THE IMP JOURNAL
and
UPPSALA UNIVERSITY’S
CENTRE FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES
invites to:

The IMP JOURNAL Seminar 2011

The IMP Journal seminar 2011 will be held at Museum Gustavianum, Uppsala, March 31st – April 1st 2011.

The aim of the seminar is to discuss papers devoted to three different but related aspects of change in a network-like business landscape. The papers will then be published in special issues of the IMP Journal directed toward:

- Knowledge in Business Networks (special editor Elsebeth Holmen, NTNU)
- Innovation in Business Networks (special editor Annalisa Tunisini, Urbino University)
- Policy in Business Networks (special editor Alexandra Waluszewski, Uppsala University)

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RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
Strategizing within networks is about understanding possibilities and limitations of cooperation. The course discusses possibilities of developing and making use of options within dyads, nets and networks. Strategizing is discussed in connection to how helpful should models and theory be for identifying problems, raisings questions, showing possible pathways for identifying solutions, and questioning solutions? And for whom should theory and models be helpful?
Louise Young, Per V. Freytag and Torben Damgaard among other are running the course.

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Special Issue of Industrial Marketing Management on Business to Business Branding
Industrial Marketing Management announces the call for papers for a special issue on Business to Business Branding. The deadline for submission is December 30th, 2010.

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Call for papers: Special issue: ”Sustainable Procurement". Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management
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Lancaster University Management School

Chair in Marketing
Management School
Salary: £58,693 (minimum)
Professorial Pay Grade
Closing Date: Wednesday 31 March 2010
Interview Date: To be confirmed
Reference: A028

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“Contemporary Views of Business: Partnering for the future” (Combi2010) is an important forum for knowledge co-creation and intellectual exchange emphasising partnering and international knowledge transfer as sources of competitive edge. In Combi2010, you are reserved plenty of time for lively dialogue, responsive thought transference and ideation. In fact, letting the participant interaction to come to fruition, is how Combi2010 concept differs from the mainstream of conferences.
Combi2010 joins the great minds of academics, business leaders and other professionals from both private and public sectors to share and co-create knowledge on business-related topics. Furthermore, Combi2010 actively seeks to promote synergies between business and academia. Combi2010 increases the integration of local enterprises, regional authority and other local actors with research entities and HEIs. As a result of attending this international conference, new business solutions and activities are expected to arise among the participants.
ONLINE submission of papers opens at www.combi2010.fi on
4 January 2010 and closes 31 March 2010

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Breda Kenny University of Limerick, Ireland has defended her dissertation “A Network Perspective on International Business: Evidence from SMEs in the Telecommunications Sector in Ireland”. We congratulate and her dissertation can be found under "dissertations".

Morten Abrahamsen has submitted his dissertation "Sensemaking in networks:
Using network pictures to understand network change" to The University of Manchester for the degree of PhD in the Faculty of Humanities. You can find the whole dissertation under the dissertation heading.

Tommy Shih has presented his dissertation "Scrutinizing a Policy Ambition to Make Business Out of Science – Lessons From Taiwan." The dissertation is published as Doctoral Thesis No 143, Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University, 235pp, but can also be found on this web-page under dissertations.

Three post-doctoral positions in supply chain management

The logistics research centre Northern LEAD (see www.chalmers.se/lead) announces three post-doc positions in supply chain management. Northern LEAD is a research centre formed by Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg in co-operation with the Logistics and Transport Society LTS and its member organisations. For more information see:



http://www.chalmers.se/tme/EN/news/vacancies/positions/three-post-doctoral

Thomas Hoholm Norwegian School of Management, BI will defend his dissertation
"The Contrary Forces of Innovation: An Ethnography of Innovation Processes in the Food Industry" the 19th of October. A copy of the dissertation can be found under the heading "dissertations".

