Document Type
Article
Publication Date
January 2012
Abstract
This paper presents a metamodel that addresses service system analysis and design based on an operational view of service that traverses and integrates three essential layers, service activities, service systems, and value constellations. The metamodel's service-in-operation perspective and underlying premises diverge from a view of service systems as systems of economic exchange that has appeared a number of times in the journal Service Science.
In addition to the metamodel itself, this paper's contributions include an explanation of eight premises on which it is based plus clarifications concerning concepts such as service, service system, customer, product/service, co-production and co-creation of value, actor roles, resources, symmetrical treatment of automated and non-automated service systems, and the relationship between service-dominant logic and service systems. Many articles have discussed these topics individually. Few, if any, have tied them together using an integrated metamodel.
Recommended Citation
Alter, Steven, "Metamodel for Service Analysis and Design Based on an Operational View of Service and Service Systems" (2012). Business Analytics and Information Systems. 28.
https://repository.usfca.edu/at/28
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