The CSL has launched a weekly feature on our blog called “ServiceFriday”. Each Friday we post three summaries from some of our favorite sources from research literature, news articles, blogs, and more. The posts are curated to cover topics that are interesting, relevant, and thought provoking in the realm of service, business, education, and beyond. …
What are the pricing objectives that service organizations pursue to price their services? And how does the market structure impact these objectives? A study in the Journal of Service Marketing by Kostis Indounas found that among 700 companies in the logistics, financial services, IT and airline industry, companies are “mainly interested in maintenance of existing …
In an article published in the Journal of Service Management, CSL Faculty Ruth Bolton with co-authors including CSL Faculty Network members, Janet McColl-Kennedy, Andrew Gallan, and Lars Witell, presented a new take on the concept of customer experience and its connection to physical, digital and social realms. While past research mainly focused on the separate …
While many online retailers like Amazon nowadays use parallel zoning or conveyer belt-based order-to-man approaches in their warehouses, dubbed Customer Fulfillment Centers, Ocado Plc., a British online supermarket company, has now raised the bar of online grocery shopping by deploying robots to assemble customer orders. The Ocado system, aptly called a hive, has captured the …
The CSL is excited to launch a new weekly feature on our blog we are calling “ServiceFriday”. Each Friday we will post three summaries from some of our favorite sources from research literature, news articles, blogs, and more. The posts are curated to cover topics that are interesting, relevant, and thought provoking in the realm …
