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How Leadership Co-Creation Generates a Trickle-Down Effect on Employees’ Resource Integration Behavior in Service Ecosystems – A Theoretical Framework

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This article identifies service employees as key actors in service ecosystems who contribute to and steer the resource integration process to co-create value with other ecosystem actors. In an effort to address the research question how service employees can be supported in engaging in effective resource integration activities, a leadership co-creation trickle-down model is developed. It proposes that focal leaders who engage in collective leadership influence service employees’ resource integration behavior in service ecosystems by affecting their service co-creation role readiness.

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Becker, L. (2019). How Leadership Co-Creation Generates a Trickle-Down Effect on Employees’ Resource Integration Behavior in Service Ecosystems – A Theoretical Framework. In: Bruhn, M., Hadwich, K. (eds) Kooperative Dienstleistungen. Forum Dienstleistungsmanagement. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-26389-8_11

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