Paper Development Workshop @ Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-57) Oahu, Hawaii, Jan 3 or 4, 2024 We would like to invite you to a pre-conference event about the Special Issue on “GenAI service” at the Journal of Service Research. This event takes the format of a half-day workshop in which the potential contributors […]

Call for Papers – Journal of Service Research Special Issue on GenAl Service Submission deadline: May 1, 2024 JSR invites submissions for a multidisciplinary and multimethod special issue on GenAI Service. JSR is widely considered the world’s leading service research journal. JSR’s 2-Year Impact Factor is 12.4 and Scopus CiteScore is 17.2, which places it […]

The special issue for Smart Service Failure-Recovery and Human-Robot Interactions in Service had pre-conference author workshops at the 2023 Frontiers in Service Conference in Maastricht, the Netherlands (June 15, 2023). The overall objective of these workshops was to help participants to discuss and refine their original work and create opportunities for interested authors to exchange ideas, provide feedback, and […]

The Web of Science Journal Citation Report is out and JSR had a great showing:  Thank you for all your support for JSR to make this happen.   I look forward to a continuing prosperous year.   Ming-Hui Huang  JSR Editor-in-Chief

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Service Research. Human-Robot Interactions in Service Guest Editors: van Doorn J, Odekerken-Schröder G & Spohrer J Deadline: 1 October 2023 JSR invites submissions for a multisector, multidisciplinary, multicultural special issue on Human-Robot Interactions in Service. JSR is broad, interdisciplinary, and impactful. JSR ranked 2nd (top […]

Dear all, Now all the 2021 major journal metrics have been out, and JSR continues to be very strong. We rank no. 1 in Scopus CiteScore (16.3) among major marketing, consumer, and service journals, and rank no. 3 in Web of Science Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) (2.09) among major marketing and consumer journals, and no. […]

Andreas T. Lechner, Frank Mathmann, Michael Paul First Published December 14, 2020 Research Article https://doi.org/10.1177/1094670520975148 Abstract Service firms invest much to ensure authentic and positive emotion displays from frontline employees. And yet, inauthentic positive displays (fake smiles) remain common, and at times, employees even show authentic negative displays (e.g., anger), thereby compromising service performance. Customer reactions to such unwanted […]

Chasing Beauty in the Coproduction of Aesthetic Services Aphrodite Vlahos, Anna E. Hartman, Julie L. Ozanne First Published December 6, 2021 Research Article https://doi.org/10.1177/10946705211047983 Abstract Prior research stresses the importance of consumer participation in service coproduction. We examine the coproduction of aesthetic services, which are services in which beauty is a critical outcome. Consumers face challenges communicating their aesthetic […]

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Service Research. Sustainable Service Guest Editors: Aksoy L., Keiningham T. & Malthouse E. Deadline: 1 May 2022 The Journal of Service Research (JSR) invites competitive article submissions for a special issue on Sustainable Service. The goal of the special issue is to stimulate research on service sustainability. JSR is broad, […]

Join us in congratulating the winners for the JSR best paper published in 2020, and the best reviewer and outstanding associate editor of the year, as well as the awards’ finalists! Best Paper Award Winners Valarie A. Zeithaml, Katrien Verleye, Isabella Hatak, Monika Koller, and Alexander Zauner (2020), “Three Decades of Customer Value Research: Paradigmatic Roots […]