2018 Theme: “Smart Use of the Extant Literature”
FORMAT
- Meta-Analysis (Quantitative) Workshop & Content Analysis (Qualitative) Workshop
- Advice from keynote speakers and Journal Editors
- Coached literature review projects: Participants will be coached by senior scholars and academic mentors, and will start working on a topic of mutual interest from the service management literature that will be assigned prior to the meeting.
BENEFITS
- Participants will not only learn how to deal with their literature wealth in a more efficient way, they will learn methodologies to write papers based on both quantitative and qualitative literature reviews
- Participants will also be given the opportunity to continue collaborating afterwards and writing papers together based on the methodological skills they will acquire during the workshop
- Participants will have a chance to submit their collaborative work that comes out from this workshop to the Journal of Service Management (Special Issue)
DATES
- Application Deadline: September, 30 – 2018 (5:00 P.M. – CET)
- Notice to selected applicants: October, 9 – 2018
- Conference Dates: December, 5-7 – 2018
APPLICATIONS SHOULD INCLUDE
- Curriculum Vitae
- Brief statement of why attending the workshop would be beneficial for you and your career
- One paragraph about your area of expertise: the research topics that you are focusing on and/or interested in
- Abstract of a recent research paper or PhD topic (published or work-in-progress) authored or co-authored by the applicant (500-750 words)
Participation in the workshop is contingent upon notification of acceptance by the workshop chairs. Applications should be submitted in one pdf via e-mail to Kaat.DePourcq@UGent.be

INVITED SPEAKERS
Mike Brady
Florida State University – More info
Chiara Orsingher
Università di Bologna – More info
Melissa De Regge
Ghent University – More info
Jay Kandampully
The Ohio State University – More info
Nicola Bilstein
Bielefeld University – More info
Katrien Verleye
Ghent University – More info
Yves Van Vaerenbergh
KU Leuven – More info
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
(Ghent University)
Bart Larivière
Paul Gemmel
Katrien Verleye
Bieke Henkens
Kaat De Pourcq
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