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.

These days authors are advised whether their paper has been accepted for the IMP Conference in Paris.
Please ensure to proceed to registration soon and secure your accommodation. As end of August can be a busy time for accommodations in Paris, we strongly recommend that you book as far in advance as possible.

Applications to the Third edition of the Urbino PhD Programme in Global Studies are now open, with deadline on June 10th, 2019, 12:00 CEST.

The upcoming 2019-2020 edition focuses on International Economic Policy, Business and Governance. A specific attention will be given to:
• economic growth, technological change and inequality across and within countries;
• the international behaviour of firms (multinational corporations and SMEs);
The Ph.D. Programme is developed over three years (from Fall 2019 until Fall 2022) and will be organised as follows:
• a first year of courses, seminars and exams in Urbino;
• a second year of international research and training, mainly spent in international institutions associated to the Programme;
• a third year of research activity for completing the Ph.D. thesis.
English will be the working language of the Ph.D. Programme.