This paper investigates whether transport service providers can apply the co-creation of value. The presented multiple case study focused on the shippers and logistics providers. Value co-creation constructs extracted from the literature provided the theoretical background for the research. The following topics were investigated: the buyers’ value demands, the criteria used by the buyers to evaluate the value offered by the service providers and the possibility of value co-creation between buyers and sellers. The findings uncovered two main barriers to the value co-creation in the transport services, namely a large number of service providers (which restricts the competition to the cost of the services) and the customers’ demands. The combination of these elements suggests the impracticality of adopting co-creation in the context of road cargo transport. Such findings also may indicate the existence of a lower limit to the value approach in the service industry (e.g., in the transport services).
Value co-creation; Service; Transport; Value