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.
Wednesday this week, December 11th, marks the start of the IMP conference in Perth, Australia. Entitled “Culture and Collaboration in Distribution Networks”, the conference will deal with the major themes of the IMP Group, but will place special significance on:
For more information head over to the official website at http://www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/muresk/imp/
(edited by Peter Turnbull and Judy Zolkiewski)
Deadline for submission is 28th January 2004
Submissions are requested in hard copy using the normal EJM guidelines to me at the address below.
Dr Judy Zolkiewski
Manchester School of Management
UMIST
PO Box 88
Manchester
M60 1QD
UK
As the activites of the year 2002 is coming to an end we’d like to wish you all a very merry christmas and a happy new year!
August 5-6, 2004,
Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
The goal of the conference is to explore state-of-the-art
Business-to-Business Marketing issues. The ISBM research priorities listed below will guide the major themes of the conference. The committee welcomes papers that broadly address the following set of issues:
* Marketing as an Investment/ROI
* Marketing The Marketing Process
* Profitability Harnessing B-to-B eBusiness
* Managing Value Chains
* Managing Value Pricing
* Successful, Significant New Products
* Global vs. US/International Marketing
All the papers presented at the IMP conference in Perth have been added to our database.
Call for papers
Exchange Relationship Dissolution
Special Issue of Journal of Marketing Management
The theme of the special issue is a new research area within the field of marketing. Relationship-dissolution research has emerged within five marketing research approaches: Relationship Marketing, Interaction and Network Approach, Nordic School of Services Marketing, Channel Research, and Consumer Buyer Behaviour.
The system for the papers has been updated to support papers that’s been published in other ways than on the IMP-conferences and in journals. Now the available options are Journal, IMP-conference, other conference, chapter in a book and unpublished. If you can think of any other option that would be useful, please let us know and we’ll add it. Also, please report any bugs that you find.
A new course developed in cooperation between six Universities and Business schools is presented in the course section. The first course will take place in Fall 2004 and the second in 2005. Deadline for applying to take part in the first course is 1st of July 2004.
On Friday the 24th of January Jesper Aastrup at Copenhagen Business School sucessfully defended his dissertation Networks Producing Intermodal Transport. The dissertation includes four empirical cases and a thourough discussion of a critical realist position! You can get a copy by contacting Jesper at CBS. E-mail ja.marktg@cbs.dk