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INDUSTRIAL MARKETING MANAGEMENT
Volume 37, Issue 3, Pages 292-300Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2007.07.006
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services; procurement; purchasing; service-dominant logic; objectification; qualification processes
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This paper explores patterns in the process of buying complex services. While there is currently hype about a service-dominant logic, there are also indications of a diametrically opposed logic implying the objectification of services; a goods-dominant logic. This paper investigates how buyers of different kinds of services relate to these logics and how the degree of objectification of services varies during different stages of the procurement process. By highlighting the buyers' perspectives and how services are transformed over time, the paper expands on the current knowledge of service-dominant logic. The paper is based on individual and focus group interviews with buyers at eighteen large industrial firms. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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