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Transformative Service Collaborative

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality… Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” Martin Luther King, 1963   We...

Social Dynamics Of Service Interactions

guest article by Alexander Henkel, Finalist of the SERVSIG Best Dissertation Award 2017 (granted by Maastricht U)  Social Dynamics Of Service Interactions Services have taken on a prominent role in society...

Where it all began: the history of La Londe Services Conference

guest article by Pierre Eiglier, Professor Emeritus, IAE Aix Graduate School of Management  The French La Londe Conference in Service Management did not begin in the Côte d’Azur La Londe resort area...

Innovation And Creative Destruction In Retailing

Guest article by Tor Andreassen. This article is part of the CSI Annual Report 2016. The full report can be downloaded here. In Norway, several industries are earmarked for restructuring. Two...

‘Wear’ to Next? – What Wearable Technology Means for Service Research

Guest article by R. Elena Frâncu, Benjamin Lucas, and Martin Wetzels Introduction Forecasts point to worldwide spending on wearable devices reaching $19 billion by 2018 (Feigenbaum, 2015) and reaching a...

Advancing the Research Frontier of Service Growth in Product Firms

guest article by Christian Kowalkowski Guest article about the Industrial Marketing Management 2017 special sections on Servitization and Deservitization. Service growth in product firms has become one of the most...

Service Research: Innovate or Perish?

Guest article by Bo Edvardsson In an article in Journal of Service Research (2015) with the title: “Service Research Priorities in a Rapidly Changing Context” Ostrom et al. outline key research...

Moving ‘Service’ towards a Global Discipline

guest article by Jay Kandampully Solving problems is the fundamental essence of ‘service.’ If we are not solving problems, we are not in ‘service.’ It is a well-known fact that...

Service Organizations and their Communities

Guest article by Mahesh Subramony Imagine sipping a hot beverage in a coffee shop in your town or city. All around you are the sights and sounds of people interacting with...

Teaching Note: Customer Satisfaction, Customer Loyalty, & Financial Performance in the Banking Sector

Teaching note by Vikas Mittal Banking is an essential service. According to a 2015 FDIC national survey, 68% of U.S. households use banking services. According to a Gallup report, worldwide, access...

Virtual Reality – Limitless Possibilities for Service Design

Guest Article by Benjamin Lucas and Kay Schröder  Introduction Virtual reality (VR) has triggered a wave of new possibilities for creating and enhancing customer experiences, and is helping service designers...

Let’s use our service DNA to make a difference!

Guest article by Bart Larivière, Recipient of the 2016 SERVSIG Emerging Service Scholar Award Somewhere over the North Atlantic Ocean, flying from New York to Brussels – unlike other passengers – I...