Tjänstens triad: Från ömsesidig harmoni till dialektisk spänning i tjänstemöten
Författare
Redaktör
- Hervé Corvellec
- Hans Lindquist
Summary, in English
Models of service encounters are often fraught by reductionism, describing business relationships as mathematical combinations of dyadic constellations. Metaphors of ideal social relationships (marriages or friendships) are highlighted to stress normative aspects of equal, balanced and long-term business partnerships. However, these approaches are limited in their analytical sensitivity, as they cannot address the complexity of multipart relationships, where meanings, roles and relationships are continuously constructed and reconstructed. In order to understand the ambivalent quality of business interactions, this article analyses the corporate travel market by applying Georg Simmel’s depiction of the triad as a specific social form. Triadic constellations and more complex service networks involve dialectic tensions, simultaneously exhibiting for example loyalty and disloyalty, trust and distrust, empowerment and disempowerment. It is argued that a qualitative methodology is more adequate approach to grasp such dynamic and contextual social realities, because (opposed to a quantitative approach) it is not confined to operate with mutually exclusive analytical categories.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2005
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
47-63
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Servicemötet - Multidisciplinära öppningar
Dokumenttyp
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
Förlag
Liber
Ämne
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Nyckelord
- corporate travel
- service triad
- service relationships
- hybrid market
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 91-47-07598-8