Research Methods in Service Innovation

• Other Authors: Sorensen, Flemming (Editor), Lapier Cynthia B (Editor)
• Format: Manuscript Book
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Edward Elgar Publishing Limited 2017
• Series: Services, economy, and innovation
• Subjects: Service industries > Technological innovations; Service industries; Service industries > Research; Technological innovations; Economics; Business & Economics > Industrial Management; Business & Economics > Management
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Research Methods in Service Innovation provides an essential methodological toolbox for researchers, students and practitioners interested in better understanding innovation and improving innovation processes in service organisations. Each chapter presents a specific method, introduces its theoretic...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Service innovation research methods / Flemming Sørensen and Francesco Lapenta
• 2. Quantitative measurement instruments: a case of developing a method for measuring innovation in service firms / Jon Sundbo
• 3. The critical incident technique and everyday innovation / Lars Fuglsang
• 4. Laddering method in service innovation research / Niels Nolsøe Grünbaum
• 5. Narratives as driver for co-creating new stories of service / Anne Vorre Hansen
• 6. Mapping innovation processes: visual techniques for opening and presenting the black box of service innovation processes / Anne Rørbæk Olesen
• 7. Interpretivist analyses of social networks of service innovation / Jørn Kjølseth Møller and Flemming Sørensen
• 8. The role of social media data for research on user driven innovation / Ada Scupola
• 9. Using technology oriented scenario analysis for innovation research. the case of service innovation in financial services / Francesco Lapenta
• 10. Using future workshops for idea generation in engaged service innovation research / Ada Scupola
• 11. Service innovation field experiments: developing and testing new innovation processes / Flemming Sørensen
• 12. Service innovation in complex research projects: learnings from working within a triple helix framework / Claire Esther Staddon Forder
• Index.