Managing Smart Products and Services
Introduction
Bielefeld, Germany, 22-23 Aug 2019; Deadline 1 Apr
Call for Abstracts
International Conference on
CHALLENGES IN MANAGING SMART PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
(August 22 & 23, 2019 – Bielefeld, Germany)
Motivation and Scope of the Conference
In the forthcoming decade, smart products and services will transform both markets and companies. This development brings about various managerial challenges. The Conference on “Challenges in Managing Smart Products and Services (CHIMSPAS)” 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.
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.
Topics of Interest
Conference contributions need to be related to challenges in managing smart products and services, including (but not limited to) the topics below:
- Big data handling and usage
- Branding of smart products and services
- Business models for smart products and services
- Customer co-creation in “smart” innovation processes
- Data security and privacy
- Drivers and barriers to the adoption or diffusion of smart products and services
- Implications of smart products and services on R&D, supply chain management, and controlling
- HR perspectives on employees’ usage and adoption of smart products and services
- Marketing requirements for the management of smart products and services
- Smart service systems
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, 2019. 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.
Conference Organizers
- Nicola Bilstein, JProf., Management of Smart Products, Bielefeld University
- Christian Stummer, Prof., Innovation and Technology Management, Bielefeld University
Conference Website
The full call-for-abstracts as well as further information can be obtained from the conference website: