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This chapter reports the findings from a longitudinal study spanning 12 years. It contributes to an improved understanding of how servitization actually happens, and, more specifically, how it affects the servicizing organization. The focal company AIR was a B2B manufacturing company in the aviation business, specializing in manufacturing jet engines. The case describes and analyzes how a unit at AIR made the successful transition from a pure make-to-print actor (product/production logic) to offering overall solutions (service logic), where we focus on the challenges that AIR encountered. It provides six major findings; the most surprising is perhaps the necessity to handle ambidexterity for successful servitization.
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Magnusson, P.R., Odhe, J. (2022). Servitization and the Necessity of Becoming Ambidextrous: A 12-Year Longitudinal Study. In: Edvardsson, B., Tronvoll, B. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Service Management. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91828-6_11
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