INTEREST CATEGORY: SERVICE
POSTING TYPE: Calls: Conferences

Author: Michael Polonsky

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Transformative Marketing and Services Colloquium

Friday July 14 2023, Deakin Downtown, Melbourne Australia

Sponsored by

Deakin’s Faculty of Business and Law- Better Consumption Lab

And

Servcollab.org

Our keynote Speaker will be Professor Ray Fisk, founder of Servcollab and eminent scholar in TSR research.

Ray Fisk is the Founder and President of ServCollab and Emeritus Professor of Marketing in the McCoy College of Business at Texas State University. Dr. Fisk is a pioneering founder of the service research field. He founded the AMA Services Special Interest Group (SERVSIG) in 1993 and has served SERVSIG in many leadership roles. The American Marketing Association made him the Inaugural Recipient of the SIG Leadership Award in 2016. He received the Career Contributions to the Services Discipline Award from SERVSIG in 2005. In 2012, he received the Grönroos Service Research Award from the Hanken School of Economics, Finland.

The colloquium is be designed to facilitate discussion and feedback on a issues around Transformative Services Research and broader Transformative marketing Activities.There will be an opportunity to present:

• A full 20-minute conference paper with 10 minutes for discussion, designed to share a well-developed piece of work
• Idea Factory sessions where people can present a shorter 10-minute tale and then 10 minutes of discussion.

All Transformative Services and Marketing topics are suitable:

• Dealing with Vulnerability
• Harms in Transformative offerings
• Dealing with Aging Communities
• Technology and Wellbeing
• Health Care Contexts
• Migrants and Refugee issues
• Objective and subjective measurement of wellbeing

The colloquium is designed to be interactive with registrations limited to 75 attendees.Moring tea, Lunch and afternoon tea will be provided and thus there is a small registration fee to cover costs academics ($70 academics & $20 PhD and masters students)Key dates:

• Final submission deadline: April 30
• Paper decisions: May 30
• Final registration deadline for: Presenters June 23 and Attendees July 7
• Colloquium date: Friday July 14
• Location: Deakin Downtown, Melbourne, Victoria

Specific guidelines:SCHEDULE:9:00-9:10 Welcome
9:15-10:00 Professor Fisk’s Keynote
10-10:30 Morning Tea
10:30-12:00 (Morning session) 3 papers
12:00- 1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:30- Concurrent idea Factory
2:30-3:00 Afternoon tea
3:00-5:00- (Afternoon session) 4 papers
5:30-:830 Drinks and Dinner:  TBA (you own expense) – fixed Price meal ($67) drinks extra.REGISTRATION at:https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/transformative-marketing-service-research-colloquium-tickets-528933984787

Pic Here	Ray Fisk is the Founder and President of ServCollab and Emeritus Professor of Marketing in the McCoy College of Business at Texas State University. Dr. Fisk is a pioneering founder of the service research field. He founded the AMA Services Special Interest Group (SERVSIG) in 1993 and has served SERVSIG in many leadership roles. The American Marketing Association made him the Inaugural Recipient of the SIG Leadership Award in 2016. He received the Career Contributions to the Services Discipline Award from SERVSIG in 2005. In 2012, he received the Grönroos Service Research Award from the Hanken School of Economics, Finland.
Type	Full Presentation / Ideas Factory
Font	Times New Roman 12pt, justified
Margins	2.5cm all sides
Spacing	Single spaced, with one blank line between paragraphs
Title	No more than 10 words
Short abstract	Maximum of 150 words
Keywords	No more than five
Paper	Two pages (not including short abstract and references)
Referencing style	Australasian Marketing Journal format
Submissions	Michael.Polonsky@deakin.edu.au Nichola.Robertson@Deakin.edu.au