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Coordinating service provision in dynamic service settings : a position practice relations perspective

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Aristidou, Angela and Barrett, Michael (2018) Coordinating service provision in dynamic service settings : a position practice relations perspective. Academy of Management Journal, 61 (2). pp. 685-714. doi:10.5465/amj.2015.0310 ISSN 0001-4273.

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Abstract

How is continuity of service provision supported in dynamic service settings (DSS) when interactions span space and time, and are being increasingly infused by technology? We explored this question through our eighteen-month qualitative study of the DSS of UK mental health. We found that the pattern of interaction that emerges is constantly reconfigured through processes of spanning time, stretching space and through distributed agency. Further, we found that service provision does not only occur among work roles with clear (cross)organizational links but also through diverse interaction among current customers and their friends, as well as customer-to-customer interactions. We characterize such service provision which is not anchored to any service organization as being extraorgnizational. Further, we highlight the importance of the history of interactions and how trust built through diverse interactions in the past may influence trust building in current interaction. To explain our findings we introduce the concepts of “position-practices” and position-practice relations (PPR) to theorize how diverse interaction among dispersed actors contributes to service provision continuity in DSS. We develop a conceptual process model which identifies processes of spanning time, and the stretching of space by which the PPR web of service provision is dynamically reconfigured, and with what consequences for both our case as well as other dynamic service settings.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Service industries -- Research, Mental health services
Journal or Publication Title: Academy of Management Journal
Publisher: Academy of Management
ISSN: 0001-4273
Official Date: 20 April 2018
Dates:
DateEvent
20 April 2018Published
22 February 2018Available
22 May 2017Accepted
Volume: 61
Number: 2
Page Range: pp. 685-714
DOI: 10.5465/amj.2015.0310
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 5 June 2017
Date of first compliant Open Access: 22 February 2019
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
UNSPECIFIED[NIHR] National Institute for Health Researchhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000272
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