Industrial Marketing Management

Papers
(The median citation count of Industrial Marketing Management is 8. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
IMM Asia and Oceania Summit 2024316
Supplier experience as antecedent to supplier satisfaction - An explorative study of SMEs313
Amplifying retailers' sales with a hub's owned and earned social media: The moderating role of marketplace organic search184
Building and leveraging competence exploitation and exploration for firm new product success181
Artificial intelligence-enabled systems and innovation in B2B firms: The role of strategic agility and decision-making performance165
Exploring the impact of Industry 4.0 technologies on social sustainability through a circular economy approach159
Handling resource deficiencies through resource interaction in business networks159
Editorial: Best business-to-business marketing management Ph.D. thesis 2023134
A tale of two paradigms. A comment on Möller and Halinen (2022)127
Corporate sustainable brand identity work and network embeddedness: Learnings from Better Place (2007–2013)125
Toward a better understanding of value destruction: The case of food waste125
The timing of diverse external stakeholder involvement during interfirm open innovation: The effects on new product speed to market and product lifespan123
Call for papers: Industrial Marketing Management (IMM) African Summit: 10–12 September 2025120
The interplay of morality, emotional labor, and customer injustice: How salesperson experiences shape job satisfaction112
Blockchain implementation for circular supply chain management: Evaluating critical success factors109
Good fortune and its influence on B2B relationships: The case of the Mae Manee money solution campaign in Thailand102
Religiosity and psychological contracts in Asian B2B service relationships101
Integrating machine learning, modularity and supply chain integration for Branding 4.091
Restoring ecosystem brands: The role of sustainability-led innovation86
Relationship insecurity and dark-side behaviours in business-to-business relationships82
Does B2B WOM usage matter to channel relationship performance? The roles of organizational culture and psychic distance82
Editorial Board Continued81
Suppressing or motivating opportunism? The effectiveness of contract enforcement in manufacturer-distributor relationship79
Innovation outsourcing versus joint innovation in collaboration with suppliers: A strategic relational-institutional perspective78
Which is more effective for platform performance: Punishments or incentives?77
How to apply the event study methodology in STATA: An overview and a step-by-step guide for authors75
The contemporary face of word-of-mouth in B2B contexts: New technologies, practices and challenges72
The dynamic effects of learning: Host country experience and international joint venture termination72
Current state of the literature and new research directions on the nature of marketing in international B2B service firms: Special issue editorial72
Individual strategies as interaction modes for handling institutional logic diversity over time: A case study on a public-private collaboration project71
The fair trade of environmental effects and regional disparities71
Trust and opportunism as paradoxical tension: Implications for achieving sustainability in buyer-supplier relationships70
Advancing the service-specific and solution-centric model of creativity: The roles of salesperson intuition, emotional intelligence, and cognitive laziness69
The trade-off between trust and distrust in supply chain collaboration67
Under which conditions do manufacturing companies choose FDI for service provision in foreign markets? An investigation using fsQCA66
Creating value in servitization through digital service innovations66
The impact of dynamic capabilities in disrupted supply chains—The role of turbulence and dependence66
Understanding B2B customer journeys for complex digital services: The case of cloud computing65
The buying center concept as a milestone in industrial marketing: Review and research agenda65
An overview, empirical application, and discussion of the future research potential of Q&A models in B2B contexts64
Editorial Board Continued63
Moving the needle: Publishing academic-practitioner research in Industrial Marketing Management61
Why researchers should be cautious about using PLS-SEM57
Transitioning to artificial intelligence-based key account management: A critical assessment57
Salesperson knowledge sourcing inside the vendor organization: Examining the performance-relationship continuum given selected boundary conditions57
Blockchain technology for building buyer-supplier trust and transparency in supply chains: An experimental study on P2P online marketplace vendors56
A multilateral stakeholder salience approach: An extension of the stakeholder identification and salience framework56
