“…These studies have paid limited attention to a “subset” of CP (Lusch, Vargo, & O'Brien, ) where the consumer is involved in producing firm's offerings such as a book shelf (Bendapudi & Leone, ), financial services (Auh et al, ; Chan, Yim, & Lam, ), a firm's new product (Fang, Palmatier, & Evans, ), an electronic service (Yi, Nataraajan, & Gong, ), and Internet service deliveries (Groth, ). “Offering” in the present study refers more broadly to “any item or action someone can offer which could meet the needs for himself or somebody else” (Fragidis, Ignatiadis, & Wills, ).…”