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UNSPECIFIED (2005) Operational loss and new service design. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SERVICE INDUSTRY MANAGEMENT, 16 (5). pp. 455-479. doi:10.1108/09564230510625769 ISSN 0956-4233.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09564230510625769
Abstract
Purpose - The understanding of operational failure (or loss generally) and its role as an imperative for service design is underdeveloped. This paper investigates external and internal loss categories (such as market failure, and unexploited resource development) and their relationship to the loss response; specifically, reactions to loss in the form of ex post loss control via new service design (NSD).
Design/methodology/approach - The investigation consists of complimentary theoretical and empirical dimensions and includes the analysis of five service design cases. This analysis deploys a model based upon the extant service design and innovation, resource-based view and operational risk literatures.
Findings - The findings question the universal applicability of extant normative and descriptive models of service design. After arguing that their use should be limited to specific contexts, the paper proposes a new, more general conception of service design modes.
Originality/value - The paper comments on patterns of service design practice not discussed previously. It highlights some dangers inherent in following conventional prescription on design processes, illustrates a positive role for loss in design, and proposes new frameworks for NSD that accommodate loss as a contributor to the process.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SERVICE INDUSTRY MANAGEMENT | ||||
Publisher: | EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED | ||||
ISSN: | 0956-4233 | ||||
Official Date: | 2005 | ||||
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Volume: | 16 | ||||
Number: | 5 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 25 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 455-479 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1108/09564230510625769 | ||||
Publication Status: | Published |
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