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Call for Posters at 2017 Frontiers NYC

The 26th Annual Frontiers in Service Conference will take place June 22-25, 2017 in New York City hosted by Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business at Lincoln Center (located in...

Gamification – The Next Big Thing in Service!?

Guest article by Waffa Hammedi, Thomas Leclercq, and Allard van Riel. The article is based on a paper that received the Elsevier Prize for the Most Innovative Paper Award. “Reality is Broken!...

Amazon’s Fairy Tale Response to a Halloween Wish

guest article by Scott Cowley Amazon has recently been the target of some high profile negative press about its intense workplace pressures. One would almost think there would be little room at Amazon...

Per Kristensson new director at CTF

Starting January 1st, 2017 Per Kristensson will be the new director of CTF, Service Research Center. He succeeds Henrietta Huzell who will start a new assignment as vice dean at Karlstad University....

30 years celebration at CTF Karlstad

Thirty years ago CTF, Service Research Center, was established at Karlstad University. How it happened, success factors and the latest from today’s research were included in the program when CTF...

Elsevier Prize for the Most Innovative Paper for Hammedi, Leclercq, and van Riel

In July 2016, the 23rd EIRASS conference on Recent Advances in Retailing and Consumer Services Sciences was held in Edinburgh, Scotland. During this event Wafa Hammedi (University of Namur, Belgium), Thomas Leclercq...

Young Scholar Research Competition: Organizational Frontlines Research

3rd Annual Organizational Frontlines Research Symposium (co-located with 2017 AMA Winter Educators’ Conference) February 15 – 17, 2017, Orlando, FL Co-sponsored by AMA, Sheth Foundation and Marketing Science Institute announces… Young Scholar Research...

Happy 30th Birthday, JSM!!!

guest article by Rebekah Russell-Bennett It was a balmy afternoon in Maastricht and at the end of a cobbled lane, service scholars gathered to celebrate the 30th birthday of the...

AMA calls for nominations

Dear all, I have listed six awards with upcoming award deadlines (in chronological order). Please consider submitting a nomination to one or more of the award committees. Additionally, please encourage your...

Data-driven Text Mining for CX Analytics in Services

Guest Article by Mohamed Zaki and Benjamin Lucas based on research recently funded by a Marketing Science Institute (MSI), Customer Experience Initiative grant for the project titled: “CX Analytics: A...

How to… Prepare Papers if English is not your First Language (part 1)

This article is part of the How-to… series brought to by Emerald Group Publishing On this page, we summarize the process for the benefit of those writing in a foreign...

2017 Marketing and Public Policy Conference in Washington D.C.

2017 Marketing and Public Policy Conference in Washington D.C., June 1 – 3, 2017 Deadline for submissions: December 2, 2016 (Please note that there will be no planned extensions for...