Professor Ian Wilkinson
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Professor Ian Wilkinson

BSc (Hons) Southampton; MSc Warwick; PhD UNSW; FANZMAC; FRSN
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Professor Ian Wilkinson

Ian is an Honorary Professor of Marketing in the University of Sydney Business School and a Professor (part time) in the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Relationship Management, University of Southern Denmark. He was previously Professor of Marketing at UNSW and Foundation Chair in Marketing at the University of Western Sydney, Nepean. He was educated in the UK and Australia, where he completed the first ever doctorate in marketing at UNSW in 1972. He has held academic posts at various American, European as well as Australian universities.

He has published four books and over 250 research papers. His h-Index is 53 (12/2020) with total citations of 13,033 (source: Google Scholar). An international study published in Public Library of Science (PLoS) in 2020 includes him as among the top 2% of marketing academics.

His current research focuses the development and management of business relations and networks as complex adaptive systems. His research has been funded by grants from the Australian Research Council, the Australian Trade Commission and various University Research Grants. He is a member of the editorial review board of many international journals and regional editor for the J of Business and Industrial Marketing and J of Business and Business Marketing.

Professor Wilkinson's research focus is on business to business marketing, with an emphasis on the nature and role of business relations and networks. Currently he is examining the structure and dynamics of actual business relations and networks using case studies and, with others as part of an ARC Discovery project, developing agent based models of the development and evolution of business relations and networks in order to develop "flight simulators" for managers and policy makers. Other interests include innovation and opportunity discovery processes in business, the reliability and validity of managers as key informants in surveys, complex systems theory and management and process theories of change.

In 2005 he was awarded the Distinguished Researcher of the Year Award for his contributions to research in marketing by the Australia New Zealand Marketing Academy and made a Fellow in 2010. In 2014 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW.

Publications

Books

  • Wilkinson, I. (2008). Business Relating Business: Managing Organisational Relation and Networks. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Edited Books

  • Kleinaltenkamp, M., Plinke, W., Wilkinson, I., Geiger, I. (2015). Fundamentals of Business-to-Business Marketing: Mastering Business Markets. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Book Chapters

  • Held, F., Wilkinson, I. (2024). Collaborating with Managers to Develop Flight Simulators to Address Complex Problems Using Agent-Based Models. In Per Vagn Freytag, Louise Young (Eds.), Collaborative Research Design: Working with Business for Meaningful Findings, (pp. 367-377). Singapore: Springer.
  • Held, F., Wilkinson, I. (2018). Computer Simulation and Agent-Based Models as a Research Method. In Per Vagn Freytag, Louise Young (Eds.), Collaborative Research Design: Working with Business for Meaningful Findings, (pp. 377-398). Singapore: Springer. [More Information]
  • Evers, W., Wilkinson, I., Freytag, P. (2018). Displaying Research Results. In Per Vagn Freytag, Louise Young (Eds.), Collaborative Research Design: Working with Business for Meaningful Findings, (pp. 285-310). Singapore: Springer. [More Information]

Journals

  • Wilkinson, I., Young, L. (2021). Vale Roger A. Layton: The Father of Marketing in Australasia. Australasian Marketing Journal, 29(4), 379-379. [More Information]
  • Mooi, E., Mani, S., Kleinaltenkamp, M., Lilien, G., Wilkinson, I. (2020). Connect, engage, transform: how B2B researchers can engage in impactful industry collaboration. Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, 35(8), 1305-1310. [More Information]
  • Daniels, K., Wilkinson, I., Young, L., Lu, Q. (2020). Extreme brand love: measuring and modelling the intensity of sports team love. European Journal of Marketing, 54(9), 2195-2221. [More Information]

Conferences

  • Vagn Freytag, P., Ingstrup, M., Young, L., Wilkinson, I. (2016). Facilitating and Framing Network Entry in New International Networks: The Cases of Danish Water Technologies and Australian Agriculture in Asia. 32nd Annual International Marketing and Purchasing Conference (IMP 2016), Poznan: IMP Group.
  • Matous, P., Pattison, P., Wilkinson, I., Perez, P., Axtell, R., Todo, Y., Wang, P. (2016). Modelling the resilience and disruption propagation in Australian business networks at the firm level. 2nd European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN), Paris, France: Presses de Sciences Po.
  • Huang, Y., Wilkinson, I. (2013). Conceptualizing Dynamics of Trust in Business Relationships. The 29th Annual IMP Conference, Atlanta, USA: IMP Group.

