The emerging service-dominant logic requires cooperation between several partners in a value-added network or value chain. Information asymmetry and information gaps may lead to uncovered and unused knowledge. This paper addresses how this problem can be solved by suggesting an approach based on contingency theory. The core idea consists of supporting and improving value-added partnerships by e...

Value added product is an industrial term referring a minor addiction to some major products. In this paper, we borrow a term to denote a minor semantic addition to the well known association rules. We consider the addition of numerical values to the attribute values, such as sale price, profit, degree of fuzziness, level of security and so on. Such additions lead to the notion of random variab...

This study is unique as it considers industry value added as a possible source of economic growth in addition to export and import. The key research questions of this study are: to what extent trade and industry value added contribute to the economic growth of Bangladesh? Are there any causal and long run relationships among export, import, industry value added and gross domestic product in Ban...

The current trends in South African cellular Value-Added Services are a melting-pot of consumer dissatisfaction. Only recently have regulations begun ensuring consumer protection. However recent experiences with subscription-based Value-Added Services have shown that the stricter regulations do not protect the consumer in a timely manner. The authors review Value-Added Services and the problems...

The ESTIA project aims to provide the means for mass adoption of Business-to-Consumer (B2C) E-Commerce in the tourism sector. Its main objective is to exploit emerging infrastructures and access devices, and develop advanced applications in order to provide innovative services to all parties involved in the Tourism sector with emphasis on tourists and SME providers. ESTIA introduces a new innov...

This paper discusses information integration oriented supply chain of telecom value-added service. Firstly, it uses a series strategic method. Secondly, it argues how to integrate the supply chain within the web service. Thirdly, the paper describes an example that explains how to manage value-added services for banks. The dynamic system has enabled a more complex type of interaction and collab...

When measuring the importance of the energy sector in a country’s nonfinancial business economy total (Graph 1), and among the 21 Member States with data available, Slovakia was the most specialised – in terms of both value added and employment – with the industry representing 14.8 % and 3.4% respectively of its non-financial business economy. By contrast, in terms of value added, the least spe...

Purpose Understanding customers’ expertise for better service co-creation is of great importance. To be an effective co-creator, customers need to have much more knowledge than a basic literacy, which appropriate passive consumption. This paper aims propose the concept customer literacy (SCL) capture not only but also active co-creation. study then investigates how SCL can cultivated and it fac...