Editorial: recognizing the academic publishing service ecosystem
ISSN: 0887-6045
Article publication date: 23 November 2017
Issue publication date: 23 April 2018
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to provide a personal view of the institutions underpinning the academic publishing service ecosystem as a basis for a discussion of change and innovation.
Design/methodology/approach
A 25-year comparison of the norms, rules, practices, meanings and symbols in the service ecosystem is made.
Findings
Eleven institutional states have been identified, which represent the good, and not so good, changes that have occurred over the period.
Originality/value
This editorial represents an approach, using service ecosystem concepts, to gain an understanding of service innovation possibilities in the academic publishing domain.
Keywords
Citation
Baron, S. (2018), "Editorial: recognizing the academic publishing service ecosystem", Journal of Services Marketing, Vol. 32 No. 3, pp. 249-255. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSM-10-2017-0341
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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