Conferences

The IMP Conference The IMP Conference is the largest in the world dealing specifically with marketing, purchasing and technological development in a business-to-business context. The aim of the conference is to maximise discussions and interactions among researchers at all career stages, and the style is informal. Participants get to present research results at any stage of development in a challenging but supportive atmosphere. The conference also have a Doctoral Consortium targeted specifically at doctorial students and early stage PhD projects, which aims to bring together junior and senior IMP researchers for knowledge exchange and paper discussions. IMP Forum Seminar The seminar is a smaller forum that focuses on presentations and detailed discussions of conceptual, empirical and methodological research papers that are aimed for development and publication in the IMP Forum within the Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing (JBIM). The aim of the seminar is to maximise discussions and interactions among researchers at all career stages, and the style is informal. IMP Asia Every second or third year a smaller conference (compared with the main IMP Conference) is held in Asia. The aim of the conference is to maximise discussions and interactions among researchers at all career stages, and the style is informal.

UPCOMING conferences

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

IMP2025: Learning from the past – interacting for the future 20-22 of August 2025 –  Gothenburg, Sweden. Chalmers University of Technology and The Industrial Marketing and Purchasing Group (IMP) are happy to welcome you to the 41st IMP Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden. 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 papersThe 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, and (3) an informal network of researchers forming a vibrant international community (impgroup.org). Special tracksIf you are interested in organising a special track, please contact us at imp2025@chalmers.se no later than November 1. Looking forward to seeing you in Gothenburg!The IMP2025 organising team on behalf of the conference chairs Kajsa Hulthén & Anna Dubois Preliminary Deadlines 1 November – Deadline for special tracks 1 December – Abstract submission opens 20 January – Deadline for abstract submission 1 April – Registration opens 1 June – End of Early Bird registration For further information visit the conference website:  www.imp2025.se

Past conferences

2024 – Oulu, Finland2023 – Manchester, UK 2022 – Okinawa, Japan
2022 – The School of Economics and Management at the University of Florence
2021 – UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK AND WATERFORD INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY – IRELAND (virtual)
2020 – Örebro, Sweden
2019 – Paris, France
2018 – Sri Lanka
2018 – Marseille, France
2017 – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2016 – Poznan, Poland
2016 – Cape Town
2015 – Kolding, Denmark
2014 – Bordeaux, France
2013 – Atlanta, Georgia
2012 – Rome, Italy
2011 – Glasgow, Scotland
2010 – Budapest, Hungary
2009 – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2009 – Marseille, France
2008 – Uppsala, Sweden
2007 – Phuket, Thailand
2007 – Manchester, UK
2006 – Milan, Italy
2005 – Phuket, Thailand
2005 – Rotterdam, Netherlands
2004 – Copenhagen, Denmark
2003 – Lugano, Switzerland
2002 – Perth, Australia
2002 – Dijon, France
2001 – Oslo, Norway
2000 – Bath, U.K
1999 – Dublin, Ireland