TY - JOUR
T1 - Role of Customer Characteristics in New Service Development Process
AU - Shrivastava, Priyanka
AU - Akhter, Javaid
PY - 2013/1/1
Y1 - 2013/1/1
N2 - Innovation is a strategy to keep customers satisfied" is an old adage but holds true even today. Service Industry in India is one of the fastest growing Industry contributing towards fifty percent of India's GDP and generating huge employment opportunities. It is very dynamic and competitive in nature and thus innovations are becoming a lot more important in service industry. SD logic of marketing lays foundation for customers getting involved in service innovation process. There is dearth of literature linking the effect of customer characteristics on performance outcome of service developed. The paper proposes a model to bridge this gap.
AB - Innovation is a strategy to keep customers satisfied" is an old adage but holds true even today. Service Industry in India is one of the fastest growing Industry contributing towards fifty percent of India's GDP and generating huge employment opportunities. It is very dynamic and competitive in nature and thus innovations are becoming a lot more important in service industry. SD logic of marketing lays foundation for customers getting involved in service innovation process. There is dearth of literature linking the effect of customer characteristics on performance outcome of service developed. The paper proposes a model to bridge this gap.
KW - Customer Characteristics
KW - New Services development
KW - performance measures
UR - https://digitalcommons.stmarys-ca.edu/school-economics-business-faculty-works/338
UR - https://apps.aima.in/ejournal_new/articlesPDF/341-Javaid%20Akhter.pdf
M3 - Article
JO - AIMA Journal of Management and Research
JF - AIMA Journal of Management and Research
ER -