In response to requests from authors, we are extending the submission deadline for the Special Issue on Platforms and Innovative Marketplaces for Services at Service Science to April 30, 2022. Please find the CFP below with the updated dates.
Calls for Papers
Special Issue on Platforms and Innovative Marketplaces for Services
Service Science
Submissions Due: April 30, 2022
With advances in Internet and mobile communications technology, many markets for products and services have been transformed by multi-sided, technology-enabled platforms. These platforms and innovative marketplaces for services offer avenues for research that has great academic and practical impacts. This special issue of Service Science (https://pubsonline.informs.org/journal/serv) aims to expediently publish high-quality interdisciplinary research across marketing, operations, information systems, and other related areas that studies platform-based businesses, especially service-related platforms. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, peer-to-peer product-sharing and services platforms, crowdsourcing platforms, business-to-business platforms, matching platforms, and crowdfunding platforms. We are open to all research methodologies ranging from analytical and empirical to behavioral and experimental.
Guest Editors
Gad Allon, University of Pennsylvania (gadallon@wharton.upenn.edu)
Baojun Jiang, Washington University in St. Louis (baojunjiang@wustl.edu)
Lizhen Xu, Georgia Institute of Technology (lizhen.xu@scheller.gatech.edu)
Editor-In-Chief
Saif Benjaafar, University of Minnesota (saif@umn.edu)
Submission Process and Timing
All submissions should be submitted via Service Science online submission system: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/serv. All submissions will be subject to the journal's standard peer review process. Criteria for acceptance include originality, contribution, and scientific merit. For submission guidelines, please visit the journal's home page to learn more: https://pubsonline.informs.org/page/serv/submission-guidelines.
The estimated timeline of this special issue is as follows:
Submission of full paper: April 30, 2022
Feedback from editorial team: July 31, 2022
Submission of revised manuscript: December 31, 2022
Final decision (subject to minor revisions): March 31, 2023
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Saif Benjaafar
Distinguished McKnight University Professor
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis MN
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