PROGRAM
Days: Tuesday, September 1st Wednesday, September 2nd Thursday, September 3rd Friday, September 4th
Tuesday, September 1st
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09:15-10:45 Session 3A: Doctoral Colloquium 1
- Candidate: Pegah Monzeri
- Discussant: Catherine Sutton-Brady
- Time slot: 09:15-09:45
- Candidate: Eleanora Colagiacomi
- Discussant: Helen McGrath
- Time slot: 09:45-10:15
- Candidate: Jian Lee
- Discussant: Catherine Sutton-Brady
- Time slot: 10:15-10:45
Location: T36
09:15-10:45 Session 3B: Doctoral Colloquium 2
- Candidate: Anna Gruszczyńska-Radecka
- Discussant: Kajsa Hulthén
- Time slot: 09:15-09:45
- Candidate: Bissah Emmanuel
- Discussant: Simone Guercini
- Time slot: 09:45-10:15
- Candidate: Emily Boxall
- Discussant: Chiara Cantù
- Time slot: 10:15-10:45
Location: T37
14:00-15:00 Session 7A: Doctoral Colloquium 1
- Candidate: Nicole Lillini
- Discussant: Helen McGrath
- Time slot: 14:00-14:30
Location: T36
14:00-15:00 Session 7B: Doctoral Colloquium 2
- Candidate: Laura Morandi
- Discussant: Kajsa Hulthén
- Time slot: 14:00-14:30
- Candidate: Matin Taheriruh
- Discussant: Catherine Sutton-Brady
- Time slot: 14:30-15:00
Location: T37
Wednesday, September 2nd
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14:00-15:30 Session 14A: General Track (A)
Chair:
Location: T27
| 14:00 | The paradox of actor heterogeneity: With whom should firms collaborate and how? (abstract) PRESENTER: Yoritoshi Hara |
| 14:30 | Financing Networks in the Green Transition: The Ørsted–Danske Bank Relationship as a Case of Network Reconfiguration (abstract) PRESENTER: Jari Ruokolainen |
| 15:00 | Activating digital innovation value in indirect procurement: the role of buyer-side governance (abstract) PRESENTER: Emanuela Delbufalo |
14:00-15:30 Session 14B: General Track (B)
Chair:
Location: T30
| 14:00 | Design Roadmapping for Network-Level Servitization: Exploring Actor–Resource–Activity Reconfiguration through The Long Now (abstract) PRESENTER: Sicco Santema |
| 14:30 | Interactive strategy formation for energy innovation – the role of public property owners of hospital facilities (abstract) PRESENTER: Johanna Håkanson |
| 15:00 | Network position and identity development of digital start-ups within the Swedish Construction and Real Estate Sectors (abstract) PRESENTER: Ase Linné |
14:00-15:30 Session 14C: Resilience and Antifragility in Business Networks
Chair:
Location: T31
| 14:00 | Orchestrating project (policy-driven) ecosystems: balancing resilience and fragility in business networks (abstract) PRESENTER: Jose Novais Santos |
| 14:30 | Innovative but Invisible: A Longitudinal Case Study of Business Network Resilience in Peripheral Industrial Regions (abstract) PRESENTER: Alessandro Cinti |
| 15:00 | Resilience of small business-to-business firms: understanding the key building blocks (abstract) PRESENTER: Jussi Tornberg |
14:00-15:30 Session 14D: Linking Business Networks and Society for Sustainability & Circularity
Chair:
Location: T32
| 14:00 | Market shaping through public government procurement (abstract) PRESENTER: Per Andersson |
| 14:30 | How tensions in charity retail networks undermine circular intent (abstract) PRESENTER: Judy Zolkiewski |
| 15:00 | CREATING SOCIAL IMPACT IN ISSUE-BASED NETWORKS: THE INTERPLAY OF KNOWLEDGE-BASED DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES AND NETWORK CAPABILITY (abstract) PRESENTER: Anna Sibińska |
14:00-15:30 Session 14E: Resource interaction for sustainability in business networks
Chair:
Location: T36
| 14:00 | Resource interaction in digital innovation: environmental sustainability data as an embedded resource (abstract) PRESENTER: Madhushree Mrutyunjaya Happalad |
| 14:30 | Embedding a new critical sustainability-oriented resource within the business network: The case of sustainable aviation fuel within aviation in Sweden (abstract) PRESENTER: Sofia Zetterlund |
| 15:00 | Navigating the Circular Plastic Paradox: Resource Interaction and Paradox Navigation in Sustainability Transitions (abstract) PRESENTER: Hannu Makkonen |
14:00-15:30 Session 14F: The role of the B2B sales function in building business relationships to contribute to a sustainable world
Chair:
Location: T33
| 14:00 | Institutional Value-Based Selling (IVBS): Linking Value Quantification, Institutional Learning and Commercialization in B2B Sustainability (abstract) PRESENTER: Fares Georges Khalil |
