International Journal of Service Industry Management.
Special Issue: Global Outsourcing of Services

The special issue welcomes papers, ethnographic, and/or case studies from all areas of business related to the various issues involved in the global sourcing of services in different industries.
Articles submitted to the journal should be original contributions and should not be under consideration for any other publication at the same time. The reviewing process and the manuscript requirements are consistent with IJSIM requirements. Electronic manuscript submissions in PDF or Word format are strongly encouraged and should be emailed on or before 1st June, 2004 to any of the Guest Editors.

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It just keeps growing…

As Lauri Krekelä joined our community earlier today our total number of members raised to the respectable number of one hundred. We who are developing this website is of course very happy about this and hope that we’ll together will be able to make it the natural place for people to look for information about IMP or it’s members.

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STS launches in Uppsala, Sweden

This Spring Uppsala University launches a multi-disciplinary research centre for Science and Technology Studies, Uppsala STS. In December 2004 an international symposium will be arranged in Uppsala which focuses on the complexities of scientific and economic development. The symposium will include a restricted number of papers on the issues “Values of research” and “Economic effects of research”. Applications should be before Sept. 1.
For further information, please contact Alexandra Waluszewski.

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E-mail address

If you would like an e-mail adress like username@impgroup.org we can arrange that for you, just send us a mail. It would be a forwarding adress to any other e-mail adress you like.

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New dissertation

Fredrik von Corswant is presenting his dissertation on Thursday the 27th of February at Chalmers University of Technology. The title is “Organising Product Development in Interaction”. You can get a copy by sending an e-mail to corswant@mot.chalmers.se

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New Dissertation about Product Development

Espen Gressetvold will defend his dissertation “Product Development – effects on a company’s network of relationships” at NTNU in Trondheim the last of April 2004. If you want more information, please, contact Espen (espen.gressetvold@aoa.hist.no) directly.

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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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Looking for two post docs in marketing!

BI in Oslo has an ongoing research program where we are looking for two post doc’s. One is directed to the interface between Governments and the market place and the other to the interface between technological changes and the market place. The positions are each for one year.

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Courses

We added another function to this website, called “Courses”. You can find it on the menu to the left. The section is available for everybody to read and thus lecturers can add their course there and then simply direct their students to this website if they want to find information about it. That way they’ll also be able to find other courses posted by other lecturers that they didn’t knew existed…

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IMP 2026 Conference Program is Now Available