Special CALL FOR PAPERS

The IPSERA 2025 conference theme is “Room for Talent”. In the dynamic world that we currently live in, we need to find, nurture, and cultivate PSM talent to deal with a multitude of challenges, such as:

• Giving meaningful substance to PSM’s pivotal role in mitigating the organization’s negative impact on people and planet, and increasing its positive impact
• Dealing with increasing demands for supply chain transparency
• Integrating new technologies, including artificial intelligence, in PSM processes
• Managing trade-offs between quality, cost, sustainability, and risk to maximize value for all stakeholders
• Building the optimal supply base and connecting supplier solutions to internal customers’ needs

These challenges, both existing and new, require that PSM experts develop a diverse skill set and invest in life-long learning. We invite authors to explicitly reflect on the skills and competencies required to navigate current PSM challenges.

GENERAL CALL FOR PAPERS

The IPSERA 2025 conference provides a forum for academics and practitioners to present research papers and discuss the future developments of the field. The conference theme offers the opportunity for a broad range of purchasing and supply chain topics which can be divided in the following streams:

1. Purchasing talent, skills, competences
2. PSM strategy
3. Purchasing organisation
4. Category management
5. Supplier selection
6. Outsourcing, offshoring, reshoring
7. Negotiation and contracting
8. P2P, sourcing analysis
9. Supplier relationships/performance/development
10. Purchasing innovation
11. Digital
12. Ethics
13. Public procurement
14. Project procurement
15. PSM theory, methodology, education
16. Sustainability - environmental
17. Sustainability - social
18. Risk and resilience
19. Supply chain finance
20. Sector/industry studies ( e.g., healthcare,  fashion, etc.)
    
    

Three types of papers will be accepted 

• Competitive papers based on a full paper (followed by a revised paper after acceptance)
• Working papers based on an abstract (followed by a working paper after acceptance) 
• Practitioner papers based on an abstract (followed by a practitioner paper after acceptance) 

COMPETITIVE PAPERS

Competitive papers should be conceptual or empirical papers that are, in principle, ready for submission to a journal (max. 15 pages excluding references/appendices).

WORKING PAPERS

Working papers indicate “work in progress”. These papers can report on empirical or conceptual research (max. 10 pages).

PRACTITIONER PAPERS

Practitioner papers can only be submitted by practitioners (although academics can be involved as co-authors) and should be based on best practice approaches within and/or across organisations rather than commercial promotion material for a business or product (max. 10 pages).

Important: Check the template and the Key Dates page to correctly and timely submit your paper.