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How Robots Are Rewiring Human Emotions

Guest article by Valentina Pitardi, Jochen Wirtz, Stefanie Paluch, and  Werner Kunz. The authors are winner of the 2024 SERVSIG Best Service Article Award for “Metaperception benefits of service robots in uncomfortable...

Tales from the Wild: Understanding employee well-being with service robots

Guest article by Chelsea Phillips, finalist of the 2025 SERVSIG Best Dissertation Award. We are experiencing a new age, one where service robots are no longer a thing of science fiction. While operating...

Moving Toward Open Science in Service Research: Four Practical Steps

Guest article by Yves Van Vaerenbergh, Simon Hazée, and Thijs Zwienenberg. Open science has become an essential part of how research across disciplines is conducted, communicated, and evaluated. At its...

Insights into sustained success in social innovation: The case of Balay

Guest article by Luis Santamaría, and Lola C. Duque.  If you are also interested in the field of company innovativeness, please consider submitting to the upcoming special issue in the Journal of...

Interview with the Co-Editors-in-Chief of Journal of Service Management

Linda Alkire and Sertan Kabadayi became Co-Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of Service Management last March. We spoke with them about their vision and plans for the journal, as well as their own...

Is Human Service Back?

Guest article by Tor W. Andreassen.  If you are also interested in the field of company innovativeness, please consider submitting to the upcoming special issue in the Journal of Service Management...

Can DEI (still) be Innovative and Good for Business?

Guest article by Lina Fogt Jacobsen and Darius-Aurel Frank. If you are also interested in the field of company innovativeness, please consider submitting to the upcoming special issue in the Journal...

20 lessons from the past 20 years (Part 2)

Guest article by Bart Larivière. May, 23, 2005 – May 23, 2025 Today, marks 20 years since I defended my PhD.This week, I took the time to reflect upon my...

20 lessons from the past 20 years (Part 1)

Guest article by Bart Larivière. May, 23, 2005 – May 23, 2025 Today, marks 20 years since I defended my PhD.This week, I took the time to reflect upon my...

Bridging the Gap: Service Marketing and Service Design

Guest article by Birgit Mager. When I started developing the field of service design in 1995, the service marketing domain, among others, inspired my work. Indeed, Lynn Shostack used the...

When Policymakers Do the Opposite of What Research Suggests

Guest article by Tor W. Andreassen. While scientific research consistently highlights the benefits of stakeholder capitalism, it is paradoxical that legislators and business leaders are reverting to Milton Friedman’s shareholder...

Getting Social Support “Right” in Digital Health Services

Guest article by Karen Tian, finalist of the 2025 SERVSIG Best Dissertation Award. Digital health services, such as online health communities (OHCs; e.g., mental health communities on Reddit), are redefining how we experience...