The well-being outcomes of multi-actor inter-organisational value co-creation and co-destruction within a service ecosystem
ISSN: 0887-6045
Article publication date: 14 February 2023
Issue publication date: 4 May 2023
Abstract
Purpose
Emerging transformative service research (TSR) studies adopt a service system lens to conceptualise well-being across the micro, meso and macro levels of aggregation, typically within an organisation. No TSR has yet examined well-being across multiple interconnected organisations at the highest level of aggregation, the meta or service ecosystem level. This study aims to explore how value co-creation and, critically, co-destruction among different actors across interacting organisations enhances or destroys multiple levels of well-being.
Design/methodology/approach
This study uses semi-structured, in-depth interviews to collect data from five types of key actors (n = 35): players, team owners, tournament operations managers, casters and viewers, across 29 interconnected organisations in the oceanic esports industry. The interviews were coded using NVivo 12 and thematically analysed.
Findings
Resource integration on each level of aggregation within a service ecosystem (micro, meso, macro and meta) can co-create and co-destroy value, which leads to the enhancement and destruction of multiple levels of well-being (individual, collective, service system and service ecosystem). Value co-creation and co-destruction, as well as the resultant well-being outcomes, were interconnected across the different levels within the service ecosystem.
Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this research is the first to incorporate a multi-actor perspective on the well-being consequences of value co-creation and value co-destruction within a service ecosystem as opposed to service system. Thus, this research also contributes to the minimal research which examines the outcomes of value co-destruction, rather than value co-creation, at multiple levels of aggregation.
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Citation
Chen, X.M.S., Schuster, L. and Luck, E. (2023), "The well-being outcomes of multi-actor inter-organisational value co-creation and co-destruction within a service ecosystem", Journal of Services Marketing, Vol. 37 No. 5, pp. 606-619. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSM-03-2022-0082
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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