Special issue on
Business-to-business (B2B) marketing practices in India
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Ist Inter-disciplinary Market Studies Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden, June 3rd-4th 2010 - this workshop aims to attract scholars from a wide variety of disciplines who share an interest in studying how markets work, for example sub disciplines of business studies, STS, economic sociology, economics, economic geography, consumer research, cultural studies and anthropology. The general ambition is to stimulate interdisciplinary discussion about markets and further develop our theoretical and analytical tools for understanding the product and service markets encountered by firms and other organizations, marketers, individuals, and regulators. For more information, follow this link: http://www.eiasm.org/frontoffice/event_announcement.asp?event_id=681

THE IMP JOURNAL


IMP JOURNAL SEMINAR 2010
Dear Friends,

We would like to invite you to take part in IMP Journal Seminar to be held at the University of
Lugano, 9-10th April 2010.

The Aim of the Seminar: THREE SPECIAL ISSUES

The aim of the Seminar is to bring together three small groups of researchers in the business network field with interest in three issues:

- Distribution Networks,
- New Business Formation,
- Interfaces between IMP and ANT (actor network theory).

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Andreas Brekke has presented and defended his dissertation "A Bumper? An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship Between the Economy and the Environment". His opponent was prof Geoff Easton. The dissertation can be downloaded from the dissertation section.

New issue of IMP Journal! Issue 3:2 focusing of the interplay between science and business can now be found under the IMP Journal heading! Read and enjoy!

Announcement: Available Ph. D. Scholarship in Supply Chain/Logistics Strategy

BI Norwegian School of Management is inviting applications for a scholarship in Supply Chain/Logistics Strategy.
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mIMP Resarch Assistantship (PhD fees paid)

The manchester Industrial Marketing and Purchasing Research Group (mIMP), a research centre within Manchester Business School, is looking to recruit a new research assistant to work with Peter Naud é and Stephan Henneberg.
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EM LYON Business School (www.em-lyon.com) invites application for full time professors in Marketing Business to Business and in Purchasing & Supply Management.


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Euromed Management
School of Management Marseille

Euromed Management invites applications for full-time faculty positions in:

- Supply Chain Management (and especially relative to the Maritime field),
- Logistics,

And also in the areas of

- Entrepreneurship
- Finance
- Cost Accounting.

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CALL FOR PAPERS
19th Nordic Workshop on
Interorganizational Research
August 12-14, 2009
in Jönköping, Sweden
Jönköping International Business School (JIBS), in Jönköping,
Sweden, is proud to host the 19th annual Nordic Workshop on
Interorganizational Research.

The workshop aims at giving junior and senior researchers a
chance to discuss their work in a constructive and creative
setting. The focus is on interorganizational phenomena, which
opens up for different theoretical, empirical and methodological
approaches.

We invite interested researchers, from within as well as outside
the Nordic countries. Submitted abstracts will undergo a peer
review process, and discussants will be appointed for every paper
that will be presented at the workshop.


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Journal of Business Research Special Issue Call for Papers
Resource Interaction in Inter-Organizational Networks

This JBR Special Issue is to provide a forum for the further development and application of a resource interaction approach to the study of inter-organizational relationships and networks.
While this approach has emerged from within the Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) Group, the resource interaction approach has an interdisciplinary discourse involving innovation and new product development, strategic management,
and Science and Technology Studies (STS).

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Call for papers
Special issue Journal of Purchasing and Supply management:
”Purchasing and Supply Management in the Construction Industry”
This special issue deals with the particular challenges involved in purchasing and supply management in the construction industry.
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We are glad to present Anna-Greta Nystöms thesis about the Finnish Telecommunication Network from 2008 in the sections including dissertations

2nd European Workshop on B2B Marketing, Lyon, June 2009

After a succesful first edition in Lausanne 2009, the 2nd European
Workshop on Business to Business Marketing will be held at EM Lyon
Graduate School of Business from June 18th - 20th. More information at
www.b2bworkshop.com or in the Call for Papers.

Catherine Pardo and Bjoern Ivens
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« 25th IMP Conference, Euromed Management, Marseilles, France

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the website providing information on the forthcoming 25th IMP Conference to be held from 3rd to 5th September inclusive and hosted by Euromed Management in Marseilles is now online. You will find information about the conference venue, basic programme outline, fees etc. You will also be able to register and to send in abstract proposals.

Conference website access is either direct: www.euromed-marseille.com/imp2009 or via the IMP website under the “Conferences” section.

