Transformative Marketing and Services Colloquium
Introduction
Melbourne, 14 Jul 2023; Deadline now 30 May
INTEREST CATEGORY: SERVICE
POSTING TYPE: Revisits
Author: Michael Polonsky
Transformative Marketing and Services Colloquium
Friday July 14, 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:
- EXTEDNDED DEADLINE: May 30
- PAPER DECISIONS: Jun 15
- Final registration deadline for: Presenters June 23 and Attendees July 7
- Colloquium date: Friday July 14
- Location: Deakin Downtown, Melbourne, Victoria
Specific guidelines:
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
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: