IMP Conference 2025 – Learning from the past – interacting for the future

The IMP Group is an informal, international network of hundreds of scholars who approach marketing, purchasing, innovation, technological development, and management from an interactive perspective in a B2B context.
The group was formed in the mid-1970s as a transnational research project on “Industrial Marketing and Purchasing” by a group of European researchers representing five European countries. (More information can be found on: impgroup.org)

Call for papers:

The conference with its theme, Learning from the past – interacting for the future, invites courageous research that, through the lenses of the IMP research tradition, take on current and future societal challenges in light of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). 

The IMP Group relies on three main features: 

(1) A dynamic approach to economic exchange

(2) Empirically driven research on inter-organizational interactions

(3) An informal network of researchers forming a vibrant international community (impgroup.org).

Conference tracks:

The conference hosts one general track and five special tracks:

• Combining human and nature as equal actors in the Industrial Network Approach: opportunities and consequences for the future
• The role of policy directives and regulations in shaping sustainable network change
• Relationships and interaction shaping public procurement transformation
• It’s a SIN! Simulating Industrial Networks
• (Navigating) B2B sales challenges in digitalized business markets

 

Doctoral colloquium:

 The doctoral colloquium will take place on Tuesday 19 August 2025.

• PhD students interested in participating in the IMP Doctoral Colloquium should submit a 2- page abstract of their PhD proposal by February 28th 2025 to Frida Lind: frida.lind@chalmers.se. (Please mark the title of the email: Doctoral colloquium)
• The conference fee for Doctoral Colloquium participants is lower, but it includes full conference participation.
• Full paper submission (max 20 pages): 15 June 2025 to Frida Lind: frida.lind@chalmers.se

 

Key dates:

1 November  –  Deadline for special tracks

1 December  –  Abstract submission opens

20 January  –  Deadline for abstract submission

27 January  –   Notification of abstract acceptance

15 April  –  Deadline submission full paper

27 May  –  Notification of full paper acceptance

1 June  –  End of Early Bird registration

1 July  –  Registration closes

 

Looking forward to seeing you in Gothenburg!

The IMP2025 organising team on behalf of the conference chairs

Kajsa Hulthén & Anna Dubois