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What service transition?: Rethinking established assumptions about manufacturers’ service-led growth strategies
Department of Marketing, CERS – Centre for Relationship Marketing and Service Management, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland; Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utveckling, Industriell ekonomi, Linköpings universitet, Linköping, Sweden.ORCID-id: 0000-0002-4081-9737
Örebro universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Örebro Universitet. The University of Auckland Business School, Auckland, New Zealand.
Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
EAWAG, Switzerland, Business Innovation, Environmental Social Science Department, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland.
2015 (engelsk)Inngår i: Industrial Marketing Management, ISSN 0019-8501, E-ISSN 1873-2062, Vol. 45, s. 59-69Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Published
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Both academics and practitioners emphasize the importance for product firms of implementing service-led growth strategies. The service transition concept is well established, namely a unidirectional repositioning along a product-service continuum—from basic, product-oriented services towards more customized, process-oriented ones—ultimately leading to the provision of solutions. We challenge this service transition assumption and develop alternative ones regarding how product firms should pursue service-led growth. Using ‘problematization methodology’, and drawing on findings from thirteen system suppliers, we identify three service-led growth trajectories: (1) becoming an availability provider, which is the focus of most transition literature; (2) becoming a performance provider, which resembles project-based sales and implies an even greater differentiation of what customers are offered; and, (3) becoming an ‘industrializer’, which is about standardizing previously customized solutions to promote repeatability and scalability. Based on our critical inquiry, we develop two alternative assumptions: (a) firms need to constantly balance business expansion and standardization activities; and (b) manage the co-existence of different system supplier roles. Finally, we consider the implications for implementing service-led growth strategies of the alternative assumptions.

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Elsevier, 2015. Vol. 45, s. 59-69
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Service transition; Solutions; Manufacturing companies; Service strategy; Problematization methodology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-62361DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2015.02.016ISI: 000353088700008Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84932195329OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-62361DiVA, id: diva2:1156774
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