Exploring Service-led Growth Trajectories for Analytical Equipment Providers

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Abstract

This paper examines the dilemmas encountered by advanced analytical equipment providers in developing service-led growth strategies to expand their business in pursuit of more attractive revenue models. It does so by adopting a case based research approach. The findings detail the capabilities required to provide advanced services within customers’ R&D functions, while simultaneously attempting to scale these for a production context. The emergent complexities of operating in multiple arenas in order to explore and exploit technologies-along the three trajectories of serviceability, scalability and solutions-in different contexts, with a view to expanding markets and developing solution based business models, are discussed. It is argued that analytical equipment providers encounter dilemmas as managing these different trajectories implies different needs in terms of the technological sophistication of equipment required. This does not necessarily imply that one context is less complex than the other, but rather suggests that the role of integration is qualitatively different and that the relationship between product and service varies when developing solutions in these different arenas.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelAcademy of Management Proceedings : Meeting Abstract Supplement
UdgivelsesstedBriar Cliff Manor, NY
ForlagAcademy of Management
Publikationsdato2016
Artikelnummer15301
StatusUdgivet - 2016
BegivenhedThe Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2016: Making Organizations Meaningful - Anaheim, USA
Varighed: 5 aug. 20169 aug. 2016
Konferencens nummer: 76
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KonferenceThe Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2016
Nummer76
Land/OmrådeUSA
ByAnaheim
Periode05/08/201609/08/2016
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