Paper Development Workshop – Disadvantaged and Vulnerable Consumers

We will organize an author workshop at the 2024 Frontiers in Service Conference.

We would like to invite you to a pre-conference event concerning the Special Issue on “Disadvantaged and Vulnerable Consumers” at the Journal of Service Research. This event takes the format of a half-day workshop in which the potential contributors to this Issue will present their original, cutting-edge ideas on the topic. The overall objective of this workshop is to help participants discuss and refine their original work in a way that advances research on disadvantaged/vulnerable consumers through a service lens. We also hope to further develop these potential contributions and to encourage submissions to the Journal of Service Research.

This half-day workshop will be composed of two stages:
1. Introduction and overview of Disadvantaged and Vulnerable Consumers in Service (45 minutes): The co-editors will open the discussion and share expectations about the SI.
2. Roundtable Research Presentations (105 minutes): Small group roundtable discussions about the participants’ papers that target the special issue. Each table will be assigned one co-editor and/or senior scholar to provide comments and different point of views. This workshop will take place June 27 or 28 as part of the 2024 Frontiers in Service Conference. You need to register for this event to participate. We expect authors to be physically present at Frontiers and will not facilitate online presentations.

The exact timing of the workshop will be communicated with the acceptance of the submission. Authors interested in presenting their work should submit a proposal to the special issue team. Proposals should be submitted as a single Word or PDF file. The cover page should provide the full name, title, affiliation, and email address of each author. The proposal should include the following sections: Abstract, Introduction and Motivation, Methods and Data, and (Expected) Results. Proposal length is a maximum of 1,500 words excluding tables, figures, and references. Please send your proposal to Sterling Bone before April 1, 2024.

This workshop is organized by the three co-editors of the Special Issue on “Disadvantaged and Vulnerable Consumers” and JSR’s Editor-in-Chief, Ming-Hui Huang, and it is sponsored by JSR.

Important dates:
• Proposal submission deadline: April 1, 2024
• Author notification date: April 15, 2024
• Workshop date: June 27 or 28, 2024
• Special issue submission deadline: October 1, 2024

Special Issue Co-Editors
Ron Hill, American University
Linda Price, University of Wyoming
Sterling Bone, Utah State University