Value and systems perspectives in combining human and automated services: commentary on "seven challenges to combining human and automated service"
Value and systems perspectives in combining human and automated services: commentary on "seven challenges to combining human and automated service"
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人工与自动化服务相结合的价值与系统视角:《人工与自动化服务相结合的七大挑战》评论
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10.1002/cjas.141
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2010
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Ng I
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The article “Seven Challenges to Combining Human and Automated Service”(Messinger, Li, Stroulia, Galletta, Ge, & Choi, 2009) in the last issue of CJAS is an admirable effort to build on the knowledge required for service organizations in the modern economy. Taking a value and systems perspective, my purpose for the current commentary is to offer some reflections on each of the seven challenges, to acknowledge strengths in organization and content of this article, and also to suggest additional related issues to help service organizations better meet the seven challenges noted in this article.To put things in context, it is useful to begin by considering the definition of “value.” The traditional understanding of value is that of exchange value that underpins the traditional customer-producer relationships, where each party exchanges one kind of value for another (Bagozzi, 1975). Today, the discussion of value has veered away from this understanding to the concept of value-in-use (Schneider & Bowen, 1995; Vargo & Lusch, 2004, 2008), evaluated by the customer rather than the currency for the transfer of ownership of a particular good. As Marx described it, value refers to “value only in use, and is realized only in the process of consumption”(Marx, 2001, p. 88). Based on such an under-