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Call for Abstracts<\/p>\n

International Conference on
\nCHALLENGES IN MANAGING SMART PRODUCTS AND SERVICES<\/p>\n

August 22 & 23, Bielefeld, Germany<\/p>\n

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Submission Deadline:\u00a0April 1, 2019<\/strong>
\nConference Organizers:\u00a0Nicola Bilstein, Christian Stummer<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In the forthcoming decade, smart products and services will transform both markets and companies. This development brings about various managerial challenges. The Conference on \u201cChallenges in Managing Smart Products and Services (CHIMSPAS)\u201d aims at providing an interdisciplinary research platform for scrutinizing respective managerial issues. To this end, we welcome colleagues from diverse management fields such as innovation and technology management, service management, marketing, human resources, entrepreneurship, as well as colleagues from engineering and practitioners.<\/p>\n

The conference will take place in Bielefeld, a lovely town in the center of East Westphalia, which is the home of numerous highly successful SME with several of them being \u2018hidden champions\u2019 in their industries. Bielefeld University in particular hosts the Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) as well as the Institute of Technological Innovation, Market Development and Entrepreneurship (iTIME), which are concerned with engineering and economic issues of smart products and services.<\/p>\n

We invite conceptual, empirical, and analytical works that might be presented either as regular talks or during a central poster session. Potential contributions should be submitted as extended abstracts. Both completed research and work in progress will be considered.<\/p>\n

An award for the most influential conference contribution will be presented during the conference. Moreover, we are planning a special issue in an established academic journal after the conference. A corresponding call for papers will be made available in early 2019 (see conference website at www.chimspas-2019.de<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Topics of Interest<\/strong><\/p>\n

Conference contributions need to be related to challenges in managing smart products and services, including (but not limited to) the topics below:<\/p>\n