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INTEREST CATEGORY: SERVICE
POSTING TYPE: Revisits

Posted by: Clay Voorhees

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2024 Organizational Frontlines Research (OFR) Symposium
February 22 – 23, 2024 St. Pete Beach, FL
(co-located with 2024 ÂÜÀòÉç¹ÙÍø Winter Educators’ Conference)

Call For Research Presentations

We want to extend a special invitation for you to attend and consider presenting the Organizational Frontline Research Symposium, February 22^nd and 23^rd, 2023 in Nashville. Like our previous events, this symposium is intended to promote scholarship in the area of OFR, bringing together scholars and practitioners to discuss cutting edge ideas. We welcome submissions from any field or discipline as long as it tackles issues of organizational frontlines.

Research Lightning Talks

For this year’s conference we hope to include more OFR scholars on the program and invite you to submit a research proposal for consideration as a brief presentation at the OFR preconference event. Our plan is that final presentations will be no more than 8 minutes and designed to encourage lively discussion among OFR attendees.

If you are interested in participating, please submit a brief PowerPoint proposal by December 1^st. Each proposal will be reviewed by a committee of academics who will make a decision by December 15^th. We hope to accept 8 – 10 projects for presentation.

Guidelines for Proposal Submission:

We encourage you to submit your best frontline work, including research on service and sales across B2B, B2C and B2G. The submissions should follow a standardized 5-slide layout:

• Title Slide – clearly identify the title of the presentation and all co-authors and their affiliations
• Problem/Research Questions – identify the problem and why it is important for OFR
• Approach –outline your approach (e.g., framework, research design, data)
• Results – highlight your key results
• Implications for Practice – specify how your results can help practitioners make decisions

All presenters will have the opportunity to revise slides before the event, but we plan to strictly enforce the 5-slide requirement for proposals as it will help bolster confidence that all presenters are committed to the spirit of “lightning talks.�

Submissions should also include the name of all coauthors and their university affiliations. Submission to the conference does not preclude your work from being published by any journal. Submissions can be sent directly to this year’s pre-conference co-chairs: Colleen Harmeling (charmeling@business.fsu.edu) and Clay Voorhees (cmvoorhees@ua.edu) with any questions regarding the event or submissions.

Regards,

Colleen and Clay