Industrial Marketing Management

Papers
(The TQCC of Industrial Marketing Management is 16. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Religiosity and psychological contracts in Asian B2B service relationships291
Toward a better understanding of value destruction: The case of food waste269
IMM Asia and Oceania Summit 2024170
Amplifying retailers' sales with a hub's owned and earned social media: The moderating role of marketplace organic search169
Building and leveraging competence exploitation and exploration for firm new product success154
Good fortune and its influence on B2B relationships: The case of the Mae Manee money solution campaign in Thailand153
Supplier experience as antecedent to supplier satisfaction - An explorative study of SMEs153
Editorial: Best business-to-business marketing management Ph.D. thesis 2023124
A tale of two paradigms. A comment on Möller and Halinen (2022)119
Call for papers: Industrial Marketing Management (IMM) African Summit: 10–12 September 2025116
Corporate sustainable brand identity work and network embeddedness: Learnings from Better Place (2007–2013)116
Restoring ecosystem brands: The role of sustainability-led innovation111
The interplay of morality, emotional labor, and customer injustice: How salesperson experiences shape job satisfaction109
Handling resource deficiencies through resource interaction in business networks107
Does B2B WOM usage matter to channel relationship performance? The roles of organizational culture and psychic distance105
Integrating machine learning, modularity and supply chain integration for Branding 4.097
The timing of diverse external stakeholder involvement during interfirm open innovation: The effects on new product speed to market and product lifespan96
Blockchain implementation for circular supply chain management: Evaluating critical success factors82
Exploring the impact of Industry 4.0 technologies on social sustainability through a circular economy approach81
Editorial Board Continued77
Suppressing or motivating opportunism? The effectiveness of contract enforcement in manufacturer-distributor relationship75
The impact of dynamic capabilities in disrupted supply chains—The role of turbulence and dependence75
The buying center concept as a milestone in industrial marketing: Review and research agenda75
Understanding B2B customer journeys for complex digital services: The case of cloud computing74
Innovation outsourcing versus joint innovation in collaboration with suppliers: A strategic relational-institutional perspective73
The dynamic effects of learning: Host country experience and international joint venture termination71
Creating value in servitization through digital service innovations71
The contemporary face of word-of-mouth in B2B contexts: New technologies, practices and challenges70
Under which conditions do manufacturing companies choose FDI for service provision in foreign markets? An investigation using fsQCA69
Individual strategies as interaction modes for handling institutional logic diversity over time: A case study on a public-private collaboration project69
Which is more effective for platform performance: Punishments or incentives?67
The trade-off between trust and distrust in supply chain collaboration66
How to apply the event study methodology in STATA: An overview and a step-by-step guide for authors66
The fair trade of environmental effects and regional disparities66
Trust and opportunism as paradoxical tension: Implications for achieving sustainability in buyer-supplier relationships63
Editorial Board Continued62
Does geographic distance to customers improve or inhibit supplier innovation? A moderated inverted-U relationship62
An overview, empirical application, and discussion of the future research potential of Q&A models in B2B contexts62
Untying the knot: Drivers of the intention to downgrade the relationship in B2B service contexts61
Transitioning to artificial intelligence-based key account management: A critical assessment61
Moving the needle: Publishing academic-practitioner research in Industrial Marketing Management60
Omnichannel Management in B2B. Complexity-based model. Empirical evidence from a panel of experts based on Fuzzy Cognitive Maps59
Disruptive market-shaping processes: Exploring market formation for autonomous vehicle solutions59
An ecosystem perspective synthesis of co-creation research59
Salesperson knowledge sourcing inside the vendor organization: Examining the performance-relationship continuum given selected boundary conditions58
An examination of salesperson bricolage during a critical sales disruption: Selling during the Covid-19 pandemic56
Expanding into new product lines in response to COVID-19: The interplay between firm age and performance aspirations55
A multilateral stakeholder salience approach: An extension of the stakeholder identification and salience framework53
Blockchain technology for building buyer-supplier trust and transparency in supply chains: An experimental study on P2P online marketplace vendors51
Erratum to “Unpacking value creation and capture in B2B relationships” [Industrial Marketing Management – 92, 163–177]51
Fairness asymmetry, changes in mutual trust, and supplier performance in buyer-supplier exchanges in China: A dyadic view51
Announcement of Outstanding Article 202150
Towards an integration of corporate foresight in key account management50
