“…The concept of value co-creation essentially borrows its genesis from the proposition that consumers are ‘co-creators of value’ and that firms cannot deliver value by themselves, but can only offer value propositions (Vargo and Lusch, 2004, 2008). For the past 14 years, value co-creation has been researched extensively in multiple domains ranging from healthcare (Beirao et al , 2017; Greenhalgh et al , 2016; Elg et al , 2012), tourism (Mathis et al , 2016; Grissemann and Stokburger-Sauer, 2012; Chen et al , 2017), social media (Kao et al , 2016; Quach and Thaichon, 2017; Luo et al , 2015; Rosenthal and Brito, 2017), public services (Saha and Goyal, 2019; Osborne et al , 2016) and retail (Andreu et al , 2010; Fellesson and Salomonson, 2016) among a plethora of various other sectors. Given the widespread interest of this concept among practitioners and academicians alike, it is thus important to have a proper understanding about the development and progress of this field, and its potential for further applicability in multitudes of other disciplines.…”