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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...

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...

Thoughts on the review process

Guest article by Jonas Holmqvist, winner of the best Reviewer Award 2016 of the Journal of Service Theory and Practice (JSTP) Like football referees, reviewers are often blamed when things...

Leveraging Service Design to Foster Service Innovation

Guest article by Lia Patrício & Jorge Teixeira Service innovation can be seen as the creation of new and/or improved service offerings, service processes, and service business models. More recently,...

Understanding the Language behind Big Data

guest article by Francisco Villarroel Ordenes Unstructured text data from emails, SMS, blogs, online reviews and social media is exponentially growing offering organizations unprecedented resources to monitor brand communications and customer...

Service Failure Handling at United Airlines

Guest article by Roland Rust and Ming-Hui Huang Those of you who attended the Frontiers in Service Conference in Bergen, Norway may have heard about the problems that my wife, Professor...

SERVSIG – for the community, by the community

Based on Ray Fisk’s Inaugural SIG Leadership Award Presentation on August 5, 2016. In the summer of 1993, I received the AMA’s Marketing Educator Newsletter and read an announcement that...

Research Insights: Does answering questions change consumer revenge responses?

guest article by Mina Rohani, Finalist of the SERVSIG Best Dissertation Award 2016 (granted by Maastricht U) People are increasingly getting revenge—that is, actions motivated by a desire to harm...

10 Things You Should Know While Crossing the Rubicon

guest article by Yves Van Vaerenbergh Glory be, I defended my PhD (in October 12, 2012)! I wrote my dissertation in rather challenging circumstances. Even though I obtained my PhD at...

Research Insights: Of Crowds and Mobile Promotions

guest article by Michelle Andrews, Finalist of the SERVSIG Best Dissertation Award 2016 (granted by Maastricht U) Have you ever wondered why some people look at their phones in elevators?...

The Quest for Diversity and Impact in Service Research

guest article by Kristina Heinonen Recently, while reading fellow researchers’ observations on the state of service research, I was led to reflect on how far the field has come. Cristiana...