Authors: Anne-Mari Järvelin; Richard Windischhofer; Tuula Mittilä
The aim of this paper is to describe the development of research on dynamics within IMPresearch by presenting a review of IMP conferences 1998 in Turku and 2003 in Lugano.The findings of this study suggest that IMP researchers increasingly mention the dynamicaspects of actor constellations, resources, and processes in their writings, but studies thatare focusing on dynamics per se have in fact not increased. This situation could havenegative consequences for the theory development of the IMP Group, if it does not payenough attention to the dynamic aspects of social and economic activities. We suggestthat research efforts within the IMP Group focus on the dynamic aspects of actorconstellations, resources, or processes rather than to keep utilizing structural research.
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Publish Year: 2004
Conference: Copenhagen, Denmark (2004)