Conferences

The IMP Conference The IMP Conference is the largest in the world dealing specifically with marketing, purchasing and technological development in a business-to-business context. The aim of the conference is to maximise discussions and interactions among researchers at all career stages, and the style is informal. Participants get to present research results at any stage of development in a challenging but supportive atmosphere. The conference also have a Doctoral Consortium targeted specifically at doctorial students and early stage PhD projects, which aims to bring together junior and senior IMP researchers for knowledge exchange and paper discussions. IMP Forum Seminar The seminar is a smaller forum that focuses on presentations and detailed discussions of conceptual, empirical and methodological research papers that are aimed for development and publication in the IMP Forum within the Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing (JBIM). The aim of the seminar is to maximise discussions and interactions among researchers at all career stages, and the style is informal. IMP Asia Every second or third year a smaller conference (compared with the main IMP Conference) is held in Asia. The aim of the conference is to maximise discussions and interactions among researchers at all career stages, and the style is informal.

UPCOMING conferences

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IMP Conference 2025 – Learning from the past – interacting for the future

IMP2025: Learning from the past – interacting for the future 20-22 of August 2025 –  Gothenburg, Sweden. Chalmers University of Technology and The Industrial Marketing and Purchasing Group (IMP) are happy to welcome you to the 41st IMP Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden. The IMP Group is an informal, international network of hundreds of scholars who approach marketing, purchasing, innovation, technological development, and management from an interactive perspective in a B2B context.The group was formed in the mid-1970s as a transnational research project on “Industrial Marketing and Purchasing” by a group of European researchers representing five European countries. (More information can be found on: impgroup.org) Call for papers: The conference with its theme, Learning from the past – interacting for the future, invites courageous research that, through the lenses of the IMP research tradition, take on current and future societal challenges in light of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).  The IMP Group relies on three main features:  (1) A dynamic approach to economic exchange (2) Empirically driven research on inter-organizational interactions (3) An informal network of researchers forming a vibrant international community (impgroup.org). Conference tracks: The conference hosts one general track and five special tracks: Combining human and nature as equal actors in the Industrial Network Approach: opportunities and consequences for the future The role of policy directives and regulations in shaping sustainable network change Relationships and interaction shaping public procurement transformation It’s a SIN! Simulating Industrial Networks (Navigating) B2B sales challenges in digitalized business markets   Doctoral colloquium:  The doctoral colloquium will take place on Tuesday 19 August 2025. PhD students interested in participating in the IMP Doctoral Colloquium should submit a 2- page abstract of their PhD proposal by February 28th 2025 to Frida Lind: frida.lind@chalmers.se. (Please mark the title of the email: Doctoral colloquium) The conference fee for Doctoral Colloquium participants

Past conferences

2024 – Oulu, Finland2023 – Manchester, UK 2022 – Okinawa, Japan
2022 – The School of Economics and Management at the University of Florence
2021 – UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK AND WATERFORD INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY – IRELAND (virtual)
2020 – Örebro, Sweden
2019 – Paris, France
2018 – Sri Lanka
2018 – Marseille, France
2017 – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2016 – Poznan, Poland
2016 – Cape Town
2015 – Kolding, Denmark
2014 – Bordeaux, France
2013 – Atlanta, Georgia
2012 – Rome, Italy
2011 – Glasgow, Scotland
2010 – Budapest, Hungary
2009 – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2009 – Marseille, France
2008 – Uppsala, Sweden
2007 – Phuket, Thailand
2007 – Manchester, UK
2006 – Milan, Italy
2005 – Phuket, Thailand
2005 – Rotterdam, Netherlands
2004 – Copenhagen, Denmark
2003 – Lugano, Switzerland
2002 – Perth, Australia
2002 – Dijon, France
2001 – Oslo, Norway
2000 – Bath, U.K
1999 – Dublin, Ireland