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Best Service Article in 2025

The 2025 SERVSIG Best Service Article Award was presented during the Frontiers Conference in Helsinki, recognizing an outstanding article published in 2025. The award celebrates research that has made a...

2026 SERVSIG Emerging Service Scholar Award

The  SERVSIG Emerging Service Scholar winner was announced and congratulated at the 2026 Frontiers Conference in Helsinki. The Award (sponsored by Auburn University) recognizes contributions to advancing the study of...

2026 SERVSIG Best Dissertation Award

The recipient of the 2026 SERVSIG Best Dissertation Award, sponsored by Texas State University, was announced during the SERVSIG Conference in Braga. The award highlights outstanding doctoral research and its...

2025 JOSM Awards

The Robert Johnston Award recognizes researchers in the service discipline. Journal of Service Management was delighted to announce this year’s award winners (papers published in 2025) at the Frontiers in Service 2026 conference in...

2025 JSM Awards

At the SERVSIG Conference in Braga, Portugal, the Journal of Services Marketing proudly recognized the recipients of its annual awards. Presented by Editors-in-Chief Mark Rosenbaum and Kristina Heinonen, the awards...

2026 JSTP Awards

At the Frontiers in Service 2026 Conference, Marianna Sigala and Chatura Ranaweera, co-editors of the Journal of Service Theory and Practice (JSTP) were very pleased to announce and congratulate the...

JSR Awards 2025

Traditionally, the Journal of Service Research awards are given out during the Frontiers in Service conference. This summer 2026 at Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, the winners for the best paper...

More Than Saying “It’s AI”: How Transparency Really Works in AI‑Generated Advertising

Guest article by Werner H. Kunz, Khanh Bao Quang Le, Hina Khan, and Fangfang Li. AI advertising expenditure hit about $370 billion in 2022 and is expected to rise to...

Tenured position in Services Marketing – Cornell University 

Nolan School of Hotel Administration, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University Tenured (Associate or Full Professor) position in Services Marketing Application deadline: 15 July 2026 The Cornell SC Johnson College of Business invites applicants for the Michael D....

Service Journals’ 2025 Impact Factors

The new Journal Citation Report (JCR) metrics (based on data from 2025) were released by Clarivate in June 2026. The JCR indicates the new Impact Factors (IF) for service journals...

Call for submissions: QUIS20 (2027) in Cambridge, UK

20th International Research Symposium on Service Excellence in Management (QUIS20) “Service and experiences for Human-Centric, Sustainable Futures in an AI-enabled Digital age: Imagining Research, Education and Practice” 30 June – 3...

Service Wisdom by Jay Kandampully

Hello everyone, I am sure that you are enjoying your summer or winter break – depending on which hemisphere you are in. I thought of sharing what “Service” has taught...