| 14:30 | The role of salespeople in buyer-seller relationship initiation in turbulent business networks: evidence from an automotive dealer-car brand case (abstract) PRESENTER: Pier Franco Luigi Fraboni |
14:00-15:30 Session 14G: Artificial Intelligence in Challenging or Enhancing Resilient Business Relationships and Networks
Chair:
Location: T37
| 14:00 | AI-Enabled Interaction Simulators for Researching Business Networks (abstract) PRESENTER: Matin Taheriruh |
| 14:30 | Marketing Automation and Buyer-Supplier Relationships: A Case Study in the Fashion Retail Sector (abstract) PRESENTER: Simone Guercini |
| 15:00 | Capabilities Needed to Work with AI in Marketing: Human-Resource Management Perspective (abstract) PRESENTER: Piotr Kwiatek |
16:00-17:30 Session 16A: General Track (A)
Chair:
Location: T27
| 16:00 | Action research as in-case study methodology: Extending IMP case research through engaged interaction (abstract) PRESENTER: Michelle Clancy |
| 16:30 | Business Marketing Research: On Sociological Paradigms (abstract) |
| 17:00 | The key activities of Venture builders in the entrepreneurial network (abstract) PRESENTER: Chiara Cantù |
16:00-17:30 Session 16B: General Track (B)
Chair:
Location: T30
| 16:00 | The Development of University Spin-Offs: Bridging Founder Agency and Relationship Perspectives (abstract) PRESENTER: Andrea Perna |
| 16:30 | Integrating customer knowledge in healthcare innovation networks: From individual to network-level knowledge through interaction episodes (abstract) PRESENTER: Anastasia Pojiltov |
| 17:00 | Reshoring Outsourcing: Mediation and Knolwedge Brokering in a Triad (abstract) PRESENTER: Daniel Pedroletti |
16:00-17:30 Session 16C: Resilience and Antifragility in Business Networks
Chair:
Location: T31
| 16:00 | Resource upgrading in turbulent markets: young hires as (individual) resources for innovation (abstract) PRESENTER: Roberta Bocconcelli |
| 16:30 | Business networks at the crossroads of resilience and antifragility: genuine effort or tacit fast-track? (abstract) PRESENTER: Piotr Kwiatek |
16:00-17:30 Session 16D: Linking Business Networks and Society for Sustainability & Circularity
Chair:
Location: T32
| 16:00 | Circularity in industrial marketing: Conceptualizations across relationships, networks, and society (abstract) PRESENTER: Outi Keränen |
| 16:30 | Standards in Interaction: The Production of Sustainability Claims in Supply Networks (abstract) |
| 17:00 | Transitioning to a Circular Economy through Network Governance. The Case of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Sector (abstract) PRESENTER: Asma'U Muhammad Usman |
16:00-17:30 Session 16E: The role of the B2B sales function in building business relationships to contribute to a sustainable world
Chair:
Location: T33
| 16:00 | UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF SALES IN SUSTAINABILITY TRANSITIONS (abstract) PRESENTER: Alessia Anzivino |
| 16:30 | Sales Practices in the Shaping of B2B Customer Journeys (abstract) PRESENTER: Chiara Ancillai |
| 17:00 | ‘It makes such a difference’ said Pooh: The role of the sales function in sustainalizing business networks (abstract) PRESENTER: Arend-Jan Diephuis |
16:00-17:30 Session 16F: Resource interaction for sustainability in business networks
Chair:
Location: T36
| 16:00 | Digital tools and resource interaction processes for sustainability (abstract) PRESENTER: Elisa Carloni |
| 16:30 | How Resource Complementarities Are Produced, Maintained, or Degraded: Analyzing Resource Interfaces and Cogency Effects (abstract) |
| 17:00 | Businesses' Interactions Under Pressure: Barriers to Interfirm Interactions and Collaborative Response to External Circular Economy Pressures (abstract) |
16:00-17:30 Session 16G: Artificial Intelligence in Challenging or Enhancing Resilient Business Relationships and Networks
Chair:
Location: T37
| 16:00 | AI and power in buyer-supplier relationships – a microfoundational perspective (abstract) PRESENTER: Annika Laine-Kronberg |
| 16:30 | Industrial metaverse adoption: Enablers, barriers, and strategic marketing implications in B2B relationships (abstract) PRESENTER: Zinhle Lindani Dlamini |
| 17:00 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN SUPPLY CHAIN RISK IDENTIFICATION: PERFORMANCE AND SUSTAINABILITY IMPLICATIONS (abstract) PRESENTER: Leo Mulari |
17:30-19:00 Session 17: Panel Discussion run by IMPEC: Career Development and Funding Opportunities for Early-Career Researchers