Untying the knot: Drivers of the intention to downgrade the relationship in B2B service contexts55
Fairness asymmetry, changes in mutual trust, and supplier performance in buyer-supplier exchanges in China: A dyadic view54
Expanding into new product lines in response to COVID-19: The interplay between firm age and performance aspirations54
Does geographic distance to customers improve or inhibit supplier innovation? A moderated inverted-U relationship53
An ecosystem perspective synthesis of co-creation research52
Disruptive market-shaping processes: Exploring market formation for autonomous vehicle solutions51
Erratum to “Unpacking value creation and capture in B2B relationships” [Industrial Marketing Management – 92, 163–177]48
Towards an integration of corporate foresight in key account management48
Announcement of Outstanding Article 202148
Editorial Board Continued47
Editorial Board Continued47
Masterful scholarly competences and the development of impactful B2B marketing theory: Contributions of Dr. Shelby D. Hunt47
The parallax nature of studying business markets, relationships and networks46
Call for Papers for the 9th Industrial Marketing Management Summit44
We are not on the same page: The effects of salesperson trust overestimation on customer satisfaction and relationship performance44
Is social media B2B engagement driven by impression management strategies? Understanding corporate-driven versus individual-driven LinkedIn profiles43
Whether and when do alliance terminations pay off?43
The AI transformation of product innovation42
The role of cool versus warm colors in B2B versus B2C firm-generated content for boosting positive eWOM42
Editorial: Social network analysis in marketing: A step-by-step guide for researchers42
Crisis-driven innovations in marketing42
Do senior managers hold the keys to unlock innovation and environmental sustainability?42
Examining buyers' negative word-of-mouth intentions following suspected salesperson transgressions41
A step-by-step guide of (fuzzy set) qualitative comparative analysis: From theory to practice via an implementation in a B2B context40
The balancing act: Organizational agility in fast-growing international ventures40
Contextual agility informing market shaping39
Choosing contracts to support ALFO strategy: Insights from comparing franchised and managed hotels39
A meta-analytic synthesis of how market and entrepreneurial orientation contribute to export performance: Do home country institutions matter?39
Do emerging market multinational corporations headquarter-subsidiary relationships foster subsidiary innovation and performance in developed markets?38
Governing the interplay of inter-organizational relationship mechanisms in open innovation projects across ecosystems38
Bouncing back in turbulent business environments: Exploring resilience in business networks37
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 research37
What impacts customer experience for B2B enterprises on using AI-enabled chatbots? Insights from Big data analytics37
Do more friends make your way smooth? Supply chain relationships, moral disengagement, and innovation performance36
Improving PLS-SEM use for business marketing research36
Editorial Board Continued36
Leveraging consumer behavior research to forge new insights into B2B buyer behavior: Contextualizing extant research and developing a research agenda36
Hindrances and outcomes of social bonding in exporter-importer relationships: The moderating role of formal contracting and ethical climate36
Franchisees' adoption of omnichannel marketing35
Market driving: Some directions for future research35
Is the buyer really king? A meta-analysis of the buyer advantage in sales negotiation35
The knotted paradox of coopetition for sustainability: Investigating the interplay between core paradox properties34
Tensions in value spaces: The organizational buying center and advanced services34
Cross-cultural determinants of global account management: Findings from B2B services33
Unpacking the management of Oligo-coopetition strategies in the absence of a moderating third party33
The influence of sustainability and digitalisation on business model innovation: The case of a multi-sided platform for food surplus redistribution32
Resource interaction: Key concepts, relations and representations32
Signalling trust: supplier communication, buyer risk propensity, and e-marketplace engagement among B2B SMEs32
Editorial Board32
Franchise network relationships and word of mouth communication in social media networks32
Industry 4.0 and supply chain performance: A systematic literature review of the benefits, challenges, and critical success factors of 11 core technologies31
Adoption of AI integrated partner relationship management (AI-PRM) in B2B sales channels: Exploratory study31
Inter-firm coopetition: The role of a firm's long-term orientation31
