CfA: International Conference on Challenges in Managing Smart Products and Services (CHIMSPAS) in Bielefeld

We cordially invite researchers and practitioners from diverse management fields as well as from other disciplines to join us for another CHIMSPAS event (25 & 26 August 2022, hybrid format). Possible contributions should be submitted as extended abstracts. Both completed research and work in progress are eligible.

An award for the most influential conference contribution will be presented during the conference.

Topics of Interest

  • Business Information Systems Engineering (e.g., establishing smart service platforms)
  • Entrepreneurship (e.g., collaboration with startups in developing smart products)
  • Human Resource Management (e.g., new skills required, new working styles or cultural norms)
  • Innovation and Technology Management (e.g., barriers to smart product adoption and diffusion, acquisition of required technologies)
  • Logistics (e.g., continuous tracking of products w.r.t. location, current condition, environment)
  • Marketing (e.g., finer customer segmentation, better after-sale service, novel pricing strategies)
  • Organization (e.g., new organizational structures to coordinate units more closely)
  • Production (e.g., predictive analytics enabling service innovation in manufacturing, industry 4.0)
  • Services Management (e.g., smart service systems)
  • Strategic Management (e.g., new business model, importance of data, open or closed system)

Conference Organizers
Nicola Bilstein, JProf., Management of Smart Products, Bielefeld University
Christian Stummer, Prof., Innovation and Technology Management, Bielefeld University

Submission Deadline: April 3, 2022.
Conference (Hybrid format): August 25–26, 2022.
View the complete Call for Abstracts here.
Find a short video on the 2019 CHIMSPAS edition here.