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A large case study of one important business relationship and how this is related to the two counterparts evolving strategies is analysed in a new dissertation at Norwegian School of Management BI. The new Ph.d. is Fahad Awaleh and you can find the new dissertation at this website under the heading "dissertations". We congratulate the new doctor who has already started a new research project in collaboration with the large Norwegian shipping company Wilhelmsen.

The Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC) of the University of Lausanne invites applications for a

Full Professor or Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Marketing

to start in September 2009 or on a mutually determined date.

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The 16 th International Annual EurOMA Conference takes place in Gothenburg, 14-17 June 2009: http://www.euroma2009.org/

Of particular interest for IMP researchers, papers focusing on networks and relationships are welcomed.



Anna Dubois
Chalmers University of Technology

As you are just enjoying the IMP conference, and you may think that one year to the next conference is too long, here is some good news: Join the 4th International Conference on Business Market Management in Copenhagen from 18 March to 20 March 2009 – an excellent opportunity to stay in touch with colleagues and friends just mid-way to the next IMP conference. Please see the attached call for papers for further details.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Copenhagen,
Thomas Ritter and the Center of Business Marketing and Purchasing at Copenhagen Business School

PhD course in Relationship Management

 Strategizing & prioritizing
 Supplier development and development through suppliers
 Customer development and development through customers
are three types of topics that will be studied in this course given by Professor Per V. Freytag, University of Southern Denmark
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A New Issue of the IMP JOURNAL is now available on the site.

The third issue of the current volume of the Journal is now on the site. This issue develops a number of important themes that have been prominent in IMP Research. The first two articles are extended case studies in the IMP Tradition and both explore the concept of "Embeddedness". The first article by Frida Lind and Anna Dubois examine a number of aspects of embeddedness using the case of a research innnovation. The second paper by Anna Bengtson and Hakan Hakansson looks at resource embeddedness in the context of a major technological change.

The third article by Lars Erik Gadde and David Ford examines the links between network thinking and the early works by distribution and marketing scholars. The article relates the two different approaches to empirical trends in distribution and suggests how a network approach could contribute to a greater understanding of distribution.

New dissertations
We are glad to present two new dissertations in our dissertation section. Firstly, it is Wendy van der Valk from The Netherlands who presented her dissertation in December. Secondly, it is a dissertation of Harri Terho from Finland who defended his thesis in June this year.
Håkan Håkansson

What’s going on at the IMP Doctoral Consortium?

When the first IMP Doctoral Consortium was arranged five years ago no one knew if the interest for such a forum for deep, informal discussions between PhD students and more experienced IMP researchers would last. The 5th IMP Doctoral Consortium, which will take place immediately prior to the main conference in Uppsala, Sweden, has nonetheless attracted yet another group of PhD students with a wide and interesting variety of research projects.

This years’ consortium, which is co-ordinated by Debbie Harrison, BI, Oslo, involves twelve PhD students and six members of faculty, as well as a number of eminent guest speakers. The 12 PhD students are: Ricardo Correia and Francisco Lemos, both based in Portugal and working with such varied research projects as the co-operation effect in the internationalisation of the firm (Francisco) and ‘Industrial Networks and Territorial Dynamics’ (Ricardo). From the host country Sweden, Stefan Karlsson and Mikael Lovblad are researching interactive product development and the impact of psychological contracts upon relationship commitment respectively. Helen Li, Isaac Ngugi and Daisy Tan from the UK are studying topics as varied as managing relationships in HE marketing, capabilities building and B2B e-commerce adoption. Aniko Schubert (Hungary) is investigating buyer-supplier relationships in the Hungarian FMCG sector, while Gwenaelle Oruezabala (France) is working with the role of boundary spanners in international B2B relationships. Olli Pekkarinen (Finland) is researching ‘Services in the Marketing of Customer Solutions’ while Mads Mortensen (Denmark) is working with the ‘Development of Attractiveness towards strategically important partners’. Mirjam Kibbeling from the Netherlands is studying value from supply management.

