This special track seeks to provide a forum for discussions about resource combinations and connections occurring across organisations, and investigated by means of various network approaches.
To stimulate fruitful discussions and cross-fertilization we encourage submissions taking a variety of network approaches on interacting resources: for instance, the Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) view, Actor-Network Theory (ANT), the Resource Based View (RBV), Service Dominant Logic (SDL) and Servitization.
Submissions can be both conceptual and empirical.

Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Technology Management and Economics, Division of Supply and Operations Management, in Gothenburg, Sweden, invites applications for five PhD positions. See more information about the five different positions in the links below.

You are welcome to Japan (Okinawa) in December 2020, from the 6-9th for the IMP Asia 2020 Conference. Okinawa has a mild sub-tropical climate in December.

The Department of Entrepreneurship and Relationship Management at the University of Southern Denmark has an opening for a post doc researcher – please follow this link.
The candidate will join a two-year project (2020-2022) and work with these three senior researchers:
Steffen Korsgaard, Majbritt Evald and Mads Bruun Ingstrup

Post-doc position “Business as Unusual : New Business Models and Practices”
KEDGE Business School invites applications to fill a vacant post-doctoral position linked to the research chair « Business as Unusual: New Business Models and Practices.
Profile: Business marketing and strategy
Duration : Twelve months initially
Preferred period : End of 2019 onwards
Languages : Mastery of French and English required

The aim of the IMP FORUM SEMINAR in Ancona is to discuss research on the empirical phenomenon of ‘Business and sustainable development’
as well as related conceptual and methodological issues. Research on the general phenomenon of business interaction is also discussed.

‘Business and sustainable development’

Nowadays ‘sustainable development’ is gaining increasingly importance. New approaches and technologies such as circular economy and the rise of the Industry 4.0 have been increasingly highlighted as means that help business and society to move towards sustainable development (McDowall et al., 2017). It is evident that technological development and innovation are not enough to meeting future resource needs in a sustainable manner. New ways of organizing (at single company level, at inter-organizational level and at network level), sensible public policies and public-private partnerships are needed to face such a great challenge. Indeed, production and distribution processes emerge as combinations of different technologies, often dispersed in the business network. Development towards sustainability is likely to affect businesses and their way to operate, the way they relate to other businesses and the dynamics of business networks. We are convinced (as the IMP colleagues who have already addressed these issues) that the IMP perspective (e.g. Håkansson and Snehota, 2017), with its focus on interactions, relationships and networks, can generate new and valuable insights on sustainable development by tackling the problem from a theoretical, methodological, managerial and policy making perspective.

You are warmly invited to come to the University of Limerick for the 7th biennial International Symposium on Cross-Sector Social Interactions (CSSI 2020) June 24-26th 2020. The study of interaction, relationships and networks composed of actors from multiple sectors have been of great interest to IMP researchers. These forms of collaboration are on the rise, in particular in attempts to address issues of sustainability (see Ritual and Salmi 2011 work on issue networks) or in response to emerging social procurement imperatives, which are driving new forms of cross-sector collaboration between private, public and social enterprise sectors (Barraket and Loosemore (2017). The specific theme of the 2020 symposium is Partnerships and Place, and there is a accompanying special issue with the Journal of Business Ethics (see CEP). Beyond the special issue and specific conference theme, we welcome abstracts on any relevant and timely topic related to cross sector partnering in contemporary business market settings.

Warmly welcome to the 21th Nordic Conference on Small Business Research (NCSB), which is organized (27)28-29 May 2020 at the Department of Entrepreneurship and Relationship Management, University of Southern Denmark.

Warmly welcome to the 26th Nordic Workshop on Interorganizational Research, which is organized 22-24 April 2020 at the Department of Entrepreneurship and Relationship Management, University of Southern Denmark.