Editorial Board Continued50
Masterful scholarly competences and the development of impactful B2B marketing theory: Contributions of Dr. Shelby D. Hunt48
Editorial Board Continued47
Contextual agility informing market shaping46
Editorial: Social network analysis in marketing: A step-by-step guide for researchers46
The parallax nature of studying business markets, relationships and networks46
Choosing contracts to support ALFO strategy: Insights from comparing franchised and managed hotels45
Do emerging market multinational corporations headquarter-subsidiary relationships foster subsidiary innovation and performance in developed markets?44
Call for Papers for the 9th Industrial Marketing Management Summit43
Examining buyers' negative word-of-mouth intentions following suspected salesperson transgressions42
Leveraging consumer behavior research to forge new insights into B2B buyer behavior: Contextualizing extant research and developing a research agenda42
Whether and when do alliance terminations pay off?42
Governing the interplay of inter-organizational relationship mechanisms in open innovation projects across ecosystems42
We are not on the same page: The effects of salesperson trust overestimation on customer satisfaction and relationship performance41
A meta-analytic synthesis of how market and entrepreneurial orientation contribute to export performance: Do home country institutions matter?41
Crisis-driven innovations in marketing40
Is social media B2B engagement driven by impression management strategies? Understanding corporate-driven versus individual-driven LinkedIn profiles40
A step-by-step guide of (fuzzy set) qualitative comparative analysis: From theory to practice via an implementation in a B2B context39
The role of cool versus warm colors in B2B versus B2C firm-generated content for boosting positive eWOM38
Do senior managers hold the keys to unlock innovation and environmental sustainability?38
The AI transformation of product innovation37
What impacts customer experience for B2B enterprises on using AI-enabled chatbots? Insights from Big data analytics37
The balancing act: Organizational agility in fast-growing international ventures37
Exploring relationship between digital dexterity, supply chain quality management, agility and performance – Empirical evidence from Indian B2B manufacturers37
Learning in strategic alliances: Reviewing the literature streams and crafting the agenda for future research36
Hindrances and outcomes of social bonding in exporter-importer relationships: The moderating role of formal contracting and ethical climate36
Bouncing back in turbulent business environments: Exploring resilience in business networks36
Improving PLS-SEM use for business marketing research36
Editorial Board Continued35
Do more friends make your way smooth? Supply chain relationships, moral disengagement, and innovation performance35
Inter-firm coopetition: The role of a firm's long-term orientation35
Tensions in value spaces: The organizational buying center and advanced services34
Is the buyer really king? A meta-analysis of the buyer advantage in sales negotiation34
Unpacking the management of Oligo-coopetition strategies in the absence of a moderating third party34
Cross-cultural determinants of global account management: Findings from B2B services34
Franchise network relationships and word of mouth communication in social media networks33
Innovative digital marketing management in B2B markets33
Market driving: Some directions for future research33
Resource interaction: Key concepts, relations and representations32
The knotted paradox of coopetition for sustainability: Investigating the interplay between core paradox properties32
Industry 4.0 and supply chain performance: A systematic literature review of the benefits, challenges, and critical success factors of 11 core technologies31
The influence of sustainability and digitalisation on business model innovation: The case of a multi-sided platform for food surplus redistribution31
Franchisees' adoption of omnichannel marketing31
Adoption of AI integrated partner relationship management (AI-PRM) in B2B sales channels: Exploratory study31
Source-oriented asymmetric information sharing in B2B negotiations: Two sides of time pressure30
Effects of complementors' perceived coopetition on fostering innovation: Evidence from Chinese software platforms30
Strategic agility in the B2B sharing economy ecosystem of emerging economies: Empirical insights from the Middle East30
The roles of relational diversity and embeddedness in absorptive capacity enhancement30
Can customer loyalty to a salesperson be harmful? Examining customer perceptions of salesperson emotional labor strategies post ethical transgressions29
Editorial Board Continued29
Institutions, effectuation and network outsidership: Reviews and case studies of foreign market entry29
Managing ad hoc sales encounters in B2B markets29
When being green is not enough – An experimental study of the effects of sustainable value propositions on B2B green buying decisions28
Principal-independent manufacturers' representative relationships: Review, synthesis, directions for future research28
Intra and inter-organizational paradoxes in product-service systems: Current insights and future research directions28
Key account management formalization and effectiveness: A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis28