Key account management formalization and effectiveness: A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis30
Strategic agility in the B2B sharing economy ecosystem of emerging economies: Empirical insights from the Middle East30
Institutions, effectuation and network outsidership: Reviews and case studies of foreign market entry30
Editorial Board Continued30
How does supplier relationship management affect supplier innovation contribution? Interorganizational learning and social exchange theory integrated perspectives30
Managing ad hoc sales encounters in B2B markets30
Does brand equity matter in small retailers' horizontal strategic alliances?30
Intra and inter-organizational paradoxes in product-service systems: Current insights and future research directions30
The roles of relational diversity and embeddedness in absorptive capacity enhancement30
Principal-independent manufacturers' representative relationships: Review, synthesis, directions for future research29
Is segmentation a theory? Improving the theoretical basis of a foundational concept in business-to-business marketing29
Fostering inclusive social innovation in subsistence marketplaces through community-level alliances: An institutional work perspective29
When being green is not enough – An experimental study of the effects of sustainable value propositions on B2B green buying decisions29
The emergence of coopetition in highly regulated industries: A study on the Brazilian private healthcare market28
Effects of complementors' perceived coopetition on fostering innovation: Evidence from Chinese software platforms28
Integrating B2B and B2C research to explain industrial buyer behavior28
Can customer loyalty to a salesperson be harmful? Examining customer perceptions of salesperson emotional labor strategies post ethical transgressions27
Purchasing involvement in new product development: An absorptive capacity perspective27
Owner-managers failure experience and business model innovations in B2B firms: The roles of coopetition, managerial persistence, and financial resource slack26
Changing the market for a sustainable innovation26
The impact of performance measurement diversity on customer-oriented selling behavior26
A configurational approach to understanding relationship characteristics in differing levels of servitization26
Source-oriented asymmetric information sharing in B2B negotiations: Two sides of time pressure26
Digital technology deployment and firm resilience: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic26
Capabilities supporting digital servitization: A multi-actor perspective26
The relationship between a firm's pre-recall product and environment CSR efforts and post-recall market share26
Unlocking the potential of Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) in the age of the industrial metaverse: Business models and challenges26
Managing resource loops in circular supply chains: A taxonomy of multi-sided platforms in the B2B setting26
Editorial Board25
The role of technology in enabling circular supply chain management25
Realization and unrealization of servitization through everyday micro-level activities: The interplay between servitization practices, practitioners, and praxis25
Positioning strategies for B2B service markets25
Opening up early or late? The effect of open innovation before and after product launch on new product market performance25
Do salesforce management systems actually drive salesperson intentions?25
How do firms capture value in a full-scene smart service? Effectiveness of value proposition and co-creation capabilities25
Dynamic capabilities that matter for business failure versus survival25
Editorial Board Continued25
Building mutual trust in collaborative green NPD: Evidence from China's digital infrastructure25
Call for papers for the Regional Industrial Marketing Management: Baltic States summit24
“Old boys' club”: Barriers to digital marketing in small B2B firms24
Interfirm coopetition, interfirm knowledge creation, and collaborative innovation performance: The moderating roles of environmental competitiveness and dysfunctional competition24
SMEs and artificial intelligence (AI): Antecedents and consequences of AI-based B2B practices24
Video-based sales interaction in cross-cultural B2B relationships: Potential (un)desired consequences24
Improving brand performance through environmental reputation: The roles of ethical behaviorand brand satisfaction24
Fast-Track Your Academic Career: An Online Program Presented by the Editors of Industrial Marketing Management – 15 November and 29 November 2022 – Call for Participants24
Platform-provider relationship dynamics in the sharing economy: Challenges and implications24
Mental health and well-being in business-to-business markets24
Relational governance mechanisms as enablers of dynamic capabilities in Nigerian SMEs during the COVID-19 crisis24