Magazine / Newspaper Articles

  • Wilkinson, I. (2011). Baby-Boomer Academics – Time for a Change? Australian Financial Review, March/ April.
  • Wilkinson, I. (2006). Stay Cool on Global Warming. Australian School of Business Magazine.

Other

  • Wilkinson, I. (2012), There's a quiet revolution going on in the social sciences. Ockham's Razor, ABC Radio National.
  • Wilkinson, I. (2007), How the hell do they do it . and why?. Perspective, ABC Radio National.

2024

  • Held, F., Wilkinson, I. (2024). Collaborating with Managers to Develop Flight Simulators to Address Complex Problems Using Agent-Based Models. In Per Vagn Freytag, Louise Young (Eds.), Collaborative Research Design: Working with Business for Meaningful Findings, (pp. 367-377). Singapore: Springer.

2021

  • Wilkinson, I., Young, L. (2021). Vale Roger A. Layton: The Father of Marketing in Australasia. Australasian Marketing Journal, 29(4), 379-379. [More Information]

2020

  • Mooi, E., Mani, S., Kleinaltenkamp, M., Lilien, G., Wilkinson, I. (2020). Connect, engage, transform: how B2B researchers can engage in impactful industry collaboration. Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, 35(8), 1305-1310. [More Information]
  • Daniels, K., Wilkinson, I., Young, L., Lu, Q. (2020). Extreme brand love: measuring and modelling the intensity of sports team love. European Journal of Marketing, 54(9), 2195-2221. [More Information]

2018

  • Earnest, D., Wilkinson, I. (2018). An agent based model of the evolution of supplier networks. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 24(1), 112-144. [More Information]
  • Held, F., Wilkinson, I. (2018). Computer Simulation and Agent-Based Models as a Research Method. In Per Vagn Freytag, Louise Young (Eds.), Collaborative Research Design: Working with Business for Meaningful Findings, (pp. 377-398). Singapore: Springer. [More Information]
  • Evers, W., Wilkinson, I., Freytag, P. (2018). Displaying Research Results. In Per Vagn Freytag, Louise Young (Eds.), Collaborative Research Design: Working with Business for Meaningful Findings, (pp. 285-310). Singapore: Springer. [More Information]

2017

  • Dawson, B., Young, L., Wilkinson, I., Murray, J. (2017). Drivers of Supplier-Customer Relationship Profitability in China: Assessing International Joint Ventures versus State Owned Enterprises. Industrial Marketing Management, 66, 29-41. [More Information]
  • Chandra, Y., Wilkinson, I. (2017). Firm internationalization from a network-centric complex-systems perspective. Journal of World Business, 52(5), 691-701. [More Information]

2016

  • Frow, P., Payne, A., Wilkinson, I., Young, L. (2016). CRM and customer management: Identifying and confronting dark side behaviours. In Bang Nguyen, Lyndon Simkin and Ana Isabel Canhoto (Eds.), The Dark Side of CRM: Customers, Relationships and Management, (pp. 21-38). Oxon: Routledge. [More Information]
  • Vagn Freytag, P., Ingstrup, M., Young, L., Wilkinson, I. (2016). Facilitating and Framing Network Entry in New International Networks: The Cases of Danish Water Technologies and Australian Agriculture in Asia. 32nd Annual International Marketing and Purchasing Conference (IMP 2016), Poznan: IMP Group.
  • Matous, P., Pattison, P., Wilkinson, I., Perez, P., Axtell, R., Todo, Y., Wang, P. (2016). Modelling the resilience and disruption propagation in Australian business networks at the firm level. 2nd European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN), Paris, France: Presses de Sciences Po.

