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Sub-theme 40:

Organizing Interdependent Co-Production of Services in Space and Time:
Working and Learning Across Boundaries

 

Convenors:

Jon Erland Lervik
Lancaster University (UK)
j.lervik@lancaster.ac.uk

Mark Easterby-Smith
Lancaster University (UK)
m.easterby-smith@lancaster.ac.uk

Ragnhild Kvålshaugen
BI Norwegian School of Management (Norway)
ragnhild.kvalshaugen@bi.no


 

Session I: Thursday, July 10 – 11:00–12:30
Introduction and Cordination in International PSFs

Chair: Jon E. Lervik

Jon E. Lervik, Mark Easterby-Smith and Ragnhild Kvålshaugen
Introduction

Katja Maria Hydle and Randi Lunnan
Intra-organizational service practices in international professional service firms: Patterns of governance, work- and knowledge-transfers
Discussant: Alison Dean

Susan Segal-Horn and Alison Dean
Coordination in international professional service firms: The role of 'effortless experience'
Discussant: Katja Hydle
 

Session II: Thursday, July 10 – 14:00–15:30
Innovation and Value Creation in Service Firms

Chair: Ragnhild Kvålshaugen

Mads Bendixen and Christian Koch
Professional service innovations at consulting engineering. How change stay flat in project organisations
Discussant: Paul van Fenema

Stephan Kaiser and Christian Gebhard
Networked value creation by professional services firms: A critical social capital perspective
Discussant: Mads Bendixen

Paul van Fenema and Daniel Uiterwijk
Conceptualizing value experience in remote service provisioning: The role of multi-level coherence
Discussant: Stephan Kaiser
 

Session III: Friday, July 11 – 9:00–10:30
Innovation and Learning in Geographically Dispersed Firms

Chair Jon E. Lervik

Deborah Mulders, Hans Berends, Georges Romme and Peter Berends
Service innovation in decentralized firms: Building ambidextrous dynamic capabilities
Discussant: Karl Joachim Breunig

Simon Collinson, Mark Easterby-Smith and Bridgette Sullivan-Taylor
Losing the Crown Jewels? The transfer, replication and adaptation of capabilities from the UK to China
Discussant: Deborah Mulders

Karl Joachim Breunig
Learning across borders: An exploration of mechanisms for institutionalization of learning between internationally dispersed knowledge workers
Discussant: Bridgette Sullivan-Taylor
 

Session IV: Friday, July 11 – 14:00–15:30
Customer Roles and Experiences in Cocreation of Services

Chair: Mark Easterby-Smith

Edmilson Alves de Moraes and Reinaldo B. Manzini
Co-creation of value through experiences
Discussant: Mathieu Vigilante

Loïc Plé
How does the customer co-construct the service organization over time? An empirical study of the impact of the customer on intra-organizational coordination
Discussant: Edmilson Alves de Moraes

Mathieu Vigilante
The paradox of service co production: How experimentation can invalid usages hypothesis designed with users? The case of ICT service in the home care sector
Discussant: Loïc Plé
 

Session V: Friday, July 11 – 16:15–17:45
Going Digital: Technology Artefacts for Communication, Learning and Control?

Chair Jon E. Lervik

Jesper Hundebøl
Organisational learning with technology: Digital collaboration and 3D working methods in the construction industry
Discussant: Hiroshi Togo

Aleksi Aaltonen
Across boundaries in real-time: The use of Skype in an educational startup
Discussant: Jesper Hundebøl

Hiroshi Togo, Kosei Enomoto and Takaya Kawamura
Transforming public communication with ICT for the reconfiguration of local public sphere: A case study of regional SNS hosted by a local government in Japan
Discussant: Aleksi Aaltonen
 

Session VI: Saturday, July 12 – 9:00–10:30
Innovation Processes in Service Coproduction

Chair: Ragnhild Kvålshaugen

Svante Lifvergren, Tony Huzzard, and Peter Docherty
Coalition management for sustainability in health care
Discussant: Alberto Zanutto

Francesca Prandstraller
The role of ICT in innovative services: Case studies from Italy
Discussant: Svante Lifvergren

Alberto Zanutto and Enrico Maria Piras
How organizations learn to cross technologies boundaries: Prototype tacit knowledge
Discussant: Francesca Prandstraller
 

Session VII: Saturday, July 12 – 11:15–12:45
Collaboration and Learning across Communities of Practice

Chair Mark Easterby-Smith

Finn Ørstavik and Trude Røsdal
Heterogeneous communities in building and construction
Discussant: Christine Owen

Christine Owen
Multiple agency incident management organising: Past, present, and future challenges
Discussant: Trude Røsdal


Collective discussion and wrap-up

 

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