PROGRAM
Days: Wednesday, August 23rd Thursday, August 24th Friday, August 25th
Wednesday, August 23rd
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12:00-13:30Lunch
Lunch at The Mill
13:45-14:15 Session 2: Opening session
Opening session with Professor Ken McPhail, Head of Alliance Manchester Business School
Location: G.003
14:30-16:00 Session 3A: Conceptual Development
The first of two sessions devoted to conceptual development
Chair:
Location: G.003
| 14:30 | Conceptualising Common Pool Resources and Natural Actors in IMP (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Contextualizing resources in place (abstract) |
| 15:30 | Balance as a research concept: Researching in a process business world (abstract) |
14:30-16:00 Session 3B: Ecosystems and Innovation
A session devoted to ecosystems and innovation
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Location: 3.006B
| 14:30 | Innovation ecosystem emergence: symbolic representations of actor identities, activities and their links to market visioning (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Are Innovation Ecosystem Types Reflected in their Management? (abstract) |
| 15:30 | The Ecosystem for Academic Innovations and Commercial Activities – Tensions, Conflicts and Contradictions (abstract) |
14:30-16:00 Session 3C: Innovation
Digital innovation and networks
Chair:
Location: 3.015
| 14:30 | Exclusion and Inclusion on Business Markets: The Impacts of Internet-Of-Things (IoT) (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) in B2B Networks (abstract) |
| 15:30 | The New B2B Artificial Intelligence Industrial Complex: Investigating Relationships and Networks Advancing the Global Large Language Model Ecosystem (abstract) |
14:30-16:00 Session 3D: Value Co-creation with Stakeholders
A session devoted to value co-creation with stakeholders
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Location: 3.013A
| 14:30 | Exploring renting systems in the textile and garment industry – the dual role of products and production facilities in value creation (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Value co-creation between actors in a science megaproject (abstract) |
| 15:30 | Agencing Place in the Making of Markets: Insights from a Multi-stakeholder Rural Tourism Development Project (abstract) |
14:30-16:00 Session 3E: Stakeholders and CSR
A session devoted to stakeholder relationships and corporate social responsibility
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Location: 3.014B
| 14:30 | Managing business relationships in conscientious organization through responsible integrative practices (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Stakeholder engagement to enhance sustainable procurement in developing countries Case studies of multinational enterprises in Nigeria (abstract) |
| 15:30 | Analysing value cocreation in international firm stakeholder relationships – Stakeholder Engagement and Interdependence Theory (abstract) |
16:00-16:30Coffee Break
16:30-17:30 Session 4A: Interests and Stakeholder Relationships
A session devoted to interests and stakeholder relationships
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Location: G.003
| 16:30 | Communication with Stakeholders in times of Crisis. A case of Middelfart Spildevand and Owerflow of Polluted Wastewater (abstract) |
| 17:00 | Interests in relationships and business networks: A temporal study (abstract) |
16:30-17:30 Session 4B: IMP Tools Special Track (1)
The first of two IMP Tools Special Track session.
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Location: 3.006B
| 16:30 | Analyzing Business Relationships and Networks ‘The IMP-Way’: A Review and Reflection on existing Tools & Frameworks (abstract) |
| 17:00 | The business network perspective on managerial tools: the case of startup processes (abstract) |
16:30-17:30 Session 4C: Sustainability Special Track (1)
The first of four Sustainability Special Track sessions
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Location: 3.015
| 16:30 | Going green but seeing red: Nested tensions in initiating market shaping for sustainability (abstract) |
| 17:00 | Representing markets as value chains in institutional work for climate mitigating (abstract) |
16:30-17:30 Session 4D: Decision-Making Special Track
Decision-Making Special Track
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Location: 3.013A
| 16:30 | Decision making in highly uncertain contexts (abstract) |
| 17:00 | Using framing mechanisms to respond to shared frames. (abstract) PRESENTER: Samar Aladem |
Thursday, August 24th
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09:00-10:30 Session 5A: Network Dynamics
Chair:
Location: G.003
| 09:00 | Levelling the CO2 Business Network Playing Field: The Role of International CBAM Regulation (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Market-shaping vision and value creation in carbon capturing utilization value chains (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Unravelling Digital Servitization in the Development of a Platform Ecosystem: An Interaction Perspective on Collective Actions (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 5B: IMP Tools Special Track (2)
The second and final IMP Tools Special Track session
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Location: 3.006B
| 09:00 | Foresighting network dynamics: A Delphi-based Scenario Analysis (abstract) |
| 09:30 | How do IMP tools be present in the Hungarian business education? (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Intelligent Assistants, a new member of the Buying Centre (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 5C: Sustainability Special Track (2)
The second of four Sustainability Special Track sessions.