Key account managers' identification profiles and effectiveness: A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis23
Phoenix rising: Rebounding to venture again post firm-failure23
Extending the conversation on market driving: An introduction to the special issue23
Editorial Board23
Contractual provisions, governance, and maintaining sales leadership: Evidence from franchise systems23
Actor engagement in franchising: A social exchange perspective on CSR performance23
Clearing the paradigmatic fog: A rejoinder to responses23
Corrigendum to “Re-thinking strategic myopia: A necessary condition analysis of heuristic and firm's performance” [Industrial Marketing Management 115 (2023) 99-109]23
The IT buying center: Integrating the buying center and IT governance23
Unite and conquer – End-to-end value creation through intra-organizational purchasing-sales integration22
Market shaping for a fossil-free economy: Institutional work to change market practices of public procurement21
Buying center-selling center interaction as a driver for power dynamics in buyer-supplier relationships21
Conscientious enterprises: The role of decision makers' social identity and the preference to engage in B2B relationships21
The value of congruence in social exchanges: A dyadic trust perspective on servitization21
Editorial: Outstanding Article Awards and Best Reviewer Awards 202421
Social media analytics for business-to-business marketing21
Developing identity of conscientious business-to-business organizations through integrative leadership21
Unleashing R&D networks for ambidexterity: The interplay between internal and external networking capabilities21
Cultural sensemaking of corporate social responsibility: A dyadic view of Russian–Finnish business relationships21
Does buyers' financial slack promote or inhibit suppliers' circular economy performance?21
Investigating governance of tolerable and intolerable dark sides in B2B dyads in post pandemic emerging markets21
Domains of innovation intent: A key leadership responsibility20
The future of marketing analytics in the sharing economy20
RETRACTED: Value creation, appropriation and destruction in coopetitive relationships among micro-firms20
B2B customer journeys: Conceptualization and an integrative framework20
In anticipation of a downturn: The role of impression management in buffering against failure20
Capability management control and salesperson turnover: A double-edged sword in a product complexity scenario20
When does (not) a coopetitive relationship matter to performance? An empirical investigation of the role of multidimensional trust and distrust20
B2B green marketing strategies for European firms: Implications for people, planet and profit20
Culturally diverse teams and inter-organizational knowledge sharing behavior: The role of perceived morality and relationship orientation20
Editorial Board20
Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Effect of Allied Brands Negative Publicity on Brand Managers' Decision-Making19
Empathy and EGO-drive in the B2B salesforce: Impacts on job satisfaction19
Do Brands boost the impact of patents on innovation performance among innovation collaborators? Evidence from the UK19
Towards export success: The role of inter-cultural B2B relationships, immigrant managers and cultural distance19
Unleashing the power of artificial intelligence for climate action in industrial markets19
Best Ph.D. thesis in business-to-business marketing management award19
Looking back to move forward: Reviews and analyses of literature in industrial marketing19
Language in intercultural business interactions: A self-perceived power perspective19
Building green innovation networks for people, planet, and profit: A multi-level, multi-value approach19
Human asset specificity, physical asset specificity, and direct distribution19
Double-edged sword of open innovation for business failure in the post-pandemic era: The moderating roles of industrial embeddedness and absorptive capacity19
Coopetitive tensions across project phases: A paradox perspective19
PRE-ANNOUNCEMENT: 8th Industrial Marketing Management Summit19
Buyers apping? Determinants of current and future use of sellers' business-to-business mobile apps19
Gender issues in key account management research: A systematic literature review and avenues for future research19
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
The roles of shadow of the past and future in driving new product novelty and meaningfulness within coopetitive collaborations19
Salespeople's experience with last-mile internal selling processes: Benefits and challenges19
Editorial Board19
Editorial Board19
Industrial innovation management in the age of digital transformation: The risk of too strong selling capabilities18
Insights into processes underlying capability, complexity, and resilience using IMP assumptions to studying markets-as-networks18
