Smart products and services are about to transform both markets and companies. In 2019, researchers discussed corresponding managerial issues during the First Conference on Challenges in Managing Smart Products and Services (CHIMSPAS, find a short video here). Motivated by this fruitful first conference, we invite colleagues from diverse management fields as well as colleagues from engineering and practitioners to join us for a follow-up conference.
This second CHIMSPAS 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 ‘hidden champions’ in their industries. Bielefeld University in particular hosts the Center for 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.

We welcome conceptual, empirical, and analytical works to be presented at CHIMSPAS. 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
Conference contributions need to be related to challenges in managing smart products and services, which might arise in diverse fields such as those listed in the following:
• 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)

Abstract Submission
Authors should send their abstracts (as a pdf file with a maximum of 500 words) to the conference e-mail address chimspas@uni-bielefeld.de by April 1, 2020. There will be no publicly available conference proceedings and, thus, abstract submission to the conference do not impede submission of the full paper to a journal afterwards.

Important Dates
Submission Deadline: April 1, 2020
Authors Notification: End of April 2020
Early Bird register closing date: May 31, 2020
Final registration date for all presenting authors: June 30, 2020

Conference
August 27–28, 2020

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

Venue
The conference takes place in the ZiF Building at Bielefeld University.

Conference Website
Further information and updates can be obtained from the conference website: www.chimspas.de

Call for Abstracts

Die Erforschung einzelner Dienstleistungen und ganzer Dienstleistungsbranchen hat national wie international einen zentralen Stellenwert erlangt. Der Forschungsbedarf ist aber weiterhin groß, da sich die bislang entwickelten Konzepte und Theorien zur Analyse von industriellen Aktivitäten nicht grundsätzlich auf den Dienstleistungssektor mit seinen immateriellen Gütern übertragen lassen.

Der Forschungsschwerpunkt des Instituts für Betriebswirtschaftslehre der Universität Rostock liegt daher im Bereich „Dienstleistungsmanagement und Dienstleistungsmärkte“. Zur Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Austauschs über diese Thematik führt das Institut deshalb – nun bereits zum siebten Mal – eine Tagung in Rostock über die neuesten Entwicklungen in der Dienstleistungsforschung durch. Diese Tagung dient Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern aus der Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftspsychologie, Soziologie und auch anderen dienstleistungsorientierten Forschungsdisziplinen zum wissenschaftlichen Diskurs. Die Tagung wird von Prof. Dr. Andreas Pfingsten (Finance Center Münster, Institut für Kreditwesen, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster) mit einer Key-Note Speech eröffnet.

Wir laden hiermit Interessierte ein, sich mit der Präsentation ihrer Forschungsergebnisse an der Tagung zu beteiligen. Vorgesehen sind sowohl Vorträge (30 min. sowie 15 min. für Diskussion) als auch Posterpräsentationen. Erwünscht sind Beiträge aus allen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen, die sich mit der Erforschung von Dienstleistungen beschäftigen. Insbesondere sind Forschungsarbeiten in einem frühen Stadium erwünscht, damit die Tagung als Diskussionsplattform zur Weiterentwicklung der Forschung genutzt werden kann. Neben Arbeiten, die sich funktionalen Aspekten des Dienstleistungsmanagements widmen, wie z. B. der Arbeitsgestaltung, der Interaktion zwischen Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern einerseits sowie Kundinnen und Kunden andererseits, der Gestaltung innovativer Dienstleistungen oder dem Dienstleistungscontrolling, sind auch Beiträge erwünscht, die Dienstleistungen aus der institutionellen Perspektive betrachten und Besonderheiten einzelner Dienstleistungen und Dienstleistungsunternehmen (wie bspw. Steuerberatung und Wirtschaftsprüfung, Finanzdienstleistungen, Tourismusunternehmen, Logistikunternehmen usw.) in den Vordergrund stellen.

Im Rahmen der siebten Rostocker Dienstleistungstagung wird wiederum die Jahrestagung der Wissenschaftlichen Kommission Dienstleistungsmanagement im Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e. V. als gesonderter Track stattfinden. Die Konferenzsprache ist Deutsch und bei Bedarf Englisch

Weitere Informationen über die Tagung, das begleitende Programm für Nachwuchswissen-schaftlerinnen und -wissenschaftler sowie eine Formatvorlage für den Extended Abstract finden Sie im Internet unter http://www.dl-tagung.de/.

Die Einreichungsfrist endet am 31.03.2020.

