S-D Logic

The Service-Dominant Logic

of Marketing

Presented By: Presented To:

Robert F. Lusch MMA Annual Conference Professor of Marketing Chicago, Illinois University of Arizona

March 16, 2006

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Advancing Theory: The Role of the Funeral

Scientific theories, however, are fundamentally different. They are constructed to be blown apart if proved wrong, and if so destined, the sooner the better. “Make your mistakes quickly” is a rule in the practice of science. I grant that scientists often fall in love with their own constructions. I know; I have. They may spend a lifetime vainly trying to shore them up. A few squander their prestige and academic capital in the effort. In that case – as economist Paul Samuelson once quipped – “funeral by funeral, theory advances.”

(Edward O. Wilson. Consilience: the Unity of Knowledge. 1998; p. 52).

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Contrasting G-D Logic and S-D Logic

Goods-dominant logic is similar to Theory X management where the worker is treated as someone that has to be controlled and managed. Goods- dominant logic viewed the consumer as someone to control and manage. S-D logic views the customer as a collaborative partner and co-creator of value. In a way it is similar to Theory Y management.

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The Traditional Logic: Operand Resource

Employee Need to Persuade Need to Extract

Work Need to Tightly

Manage & Control Need to Extract

Maximum Productivity

Consumer Need to Persuade Need to Extract

Money Need to Capture &

Control Need to Extract

Maximum Profit

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All Exchange is Service Centered

“the great economic law is this: Services are exchanged for services…. It is trivial, very commonplace; it is, nonetheless, the beginning, the middle, and the end of economic science….”

- Frederic Bastiat 1860

“services are the application of specialized competences (knowledge and skills) through deeds, processes, and performances for the benefit of another entity or the entity itself.”

- (Vargo and Lusch 2004)

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Growth of Markets & Marketing

G oo ds M o n ey O rg an iza tio ns

M a rke ts

D iv is ion o f L a b or

C o m m e rc ia l o rC iv il S o c ie ty

Institutions Institutions

Institutions Institutions

Institutions Institutions

Service for ServiceGoods, Money,

Organizations are Intermediaries

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Evolving To a New Frame of Reference

To Market(matter in motion)

Market To(management of

customers &markets)

Market With(collaborate with

customers & partnersto produce & sustain value)

Through 1950 1950-2010 Future

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Conceptual Transitions in Marketing

G-D Logic Transitional S-D LogicGoods Services ServiceProducts Offerings ExperiencesFeature/attribute Benefit SolutionValue-added Co-production Co-creation of valueProfit maximization Financial Engineering Financial feedbackPrice Value delivery Value propositionEquilibrium system Dynamic system Complex adaptive

systemSupply Chain Value-Chain Value-creation networkPromotion IMC DialogTo Market Market to Market withProduct orientation Market Orientation S-D Orientation

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CollaborateWith

Customers &Partners

Collaborate:Customers &

Partners

Overcome

Resistances

Co-CreateServiceOffering

Co-CreateValue

Proposition

Co-CreateConversation& Dialogue

Co-CreateValue

Processes &Network

Draw UponResources (internal & external)

S-D Logic as a

Theory of Marketing

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The Nature of Marketing?

Division of Labor

Exchange Change

Increasing Degree of Change in Society

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Where Do We Go From Here?Nature & Scope of Marketing

Commercial Society

World of Work

World of Consumpti

on

Condition Division of Labor

Specialized Competence

s

Specialized Competence

s

Means Exchange Labor Market

Consumer & Business Market

End Change Value Value

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Where Do We Go From Here?Frontiers in Research

Co-Production & Collaboration

Dialog & Conversation

Value Propositions &

Networks

Feedback & Adaptation

Business Processes &

Service Flows

Knowledge & Competitive Advantage

Meaning of Consumption &

Work

Markets, Marketing & Class Conflict

Marketing & Macroeconomic

Policy

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Marketing Curriculum Reform

Fundamental of Marketing (service

dominant)

Competency Building and Competitive Advantage

Managing Cross Functional Business Processes

Designing Value Propositions &

Pricing Strategy

Integrated Marketing

Communication

Managing ValueNetworks &

Constellations

Consumer Buying, Usage & Co-

Creation

Designing and Delivering

Service Flows

The Role of Marketing in

Society

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Postscript

“The fundamental purpose of the corporation is not wealth creation. It is job creation and collaborating with all stakeholders (including the customer) to co-create value.”

Robert F. Lusch

“The extent of the market may be a function of the division of labor; however if society does not benefit from the division of labor and the fruits it bears then markets and marketing will be replaced by other institutions.”

Robert F. Lusch

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Thank You!

