21st Annual IMP Conference 'Dealing with Dualities'

The Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) Group is an informal, international group of scholars concerned with developing concepts and knowledge in the field of business-to-business marketing and purchasing. Earlier work focused on the nature and management of relationships between companies in international markets. More recently, the Groups work has been widened to the study of complex networks within which business communities operate. If you want to know more about the IMP group, visit www.impgroup.org.

The 21st IMP Conference will take place in September 2005 in Rotterdam.

This conference is the largest in the world dealing specifically with marketing, purchasing and technological development in a business-to-business context. The style of the IMP conference is always informal. Structured to maximise the amount and level of discussion and interaction among researchers at all stages of their career, the conference urges participants to present their findings in a challenging but supportive atmosphere. Authors are invited to present results from research at any stage of development. Papers will be selected on the basis of quality, originality and relevance to the development of ideas within the IMP framework.