Owner-managers failure experience and business model innovations in B2B firms: The roles of coopetition, managerial persistence, and financial resource slack27
A configurational approach to understanding relationship characteristics in differing levels of servitization27
The emergence of coopetition in highly regulated industries: A study on the Brazilian private healthcare market27
Fostering inclusive social innovation in subsistence marketplaces through community-level alliances: An institutional work perspective27
Is segmentation a theory? Improving the theoretical basis of a foundational concept in business-to-business marketing27
Does brand equity matter in small retailers' horizontal strategic alliances?26
Managing resource loops in circular supply chains: A taxonomy of multi-sided platforms in the B2B setting26
Integrating B2B and B2C research to explain industrial buyer behavior26
The relationship between a firm's pre-recall product and environment CSR efforts and post-recall market share25
Changing the market for a sustainable innovation25
Capabilities supporting digital servitization: A multi-actor perspective25
Unlocking the potential of Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) in the age of the industrial metaverse: Business models and challenges25
How does supplier relationship management affect supplier innovation contribution? Interorganizational learning and social exchange theory integrated perspectives24
Editorial Board Continued24
Improving brand performance through environmental reputation: The roles of ethical behaviorand brand satisfaction24
Call for papers for the Regional Industrial Marketing Management: Baltic States summit24
The impact of performance measurement diversity on customer-oriented selling behavior24
Realization and unrealization of servitization through everyday micro-level activities: The interplay between servitization practices, practitioners, and praxis24
Positioning strategies for B2B service markets24
Mental health and well-being in business-to-business markets24
Editorial Board24
Purchasing involvement in new product development: An absorptive capacity perspective24
Digital technology deployment and firm resilience: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic24
Do salesforce management systems actually drive salesperson intentions?24
Platform-provider relationship dynamics in the sharing economy: Challenges and implications24
Video-based sales interaction in cross-cultural B2B relationships: Potential (un)desired consequences23
How do firms capture value in a full-scene smart service? Effectiveness of value proposition and co-creation capabilities23
“Old boys' club”: Barriers to digital marketing in small B2B firms23
The role of technology in enabling circular supply chain management23
Opening up early or late? The effect of open innovation before and after product launch on new product market performance23
Dynamic capabilities that matter for business failure versus survival23
SMEs and artificial intelligence (AI): Antecedents and consequences of AI-based B2B practices22
Building mutual trust in collaborative green NPD: Evidence from China's digital infrastructure22
Fast-Track Your Academic Career: An Online Program Presented by the Editors of Industrial Marketing Management – 15 November and 29 November 2022 – Call for Participants22
Relational governance mechanisms as enablers of dynamic capabilities in Nigerian SMEs during the COVID-19 crisis22
Clearing the paradigmatic fog: A rejoinder to responses22
Interfirm coopetition, interfirm knowledge creation, and collaborative innovation performance: The moderating roles of environmental competitiveness and dysfunctional competition22
Key account managers' identification profiles and effectiveness: A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis22
Extending the conversation on market driving: An introduction to the special issue21
Contractual provisions, governance, and maintaining sales leadership: Evidence from franchise systems21
The IT buying center: Integrating the buying center and IT governance21
Conscientious enterprises: The role of decision makers' social identity and the preference to engage in B2B relationships21
Corrigendum to “Re-thinking strategic myopia: A necessary condition analysis of heuristic and firm's performance” [Industrial Marketing Management 115 (2023) 99-109]21
Market shaping for a fossil-free economy: Institutional work to change market practices of public procurement21
Phoenix rising: Rebounding to venture again post firm-failure21
Actor engagement in franchising: A social exchange perspective on CSR performance21
Unleashing R&D networks for ambidexterity: The interplay between internal and external networking capabilities21
Editorial Board21
Investigating governance of tolerable and intolerable dark sides in B2B dyads in post pandemic emerging markets21
Editorial: Outstanding Article Awards and Best Reviewer Awards 202420
Does buyers' financial slack promote or inhibit suppliers' circular economy performance?20
The future of marketing analytics in the sharing economy20
The value of congruence in social exchanges: A dyadic trust perspective on servitization20
Unite and conquer – End-to-end value creation through intra-organizational purchasing-sales integration20
Buying center-selling center interaction as a driver for power dynamics in buyer-supplier relationships20
