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Co-creation has evolved into a powerful concept in theory as well as in practice. Customers and other stakeholders are increasingly involved in the process of innovation and learning. Additionally, the value proposition is a main element of the business model that describes the promise delivered to the customer. As the interaction between companies and their stakeholders increase, value is co-created increasingly. Within this process, stakeholders should also take an active part in shaping offerings and experiences and, thus, become co-creators of value propositions. This chapter combines the co-creation concept with the up-coming value proposition paradigm, which has become popular in business model management and marketing. By describing the concepts of co-creation, value proposition and at least the co-creation of value proposition, managers gain a better understanding of these approaches. This is underpinned by practical examples. To show how the co-creation of value proposition can be implemented in practice, we describe a process of value proposition co-creation in detail.
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Vorbach, S., Müller, C., Poandl, E. (2019). Co-creation of Value Proposition: Stakeholders Co-creating Value Propositions of Goods and Services. In: Redlich, T., Moritz, M., Wulfsberg, J.P. (eds) Co-Creation. Management for Professionals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97788-1_5
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