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Customer co-creation—the active involvement of customers in a firm’s new product development (NPD) processes—has been shown to improve product quality, reduce the risk of a product failing (Shah 2006; Carbonell, Rodriguez-Escudero and Pujari 2009), and, ultimately, enable firms to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage (Prahalad and Ramaswamy 2004). To date, the open innovation literature (Chesbrough 2003; Chesbrough, Vanhaverbeke and West 2006) has largely adopted a universalistic perspective of co-creation, whereby customer co-creation is treated as an one-dimensional, undifferentiated concept. In a first step towards a more differentiated perspective, the study reported in this paper examines whether dimensions exist that are fundamental (i.e., core) to customer co-creation practice. If such dimensions exist, then it would be possible to explore in follow-up studies whether different co-creation archetypes can be identified by observing if there are any systematic variations in the manifestations of the dimensions in co-creation practice.
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Theilacker, M., Lukas, B.A., Snow, C.C. (2016). Potential Dimensions of Customer Co–Creation. In: Campbell, C., Ma, J. (eds) Looking Forward, Looking Back: Drawing on the Past to Shape the Future of Marketing. Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24184-5_56
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