Chair:
Location: 3.015
| 09:00 | Collective market shaping for sustainable innovation: a multi-actor engagement perspective (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Towards a typology of interaction perspectives to sustainability (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 5D: Servitisation Special Track
Servitisation Special Track
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Location: 3.013A
| 09:00 | Ask the end user: the effect of overarching servitization on the OEM innovation organisation (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Development of Social Choice Model on the Solutions of Shopping Refugees in The Netherlands and Japan (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Resource interactions underlying customer interface in digital servitization (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 5E: Digitalisation Special Track (1)
The first of two Digitalisation Special Track sessions
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Location: 3.014B
| 09:00 | Digital footsteps: How can organizational information search give insights for sales lead qualification? (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Do You Trust Me? Sharing Data for Digital Co-Creation in B2B Relations (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Marketing Automation and Business Relationships: Exploring the Case of Programmatic Advertising (abstract) |
10:30-11:00Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session 6A: Branding in a B2B context
The roles of branding in B2B
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Location: G.003
| 11:00 | Introducing Network Reputation for examining Sustainable Branding in a B2B context (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Carbon handprint as a tool for framing sustainability in B2B brand communications (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Branding in Micro-Organisations – A Network Approach (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 6B: Conceptual Development
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Location: 3.006B
| 11:00 | A Critique of Thirty Years of Systematic Review Research in Business-to-Business Marketing: The Pursuit of Rigor (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Theoretical perspectives on B2B influencer marketing: a literature review (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Towards a relational view of strategy (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 6C: Sustainability Special Track (3)
The third of four Sustainability Special Track sessions
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Location: 3.015
| 11:00 | Assessing Logistics Network for Sustainable Bioplastics Production: A Resource Interaction View (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Unveiling Unsustainability in Business Relationships (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Exploring the Dark Side Effects of Sustainable Innovation on Business Networks (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 6D: Conflict, Emotions and Informality in Business Relationships
A session devoted to the softer and more informal aspects of business relationships
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Location: 3.013A
| 11:00 | Who’s to blame? – Not me! The discursive blaming game in a conflicting relationship (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Emotions during the sub-processes of B2B Relationship Recovery (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Social Bonds ‘in the Making’: Using Informal, Social Events as Innovation Community Connectors (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 6E: Digitalisation Special Track (2)
The second and final Digitalisation Special Track session
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Location: 3.014B
| 11:00 | Digital transformation in and of Business-to-Business relationships (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Power Up or Game Over: Exploring Non-Fungible Tokens as a novel resource in the video game industry network (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Systematic literature review on the interconnection of digital transformation and business relationships (abstract) |
12:30-14:00Lunch
Lunch at The Mill
14:00-15:30 Session 7: Meet the Editors
Meet the Editors session with:
- Anthony Di Benedetto, Co-editor-in-chief, Industrial Marketing Management
- Steven Carnovale, Editor Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management
- Sharon Purchase, Associate Editor, Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing
- Jaana Tähtinen, Associate Editor, Scandinavian Journal of Management
- Stefanos Mouzas, Associate Editor, Business-to-Business Research, Journal of Business Research
Chair:
Location: G.003
15:30-16:00Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Session 8A: Network Dynamics
The first conference session addressing network dynamics
Chair:
Location: G.003
| 16:00 | Legitimating collective change in reluctant global networks (abstract) |
| 16:30 | Developing internationalization capabilities through public-private interaction (abstract) |
| 17:00 | Understanding Stability and Change in business networks: the community pharmacy case study (abstract) |
16:00-17:30 Session 8B: Knowledge and Innovation in Networks
A session devoted to knowledge integration in temporary networks using examples from construction and service contexts
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Location: 3.006B
| 16:00 | The economic logic of knowledge integration in temporary networks (abstract) |
| 16:30 | From product to service - adaptation and change in a Swedish construction company (abstract) |
| 17:00 | From multi-actor solutions to B2B customer service experience: smoothing the customer journey (abstract) |
16:00-17:30 Session 8C: Sustainability Special Track (4)
The fourth and final Sustainability Special Track session
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Location: 3.015
| 16:00 | Sustainability in the raw materials industry: Rethinking market strategies and market relationships (abstract) |
