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Service-Dominant Logic as a Foundation for Service Science: Clarifications

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Service science is an emerging discipline concerned with the evolution, interaction, and reciprocal cocreation of value among service systems (Maglio and Spohrer [Maglio, P. P., J. Spohrer. 2008. Fundamentals of Service Science. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science 36(1) 18–20.]; Spohrer et al. [Spohrer, J., S. Vargo, N. Caswell, P. Maglio. 2008. The Service System is the Basic Abstraction of Service Science. 41st Annual HICSS Conference Proceedings.]). Service-dominant (S-D) logic (Vargo and Lusch [Vargo, S., R. F. Lusch. 2004a. Evolving to a New Dominant Logic for Marketing. Journal of Marketing 68(1) 1–17.] [Vargo, S., R. F. Lusch. 2008. Service-Dominant Logic: Continuing the Evolution. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science 36(1) 1–10.]) is an alternative to the traditional, goods-dominant (G-D) paradigm for understanding economic exchange and value creation. This service-centered view is based on the idea that service – the application of competences for the benefit of another – is the basis of all exchange. S-D logic has been identified as an appropriate philosophical foundation for the development of service science (Maglio et al. [Maglio, P. P., S. L. Vargo, N. Caswell, J. Spohrer, 2009. The Service System is the Basic Abstraction of Service Science. Information Systems and e-business Management (in press).]). However, perhaps partly because S-D logic is first necessarily encountered through the G-D logic paradigm to which it runs counter, it is sometimes misinterpreted and thus misrepresented. This paper discusses S-D logic as a foundation for service science by reviewing the foundational premises of S-D logic and clarifying several misinterpretations related to (1) the S-D logic meaning of “service,” (2) the role of service in economic exchange, and (3) the nature of value cocreation. Drawing on these clarifications, implications of an S-D logic foundation for service science are proposed. [Service Science, ISSN 2164-3962 (print), ISSN 2164-3970 (online), was published by Services Science Global (SSG) from 2009 to 2011 as issues under ISBN 978-1-4276-2090-3.]
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Title: Service-Dominant Logic as a Foundation for Service Science: Clarifications
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Service science is an emerging discipline concerned with the evolution, interaction, and reciprocal cocreation of value among service systems (Maglio and Spohrer [Maglio, P.
P.
, J.
Spohrer.
2008.
Fundamentals of Service Science.
Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science 36(1) 18–20.
]; Spohrer et al.
[Spohrer, J.
, S.
Vargo, N.
Caswell, P.
Maglio.
2008.
The Service System is the Basic Abstraction of Service Science.
41st Annual HICSS Conference Proceedings.
]).
Service-dominant (S-D) logic (Vargo and Lusch [Vargo, S.
, R.
F.
Lusch.
2004a.
Evolving to a New Dominant Logic for Marketing.
Journal of Marketing 68(1) 1–17.
] [Vargo, S.
, R.
F.
Lusch.
2008.
Service-Dominant Logic: Continuing the Evolution.
Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science 36(1) 1–10.
]) is an alternative to the traditional, goods-dominant (G-D) paradigm for understanding economic exchange and value creation.
This service-centered view is based on the idea that service – the application of competences for the benefit of another – is the basis of all exchange.
S-D logic has been identified as an appropriate philosophical foundation for the development of service science (Maglio et al.
[Maglio, P.
P.
, S.
L.
Vargo, N.
Caswell, J.
Spohrer, 2009.
The Service System is the Basic Abstraction of Service Science.
Information Systems and e-business Management (in press).
]).
However, perhaps partly because S-D logic is first necessarily encountered through the G-D logic paradigm to which it runs counter, it is sometimes misinterpreted and thus misrepresented.
This paper discusses S-D logic as a foundation for service science by reviewing the foundational premises of S-D logic and clarifying several misinterpretations related to (1) the S-D logic meaning of “service,” (2) the role of service in economic exchange, and (3) the nature of value cocreation.
Drawing on these clarifications, implications of an S-D logic foundation for service science are proposed.
[Service Science, ISSN 2164-3962 (print), ISSN 2164-3970 (online), was published by Services Science Global (SSG) from 2009 to 2011 as issues under ISBN 978-1-4276-2090-3.
].

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