Collaborative problemistic search capability and digital innovation: The moderating effects of IT capability and legal development18
Riding the waves or rocking the boat? Benefits and unintended consequences of customer growth strategies18
Staying alive: Coopetition and competitor oriented behaviour from a pre- to post COVID-19 pandemic era18
AI-based innovation in B2B marketing: An interdisciplinary framework incorporating academic and practitioner perspectives18
Effects of top management team faultlines in the service transition of manufacturing firms18
When does boundary-spanner burnout connect participation and customer relationship performance? The role of the firm's network centrality and network density18
Sustainable entrepreneurship: How do contextual factors play a role?18
Customer identification: The missing link between relationship quality and supplier performance18
Managing digitalized touchpoints in B2B customer journeys18
Social media in B2B sales: Why and when does salesperson social media usage affect salesperson performance?18
How should firms orchestrate intrinsic and extrinsic motivational strategies for diverse value-creation outcomes: Synergy or trade-off effect?18
Sales compensation plan type and sales opportunity coverage: “Double-edged” sword effects on sales performance18
The role of top management teams' functional background diversity in firms' coopetitive behavior18
B2B digital platform adoption by SMEs and large firms: Pathways and pitfalls18
Impact of carbon offset perceptions on greenwashing: Revealing intentions and strategies through an experimental approach18
Facilitating artificial intelligence powered supply chain analytics through alliance management during the pandemic crises in the B2B context17
Editorial Board Continued17
Game changer or threat: The impact of 3D printing on the logistics supplier circular supply chain17
Advancing value-based selling research in B2B markets: A theoretical toolbox and research agenda17
Editorial Board17
A synthesis of research on the marketing-sales interface (1984–2020)17
B2B brand positioning – A capability (exploration x exploitation) based typology: Cases from the Middle East17
Developing a coevolutionary account of innovation ecosystems17
Editorial Board Continued17
Customer value-in-use monitoring in business markets: An investigation into its determinants and consequences17
Exploring the dark side of managerial upselling emphasis: Exploratory and exploitative learning's moderating roles in salesperson emotional exhaustion and performance17
Leadership style's role in fostering supply chain agility amid geopolitical shocks16
Agile transformation in dynamic, high-technology markets: Drivers, inhibitors, and execution16
The elusiveness of business networks—Why do science park firm tenants not collaborate with neighbors?16
A tension-based maturity model for customer education in knowledge-intensive business service firms16
An integrated AI framework for managing organizational risk and climate change concerns in B2B market16
Only senior managers lead business model innovation, or do they? Levels of management and dynamic capability deployment16
A hostile tale of disclosure and betrayal: Business perceptions of offshoring services16
Probing for omitted variable bias: The role of the impact threshold of a confounding variable in complementing instrumental variable estimations16
Unveiling the effects of livestream studio environment design on sales performance: A machine learning exploration16
Editorial Board16
A systematic literature review on network marketing: What do we know and where should we be heading?16
Rethinking customer engagement design: Using customer-mobilized engagement (CME) to grow business networks16
Social media marketing assimilation in B2B firms: An integrative framework of antecedents and consequences16
Building a commercialization capability: A dynamic capability view16
Navigating the demands of increasing customer participation through firm and individual job resources16
Strategic nets in tourism destinations: Investigating the learning processes underpinning dynamic management capabilities16
Perception of value delivered in digital servitization16
Market dialogue in public procurement: Buyer-supplier interfaces and relational abilities16
Knowledge transfer in business-to-business customer relationship development16
What's in it for me? The occurrence of supplier innovation contribution in the context of supplier-dominant innovation: The supplier's perspective16
A contextual account of digital servitization through autonomous solutions: Aligning a digital servitization process and a maritime service ecosystem transformation to autonomous shipping16
Announcement of Best B2B Marketing Management Ph.D. Prize Competition, 202515
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