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b2b Is Not An Island
b2b Is Not An Island
island!
A paper by:
Evert Gummesson
Stockholm University School of Business, Stockholm,
Sweden, and
Francesco Polese
Cassino University, Cassino, Italy
Published in:
Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing ,Volume 24,
2009
Presented by :
Group 7
Tanay Chitre
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Spandana G
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Purva
Ganediwal
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Custome
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Supplier
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Consum
ers
Consum
ers
Collaborati
on through
an open
source
code and
wiki tools
ive to
defendi
ng a
new
theory
User provides the foundation for change and the supplier acts as
network agent, evaluating suggestions for improvement and
implementing the best ones
3 open-source code contributions to rethinking marketing theory
which support the theme of this article are:
1. Many-to-Many marketing
2. S-D logic
3. Service science
Many-to-Many Marketing
IDENTIFY
Customers
DIFFERENTIATE
Customers
Networks of
relationships
Relationships
INTERACT
Customers
Network Members
LEARNING
Relationships
Networks
In principle,
networks :
Are Scale-free
Occur randomly
May be formal or
informal
In marketing,
networks :
Are built
Defined for a purpose
Requires control
Gives rise to other
networks
S-D Logic
Service is the fundamental basis of exchange
Different from services
Goods are merely distribution mechanisms of service
Customer
Co-creator of value
Supplier
Value actualization is performed by users in a contextual way. It takes place through interaction in
complex networks
Service Science
Addresses the design and operations of complex, coherent and hassle-free service systems through
an interdisciplinary approach and cooperation between companies, research and education
IBM
Runs a long term development project Service Science, Management and Engineering (SSME)