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Online Program Management Providers And Higher Education: A Revelatory Case Study On Value Co-Creation, Britta Svoboda
Online Program Management Providers And Higher Education: A Revelatory Case Study On Value Co-Creation, Britta Svoboda
Doctoral Dissertations
With an increase in distance learning and online degree programs, many higher education institutions have partnered with online program management (OPM) providers, leading to a dramatic growth of the OPM industry over the past decade. The purpose of this study was to develop an empirically based understanding of the value proposition of entities of higher education partnering with OPMs through an in-depth, revelatory case study of value co-creation as experienced in the partnership between a doctoral research institution, specifically an academic department, and its OPM provider. The following research question guided this study: How does an OPM co-create value with …