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The objective of this special issue is to produce theoretical and empirical work that provokes and fertilizes the scholarly debate on product-service innovation (PSI) systems, that is, the adoption of externalized service-augmented strategies by manufacturing businesses (eg, Cusumano et al., 2015; Crozet and Milet, 2017; Rabetino et al., 2018; Bustinza et al., 2019). With this end goal at the center of our priorities, we expect to advance our understanding of the connection between PSI and the innovation trajectories of manufacturers, as well as of the mechanics underlying external PSI systems in terms of their formation, evolution and performance.

This way, the collection of papers included in this special issue brings together studies that address various aspects related to PSI systems, from a business, industry, and regional levels that until now had remained largely unaddressed.