Advanced Introduction to Service Innovation: (Elgar Advanced Introductions series)

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. This Advanced Introduction to Service Innovation explores a key driver of the service economy, addressing in particular the definition and conceptualization of innovation in services, and its measurement, using both traditional and new measures. The authors address pertinent questions such as: What is innovation in services and how is it conceptualized? How is it measured? How is it organized and managed within both service and non-service firms? Key Features: Identifies potential challenges and outlines the future of research Reflects on the rise of innovation networks in the field of services Provides a comprehensive review of advances in the field of service innovation over the last 30 years Illustrates via in-depth discussions the progress, and the gaps to be filled, in the measurement of service innovation This insightful book will be a useful introduction for both undergraduate and graduate teaching of organisational innovation, economics of innovation and services. It will also be a valuablel resource for researchers and business and policy practitioners in the field of service innovation.

Table of Contents:
Contents: 1 Introduction to Service Innovation 2 Defining and conceptualizing Innovation in Services 3 Measuring Innovation in Services 4 Service Industrialization and Linear Models for Innovation in Services 5 Practice-based, Interactive, and Open Models for Innovation in Services 6 Networking for Innovation in Services 7 Service innovation in non-service organizations 8 Conclusion to Service Innovation References Index

About the Author :
Faïz Gallouj and Faridah Djellal, Professors of Economics and members of CLERSE-CNRS, University of Lille and Camal Gallouj, Professor of Management Science, Director of the CEPN, University Sorbonne Paris Nord, France

Review :
‘Written by some of the most prominent researchers in the field, this book provides a profound and up-to-date introduction to innovation in services. The book relates the topic to both innovation and service science traditions. Academics, students and other scholars interested in either tradition can benefit from it. The book is useful in discerning the complexity of service innovation.’ ‘This Advanced Introduction sets out to organise and review a disparate and multidisciplinary body of work. It considers research resulting from the explosion of interest in service innovation (together with closely related topics). The authors are extremely well-qualified for this challenging task. They have extensive experience in pioneering and advancing such research and have a deep knowledge of Francophone and other studies, that often highlight issues neglected in much Anglo-American work. On top of that, they can write concisely and lucidly.They helpfully outline a number of major approaches to service innovation in an insightful fashion. This framework is used to re-examine familiar issues and to suggest ways of addressing emerging issues. The authors highlight gaps in the literature, where it has paid insufficient attention to certain approaches or neglected to address promising or problematic developments. While primarily aimed at researchers and service scholars, this readable and unpretentious book has much to offer both managers and public service professionals. Service innovation was at one time regarded as a Cinderella field; this milestone overview suggests that this field is reaching maturity. Furthermore, it is yielding a bountiful harvest, and this nook provides much food for thought and development of new perspectives.’ ‘Services and service innovations are already the economic backbone in many countries in terms of value creation and competitive advantage. How service research can contribute to value creation becomes clear in the new Advanced Introduction to Service Innovation. The book provides an impressive overview of research results and practices from leading scholars and will be a very inspiring read.’