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We encourage your comments and input. If you would like your working papers or teaching material and/or links to your research displayed on the website, please e-mail us

Steve Vargo: svargo@sdlogic.net Bob Lusch: rlusch@sdlogic.net

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Timeline of SD-Logic

Initial Draft 1995 Refinement 1996-1999 Summer 1999 Submission Summer 2000 Submission Summer 2001 Submission Summer 2002 Submission Winter 2003 Submission Spring 2003 Paper

Accepted Published January 2004

Four major revisions Two editors Six reviewers One strong reviewer

advocated from beginning

Sixth reviewer became advocate for publishing with commentaries

Editor Ruth Bolton coached and guided along the way

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Is It All About Services: A Paradigm Inversion

(1999)

“While your manuscript has interesting ideas, the current positioning of the paper leaves one feeling that there is not much new in the paper.”

- JM Editor David Stewart (November 1999)

“The author(s) are to be applauded for taking on such an extremely ambitious essay. To propose a true Khunian paradigm shift in marketing and to succeed is to try to do something that no theoretical paper has achieved that I am aware of—although historians of science will ultimately be the judges of such matters.”

- JM Reviewer (November 1999)

"Every once in a while a paper comes along that is truly exciting--that has the ability to change the way people think. This is one of those papers. If this paper is published in JM, then it has the opportunity to be a classic in our field. I wish that I had written it.”

- JM Reviewer (November 1999)

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Is It All About Services: A Paradigm Inversion

(2000)

“The primary concern of the reviewers remains focused on the incremental contribution of the paper.”

“…it is probably too strong to conclude that all goods represent services in disguise.”

“…identify the boundary conditions of your premises.” -Editor David Stewart

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Is It All About Service (2001)

Revision of this manuscript has taken longer than intended. However, we should mention that one of the reasons it has taken ten months to complete this revision is that we kept trying to revise based on the individual comments of the reviewers and finally decided to start anew. Importantly the suggestion of reviewer #5 to organize the manuscript around a set of propositions (and your mentioning of this suggestion in your letter of September 19, 2000) while simultaneously encouraging us to significantly reduce the length of the manuscript led us in this direction. For your information the manuscript has been reduced by approximately 30%. Consequently, this manuscript is almost a total rewrite and is now organized around eight key propositions from which we derive thirteen managerial and societal implications.

Steven L. Vargo & Robert F. Lusch

Resubmission Letter to Editor Stewart

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Transition & Convergence: From an Output to a Process Centered View of Marketing

(2002)

“All three reviewers praise you for undertaking the challenging task of writing a paper that synthesizes a diverse marketing literature (over a substantial period of time)—and attempts to crystallize the debate about the meaning and direction of marketing.”

“As you may recall, I invited a new reviewer (Reviewer 6)…He/she found the paper “interesting and provocative” and rightly observes that it is unlikely (and perhaps undesirable) for the reviewers to converge in their opinions.”

“I ask you to create a shorter and more focused paper (that retains your key arguments). Then, if your paper is accepted for publication, it can provide the basis for invited commentaries by distinguished scholars.”

- Editor, Ruth Bolton

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Evolving to a New Dominant Logic for Marketing (2004)

Marketing inherited a model of exchange from economics, which had a dominant logic based on the exchange of “goods,” which usually are manufactured output. The dominant logic focused on tangible resources, embedded value, and transactions. Over the past several decades, new perspectives have emerged that have a revised logic focused on intangible resources, the co-creation of value, and relationships. The authors believe that the new perspectives are converging to form a new dominant logic for marketing, one in which service provision rather than goods is fundamental to economic exchange.

Abstract, Journal of Marketing (January 2004), p.1

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Invited Commentaries: Day, Deighton, Narayadas, Gummesson,

Hunt, Prahalad, Rust, Shugan

Vargo & Lusch (2004) observe that an evolution is underway toward a new dominant logic for marketing. The new dominant logic has important implications for marketing theory, practice, and pedagogy, as well as for general management and public policy. … The ideas expressed in the article and the commentaries will undoubtedly provoke a variety of reactions from readers of the Journal of Marketing.

- Ruth Bolton, Editor, Journal of Marketing (2004)

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The Service-Dominant Logic: Dialog, Debate and

Directions M.E. Sharpe (2006) Distinguished Group of Scholars Identify areas

of Consensus, Dissent, and Future Directions. Essays contributed by Achrol, Arnould, Brodie,

Day, Gronroos, Gummesson, Holbrook, Hunt, Jaworski, Kohli, Kotler, Levy, Penzola, Price, Oliver, Rust, Sawhney, Wilkie, Woodruff, and others

Lusch & Vargo contribute integrative essays dealing with economic and marketing history, public policy, marketing management, and toward a general theory of marketing.