Call for Papers for SBR Special Issue:

“Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Challenges in Managing Smart Products and Services”

The Schmalenbach Business Review (SBR) will publish a Special Issue on “Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Challenges in Managing Smart Products and Services”. Please find full information on the motivation and scope of the special issue here.

Topics of Interest

We welcome all high-quality submissions in this area. Topics of interest to the Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

• 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
• Ecosystems 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.

Abstract Submission

Submission deadline: 31 October 2019
Expected publication of the issue: late 2020

Please check the Schmalenbach Business Review website for author instructions.

Guest Editors

• Nicola Bilstein, Bielefeld University
• Christian Stummer, Bielefeld University

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