“…Contributions include those of Lusch (2004, 2008) and Grönroos (2008Grönroos ( , 2011 within the service dominant logic and more recently by Heinonen et al, (2010Heinonen et al, ( , 2013 and Boysen Anker et al (2015) within a customer dominant logic, and by Andreu et al (2010) from a management perspective. One commonality throughout these contributions is the lack of a clear depiction of the process involved in and empirical evidence of value creation (Grönroos and Voima, 2013), thus confirming Ind and Coates' (2013) claim that value creation is still an emerging concept. Intertwined with this lacuna are firms' efforts to ensure support for consumers' value creation, either individually or collectively, in practice (Payne et al, 2008) and in theory (Prahalad and Ramaswamy, 2004).…”