In service economy, scholars and practitioners focus on the development and the appliance of innovative services. The importance of service innovation is rising in many sectors and among different organizations. Several disciplines (e.g. marketing, management, operations research, etc.) focus on this innovation, a concept widely used, but with different definitions. In this paper, service innov...

Understanding the regional distribution characteristics of ecological service values (ESV) and their driving factors can provide background information scientific basis for environmental protection policy. This paper adopted revised equivalent factor method to calculate ESV Sichuan province in 2015 2020, spatial variation were identified accordingly. Then, structural equation model (SEM) was us...

The estimation of ecosystem service value water resources in the Tarim River Basin is great significance for resource allocation management and ecological protection. However, there still no unified complete evaluation method inland rivers China. Based on perspective whole chain, this study classified its functions divided 11 sub-categories into four categories (supply, regulation, culture, sup...

The globalised nature of cloud computing presents us with new challenges towards the development of effective business relationships across a dynamic service ecosystem. While availing of additional service capabilities, organisations are tasked with managing unfamiliar relationships with unfamiliar cloud service providers to generate increased business value. This calls for more attention towar...

Ecosystem service assessment and management are shaped by the scale at which they are conducted; however, there has been little systematic investigation of the scales associated with ecosystem service processes, such as production, benefit distribution, and management. We examined how social-ecological spatial scale impacts ecosystem service assessment by comparing how ecosystem service distrib...

C. H. Tian B. K. Ray J. Lee R. Cao W. Ding This paper presents a framework for the modeling and analysis of business model designs involving a network of interconnected business entities. The framework includes an ecosystem-modeling component, a simulation component, and a serviceanalysis component, and integrates methods from value network modeling, game theory analysis, and multiagent systems...

Article history: Received 22 May 2005 Received in revised form 19 September 2005 Accepted 26 September 2005 Available online 16 November 2005 Two prominent and alternate approaches, ecosystem service valuation and ecological footprints, link the production of ecosystem services with their consumption by societies. An overlapping goal of both approaches is to promote the sustainable use of ecosy...

The ecological literature suggests that biodiversity reduces the variance of ecosystem services. Thus, conservative biodiversity management has an insurance value to risk-averse users of ecosystem services. We analyze a conceptual ecological-economic model in which such management measures generate a private benefit and, via ecosystem processes at higher hierarchical levels, a positive external...