General information

The “Christopher Lovelock Career Contributions to the Services Discipline Award” is presented annually by SERVSIG to the individual whose teaching, research and service have had the greatest long-term impact on the development of the services discipline. Career contributions of the candidates should be of long duration, preferably 15 to 30 years. Contributions to the services discipline should be significant, frequent, and include recent contributions.

Christopher Lovelock passed away on February 24, 2008. Christopher was a founding father of the services marketing field and he was recognized around the world as a leading authority on service management. Christopher was very important to many people in our academic community and he will be greatly missed!

To be eligible for this award, candidates must meet the following criteria: 1) Career contributions should be of long duration, preferably 15 to 30 years, 2) Contributions to the services discipline should be significant, 3) Contributions to the services discipline should be frequent, and 4) Contributions to the services discipline should include recent contributions.

Important

• Candidates for a SERVSIG Award do not have to be a member of SERVSIG or the AMA to be eligible or to win.
• Candidates may be from anywhere in the world. Since its inception, SERVSIG has sought to be globally oriented and globally active.
• Candidates for the awards do not have to be academics. SERVSIG recognizes the vital link between academia and business practice.

Call for nominations:

Call for SERVSIG Christopher Lovelock Career Contribution Award 2017

We would like to request nominations for

The Christopher Lovelock Career Contribution Award 2017.

The “Christopher Lovelock Career Contributions to the Services Discipline Award” is presented annually by SERVSIG to the individual whose teaching, research and service have had the greatest long-term impact on the development of the services discipline. Career contributions of the candidates should be of long duration, preferably 20 to 40 years. Contributions to the services discipline should be significant, frequent, and include recent contributions.

Last year winner – Mike Brady with Kay Lemon, chair of the committee.

IMPORTANT:

• Candidates for a SERVSIG Award do not have to be a member of SERVSIG or the AMA to be eligible or to win.
• Candidates may be from anywhere in the world. Since its inceptionSERVSIG has sought to be globally oriented and globally active.
• Candidates for the awards do not have to be academics. SERVSIG recognizes the vital link between academia and business practice.

SERVSIG would like to thank the following members for their willingness to serve on the committee:

• Chair: Mike Brady (Florida State University; mbrady@cob.fsu.edu)
• Tor W. Andreassen
• Mary Jo Bitner
• Parsu Parasuraman
• Jill Sweeney
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Past winners can be viewed by clicking here

We look forward to receiving your nominations soon!

Lerzan Aksoy and Bart Lariviere
SERVSIG Co-chairs

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