B2B customer journeys: Conceptualization and an integrative framework20
Social media analytics for business-to-business marketing20
Developing identity of conscientious business-to-business organizations through integrative leadership20
Value creation, appropriation and destruction in coopetitive relationships among micro-firms20
Capability management control and salesperson turnover: A double-edged sword in a product complexity scenario20
Cultural sensemaking of corporate social responsibility: A dyadic view of Russian–Finnish business relationships20
Domains of innovation intent: A key leadership responsibility19
In anticipation of a downturn: The role of impression management in buffering against failure19
Towards export success: The role of inter-cultural B2B relationships, immigrant managers and cultural distance19
Uncovering the effectual-causal resilience nexus in the era of Covid-19: A case of a food sector SME's resilience in the face of the global pandemic19
Culturally diverse teams and inter-organizational knowledge sharing behavior: The role of perceived morality and relationship orientation19
Editorial Board19
The roles of shadow of the past and future in driving new product novelty and meaningfulness within coopetitive collaborations19
Empathy and EGO-drive in the B2B salesforce: Impacts on job satisfaction19
Unleashing the power of artificial intelligence for climate action in industrial markets19
When does (not) a coopetitive relationship matter to performance? An empirical investigation of the role of multidimensional trust and distrust19
Building green innovation networks for people, planet, and profit: A multi-level, multi-value approach19
Gender issues in key account management research: A systematic literature review and avenues for future research19
Coopetitive tensions across project phases: A paradox perspective19
Salespeople's experience with last-mile internal selling processes: Benefits and challenges18
Editorial Board18
Human asset specificity, physical asset specificity, and direct distribution18
Do Brands boost the impact of patents on innovation performance among innovation collaborators? Evidence from the UK18
Best Ph.D. thesis in business-to-business marketing management award18
B2B green marketing strategies for European firms: Implications for people, planet and profit18
Double-edged sword of open innovation for business failure in the post-pandemic era: The moderating roles of industrial embeddedness and absorptive capacity18
PRE-ANNOUNCEMENT: 8th Industrial Marketing Management Summit18
Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Effect of Allied Brands Negative Publicity on Brand Managers' Decision-Making17
Industrial innovation management in the age of digital transformation: The risk of too strong selling capabilities17
Staying alive: Coopetition and competitor oriented behaviour from a pre- to post COVID-19 pandemic era17
Sales compensation plan type and sales opportunity coverage: “Double-edged” sword effects on sales performance17
Effects of top management team faultlines in the service transition of manufacturing firms17
Looking back to move forward: Reviews and analyses of literature in industrial marketing17
Editorial Board17
Customer identification: The missing link between relationship quality and supplier performance17
Developing a coevolutionary account of innovation ecosystems17
Buyers apping? Determinants of current and future use of sellers' business-to-business mobile apps17
The role of top management teams' functional background diversity in firms' coopetitive behavior17
Advancing value-based selling research in B2B markets: A theoretical toolbox and research agenda17
B2B digital platform adoption by SMEs and large firms: Pathways and pitfalls17
Riding the waves or rocking the boat? Benefits and unintended consequences of customer growth strategies17
Facilitating artificial intelligence powered supply chain analytics through alliance management during the pandemic crises in the B2B context16
Editorial Board16
Editorial Board Continued16
Language in intercultural business interactions: A self-perceived power perspective16
Collaborative problemistic search capability and digital innovation: The moderating effects of IT capability and legal development16
Impact of carbon offset perceptions on greenwashing: Revealing intentions and strategies through an experimental approach16
Probing for omitted variable bias: The role of the impact threshold of a confounding variable in complementing instrumental variable estimations16
AI-based innovation in B2B marketing: An interdisciplinary framework incorporating academic and practitioner perspectives16
Managing digitalized touchpoints in B2B customer journeys16
Sustainable entrepreneurship: How do contextual factors play a role?16
Insights into processes underlying capability, complexity, and resilience using IMP assumptions to studying markets-as-networks16
Social media in B2B sales: Why and when does salesperson social media usage affect salesperson performance?16
Editorial Board Continued16
How should firms orchestrate intrinsic and extrinsic motivational strategies for diverse value-creation outcomes: Synergy or trade-off effect?16
When does boundary-spanner burnout connect participation and customer relationship performance? The role of the firm's network centrality and network density16
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