The members of the faculty this year includes professors Anna Dubois (Chalmers, Sweden), Geoff Easton (Lancaster University, UK), Håkan Håkansson (BI, Norway), Peter Naude (University of Manchester, UK) and Alexandra Waluszewski (Uppsala University, Sweden); along with Dr Debbie Harrison (BI, Norway). With this group of faculty, are mixture of research interests and countries are represented. In keeping with previous events, we will also have a number of plenary sessions taking place, with renowned researchers as guest speakers: Prof. M. Cunningham (Founding member of IMP), Prof. J. Johanson (Uppsala University, Sweden) and Prof. Peter LaPlaca, Editor-in-chief of Industrial Marketing Management (University of Hartford, USA).

Welcome to this – or to a future – IMP Doctoral Consortium!


Alexandra, Amjad and Enrico
The IMP 2008 Organizing Team

New Dissertation: Svein Minde defended his dissertation dealing with the development and procurement of an advanced space system at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology earlier this month. The thesis is now available on our webpage under the dissertation heading.

PhD Studentship – Business-to-Business Services

Department of Management Science
Lancaster University Management School (LUMS) In association with the ESRC

Applications are invited for a three-year full-time PhD studentship, funded LUMS, to commence October 2008. The focus of study will be Business-to-Business Services, and is to complement an ESRC AIM Fellowship on this subject to be undertaken by Dr Martin Spring, who will supervise the Ph.D. The precise research question and method has yet to be defined and will be determined in collaboration with the successful applicant. The studentship covers tuition fees and a maintenance grant of £12,500 per annum for three years.
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Journal of Business Research Special Issue Call for Papers
Resource Interaction in Inter-Organizational Networks

This JBR Special Issue is to provide a forum for the further development and application of a resource interaction approach to the study of inter-organizational relationships and networks.
While this approach has emerged from within the Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) Group, the resource interaction approach has an interdisciplinary discourse involving innovation and new product development, strategic management,
and Science and Technology Studies (STS).
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5th Nordic Workshop on Relationship Dynamics, NoRD 2008
October 2–4 2008, Harjattula, Finland

Call for Papers

The theme of the workshop is dynamics of buyer-seller relationships, including both business-to-consumer and business-to-business relationships. Relationship dynamics refer to all changes taken place in relationships; their beginnings, ups and downs as well as their endings. The main purpose of the workshop is to give business and consumer researchers and doctoral students interested in the field of relationship dynamics an opportunity to present and discuss their research in informal workshop ses-sions.


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A fully funded PhD studentship is available in the Business School at
Bournemouth University, UK to research 'The influence of ethnicity in
business relationships'.
For more information contact Rhona Johnsen: rjohnsen@bournemouth.ac.uk


http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/csor/phd.html

Call for Papers
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL MARKETING

Special Issue on The Global B2B Challenge

The deadline for submission is June 30, 2008.

The Journal of Business Industrial Marketing announces a Call for Papers for a Special Issue on the The Global B2B Challenge. Business-to-business marketers are facing growing challenges as the once thought “regional concentration” of business markets has become dispersed and fragmented globally. Global customers, global sourcing and global supply chains have increased the complexity and risk for B2B marketer. The purpose of this is to focus on the various issues that affect the organization, coordination and complexity of B2B marketing in a global economy.

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Call For Practitioner Presentations
& Academic Papers for the

CeLS WORKSHOP ON GLOBAL RETAIL SUPPLY CHAIN
AND MARKETING INNOVATION

Jönköping, Sweden, May 15-16 2008
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Department of Strategy and Logistics/Norwegian School of Management

Two Doctoral studies stipends within the research project Plain building – plain sailing? Exploitation of knowledge in the building and construction industry.


Application deadline: November 15th, 2007.
For more information see www.bi.no or contact lena.bygballe@bi.no

Associate Professor in International Marketing and Management at the Department of Entrepreneurship and Relationship Management in Kolding.

