If you would like an e-mail adress like username@impgroup.org we can arrange that for you, just send us a mail. It would be a forwarding adress to any other e-mail adress you like.

As Lauri Krekelä joined our community earlier today our total number of members raised to the respectable number of one hundred. We who are developing this website is of course very happy about this and hope that we’ll together will be able to make it the natural place for people to look for information about IMP or it’s members.

Please note that in September Lugano is hosting a very important medical congress as well as the world mountainbike championship. Hotels are therefore very busy. It is very important to book as soon as possible, since some Hotels may not hold the rooms later than July 15.
For information on hotels, click here

Don’t forget – the forum is there for everybody to use! It’s a efficient way to communicate so don’t be afraid to use it : )

The Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing(JBIM) announces a call for papers for a special issue on Business-to-Business Marketing in South Asia. This special issue will focus on B2B marketing practices and theoretical applications in any of South Asia’s regions, countries, or markets.
Deadline for submission of papers: July 31, 2003

More information

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? 🙂

I got a word from David Lichtenthal, editor of Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing, stating they’ve extended the deadline for submission of papers for their special double-issue devoted to the subject of “Fostering Ethical Business Marketing”. If you’ve got any intrest in this I’d recommend that you check out their webpage at http://www.jbbm.com/Call_for_Papers.htm

All the papers presented at the IMP conference in Perth have been added to our database.

On the 19th of December Enrico Baraldi will defend his dissertation “When Information Technology Faces Resource Interaction. Using IT Tools to Handle Products at IKEA and Edsbyn”. Prof Peter Naude, University of Bath is opponent. If you want more information, please, contact Enrico at enrico.baraldi@fek.uu.se.