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The Holy Grail of Customer Experience

guest article by Anne-Madeleine Kranzbühler, winner of the 2018 SERVSIG Best Dissertation Award. “There is only one boss. The customer.” In our current times of independent comparison platforms, online word-of-mouth, and often...

Should I Share or Should I Go? The Challenges of the Access Economy

Guest article by Simon Hazée, finalist of the Best Service Dissertation Award 2019, granted by SERVSIG and Maastricht University New developments in digital technology, as well as shifting customer needs...

Data Exchange Web (DEW): Consolidating the world’s knowledge. Reality or fiction?

Thoughts on an interlinked knowledge management transdisciplinary and ethically-driven global collaboration initiative guest article by Karim Sidaoui We live in an age where we currently produce more than 2.5 quintillion bytes...

Blended Learning in Service Marketing: Are We Lacking Behind?

guest article by Volker G. Kuppelwieser When it comes to teaching, we see an undisputable pressure to online teaching. Recognizing this trend, back in the days, my business school wanted...

Future Service Technologies – Are Service Researchers and Managers on the Same Page?

Guest article by Ruud Wetzels, Jos Lemmink, Werner Kunz, Kristina Heinonen and Martin Wetzels In recent years, new technologies have radically transformed the way individuals, businesses and society function. Developments...

What’s Wrong With Apple?

guest article by Tor W. Andreassen On August 1st, 2018, Apple’s share peaked at USD 227 making it the first company ever to reach a market cap of USD1 trillion....

The Service Profit-Chain: An Inspiring Concept That Motivates Interdisciplinary Work

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” Albert Einstein By Jens Hogreve and Anja Iseke, winner of the 2017 Best Service Article Award When...

How does the sharing and collaborative economy look like in 2030?

The collaborative economy (CE), and within it, collaborative consumption (CC) has become a central element of the global economy and has substantially disrupted service markets (e.g. accommodation and individual transportation)....

Three “Acid Tests” to Evaluate Your Research

by Yany Grégoire, HEC Montréal. He received in 2018 the Journal of Service Research “Best Reviewer” Award. First, I would like to thank Werner for inviting me to write this short...

Healing the Social Media Headache

How Social Media Helps Co-create Innovation by Marisa Muninger, Dominik Mahr, and Wafa Hammedi Yes, firms know more than 3 billion people spend a considerable amount of time on social media...

People diagnosed with cancer often don’t embrace the term ‘survivor’

By Leonard L. Berry, Andrea Flynn, and Scott Davis “Cancer survivor” has become a catch-all phrase to refer to living individuals diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives. Cancer clinics...

Service Research Going through Dramatic Changes

guest article by Anders Gustafsson, Christopher Lovelock Award Recipient 2018 We live in interesting times and service research is more relevant than ever.  Technology is already having a tremendous impact...