The position is targeted at the department’s main research areas Entrepreneurship and Relationship Management, and is situated within the research group Marketing. The department’s research has traditionally been carried by a business-economy behaviour paradigm, a fundamental procedural view on organization and management processes and prioritization of research subjects related to development-oriented companies. Thus, for the position it will be a priority that our future colleague has experience in participating in learning circuits with companies and trade promotion institutions.
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Call for Papers: International Workshop on industrial Marketing, Lausanne,
June 2008

The University of Lausanne, Lake Geneva / Switzerland, will host an
international workshop on industrial marketing from June 19th - 21st 2008.
The event is co-organized by HEC Paris, EM Lyon and the University of
Paderborn. The workshop is part of a series of workshops organized by and
for German and French speaking marketing scholars (from countries and
regions such as France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Quebec, or
North Africa). Its aim is to allow scholars from both language communities
to get into contact and to discover each others work. The workshop language
will be English and the event remains open for all interested scholars from
other countries. For more information please read the full call for papers
or contact Bjoern.Ivens@unil.ch.


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“Euromed Marseille School of Management is hosting the 2nd INTERNATIONAL Conference Of The Mediterranean Network Of Management Schools: « MANAGEMENT IN THE MEDITERRANEEN SPACE: MODELS AND PRACTICES»from 21st & 22nd November 2007. The conference covers several disciplines (see Call for Papers for more details).

Papers are invited for the Marketing component of the conference around the following theme areas:

Mediterranean marketing: global utopia or local approach?

The role of consumption in daily life
The construction of the Euromediterranean individual’s identity
Community and consumption
Made in Med: authenticity and imagination of Mediterranean brands
Languages consumers and marketing”

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Two fully funded PhD studentships are available in the Business School at Bournemouth University, UK to research business networks.
For more information contact Rhona Johnsen: rjohnsen@bournemouth.ac.uk

http://business.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/studentships.html

The International Marketing & Purchasing Research Group at Manchester Business School is offering a Doctoral Studentship in combination with a Research Assistant Position. This is intended to pay full fees and a living allowance for a period of 4 yaers. Full details can be found at :
http://www.mbs.ac.uk/programmes/postgraduate-research/marketing-studentship.htm

Call for papers: Organizing and Integrating Marketing and Purchasing in Business Markets

Despite the increasing attention international marketing and management scholars pay to the nature and dynamics of business markets and on management strategies within these contexts, research and debate on organizing marketing and purchasing in companies operating in business markets is still limited. Although, during the past decade, a broad stream of research on “supply chain management” and “business relationships and networks” has emerged, only few authors have discussed the implications of these perspectives on business markets
- for companies’ marketing and purchasing strategies and
- for the role of as well as the capabilities needed in companies’ marketing and purchasing organizations.
The aim of the special issue is to address research issues dealing with the impact that a relational context - and in particular a variety of interactions and interdependencies with customers and suppliers - may have on the strategic role, organization, capabilities and performance of the marketing and purchasing functions within firms acting in business markets.
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Call For Papers: Special Issue of European Journal of Marketing

“The Sales Function in the 21st Century: Evolutions and Revolutions”

Special Issue Editors:
Susi Geiger, University College Dublin and Paolo Guenzi, Bocconi
University

This Special Issue of the European Journal of Marketing seeks to
explore recent developments in the sales arena and how they impact on
the sales function in a European and international context. It
specifically invites contributions that explore how sales forces are
successfully managed in the face of these changes and how the skills,
competencies and behaviours of salespersons can be adapted to the new
challenges.
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Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing Volume 21 Issue 7 has recently been published. Please click "More information" below to see a list of articles published in this issue along with links to the full content (available for paying visitors only).

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Call for papers:
The 23rd IMP Conference will take place at Manchester Business School. The conference is the largest in the world dealing specifically with marketing, purchasing and technological development in a business-to-business context.
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Industrial Marketing Management Special Issue

Using Case Studies to Develop Theory in Industrial Marketing:
What are the Hallmarks of “Good” Case Study Research?

Submission Deadline: May 1st, 2007

Guest Editors
Anna Dubois, Chalmers University
Michael Gibbert, Bocconi University


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Jönköping International Business School (JIBS) Assistant/Associate Professor in Logistics and Supply Chain Management (full-time position). Enquiries about the position may be made to Professor Susanne Hertz, Mail address: susanne.hertz@ihh.hj.se or telphone: +46-36-1018 39.

