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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Dear Colleague,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">I would like to draw your attention to this year’s RESER conference on service research, RESER2015, that will take place
in Copenhagen on September 10-12. The call for papers is now available at the conference home page (<a href="http://www.reser2015.dk" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">www.reser2015.dk</span></a>). Prior to the conference,
on September 8-9, RESER will organize a doctoral colloquium at Roskilde University (for more information about the doctoral colloquium, see here: </span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://sem.aalto.fi/en/events/reser_dc_2015/)." target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">http://sem.aalto.fi/en/events/reser_dc_2015/).</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">The theme of the conference is Service development and innovation for prosperity and human well-being in the 21st century.
The conference will explore how development and innovativeness of knowledge intensive and manual services are crucial for meeting society's present problems of employment, sustainability, work integration, ageing and climate change as well as wider economic
challenges. There will be a Special track on Services and Development in Developing Countries (REDLAS track) and an Industry Master Class will take place.
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">The conference will be organized around the following themes:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Development, innovation and societal impact of knowledge intensive services<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Development and innovation in public and private manual services<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Changing geographies of services: Internationalisation, regional and local development<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">The role of services and service development in industrial policy<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Service management and marketing theory and research methods in an innovative perspective<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Servitization<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">ICT's role in service development<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Services and innovation in developing economies (REDLAS track)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Industry Master Class<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">RESER (The European Association for REsearch on SERvices) is a network of research groups and individuals active in services research and policy formulation,
mainly located in European countries. The RESER 2015 conference is a forum for the presentation and discussion of innovative studies on services to ensure the active development of service research. Scholars and practitioners of management, marketing, engineering,
economics, sociology, geography, or any other discipline are invited to submit papers that explore and develop a multidisciplinary understanding of various service issues. Papers can be based on literature reviews, conceptual and empirical studies using qualitative,
quantitative and mixed methods.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">On behalf of the RESER2015 Organizing Committee,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Ada Scupola
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">==================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Ada Scupola<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Associate Professor, MBA, Msc., Ph.D Department of Communication,
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Business and Information Technologies Hus 44.3 Roskilde University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Tel: + 45 46 74 25 98<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Fax: + 45 46 74 30 81<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">e-mail: </span><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:ada@ruc.dk"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:blue">ada@ruc.dk</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Web site: </span><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.ruc.dk/vs/personale/ada/"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:blue">http://www.ruc.dk/vs/personale/ada/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Editor-In-Chief, International Journal of E-Services and Mobile<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Applications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">(</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.igi-pub.com/journals/details.asp?id=7830"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:blue">http://www.igi-pub.com/journals/details.asp?id=7830</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">===================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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