Ph.D. Seminar

Pre-conference Ph.D. Research Consortium

As part of the MCP'03 Congress, we will offer a Pre-Conference Research Consortium targeted especially to doctoral students. Its theme, "Gaining Competitive Advantage through Customer Interaction" is corresponding with the congress scope, but to encourage in-depth discussions during the one-day session it focuses on economic and behavioral perspectives that shed light on management and marketing issues of customer interaction. The session is scheduled just one day before the congress.

The consortium aims to provide doctoral students with an opportunity to discuss their research with leading academics and to start building relationships with other students from around the world. We encourage participants to present original material in its developmental stages. In particular, we especially want to help Ph.D. students develop their dissertation in this forum. All pertinent perspectives, topics and methodological approaches are welcomed.

Participants are required to submit a 5-page abstract of their research by August 1, 2003. This abstract should describe: (1) the issue being researched and why it is important; (2) the concepts and frameworks to be adopted; (3) the research methodology; and (4) the contribution the student anticipates the research will make.

Please note that the scope of the doctoral research consortium are economic and behavioral perspectives on management and marketing issues in customer interaction.

Please save your abstract in an MS Word compatible format with a file name that starts with your surname - for example, "Miller MCP03 preconf consinteract.doc." Abstracts will be circulated to all participants in advance. During the consortium, students will make short presentations (10 minutes) of their work, focusing on the most important problems in their research. After each presentation, both the faculty panel and fellow students will provide valuable feedback on their proposals.

To register for the Pre-conference Research Consortium, contact Christoph Ihl (ihl@ws.tum.de; phone: +49/89/36078 234). Please include a provisional title for your abstract and your University affiliation. Participation will be granted on a first-come, first-serve basis. The deadline for registering is August 1, 2003. Abstracts must be submitted by that date, or the space may be allotted to another person. We are limiting the consortium to 20 participants. There is no extra registration fee. You may ask for accomodation with a local Ph.D. student to save hotel expenses.