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The BIT (Business Information Technology) group (http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/bit.xml) invites electronic submission of papers for the conference that will be held in June 2, 2006 in Lugano, Switzerland. This is the academic part of the 2006 BIT annual conference, that will take place in Milan at SDA Bocconi and at University of Lugano.
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A fully funded PhD studentship is available in the Business School at Bournemouth University to research 'Sustainable supply networks: Implications for small food and drink suppliers in the South West region of England'.
For more information please contact Rhona Johnsen:
rjohnsen@bournemouth.ac.uk

Dear IMP Colleagues
Now it is here! The first issue of the IMP Journal. We hope it is the first in a long row of issues and we invite you all to contribute but also to comment on the content, style or whatever you react to. Please, remember also the invitation to the second IMP Journal seminar – the deadline is the 1st of March!

The Editorial Board

Webmaster note: The IMP Journal is available for download in PDF-format on this website. It can be found either below the news on this page or through the menu link "IMP Journal" to the left. Technical comments are appreciated at admin@impgroup.org

Job advert:
Senior Lecturer/Lecturer B in Industrial Networks Department of Marketing Lancaster University Management School

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IMP 2006 Doctoral Consortium - Call for Ph.D. Proposal
We would like to invite submissions for the IMP 2006 Doctoral Consortium, that
will bring together promising Ph.D. projects and affirmed researchers from the
IMP Group.

The Doctoral Consortium will take place at Bocconi University, Milan, on 5-6
September 2006.

The deadline for submissions is January 14, 2006. Further information about
the doctoral consortium can be found on the website (www.imp2006.org).
We look forward to receiving your contributions!

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Dear friends,

we would like to invite you to join us next year for the 22nd IMP Conference, that will be jointly hosted by Bocconi University and EM Lyon, and will be held in Milan, Italy, September 7-9.
The theme of this year is "Opening the network", and we are eager to accept new perspectives on business markets, new methods, and new participants.
The deadline for abstract submissions is January 14, 2006. Further information about the conference and its special tracks can be found on the website (www.imp2006.org).
We look forward to receiving your contributions!

The IMP 2006 Committee
Francesca Golfetto - Bocconi University
Robert Salle - EM Lyon

Euromed-Marseille School of Management invites proposals for a conference it is organising in April 2006 on the theme of Management of Joint Venture relationships in Emerging markets, including relationship and network management perspectives. Submission deadline February 20th 2006.

For more information see attached Call for Papers and Case studies.
Call for Papers: Managing International Joint Ventures in Emerging Countries

IMP workshop at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago de Chile, January 16, 2006
Our ambition with this workshop is to discuss the concepts of business interactions, relationships and industrial networks in a Latin American context. Scholars with papers, cases and experiences related to interorganizational business development, innovation in networks and firm interaction in Latin America are encouraged to participate. In particular we invite research within the fields of aquaculture, mining, wine production and tourism.Please submit an abstract of max. 200 words by December 20th to lars.huemer@uai.cl

This seminar is based on verbal presentations and discussions, there will be no paper reviews involved.
See www.uai.cl/cgm for more information.

Dear Friends

We plan to have the first issue of the new IMP JOURNAL published on the IMP WEBSITE (impgroup.org) by January 1st 2006. The on-line, fully refereed journal will be available to all without subscription. Our aim is to publish the very highest quality work within the IMP Group's areas of interest. We are concerned with all aspects of the interaction between companies in business networks.

In May 2005 we held the first IMP JOURNAL SEMINAR in Oslo. Attendence was by invitation to approximately thirty potential authors. These authors submitted papers which were read by two members of the Editorial Review Board. Authors presented their papers at the seminar, after which they were commented on by the Reviewers and discussed by the group. This format provided a good opportunity for authors to develop their work for further review. A number of papers developed from the seminar will be published in future issues of the journal.

Following the success of the seminar, we plan to hold a second seminar in May 2006. This year we would like to make the seminar open to a wider group and I have enclosed an invitation to submit papers for the seminar.

PLACES ARE COMPETITIVE AND STRICTLY LIMITED.

I hope that you will be able to respond to this invitation.

Best wishes

David Ford
Editor IMP JOURNAL

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We are in the process of sorting out the conference venue and accommodation for the IMP conference in 2007. This will be held in Manchester, availability of facilities means that we are looking at holding the conference a week earlier than has been the usual practice. This would be THURSDAY 30TH AUGUST to SATURDAY 1ST SEPTEMBER 2007. Because your presence is the most important aspect of the conference, please can you let us know if this would cause you any problems?

