Unique opportunity for young scientist – IBM award for best abstracts

We are proud to announce together with our partner IBM a best abstract award for young scientists. We are keen to offer five scientific talents the opportunity to participate in QUIS 11. The winners of the best abstract award will get a free registration (worth more than 600 Euro) for QUIS 11.

Who can apply?

Doctoral students of all related disciplines.

How to apply?

All applicants should hand in an extended abstract of 8-10 pages. Please follow our formal guidelines.

Jury

The jury will consist of members of the conference committee and IBM.

Deadline

To take part in the competition your extended abstract should be handed in no later than November 10th 2008.

Submission

Please send your extended abstract by e-mail to ibmaward@quis11.de indicating your name, contact details, institution and current position.

Topics

Topics include but are not limited to managing excellence in:

• Theoretical Perspectives on Service

• Service Science

• Service Strategy

• Service Leadership and Culture

• Service Marketing

• Service Recovery and Complaint Management

• Service Customer Integration

• Service Customer Satisfaction, Loyalty and Profitability

• Service Operations

• Service Engineering

• Service Human Resources

• Technology in Service

• Service Quality Management

• Service Innovation

• Service Networks and Service Outsourcing

• Internationalisation of Services

• E-Services

• Services in Manufacturing Companies

• Non Profit Services

Abstracts should clearly describe the value added to the knowledge base by the research or theoretical work the author(s) would like considered. Acceptance for the conference will be based on contribution to theory and research in services management, marketing, engineering or any other discipline.