Doctoral dissertation in Jyväskylä, Finland

On the 5th of March, Ricardo Madureira will defend his dissertation “The Role of Personal Contacts of Foreign Subsidiary Managers in the Coordination of Industrial Multinationals. The Case of Finnish Subsidiaries in Portugal”. Professor Mats Forsgren of Uppsala University is the opponent. For more information, please contact Ricardo at rima@uwasa.fi

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New dissertation: Variety in Distribution Networks: A Transvection Analysis by Kajsa Hulthen

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

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Dissertation in Uppsala

Anna Bengtson is presenting her dissertation “Framing Technological Development in a Concrete Context – the Use of Wood in the Swedish Construction Industry” at University of Uppsala the 26th of May. If you want a copy of the dissertation contact anna.bengtson@fek.uu.se. Opponent is prof Poul Rind Christensen.

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2003 IMP Conference information

There is now some information about the IMP Conference in Lugano, Switzerland next year in the conferences section. Just click on “2003 – Switzerland” on the menu to the left to access it.

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Analysing Business Networks, PhD course

Please forward information on this upcoming course to your PhD students.
The course will run between January and March in 2023. The first two days (full days), 25th and 26th of January will be held at the campus of Uppsala University, and the third day (half day) focusing on participants’ final papers will be held in week 10 in March via Zoom.

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Sustainable Markets Workshop in Denmark, November 3, 2022

The sustainable markets cluster of the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) seeks submissions of extended abstracts for a workshop bringing together experts, policymakers, and innovators to discuss the latest viewpoints on establishing a well-functioning and at-scale market structure for sustainability aligned markets.

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