The institutionalization of practice: a processual perspective on value co-creation

• Authors: Zofia Patora-Wysocka

Abstracts

EN

Drawing on the processual perspective in management this article explores the process of the institutionalization of new practice in the context of value co-creation. The Service-Dominant logic perspective places the notion of value creation in the interaction between an organization and its customers. Therefore the contemporary research stream shows a bias towards the notion of a customer as a crucial contributor and beneficiary in the value creation process [Vargo and Lusch 2006a, 2008]. Following recent calls for research with a holistic approach it may be assumed that there is an underdeveloped processual perspective on value co-creation that offers a cognitive framework of routines and activities performed on an everyday basis within the Giddensian structuration theory. Using the Giddensian theory value co-creation can be perceived as a platform for the adoption of new practices. The purpose of the article is to determine the role of value co-creation processes in the context of initiating and institutionalizing of new practice in an organization. A comparative case study was carried out which illustrates the thesis that spontaneous actions form an important category of initiating change within the everyday use of value co-creation.

Keywords

EN

value co-creation; practice; spontaneous actions; institutionalization; adoption; processual approach

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Poznaniu
• Journal: Economics and Business Review
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 2(16)
• Issue: 2

Dates

published

2016-06-30

Contributors

author

Zofia Patora-Wysocka

• University of Social Sciences, Department of Management, Sienkiewicza Street 9, 90-113 Łódź, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18559/ebr.2016.2.7