The 35th IMP Conference will take place at IÉSEG School of Management, Paris campus, situated within the Grande Arche of La Défense, in sight of the Arc de Triomphe.

University of Turku Graduate School has an opening for funded positions for doctoral candidates – 4 years of funding for completing a PhD. In marketing we welcome especially students interested in customer experience & journeys, dynamics and management of business networks and customer-value based business in B2B markets.

Please follow this link: http://www.utu.fi/en/research/utugs/applications/Pages/home.aspx

In the 21st century, even small firms can reach customers located in different, often remote, parts of the world. In fact, internationalisation has become a common phenomenon that affects the majority of companies worldwide. Recent research emphasises that there are numerous determinants of a company’s competitive advantage in the international business environment, including product quality, price, and market knowledge. Much less attention, however, has been paid to the role of business relationships.
Editor(s):Krzysztof Fonfara, Lukasz Malys, lMilena Ratajczak-Mrozek
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Year 2018

Open to academic and corporate participants: Wednesday 5 September 2018
34th IMP Conference, Palais du Pharo, Marseille,

In an attempt to provide some answers to the « So what ?» question, this year’s IMP Conference in Marseille will address as key theme the question of Industry/Research collaboration and pertinence.

This call paper for a special issue in Industrial Marketing Management, challenge authors to identify and acknowledge if, how, by what means and in what ways IMP has spread, and left footprints towards others
For more information: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/industrial-marketing-management/calls-for-papers/imp-footprints-crossroads-and-imprints

It is a pleasure to inform that the book, “Controversies in Healthcare Innovation: Service, Technology and Organization”, edited by Thomas Hoholm, Antonella La Rocca and Margunn Aanestad has now released in eBook and can be found online at SpringerLink https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/978-1-137-55780-3

Building a relevant and meaningful research design is essential to the successful completion of a PhD and other research projects. There are a growing number of methods available for the study of business. This increased diversity provides opportunities for more creative and valuable research problem solutions but also creates the need for more complex decision making about which methods to use and how to combine them.

The runs from 17 – 21 september 2018 in Kolding, Denmark
For more information see http://phd.au.dk/gradschools/businessandsocialsciences/programmes/businessadministration/courses/

The aim of the IMP Journal Seminar in Rennes is to discuss research papers that address starting up / relationship initiation processes in networks, primarily around one or more of the following issues:

1) Interaction processes when developing new relationships by (university) start-ups
2) Interaction processes when established firms develop new customer and supplier relationships
3) Interaction processes when developing new (or re-configuring existing) relationships between public bodies and private businesses both as customers or suppliers