Smart products and services are about to transform both markets and companies. Since 2019, scientists discuss corresponding managerial issues during the Conference on Challenges in Managing Smart Products and Services (CHIMSPAS, see videos from the first event and the last one). CHIMSPAS 2023 will take place on-site in Bielefeld, a lovely town in the center of East Westphalia. In these past years, a vivid community of researchers with various backgrounds, especially from the fields of service management, innovation management, and business information systems, emerged. Again, we cordially invite researchers and practitioners from these and other management fields as well as from other disciplines such as engineering, psychology, or law to join us for another CHIMSPAS event. 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. Awards for the most influential conference contributions 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)

Conference Co-Chairs

• Prof. Nicola Bilstein, University of Bayreuth
• Prof. Christian Stummer, Bielefeld University

Submission Deadline: 03 April 2023.
Conference:  24-25 August 2023.
Conference Website: here.
View the complete Call here.

Looking back over a decade of IHRM: Who knew the world could change so much?

The upcoming Fifth Global Conference on International Human Resource Management will celebrate a decade of developments in IHRM. As such, we would like to invite you to join us in New York City for presentations, discussions, and networking opportunities between scholars and practitioners. The IHRM field is broad and expanding, incorporating many disciplines including cross-cultural management, comparative HRM, strategic international HRM, and global leadership. Practice and research are focused on understanding why certain HRM activities fit a given national context or exploring how a multinational enterprise balances
the global/local paradox in managing its workforce.

We seek academic paper submissions that not only reflect on IHRM developments over recent times but also those that will broaden our understanding and pave the path for future IHRM research and practice. To this end, we invite submissions that cover conceptual, theoretical, and empirical investigations that adopt a broad range of methodologies and highlight the context-specific nature of HRM systems. Papers that address but are not necessarily restricted to the following topics are especially invited:

• HRM models from emerging markets
• Institutional and cultural perspectives on IHRM
• HRM in multinational enterprises
• Expatriate management and global careers
• IHRM and informal social ties and networks
• Global talent and knowledge management
• Diversity, aging population, and generational challenges in different national settings
• Ethics and corporate social responsibility in the globalization of work
• High performance work systems in different national settings
• Global leadership

Organizing Committee

• Dr. Elaine Farndale, Dr. Rakoon Piyanontalee, and Carolyn Adrien (Center for International Human Resource Studies, Penn State, United States)
• Dr. Sven Horak (St John’s University, United States)
• Dr. Maja Vidovic (RIT Croatia)

View conference website: here
View the complete CfP: here

Deadline for all submissions: 13 February 2022.
Acceptance/rejection notification: 13 March 13 2022.
Registration deadline: 19 April 2022.

This international conference hosted by the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna) and the University of Augsburg addresses new developments in and challenges for Green HRM and Sustainable Behavior in and of organizations. Since the research field of Green HRM and Sustainable Organizational Behavior has grown quickly, we aim to offer an opportunity for international scholars to present and discuss recent findings of their studies. In addition, this conference marks the end of our FWF/DFG funded project on “Comparative Green HRM” led by Michael Muller-Camen and Marcus Wagner.

We welcome high quality contributions and work-in-progress submissions across research fields and theoretical backgrounds that advance our understanding of current developments and challenges (e.g. tensions and paradoxes) in the context of Green HRM and Sustainable Behaviors in the workplace. Potential areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Theoretical and/or empirical contributions on recent developments and challenges in Green HRM practices and Sustainable Behavior
• Multi-level and comparative perspectives on Green HRM practices, Sustainable Behavior and their respective antecedents and outcomes
• Responses to challenges of Sustainable Behavior that materialize in tensions, contradictions or paradoxes of sustainability
• Nested and multi-level paradoxes that result from the inherent complexity of sustainability in a workplace context as well as preferences, norms, and (dis-)incentives for Sustainable Workplace Behaviors
• Mixed methods approaches for investigating Sustainable HRM/company policies, Sustainable Behaviors, and their interplay
• Research into the process and outcomes of determining key issues and policies for Strategic Green HRM within and between companies

Conference date: Thursday, 17 March 2022 to Friday, 18 March 2022, 13:00 to 21:00 CET/6:00 to 14:00 CT  /  Venue: Online and on the Campus of WU Vienna  /  Participation is free of charge.
View the complete CfP here.
Paper submission: Deadline 16 January 2022 by using this Online form.
Registration is now open until 20 February 2022 via the Conference Website.

Scientific Committee:

• Prof. Susan E. Jackson (Department of Human Resource Management, Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey)
• Prof. Yuan Jiang (Harbin Institute of Technology)
• Prof. Michael Müller-Camen (Institute for Human Resource Management, WU Vienna)
• Prof. Pascal Paillé (NEOMA Business School)
• Prof. Andrew Spicer (Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina)
• Prof. Shuang Ren (Deakin Business School, Deakin University)
• Prof. Douglas Renwick (Nottingham Business School, Trent University)
• Prof. Marcus Wagner (Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, University of Augsburg)
• Prof. Maurizio Zollo (Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, Imperial College London)

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.

At the upcoming 38th EGOS Colloquium in Vienna, Austria (7–9 July 2022), the team of Alfons van Marrewijk (Delft University of Technology/The Netherlands), Iben Sandal Stjerne (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) and Jörg Sydow (Freie Universität Berlin/Germany), organizes a subtheme on „Learning from imperfect projects“.  View full CfP here. Please submit your short paper by 11 January 2022.

Following this event, we will compile a special issue of PMJ, titled “Between Success and Failure: Imperfect Projects as Common Practice.” View full CfP here. Please submit your full paper by 30 September 2022. You are more than welcome to join this important conversation.

Im Rahmen von EGOS 2022 (Wien) wird ein sub-theme zum Thema „Careers: Failure and Success in Changed Times“ organisiert, ausgerichtet von Thomas M. Schneidhofer (Privatuniversität Schloss Seeburg/Österreich), Monika Hamori (IE Business School School/Spanien) und Xiao Chen (University of Prince Edward Island/Kanada).  Einreichungen von Short Papers sind bis zum 11. Januar 2022 möglich. Mehr Infos