Purpose – This article aims to investigate the nature and characteristics of business model elements required for successful service innovation. The authors examine which unique resources and capabilities product-centric firms should develop and deploy to pursue service innovation....

Purpose– This article aims to investigate the nature and characteristics of business model elements required for successful service innovation. The authors examine which unique resources and capabilities product-centric firms should develop and deploy to pursue service...

To date little is known about firm-level factors accounting for the use of external knowledge-intensive service providers in service-oriented business model innovation. This paper adopts a configurational approach for investigating knowledge-intensive relational novelty in digital servitization....

Manufacturers have shifted their focus from products to smart solutions in search of higher returns and additional growth opportunities. This shift, described as servitization, or lately as a digital servitization, is not a simple process. Academic study has revealed that its issues are complex,...

Chapter 1: Theoretical landscape in servitization -- Part 1: Strategic approaches in servitization -- Chapter 2: Digital servitization: How manufacturing firms can enhance resource integration and drive ecosystem transformation -- Chapter 3: Typologies of Manufacturer Identities in the Age of...