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Better Place: A Case Study of the Reciprocal Relations Between Sustainability and Service

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  • Adi Wolfson

    (Green Processes Center, Sami Shamoon College of Engineering, Bialik/Basel Sts. Beer Sheva, 84100, Israel)

  • Dorith Tavor

    (Green Processes Center, Sami Shamoon College of Engineering, Bialik/Basel Sts. Beer Sheva, 84100, Israel)

  • Shlomo Mark

    (Negev Monte Carlo Research Center, Sami Shamoon College of Engineering, Bialik/Basel Sts. Beer Sheva, 84100, Israel)

  • Michael Schermann

    (Chair for Information Systems, Technische Universität München, Boltzmannstraße 3, 85748 Garching, Germany)

  • Helmut Krcmar

    (Chair for Information Systems, Technische Universität München, Boltzmannstraße 3, 85748 Garching, Germany)

Abstract

Facing rising energy costs and the heightened awareness of environmental issues expressed by society and encapsulated in regulations, sustainability is a major requirement for designing and operating future service systems. In addition, sustainability serves as a key driver for profitable services. Restructuring service processes to meet environmental regulations should be seen as the opportunity to design processes that consume less and thus cost less. Furthermore, sustainable services require service providers to incorporate a holistic perspective that incorporates service provisioning, the service network, and the service customer. In addition, designing sustainable services now promotes the transfer of sustainability as a service from the current generation to the next. We analyze Better Place, a company in the electric mobility industry, to demonstrate the potentials and challenges of sustainable services. We show that sustainability is a major driver of service design. Furthermore, Better Place shows that understanding and clarifying sustainability raises important methodological issues for service design by highlighting the complexity of designing services in a multi-actor value network. [ Service Science , ISSN 2164-3962 (print), ISSN 2164-3970 (online), was published by Services Science Global (SSG) from 2009 to 2011 as issues under ISBN 978-1-4276-2090-3.]

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  • Adi Wolfson & Dorith Tavor & Shlomo Mark & Michael Schermann & Helmut Krcmar, 2011. "Better Place: A Case Study of the Reciprocal Relations Between Sustainability and Service," Service Science, INFORMS, vol. 3(2), pages 172-181, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orserv:v:3:y:2011:i:2:p:172-181
    DOI: 10.1287/serv.3.2.172
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    1. Francesco Polese & Luca Carrubbo & Francesco Caputo & Debora Sarno, 2018. "Managing Healthcare Service Ecosystems: Abstracting a Sustainability-Based View from Hospitalization at Home (HaH) Practices," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(11), pages 1-15, October.
    2. Michael Naor & Alex Coman & Anat Wiznizer, 2021. "Vertically Integrated Supply Chain of Batteries, Electric Vehicles, and Charging Infrastructure: A Review of Three Milestone Projects from Theory of Constraints Perspective," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(7), pages 1-21, March.

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