2015

  • Young, L., Wilkinson, I., Smith, A. (2015). A Scientometric Analysis of Publications in the Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing 1993-2014. Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing, 22(1-2), 111-123. [More Information]
  • Kleinaltenkamp, M., Plinke, W., Wilkinson, I., Geiger, I. (2015). Fundamentals of Business-to-Business Marketing: Mastering Business Markets. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
  • Wilkinson, I., Young, L. (2015). Kleinaltenkamp Integration: The Man and the Academic. In Sabine Fliess, Michaela Haase, Frank Jacob, Michael Ehret (Eds.), Kundenintegration und Leistungslehre: Integrative Wertschöpfung in Dienstleistungen, Solutions und Entrepreneurship, (pp. 33-42). Wiesbaden: Springer. [More Information]

2014

  • Huang, Y., Wilkinson, I. (2014). A Case Study of the Development of Trust in a Business Relation: Implications for a Dynamic Theory of Trust. Journal of Business Market Management, 7(1), 254-279.
  • Held, F., Wilkinson, I., Marks, R., Young, L. (2014). Agent-based Modelling, a new kind of research. Australasian Marketing Journal, 22(1), 4-14. [More Information]
  • Wilkinson, I., Held, F., Marks, R., Young, L. (2014). Developing Agent-Based Models of Business Relations and Networks. In Not known (Eds.), Networks in Society: Links and Language, (pp. 113-140). TBC. [More Information]

2013

  • Huang, Y., Wilkinson, I. (2013). Conceptualizing Dynamics of Trust in Business Relationships. The 29th Annual IMP Conference, Atlanta, USA: IMP Group.
  • Siebers, P., Wilkinson, I. (2013). Editorial: Multi-agent simulation as a novel decision support tool for innovation and technology management. International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management, 10(5), 1-4. [More Information]
  • Borg, S., Young, L., Wilkinson, I. (2013). NLP - The Lubricator of Buyer-Seller Relationships? 6th International Conference on Business Market Management (BMM 2013), Bamberg, Germany: University of Bamberg.

2012

  • Chandra, Y., Styles, C., Wilkinson, I. (2012). An Opportunity-Based View of Rapid Internationalization. Journal of International Marketing, 20(1), 74-102. [More Information]
  • Wilkinson, I. (2012). Introduction to Special Issue on the Life and Work of Roger A Layton. Australasian Marketing Journal, 20(3), 179-180. [More Information]
  • Wilkinson, I. (2012). Roger A. Layton and marketing systems theory. Australasian Marketing Journal, 20(3), 185-189. [More Information]

2011

  • Wilkinson, I. (2011). Baby-Boomer Academics – Time for a Change? Australian Financial Review, March/ April.
  • Frow, P., Payne, A., Wilkinson, I., Young, L. (2011). Customer Management and CRM: Addressing the Dark Side. Journal of Services Marketing, 25(2), 79-89. [More Information]
  • Wilkinson, I. (2011). Don Dixon: A Scholar of Marketing and Gentleman of the First Order. Journal of Historical Research in Marketing, 3(1), 96-107. [More Information]

2010

  • Wilkinson, I., Wong, C., Young, L. (2010). Buyer-Seller Relationship Taxonomies in Stable and Unstable Environments. Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference ANZMAC 2010, New Zealand: Department of Management, College of Business and Economics, University of Canterbury.
  • Held, F., Marks, R., Young, L., Wilkinson, I. (2010). Exploring the Dynamics of Economic Networks - First Steps of a Research Project. 3rd World Congress on Social Simulation WCSS 2010.
  • Etemad, H., Wilkinson, I., Dana, L. (2010). Internetization as the necessary condition for internationalization in the newly emerging economy. Journal of International Entrepreneurship, 8(4), 319-342. [More Information]

2009

  • Young, L., Wiley, J., Wilkinson, I. (2009). A comparison of European and Chinese supplier and customer functions and the impact of connected relations. Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, 24(1), 35-45. [More Information]
  • Chandra, Y., Styles, C., Wilkinson, I. (2009). An Illustrative Case of International Entreprepreneurship: Biovite Australia Pty Ltd. Asia Pacific Symposium on Entrepreneurship and Innovation 2009, Australia: University of Sydney.
  • March, R., Wilkinson, I. (2009). Conceptual tools for evaluating tourism partnerships. Tourism Management, 30(3), 455-462. [More Information]

2008

  • Wilkinson, I. (2008). Business Relating Business: Managing Organisational Relation and Networks. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Wilkinson, I., March, R. (2008). Conceptual Tools for Evaluating Tourism Partnerships. In Noel Scott, Chris Cooper, Rodolfo Baggio (Eds.), Network analysis and tourism: from theory to practice, (pp. 27-39). United Kingdom: Channel View Publications.
  • Wilkinson, I., Frow, P., Payne, A., Young, L. (2008). Customer Husbandry: The Rearing, Growing and Fleecing of Customers. 11th Australia and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference ANZMAC 2008, Australia: Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy (ANZMAC).