Location: T27
Thursday, September 3rd
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09:00-10:30 Session 19A: General Track (A)
Chair:
Location: T27
| 09:00 | Fifty Shades of Interactive Grey: Reconsidering the Dynamics of Relational Governance in B2B Markets (abstract) PRESENTER: Roberta Bocconcelli |
| 09:30 | Turbulence and business relationships (abstract) PRESENTER: Matteo Dominidiato |
| 10:00 | Non-human species as ‘actors’ - invasive species, agency and business networks (abstract) PRESENTER: Leanne Johnstone |
09:00-10:30 Session 19B: General Track (B)
Chair:
Location: T30
| 09:00 | Key Account Segmentation: Evidence from the Arab World (abstract) PRESENTER: Fawaz Alhussan |
| 09:30 | Transrelating (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Functional asymmetry in buyer-dominated networks (abstract) PRESENTER: Zsuzsanna Szalkai |
09:00-10:30 Session 19C: Resilience and Antifragility in Business Networks
Chair:
Location: T31
| 09:00 | Staying in the game: Small-firm resilience and value creation in asymmetrical business relationships (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Resilience and Antifragility in Seismic-Prone Business Networks: a territorial empirical perspective (abstract) PRESENTER: Andrea Sabatini |
09:00-10:30 Session 19D: Linking Business Networks and Society for Sustainability & Circularity
Chair:
Location: T32
| 09:00 | SOCIAL ENTERPRISE INTERNATIONALIZATION IN BUSINESS MARKETS: INSIGHTS EMERGING FROM A CASE ANALYSIS (abstract) PRESENTER: Simone Poledrini |
| 09:30 | Temporal sustainability work in relationships: the missing link in market shaping? (abstract) PRESENTER: Pauliina Ulkuniemi |
09:00-10:30 Session 19E: Simulating Industrial Networks: from ideas and concepts to practice and action
Chair:
Location: T33
| 09:00 | SIMULATING SUSTAINABILITY TRANSITIONS IN OPEN INDUSTRIAL NETWORKS: APPLYING NETWORK HORIZON APPROACH IN THE NWOW COLLABORATIVE BUSINESS SIMULATION (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Making B2B Relationships Runnable: An Agentic Simulation Framework for Dynamic Interdependence, Governance, and AI Mediation (abstract) PRESENTER: Piotr Kwiatek |
| 10:00 | How scenarios-based studies can benefit from AI technology: The case of AI-assisted scenarios of the future of work in the marketing sector (abstract) PRESENTER: Grzegorz Leszczynski |
09:00-10:30 Session 19F: Resource interaction for sustainability in business networks
Chair:
Location: T36
| 09:00 | Unchaining the Network: Resolving the Paradox between Network Orchestration and Unbound Curiosity in Sustainability Transitions (abstract) PRESENTER: Elizabeth Edgal |
| 09:30 | Building an Ecosystem for Circular Textile Flows (abstract) PRESENTER: Olga Dziubaniuk |
| 10:00 | SHAPING HYDROGEN TRUCK MARKETS IN EUROPE: REGULATORY AMBITION AND MISALIGNMENT (abstract) PRESENTER: Marjaana Komi |
11:00-12:30 Session 21A: General Track (A)
Chair:
Location: T27
| 11:00 | Interactive Research Designs and Pathways to Impact in University–Industry Collaboration (abstract) PRESENTER: Ann Clarke |
| 11:30 | Networking at multiple levels to govern transitions to resource efficient mobility: A novel analytical framework drawing on the Multi-Level Perspective and the Industrial Interaction Framework (abstract) |
| 12:00 | The attitude of future leaders towards a societal responsibility of companies – theory-based approach, empirical results, insights for business networks and relationships (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 21B: General Track (B)
Chair:
Location: T30
| 11:00 | The Sustainability Challenge of Digital Health: Institutional Fragmentation and Interaction in Public Care (abstract) PRESENTER: Sofia Wagrell |
| 11:30 | The Value of Nothing: Value Creation in Industrial Markets and the Organizing Effects of CO₂ Absence (abstract) PRESENTER: Torkel Strömsten |
| 12:00 | Developing, procuring and managing digital innovations in public healthcare (abstract) PRESENTER: Morten H. Abrahamsen |
11:00-12:30 Session 21C: Resilience and Antifragility in Business Networks
Chair:
Location: T31
| 11:00 | Managing Relationship Violations through Prevention and Response in SME Cross-Border B2B Exchanges (abstract) PRESENTER: Izabela Kowalik |
| 11:30 | THE RESILIENCE OF MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES IN PERIPHERAL AREAS DURING TIMES OF TURBULENCE: A DOUBLE COMPLEXITY (abstract) PRESENTER: Francesco Mutignani |
