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The Impact of Contract Type on Service Provider Information Requirements

The Impact of Contract Type on Service Provider Information Requirements

Rachel Cuthbert, Duncan McFarlane, Andy Neely
Copyright: © 2012 |Volume: 3 |Issue: 3 |Pages: 21
ISSN: 1947-959X|EISSN: 1947-9603|EISBN13: 9781466614031|DOI: 10.4018/jssmet.2012070105
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Cuthbert, Rachel, et al. "The Impact of Contract Type on Service Provider Information Requirements." IJSSMET vol.3, no.3 2012: pp.65-85. http://doi.org/10.4018/jssmet.2012070105

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Cuthbert, R., McFarlane, D., & Neely, A. (2012). The Impact of Contract Type on Service Provider Information Requirements. International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology (IJSSMET), 3(3), 65-85. http://doi.org/10.4018/jssmet.2012070105

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Cuthbert, Rachel, Duncan McFarlane, and Andy Neely. "The Impact of Contract Type on Service Provider Information Requirements," International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology (IJSSMET) 3, no.3: 65-85. http://doi.org/10.4018/jssmet.2012070105

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Abstract

This paper is concerned with the role of information in the servitization of manufacturing which has led to “the innovation of an organisation’s capabilities and processes as equipment manufacturers seek to offer services around their products” (Neely, 2009; Baines et al., 2009). This evolution has resulted in an information requirement (IR) shift as companies move from discrete provision of equipment and spare parts to long-term service contracts guaranteeing prescribed performance levels. Organisations providing such services depend on a very high level of availability and quality of information throughout the service life-cycle (Menor et al., 2002). This work focuses on whether, for a proposed contract based around complex equipment, the Information System is capable of providing information at an acceptable quality and requires the IRs to be examined in a formal manner. The authors apply a service information framework (Cuthbert et al., 2008; McFarlane & Cuthbert, 2012) to methodically assess IRs for different contract types to understand the information gap between them. Results from case examples indicate that this gap includes information required for the different contract types and a set of contract-specific IRs. Furthermore, the control, ownership and use of information differs across contract types as the boundary of operation and responsibility changes.

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