2007

  • Huang, Y., Wilkinson, I., Young, L. (2007). A Case Study on the Dynamics of Trust in Dyadic Business Relationships. Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference ANZMAC 2007, New Zealand: Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy (ANZMAC).
  • Wilkinson, I., Young, L. (2007). Escher Does It Better: Re-Presenting our Concepts, Theories, Models and Methods. Theory Development Colloquium on Internationalization, Marketing and Networking 2007.
  • Wilkinson, I., Young, L. (2007). Extending the Mind and Body of the Firm Through Global Partnerships. In Jacques-Marie Aurifeille, Serge Svizzero, Clement Allan Tisdell (Eds.), Globalization and Partnerships: Features of Business Alliances and International Cooperation, (pp. 39-46). United States: Nova Science Publishers.

2006

  • Debenham, J., Wilkinson, I. (2006). Exploration versus Exploitation in Market Competition. Industry and Innovation, 13(3), 263-289. [More Information]
  • Wilkinson, I. (2006). Modeling Market Competition and the Dynamics and Evolution of Business Relations and Networks Agent Based Models of Market. 1st Agent-Based Models of Market Dynamics and Consumer Behaviour Workshop 2006, United States: Elsevier.
  • Rong, B., Wilkinson, I. (2006). Reinterpreting the Market Orientation-Performance Relationship: A Psychological Perspective. Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference ANZMAC 2006, Melbourne, Australia: Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy (ANZMAC).

2005

  • Wilkinson, I., Young, L. (2005). A Planning Framework for Relationships and Networks. In Per Andersson, Susanne Hertz, Susannne Sweet (Eds.), Perspectives on Market Networks: Boundaries and New Connections, (pp. 39-52). Sweden: Stockholm School of Economics.
  • Wilkinson, I., Young, L., Vagn Freytag, P. (2005). Business mating: Who chooses and who gets chosen? Industrial Marketing Management, 34(7 Special), 669-680. [More Information]
  • Wiley, J., Wilkinson, I., Young, L. (2005). Evaluating a Model of Industrial Relationship Performance: A Comparison of European and Chinese results using the IMP Data Base. Australasian Marketing Journal, 13(2), 49-60. [More Information]

2004

  • Wilkinson, I., Widjojo, Y. (2004). Asian Intra-cultural Perceptions and Response to Cultural Stimuli in Advertising. 33rd Annual European Marketing Academy Conference 2004 (EMAC), Murcia, Spain: University of Murcia.
  • Wilkinson, I., Young, L. (2004). Evolution of Networks and Cognitive Balance. 20th Annual Industrial Marketing and Purchasing Group Conference IMP 2004, Denmark: IMP Group.
  • Wilkinson, I., Buttriss, G. (2004). From 'snap-shots' to 'moving pictures': Tracing Processes Using Narrative Sequence Analysis in the Evolution of an E-Business. 20th Annual Industrial Marketing and Purchasing Group Conference IMP 2004, Denmark: IMP Group.

2003

  • Wilkinson, I., Nguyen, V. (2003). A Contingency Model of Export Entry Mode Performance: The Role of Production and Transaction Costs. Australasian Marketing Journal, 11(3), 44-60. [More Information]
  • Wilkinson, I., Young, L. (2003). A view from the edge. Marketing Theory, 3(1), 179-181. [More Information]
  • Wilkinson, I., Vagn Freytag, P., Young, L., Chery, M. (2003). Business Mating: Who Chooses Whom and Gets Chosen? 19th Industrial Marketing and Purchasing Group Conference IMP 2003, United Kingdom: Industrial Marketing and Purchasing Group.

2002

  • Welch, C., Wilkinson, I. (2002). Idea Logics and Network Theory in Business Marketing. Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing, 9(3), 27-48.

Selected Grants

2010

  • Modelling the Development and Evolution of Business Relations and Networks as Complex Adaptive Systems using Agent Based Models, Wilkinson I, Marks R, Young L, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2007

  • "It's all about me" Anthropomorphised Trading in Believable Electronic Markets, Simoff S, Debenham J, Sierra C, Wilkinson I, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)