Call for Papers deutsch

Call for Papers english

Am 14. und 15. Mai 2020 findet in Kiel die Tagung „Science for Society? – Arbeits- und Organisationsformen der Zukunft“ im Wissenschaftszentrum Kiel statt. Die Tagung wird veranstaltet von den unabhängigen Fachverbänden gfo – Gesellschaft für Organisation e. V. und GPM Deutsche Gesellschaft für Projektmanagement e. V. in Kooperation mit der Fachhochschule Kiel, dem Institut für Innovationsforschung der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel sowie dem iaim Institute of Automation & Industrial Management und dem ipo Institut für Personal- & Organisationsforschung der FOM Hochschule. Weitere Informationen zu der Tagung und den Call for Papers finden Sie unter: https://www.fom.de/scienceforsociety.html.

Die Einreichungsfrist endet am 06.01.2020.

Track Proponents & Guest Editors:

Simon Fietze, University of Southern Denmark

Sylvia Rohlfer, Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros (CUNEF), Spain

Claudio Petti, University of Salento, Italy

Abderrahman Hassi, Al Akhawayn University, Morocco

To create growth and increase the effectiveness of new business venturing as well as small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) entrepreneurial management practices play a pivotal role in exploiting entrepreneurial knowledge and utilizing it towards opportunity exploitation (Goel & Jones, 2016), innovation (Hisrich & Ramadani, 2017) and talent development (Pinheiro & Stensaker, 2014). In line with this, the track addresses entrepreneurial management practices from interdisciplinary and multi-level angles as an important variable in the interplay between individual, organizational and institutional contexts. We invite empirical and conceptual research that contributes to a better understanding of behaviour and mechanisms constituting the formation and diffusion of entrepreneurial management practices. These managerial practices include a wide range of means (e.g. management structure, decision processes learning, knowledge management, human resource system) that help a firm to remain competitive and contribute to organizational and societal value creation.

According to Gupta et al. (2004), entrepreneurs need to fill entrepreneurial and leadership roles and guide the organization through change by implementing certain bundles of practices to build strong dynamic capabilities to sense and seize innovation opportunities, (introducing new products, processes or practices), to successful venture (entering new businesses) or to renew strategically (improving internal coordination; Teece, 2016). Previous research was mainly concerned with the different life cycles of new ventures and problems related to maturity (Gray & Ariss, 1985) and certain types of entrepreneurial leadership (Kim et al., 2017). Thus, a better understanding of the dynamics of entrepreneurial and managerial behaviour of entrepreneurs is crucial.

The track provides an opportunity to take stock on these developments and to present research that addresses entrepreneurial management practices in combination with related fields (e.g. dynamic capabilities, internationalization). A critical issue is a better understanding of contextual factors. Mostly “Western“ theories have been applied and these theories may – to a certain degree – explain individual and organizational behaviour on a global level. However, institutional arrangements need to be considered as a driving force to explain the higher level of entrepreneurial activity in emerging economies compared to advanced markets, and, thus, the variation of entrepreneurial management practices.

European Academy of Management (EURAM) 2020

The European Academy of Management (EURAM) is a learned society founded in 2001. It aims at advancing the academic discipline of management in Europe. With members from 49 countries in Europe and beyond, EURAM has a high degree of diversity and provides its members with opportunities to enrich debates over a variety of research management themes and traditions.

Deadline for paper submission is 14 January 2020 (2pm Belgium time). Contributors are notified of acceptance on 19 March 2020. Further information about the deadlines and important other dates can be found on the EURAM homepage. Author’s guidelines and information about the submission procedure can also be found on the EURAM homepage.

Special Issue of management revue – Socio-Economic Studies

management revue – Socio-Economic Studies is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary European journal publishing both qualitative and quantitative work, as well as purely theoretical papers that advances the study of management, organization, and industrial relations. Management Revue publishes articles that contribute to theory from a number of disciplines, including business and public administration, organizational behaviour, economics, sociology, and psychology. Reviews of books relevant to management and organization studies are a regular feature.

All contributors to the EURAM track are invited to submit their paper for the special issue of management revue – Socio-Economic Studies. Full papers for this special issue must be submitted by September 30th, 2020. All contributions will be subject to double-blind reviews. Papers invited to a „revise and resubmit“ are due March 31st, 2021. The publication is scheduled for issue 2/2022. Please submit your papers electronically via the online submission system using „SI Entrepreneurial Management“ as article section.

Manuscript length should not exceed 8,000 words (excluding references) and the norm should be 30 pages in double-spaced type with margins of about 3 cm (1 inch) on each side of the page. Further, please follow the guidelines on the journal’s homepage.