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Managing Robotics in Retail

A Service Systems Perspective

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Table of contents (47 chapters)

  1. Understanding Customers—Interact with Service Robots

    1. Goal and Structure

      • Patrick Meyer
      Pages 93-95
    2. Sub-study 2a: Experimental Field Study

      • Patrick Meyer
      Pages 101-108
    3. Sub-study 2b: Exploratory Interview Study

      • Patrick Meyer
      Pages 109-118
    4. Sub-study 2c: Short Survey and Questionnaire

      • Patrick Meyer
      Pages 119-122
    5. Sub-study 2d: Scale Development

      • Patrick Meyer
      Pages 123-130
    6. Discussion and Implications

      • Patrick Meyer
      Pages 131-139
    7. Conclusion and Summary

      • Patrick Meyer
      Pages 141-143
  2. Understanding Frontstage Employees—Work with Service Robots

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
    2. Goal and Structure

      • Patrick Meyer
      Pages 147-149
    3. Sub-study 3a: Exploratory Interview Study

      • Patrick Meyer
      Pages 155-165
    4. Sub-study 3b: Scale Development

      • Patrick Meyer
      Pages 167-174
    5. Discussion and Implications

      • Patrick Meyer
      Pages 175-180
    6. Conclusion and Summary

      • Patrick Meyer
      Pages 181-182
  3. Understanding Retail Managers—Leverage Service Robots

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
    2. Objective and Structure

      • Patrick Meyer
      Pages 185-187
    3. Research Design: Exploratory Interview Study

      • Patrick Meyer
      Pages 191-196
    4. Findings

      • Patrick Meyer
      Pages 197-208

About this book

This book answers the question of how to manage service robots in brick-and-mortar dominated retail service systems to allow for key stakeholders’ adoption and to foster value co-creation. It starts by demonstrating the scientific relevance of the topic as well as deriving a set of promising research questions. After introducing service-dominant logic as a theoretical research lens and elucidating service systems along with their underlying concept of value co-creation as relevant key concepts, five studies are presented. The author´s findings show that understanding and differentiating between consensus, shared and idiosyncratic drivers of and barriers to the adoption of service robots in retail service systems by all key stakeholders, i.e. customers, frontstage employees, and retail managers, is crucial to be able to fully cope with the complexity inherent in the adoption of service robots in service organizations. Moreover, the designed and evaluated artifact fosters a paradigm shift from a one-time technology introduction to a continuous technology management approach including iterations of experimenting, piloting, and implementing.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Nürnberg, Germany

    Patrick Meyer

About the author

Patrick Meyer graduated from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea, with a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering. In 2021, he received his doctoral degree from FAU. Since 2022 Patrick Meyer works as a managing consultant and is an independent postdoctoral researcher at FAU.  




Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Managing Robotics in Retail

  • Book Subtitle: A Service Systems Perspective

  • Authors: Patrick Meyer

  • Series Title: Markt- und Unternehmensentwicklung Markets and Organisations

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-37500-3

  • Publisher: Springer Gabler Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-37499-0Published: 17 May 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-37500-3Published: 16 May 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2945-879X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2945-8803

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 313

  • Number of Illustrations: 72 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Business and Management, general

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 89.00
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  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
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  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 119.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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