| 12:00 | Resource-integration practices fostering resilience in professional service relationships (abstract) PRESENTER: Merja Kivirinta |
11:00-12:30 Session 21D: Linking Business Networks and Society for Sustainability & Circularity
Chair:
Location: T32
| 11:00 | The Complexity Trap: Value Interference and Network Formation in Circular Business Models (abstract) PRESENTER: Mark Ryan |
| 11:30 | When Power Meets Sustainability: Paradoxes in Interorganizational Relationships (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 21E: Simulating Industrial Networks: from ideas and concepts to practice and action
Chair:
Location: T33
| 11:00 | Key Enabling Technologies and Network Paradoxes (abstract) PRESENTER: Heli Aramo-Immonen |
| 11:30 | Exploring and evaluating Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) software for simulating industrial networks (abstract) PRESENTER: Enrico Baraldi |
11:00-12:30 Session 21F: Resource interaction for sustainability in business networks
Chair:
Location: T36
| 11:00 | The shape of sustainable water treatment: Reconfiguring side stream circulation through institutional work (abstract) PRESENTER: Hannu Torvinen |
| 11:30 | Towards circularity in the fashion industry: a network approach (abstract) PRESENTER: Jose Novais Santos |
| 12:00 | When actors do not act: the environment in the Kimberly Process scheme, sustainability and the environment in a large-scale multi-party treaty. (abstract) PRESENTER: Abdul Hajee |
15:30-17:00 Session 25A: General Track (A)
Chair:
Location: T27
| 15:30 | Big Brother in the Business Network: A Conceptual IMP Perspective on Populism and Business Relationships (abstract) PRESENTER: Baróthy Zoltán |
| 16:00 | Heaviness and innovation space – evolving actor roles and resource structures in a digitalization journey (abstract) PRESENTER: Malena I. Havenvid |
| 16:30 | Sustaining Business Networks Through Digital Interaction: The Role of WeChat in Chinese Wine Trade (abstract) PRESENTER: Sussie Morrish |
15:30-17:00 Session 25B: General Track (B)
Chair:
Location: T30
| 15:30 | Re-organising supply networks for reduced transport emissions: The role of firm-internal and external interaction (abstract) PRESENTER: Kajsa Hulthén |
| 16:00 | Internal and External Aspects of Sustainability Orientation in Organizations: A Bibliometric Analysis (abstract) PRESENTER: Annasofia Grönholm |
15:30-17:00 Session 25C: Resilience and Antifragility in Business Networks
Chair:
Location: T31
| 15:30 | Bouncing Forward Together: Antifragility and the Evolution of Buyer-Supplier Relationships Through Disruption (abstract) PRESENTER: Matin Taheriruh |
| 16:00 | Coopetition Dynamics in Agricultural Data Sharing (abstract) PRESENTER: Helen McGrath |
| 16:30 | Crisis what crisis revisited: network perspectives on organizational resilience (abstract) PRESENTER: Sicco Santema |
15:30-17:00 Session 25D: Network effect on sustainability, the role of actors and legislation
Chair:
Location: T36
| 15:30 | Industrial procurement and the adoption of bio-based plastics: how business networks enable or constrain sustainability transitions? (abstract) PRESENTER: Nathalie Touratier-Muller |
| 16:00 | Do Business Actors View Sustainability as a By-product or Motivator of Servitization? (abstract) PRESENTER: Judy Zolkiewski |
| 16:30 | FROM PRODUCTS TO “PRODUCT + CARBON BIOGRAPHY”: HOW EU CBAM RECONFIGURES B2B BUSINESS NETWORKS THROUGH DATA, VERIFICATION, AND NEW INTERMEDIARIES (abstract) |
Friday, September 4th
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09:30-11:00 Session 27A: General Track (A)
Chair:
Location: T27
| 09:30 | An investigation of multi-level circular economy paralysis (abstract) PRESENTER: Sharon Purchase |
| 10:00 | GOVERNANCE FORMS AND THE USE OF CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURES FOR ELECTRIC HEAVY-DUTY TRANSPORT (abstract) PRESENTER: Jonathan Stål |
| 10:30 | Exploring the connections among embeddedness, sustainability, and competitiveness: evidence from a questionnaire-based study of Hungarian enterprises (abstract) PRESENTER: Noémi Krátki |
09:30-11:00 Session 27B: General Track (B)
Chair:
Location: T30
| 09:30 | Interaction Within Constraints: A Systematic Literature Review of Public Buyer–Supplier Relationships (abstract) PRESENTER: Matin Taheriruh |
| 10:00 | Clearing the Paradigmatic Fog: On Systematic Disruption (abstract) PRESENTER: Olof Wadell |