Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to accelerate research related to the employee-facets of service management by summarizing current developments in multiple research streams, providing propositions, and articulating new directions for theory and empirical inquiry. Design/methodology/approach: Seven scholars provide short reviews of the core topics and findings from four employee-related research streams – collective turnover, service climate, emotional labor, and occupational stress; and generate propositions to guide future theoretical and empirical work. Four distinguished service scholars – David Bowen, Ray Fisk, Christian Grönroos, and Jochen Wirtz comment upon these research streams and provide future directions for accelerating employee-related research in service management. Findings: All four research-streams yield insights that have the potential to advance service management research. Commentaries from the distinguished scholars further integrate this work with key concerns within service management including technology-enablement, transformative services, and service strategy. Originality/value: This paper is unique in its scope of coverage of management topics related to service and its aim to promote interdisciplinary dialog between service management scholars and researchers conducting employee-related research relevant to services.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 837-865 |
Number of pages | 29 |
Journal | Journal of Service Management |
Volume | 28 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 19 Oct 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2017, © Emerald Publishing Limited.
Keywords
- Emotional labour
- Employees
- Human resource management
- Interdisciplinary research
- Service climate
- Service management
- Stress
- Turnover
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
- Strategy and Management