Thank you
Judy Zolkiewski and Pete Naude
Judy.Zolkiewski@manchester.ac.uk

Third International Urbino Workshop on Business Markets: The theme is "Organizing Marketing and Purchasing in Business Markets" and the time is 27-28th of April 2006. Abstracts have to be delivered by the 20th of December. For more information see attached call for papers.
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Marketing Theory is pleased to invite papers for a special issue on marketing practices and the shaping of markets.

Papers should be sent electronically to Luis Araujo (L.Araujo@lancaster.ac.uk). The deadline for submission of papers is 30th June 2006.


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Rhona Johnsen's PhD thesis from the University of Bath, supervised by Professor David Ford, on "Smaller Supplier-Larger Customer Relationships: An Exploration of Asymmetry" has been published.

Please contact Rhona on rjohnsen@bournemouth.ac.uk if you'd like more information.

Seminar in Using Technology in Oslo (earlier announced 1 March).Extended deadline for submission of proposals to the 10th of July! Send to frans.prenkert@bi.no or enrico.baraldi@fek.uu.se.
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The Department of Management Science at Lancaster University Management School (LUMS) is offering an excellent opportunity for a recent or imminent doctoral graduate in Operations Research, Operations or Supply Chain Management, or related areas such as Industrial Marketing and Purchasing. It is a five-year post with a focus almost exclusively on research. LUMS is top-rated in the UK for research alongside London Business School.

Details of the post are at:

http://www.eiasm.be/index1.html

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobfiles/IX837.html



The closing date is MAY 31st, so time is quite short. Please pass on to colleagues and to any PhD students/graduates you think may be suitable.

Informal enquiries can be directed to Dr. Martin Spring

(M.Spring@lancaster.ac.uk) in the first instance or Professor Luis Araujo (L.Araujo@lancaster.ac.uk).

FALL SEMINAR ON USING TECHNOLOGY

October 28-30, 2005 in Oslo, Norway

A co-arrangement by the Newmark Project, BI, Norwegian School of Management, Oslo and Uppsala STS, Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Uppsala University



A seminar on technological development and interaction in business networks devoted to the particular theme “using technology”.



Technology and technological development has often been defined and labeled from a production perspective emphasizing the technology from the producer’s point of view. However, technological development can in the same way be studied from the users point of view. The using activity is an integrated aspect of the “using technologies”. The consumers are applying certain using technologies, retailers and distributors some others, and producers, finally, are certainly also using a set of technologies in order to produce. It is our contention that we need a more thorough understanding of the using technology to obtain a richer understanding of the total economic system as a whole. In this seminar we want to discuss this theme more extensively by combining scientific studies from different fields. We welcome proposals under this theme. See full invitation for further details concerning proposals, important dates and other practical issues. Questions can be addressed to Frans Prenkert, frans.prenkert@bi.no.

Welcome to Oslo this fall!



Alexandra Waluszewski, Enrico Baraldi, Håkan Håkansson, Frans Prenkert
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After an increasing amount of downtime together with unreliable email-forwarding of the server hosting impgroup.org we decided to move the website to a new server. The move went from Norway to Denmark and from an academic to a commercial operator. Hopefully the new server will prove to be more reliable.

If anyone find any bugs on the website it could very well be caused by the move and we'd highly appreciate if you'd send us a mail about the issue (admin@impgroup.org) so that we can fix it as soon as possible.

Moreover, hope everybody had a great christmas and new year's eve!

4th ESRC Seminar on Relationship Marketing



“Managing in Relationships: Future Operational and Organisational Issues”

at Bailbrook House, Bath, UK



18th February 2005, 9.30am – 4.30pm



organised by the International Marketing & Purchasing Research Centre

School of Management, University of Bath


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The IMP-website continues to grow! As of today the IMP-website has 200 registered users spanning over a large number of different countries around the globe!

We who devoloped this website are very pleased with this development and hope that you all feel the same!



Best regards,

the IMP-development Group