Hi, during my recent speech at the IMP conference in Copenhagen, I talked about whether or not there is a need for an “IMP 3” project. What I was referring to was a multi-country empirical project to develop new ideas and theory, it wouldn’t need to be called “IMP 3” at all. Is there any interest in this? I wanted to post this message as a completely open and transparent invitation. If anyone is interested, could you please email me at Debbie.Harrison@bi.no to start some discussions over mail first, with a possibility for a meeting at BI later on. Of course the themes and ideas for the project would need to be discussed and worked through as a group.
I look forward to hearing from you!

Debbie

I am delighted to announce that Luis Araujo has been promoted to a chair in the Department of Marketing, Lancaster University Management School.
Congratulations Professor Araujo!

Geoff Easton,
Department of Marketing,
Management School,
Lancaster University

From the editors:
Hakan Hakansson, David Ford and Ivan Snehota

The reserach of the IMP Group is based on the idea that business is not an isolated activity that occurs within independent organisations, but that it consists of interaction between interdependent companies, whether as customers, suppliers, development partners, facilitators or competitors.

A large number of research studies have investigated interaction between individual companies and organisations, and the wider network that surrounds them. This research has led to the development of ideas on the characteristics of business relationships and networks, on the processes within them and on how individual companies can operate in these arenas.

It is now time to create a new forum for high quality of research into business interaction; The IMP Journal. We hope that the journal will ……………………

Welcome to visit Uppsala STS, or Uppsala University, Centre for Science and Technology Studies (www.sts.uu.se). The aim of Uppsala STS is to investigate the relation between science, technology and society – business included. A special interest is devoted to the role of science and business development – and to develop an alternative perspective on the fad of today; to consider science and innovations as resources more or less ready to be tapped for economic values by businesses.

Alexandra Waluszewski
Director
Uppsala STS, Centre for Science and Technology Studies
Uppsala University

Don’t be afraid to click around the website and punch whatever you find to punch on, unless you have added papers or books you would like to keep intact there is nothing you can damage. In fact we would like to encourage you to try out the different functions of the website both so that you can get a hold of how it works and so that we can be able to see how the website function “in action”. Whatever you add you can also modify and delete the second you add it, so you can play around as much as you wish without leaving any traces. And if you would reveal a bug during your adventure you know who to tell, don’t you? 🙂

Kajsa will defend her dissertaion the 18th of October at Chalmers in Gothenburg. The opponent is Per Andersson from Stockholm School of Economics. The aim of the dissertaion is to explore variety in distribution networks, the framework built on the industrial network approach in combination with Alderson´s tranvection approach is applied on distribution of PCs. Variety is analysed by identifying and analysing a number of transvections, and how they are interconnected. The analysis focuses on how objects, starting as raw material and ending up as an end-product, are changing in different dimensions as they are sorted and transformed.

If you want more information or a copy please contact kajsa@mot.chalmers.se