Service Research Priorities: Managing and Delivering Service in Turbulent Times

被引:193
作者
Ostrom, Amy L. [1 ,2 ]
Field, Joy M. [4 ]
Fotheringham, Darima [3 ]
Subramony, Mahesh [6 ]
Gustafsson, Anders [7 ]
Lemon, Katherine N. [5 ]
Huang, Ming-Hui [8 ]
McColl-Kennedy, Janet R. [9 ,10 ]
机构
[1] Arizona State Univ, PetSmart Chair Serv Leadership, Mkt, Tempe, AZ USA
[2] Arizona State Univ, WP Carey Sch Business, Tempe, AZ USA
[3] Arizona State Univ, WP Carey Sch Business, Serv Strategy, Mkt, Tempe, AZ USA
[4] Boston Coll, Operat Management, Carroll Sch Management, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 USA
[5] Boston Coll, Carroll Sch Management, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 USA
[6] Northern Illinois Univ, Management, De Kalb, IL 60115 USA
[7] BI Norwegian Business Sch, Mkt, Oslo, Norway
[8] Natl Taiwan Univ, Coll Management, Dept Informat Management, Taipei, Taiwan
[9] Univ Queensland, Mkt, Business Sch, Brisbane, Qld, Australia
[10] Univ Queensland, Business Sch, Res, Brisbane, Qld, Australia
关键词
service research priorities; stakeholders; transformative service research; customer experience; frontline service employees; customer proactivity; service operations; service technology; machine learning; ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE; CHANGING-ROLE; EXPERIENCE; FUTURE; WORK; FRONTLINES; CONSUMERS; AUTONOMY; CREATION; ROBOTS;
D O I
10.1177/10946705211021915
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
Transformative changes in the societal and service context call out for the service discipline to develop a coherent set of priorities for research and practice. To this end, we utilized multiple data sources: surveys of service scholars and practitioners, web scraping of online documents, a review of published service scholarship, and roundtable discussions conducted at the world's foremost service research centers. We incorporated innovative methodologies, including machine learning, natural language processing, and qualitative analyses, to identify key service research priorities that are critical to address during these turbulent times. The first two priorities-technology and the changing nature of work and technology and the customer experience-focus on leveraging technology for service provision and consumption. The next two priorities-resource and capability constraints and customer proactivity for well-being-focus on responding to the changing needs of multiple stakeholders. Further, we identified a set of stakeholder-wants from the literature and include research questions that tie key stakeholder-wants to each of the four priorities. We believe the set of research priorities in the present article offer actionable ideas for service research directions in this challenging environment.
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页码:329 / 353
页数:25
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