Product–service systems (PSS), motivated to fulfil customers' needs, are seen as good
strategies to face today's competitive business environment. The field of PSS research is …

Manufacturing enterprises are changing the way they behave in the market to face the
increasing complexity of the economic, socio-political and technological dynamics …

Manufacturing exists to create value. However, historically, discussion of economic issues in
manufacturing primarily emphasizes cost. It is becoming more difficult to understand and …

Co-creation is a pro-active strategy for enabling firms to create value through co-opting
consumer competences. Several studies have conceptualised factors for characterizing the …

For product designers, tools and techniques are essential in driving the design cycle.
Nevertheless, their employment usually is implicit, while passing over eg the design and …

Platform-based manufacturing is substantially changing the way production is conceived
and performed. Companies do not know who is making their parts, part manufacturers do …

We derived a promising approach to reducing the energy consumption necessary in
manufacturing processes from the combination of management methodologies and Industry …

The search for happiness, understood as an inner and personal attitude that goes beyond
mere satisfaction, is one of the aims of tourists' co-creation of value. To date, few studies …

Co-creation is a learning journey. To implement co-creation in an organization, it is
necessary to tag on to collaborative culture (Owen et al. in Strategy Leaders 36 (1): 39–45 …

The roles of customers from passive users to collaborators in creating and extracting
business value have given rise to customer co-creation techniques and value co-creation …