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Doctoral Course on Service and Relationship Management (2026-2027) at Hanken

Centre for Relationship Marketing and Service Management, Department of Marketing, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki (Finland) 9-12 March 2027 Application Deadline: 16 October 2026 Course aim and content Students gain...

Articles in Service Journals – May – Jul 2026

Considered Service-specific journals were Journal of Service Research, Journal of Service Management, Journal of Services Marketing, Journal of Service Theory and Practice, Service Industries Journal, Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, and Service Science. For...

Service Articles in Non-Service-Specific Journals: May-July 26

Today, we identify service articles published in Marketing, Management, Operations, Productions, Information Systems, and Practitioner-Oriented Journals in the last months. For more information about the alert system methodology, go here For all previous...

9th GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON CREATING VALUE

This conference brings together researchers, business leaders, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and practitioners to explore one central question: How can we create, measure, and share value in ways that truly serve people, organizations,...

Innovation Index Coalition Meets at Frontiers in Service 2026

Guest article by Kristina Heinonen. Innovation Index Coalition Meeting at Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland, in June 2026 As part of the 2026 Frontiers in Service conference in Helsinki,...

Impressions from SERVSIG 2026

Guest article by Cláudia Simões and Cristiana Lages (conference co-chairs). We had the pleasure of hosting the 14th edition of SERVSIG 2026 at the University of Minho in Braga. The...

CfP SIJ “Ethical implications of AI and automation in service industries”

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Service Industries Journal. Ethical implications of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation in service industries: Addressing algorithmic bias, opacity and unclear accountability...

Serving with SISU: Reflections from 2026 Frontiers in Service conference

More than 270 scholars, doctoral students, journal editors, practitioners and business leaders gathered in Helsinki for the 2026 Frontiers in Service Conference, hosted by Hanken School of Economics on June...

On Community, Contribution, and Continuity in SERVSIG

As I conclude my four-year term as SERVSIG co-chair and welcome Sven Tuzovic into the role, I have been reflecting on what makes this community so special and what gives...

A few words from Harrison

Hello SERVSIG Community,  I would like to take a moment to thank Kristina Heinonen for all of the work she has done over the last four years of her tenure...

SERVSIG 2028 Heads to Tirana

At the 2026 SERVSIG Conference in Braga, we were delighted to announce that the 2028 SERVSIG Conference will be hosted in Tirana, Albania. Following a selection process involving several strong...

Christopher Lovelock Career Contribution Award 2026

The Christopher Lovelock Career Contributions Award was presented at the 2026 Frontiers in Service Conference in Helsinki. The award recognizes a scholar whose sustained and influential body of work has...