Abstract (eng)
Service-Dominant (SD) Logic has developed as a dominant perspective in
contemporary Service Science literature. This mind-set, introduced in 2004, emerged
after the Service Science field underwent several decades of development. Instead of
focusing on simple production and marketing of goods, this way of thinking
emphasises how the nature of organizations, markets and society can be better
understood on the basis of employment of competences. This thesis first takes a
retrospective view by analysing the historical development of this mind-set, starting
with marketing dominated roots of Service Science, towards today’s dominant
perspective based on SD Logic. Next, a detailed literature analysis for the period 2004
to 2011 is undertaken in order to list and review over 100 published studies dealing
with SD Logic. The major business-economic scientific databases were researched,
and cross-referencing techniques were used to extract key studies dealing with SD
Logic. These findings are systematically analysed regarding author(s), journal and
year of publication, research area, applied research methodologies, keywords and
output. Findings present key players, discuss the share of empirical results and outline
the extent of application in areas other than those of the marketing discipline. The
analysis serves as powerful evidence confirming the increased ‘momentum’ of SD
Logic. Increased attention as well as an increasingly interdisciplinary focus for SD
grounded research efforts is observed, underlining the importance of a currently
dominant view on mutual service exchange and value co-creation.