics of multi-dimensional value cocreation structures. The resulting framework provides guidance to actors aiming to either maintain or disrupt a market.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Karlstad: Karlstad University Press, 2018. p. 161
Series
Karlstad University Studies, ISSN 1403-8099 ; 2018:6
Keywords
Market, innovation, market evolution, service ecosystems, institutions, institutional change, value cocreation, service-dominant logic, conceptual research, transdisciplinary research
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Social Sciences Business Administration
Research subject
Business Administration
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urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-65999 (URN)978-91-7063-835-0 (ISBN)978-91-7063-930-2 (ISBN)
Public defence
2018-01-16, Erlandersalen, 11D 227, Karlstad, 13:15 (English)
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Available from: 2018-03-01 Created: 2018-01-29 Last updated: 2018-05-31Bibliographically approved

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