| 16:30 | Challenges in managing interdependencies in business networks: A case of making packaging sustainable (abstract) |
| 17:00 | The role of non-business actors toward sustainability: A case study at the footwear industrial network (abstract) |
16:00-17:30 Session 8D: Conceptual Development
The second session devoted to conceptual development
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Location: 3.013A
| 16:00 | Business Relationships: Towards Process Ontology (abstract) |
| 16:30 | Complexity-driven leadership in B2B Organisations: Towards a theoretical framework (abstract) |
| 17:00 | Inter-Organizational Trust, its Determinants, and Processes in Business Relationships (abstract) |
16:00-17:30 Session 8E: Product Innovation
A session devoted to product development and innovation
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Location: 3.014B
| 16:00 | A curvilinear relationship between international collaborative innovation networks and new product performance: the moderating roles of dynamic capabilities and success traps (abstract) |
| 16:30 | Reverse Relationship Process in IMP Marketing Strategy’s Framework in New Product Development Process (abstract) |
| 17:00 | Intertwined Effects of Relational Trust and Relationship-Specific Investments on Product Innovation: Evidence from Polish High-Tech Suppliers (abstract) |
Friday, August 25th
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09:00-10:30 Session 9A: Networks in Healthcare
A session devoted to network phenomena in healthcare contexts
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Location: G.003
| 09:00 | A cultural-historical approach to international networks for healthcare innovation (abstract) |
| 09:30 | The Adoption of Design Thinking in Hospital Supply Chains: Prospects and Challenges (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Customer orientation in Finnish health technology SMEs (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 9B: Circular Economy
A session devoted to networks in a circular economy context
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Location: 3.006B
| 09:00 | A start-up’s network for circularity in electromobility (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Servitization for transitions towards a circular economy (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Ethical embeddedness of Circular Economy: A case of textile and fashion industrial ecosystem (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 9C: Entrepreneurship and Start-Ups
A session devoted to start-ups and entrepreneurial networks
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Location: 3.015
| 09:00 | Relationships fostering Triple-Bottom-Line of sustainable entrepreneurship – the case of vegan restaurants (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Network embeddedness fostering sustainable entrepreneurship – what do we know so far and what is there to explore? (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Social Media and Supply Chain Management: A case study of digital resource interaction in entrepreneurial supply chain networks (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 9D: Network Dynamics
The second conference session devoted to network dynamics
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Location: 3.013A
| 09:00 | Barriers to Swift Businesses Responses to Climate Change Regulations: Evidence from Automobile Sector in Saudi Arabia (abstract) |
| 09:30 | The multiple roles of third parties in developing suppliers: Rethinking relationships, short-term results, and long-term visions (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Legitimation work in B2B procurement: Analysing market shaping strategies towards sustainable energy purchasing (abstract) |
10:30-11:00Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session 10A: SMEs and Entreneurship
A session covering SMEs, sustainable entrepreneurships and entrepreneurial education
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Location: G.003
| 11:00 | From network to network - Evidences in Italian SMEs (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Joint service portfolio creation for the entrepreneurial educational institutes (abstract) |
| 12:00 | New contact methods in start-ups’ selling process (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 10B: Innovation in Networks, Nets and Organisations
A session covering business incubation, barriers to innovation and environmental hybrid organisations
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Location: 3.006B
| 11:00 | Sustainability-Driven Changes in Business Incubation Industries (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Barriers to Innovation and Value Co-Creation in Strategic Nets (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Environmental hybrid organizations co-creating value with their stakeholders: what do we know? (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 10C: Disruption, Resilience and New Business Models
A session covering disruption, resilience and novel business models in supply chains/ networks
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Location: 3.015
| 11:00 | An exploratory study of New Zealand firms to cope with supply chain disruption (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Systematic literature review for sustainable and resilient food supply chains during pandemics (abstract) |
| 12:00 | B2B relationships in the sharing economy: challenges, opportunities, and relationship governance mechanisms (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 10D: New Perspectives on Global Business Networks
A session on new perspectives on international/ global business networks
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Location: 3.013A
| 11:00 | A dialogical ontological perspective in a geopolitically sensitive international world (abstract) |
| 11:30 | The Emergence of Mutual Knowledge in Relationships with Major Cultural Differences: The case of the Rwandan Potters (abstract) |
12:30-12:50 Session 11: Closing session
Closing remarks from IMP2023 organisers and handover to IMP2024 organisers
Location: G.003
12:50-14:00Sit-down or take-away lunch
Lunch at The Mill