Value in Business Organizations
Introduction
Anatomy of Value and Value-Driven Processes in Business Organizations, Special issue of European Business Review, Edited by Aron O?Cass and Goran Svensson; Deadline 30 Jun 2008
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Call for Papers
Special Issue of European Business Review Anatomy of Value and Value-Driven Processes in Business Organizations
Special Issue Co-Editors:
Aron O’Cass of University of Newcastle, Australia
Goran Svensson of Oslo School of Management, Norway
Contemporary business literature has undergone dramatic paradigm shifts in response to the challenges of marketplace changes such as, globalisation, marketplace turbulence, technology breakthroughs, and increasingly sophisticated and value-conscious customers. In this context, business is in some ways broadening, away from the marketplace to the customer, from transactions to interactions, from product-centered logic to service-centered logic, from planning and executing to an organisational function and a set of processes, from exchanges to long-term relationships. Notably the notion of value is of central importance in this contemporary business. Being market-driven is no longer the only way to achieve market success, the future belongs to business organizations that are value-driven. Value, not money is the basic currency of all human interaction, thus creating the best value for the customer is the main concern of business. Yet despite the theoretical and managerial importance of the value and value creation issue, our understanding is still limited and diverged regarding to the nature of value and how value is created/co-created, delivered/proposed, and communicated/networked.
The purpose of this special issue is to bring together, on an international scale, research on value and value-driven processes in business organizations. In particular, theoretical, methodological, and/or empirical research papers in any sector of business are invited in the following specific topics and themes of interest, but not limited to:
- Anatomy of value from the views of multiple parties (e.g. the firm, the customer, third parties etc.)
- Creating value versus co-creating value
- Delivering value versus propositioning value
- Communicating value versus networking value
- Value-driven processes in business organizations
- Relationship marketing and value network
- Service-centered logic and value
- Competitive intensity and value
- Role of marketing and innovation in value-driven processes
- Role of resource-based theory in value-driven processes
- Managerial and cross-functional implications of value-driven processes
The deadline for submission of papers for this special issue is 30 June, 2008 and the tentative publication date is 30 June, 2009. Submissions should be sent electronically to any of the co-editors of this special issue:
- Aron O’Cass – University of Newcastle, Australia (aron.ocass@newcastle.edu.au)
- Goran Svensson – Oslo School of Management, Norway (goran.svensson@set.hh.se)
The format for submissions to the European Business Review can be found at . Those with questions about the acceptability of proposed topics are urged to contact either of the co-editors as soon as possible.
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