{"id":1757,"date":"2015-09-28T13:24:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T13:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2015-12-17T10:45:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T10:45:00","slug":"new-servsig-best-dissertation-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/new-servsig-best-dissertation-award\/","title":{"rendered":"New SERVSIG Best Dissertation Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Birrete_doctoral-as-Smart-Object-1-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1802 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Birrete_doctoral-as-Smart-Object-1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Birrete_doctoral as Smart Object-1 copy\" width=\"725\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Birrete_doctoral-as-Smart-Object-1-copy.jpg 725w, https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Birrete_doctoral-as-Smart-Object-1-copy-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-856\" src=\"http:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Services-SIG-Logo21.jpg\" alt=\"Services-SIG-Logo2\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>SERVSIG<\/strong> and <strong>Maastricht University<\/strong> wishes to recognize outstanding doctoral dissertations in service research. Therefore, we are pleased to announce the establishment of the annual<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c<em>SERVSIG Best Dissertation Award in Service Research<\/em>\u201d<br \/>\ngranted by Maastricht University<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/download2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1813\" src=\"http:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/download2-e1445115823250.jpeg\" alt=\"download\" width=\"150\" height=\"52\" \/><\/a>The Department of Marketing &amp; Supply Chain Management at <strong>Maastricht University<\/strong> in the Netherlands, has a strong reputation in the field of Services Marketing, which has been the main focus since its inception. Maastricht University is\u00a0proud to be recognized as a top marketing department by the global research cooperations on state-of-the-art service research and by the different research awards that Maastricht cherishes. The Service Science Factory at Maastricht University brings together business and academia to help organizations differentiate themselves through innovative services and to validate academic service research with different external non-academic stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maastricht University<\/strong> is excited to host the <strong>2016 SERVSIG conference<\/strong> from <strong>June 17-19<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.servsig2016.com\">www.servsig2016.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Award, Eligibility, and Selection<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Candidates must be doctoral students \/ graduates in marketing or a related field (e.g., consumer behavior, marketing strategy, operations\u00a0management, organizational behavior, human resources, strategy, finance, information systems, economics, etc.) in an official university (inside or outside the U.S.).<\/li>\n<li>To be eligible, students must (have) submitted their dissertation between <strong>August\u00a01, 2014\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0September\u00a030, 2015<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>A nominator must nominate her\/his\/their candidate by submitting a letter that highlights why the dissertation qualifies for this award in addition to confirming the successful defense of the dissertation (please see details below).<\/li>\n<li>An academic review\u00a0committee, will evaluate the submissions based on quality of the dissertation\u2019s contribution to service research (e.g., originality, theoretical foundations, methodological execution, value of the results to service scholars and managers).<\/li>\n<li>Thanks to <strong>Maastricht University<\/strong> we<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>grant one winner award of <strong>$1000<\/strong> and up to two runner\/s-up awards of <strong>$500<\/strong> each.<\/li>\n<li>The winner(s) will be recognized at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/call-for-servsig-2016-maastricht\/\">SERVSIG 2016 Conference in Maastricht<\/a> (in June 2016).<\/li>\n<li>The winners will have the chance to present their work in a <strong>dedicated special session<\/strong>\u00a0at the SERVSIG conference 2016.<\/li>\n<li>The submission deadline is <strong>November 30, 2015<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Submission Details:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Candidates must submit a <strong>summary of their dissertation<\/strong>, which should describe the framework of their research studies, research questions, hypotheses (if applicable), related literature, data \/ methodological approach (if applicable), findings, contributions to service theory and practice, and future research along with limitations of the dissertation. Please note: Authors should provide enough detail for the reviewers to be able to conduct an appropriate evaluation of the work.\u00a0Both\u00a0cumulative and non-cumulative dissertations are welcome<\/li>\n<li>The summary must no exceed <strong>5\u00a0single-spaced text pages <\/strong>(not including references, figures, and tables;12-point Times New Roman font, 1 inch margin). Please note that ALL these materials must be submitte<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">d in one single file.<\/span> Please follow the formatting guidelines of the <em>Journal of Service Research<\/em>. Submissions that do exceed the above page limit, that do not follow the style guide, or that are submitted as multiple files cannot be considered. Similarly, hard copy submissions cannot be considered.<\/li>\n<li>In addition to the summary document, a nominator has to provide a <strong>nomination letter<\/strong>, addressing why the dissertation deserves to be considered for the award. This nomination letter must be included in the submission email. The nominator\u2019s email letter should include the following information: author\u2019s name, phone number\/s, e-mail address, the university\/school awarding the degree, the date of the successful dissertation defense, name\/s of the faculty member(s) on the dissertation committee, and the candidate\u2019s current and future positions.<\/li>\n<li>The summary and nomination letter need to be in english, but<strong> the dissertation itself doesn&#8217;t have to be english necessarily.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>If you have any questions about the competition, please contact <a href=\"mailto:werner.kunz@umb.edu\">Werner Kunz<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Please submit the\u00a0nomination letter &amp; summary of the dissertation via e-mail to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:werner.kunz@umb.edu\">Werner Kunz<\/a>. We will collect the submissions\u00a0for the academic review\u00a0committee.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Selection Committee:<\/strong> \u00a0Jochen Wirtz (NSU, Chair),\u00a0Allard C.R. van Riel (Radboud U),\u00a0Anna S. Mattila (PennState),\u00a0Jens Hogreve (CU Eichstaett), Yany Gregoire (HEC Montreal)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SERVSIG and Maastricht University wishes to recognize outstanding doctoral dissertations in service research. Therefore, we are pleased to announce the establishment of the annual \u201cSERVSIG Best Dissertation Award in Service Research\u201d granted by Maastricht University The Department of Marketing &amp; Supply Chain Management at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, has a strong reputation in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1757"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1803,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions\/1803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}