Dr Chris Medlin

Biography/ Background

Chris teaches in  Strategic Marketing, Market Planning, Market Management, and Market Research. Over the years Chris has supervised student preparation of hundreds of Marketing Plans for Adelaide and Australian based businesses, government departments and non-profit organisations.

His main research interests are business-to-business marketing and interorganisational theory, in particular business relationships and networks. Links to papers are included below.

Chris has published papers in the Journal of Business Research, Industrial Marketing Management and the Journal of Business-to-business Marketing. He has co-edited a number of books on Globalisation and Marketing, as well as a Special Issue of Industrial Marketing Management on "Time and Process Research in Business Network Research".

Chris is on the editorial board of the Industrial Marketing Management journal, the Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing and the Journal of  Business Market Management. He is also a member of the review board for the Journal of General Management.

Chris is a Fellow of the Australian Marketing Institute. He has been a member of the Australian Marketing Institute (AMI) for more than 20 years and  and he is a member of their Marketing Accreditation committee for higher education institutions. Chris has been awarded Certified Practising Marketer (CPM) status by the AMI.

 

Qualifications

B. Ec., Dip.Ed., Grad.Dip.Ed.Admin., MBA, Ph.D. Certified Practising Marketer

Teaching Interests

Industrial Marketing - Business Relationships and Networks

Strategic Marketing
Marketing
Market Research

Research Interests

Inter-organisation Theory, generally within the Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) Group tradition.

Two different streams of research:
1. Conceptualisation of Business Interaction and Time (eg Medlin IMM 2004; Halinen, Medlin, and Törnroos IMM 2012; Medlin and Saren 2012)

2. Quantitative modeling of buyer and supplier local management models to examine the interaction modes of dyads. (eg Medlin et al JBR 2005, Aurifeille and Medlin 2005, Medlin JBR 2006)

Papers can be downloaded at:
http://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/author?author=Medlin,+C

and also at

http://www.impgroup.org/papers.php

Medlin (2003) "A Dyadic Research Program: The Interaction Possibility Model"

Medlin (IMM 2004) "Interaction: a time perspective"

Medlin (JBR 2006) "Self and Collective Interest in Business Relationships"

 

Recent Publicatons

Journal Article

Havila, V., Medlin, C.J., and Salmi, A. (Forthcoming 2013). "Project-ending Competence in Premature Project Closures", International Journal of Project Management.

Havila, V. and Medlin, C.J. (2012). "Ending-competence in Business Closure." Industrial Marketing Management. 41 (3): 413-420.

Halinen, A., Medlin, C.J. & Törnroos, J.-Å. (2012). "Time and process in business network research". Industrial Marketing Management. 41(2): 215-223.

 

Book

Aurifeille, J.-M., Medlin, C.J. et al., Eds. (2011). Globalisation, Governance and Ethics: New Managerial and Economic Insights. Economic Issues, Problems and Perspectives. New York, Nova Science.

 

Book Chapter

 Medlin, C.J. & Saren, M. (2012)  Business-to-business interactions: Slowing-down and speeding-up change to create the future. in Business-to-business marketing management, strategies, cases and solutions. M.S. Glynn & A.G. Woodside, eds. Vol. 18, Emerald, p.173-190.

Aurifeille, J.-M. and Medlin, C.J. (2011). Inter-firm Governance and Relationship Performance: A Study of Market, Hierarchy and Relational Coordination Mechanisms. Globalisation, Governance and Ethics. J.-M. Aurifeille, C. J. Medlin, C. Tisdell, J. Gil Lafuente and J. Gil Aluja. New York, Nova Science.

               

Aurifeille, J.-M., Medlin, C.J. et al. (2011). Globalisation, Governance and Ethics: The Main Issues. Globalisation, Governance and Ethics: New Managerial and Economic Insights. J.-M. Aurifeille, C. J. Medlin, C. Tisdell, J. Gil Lafuente and J. Gil Aluja. New York, Nova Science.

               

Ito, T. and Medlin, C.J. (2011). Hierarchical Network Governance: An Examination of Keiretsu Networks. Globalisation, Governance and Ethics: New Managerial and Economic Insights. J.-M. Aurifeille, C. J. Medlin, C. Tisdell, J. Gil Lafuente and J. Gil Aluja. New York, Nova Science.

               

Conference Paper

Havila, V., and Medlin, C.J. et al. (2010). Project-Ending Competence in Networks: Two Cases of Large Inter-organizational Projects. IMP Annual Conference, Budapest.

               

Liu, V., and Medlin, C.J. et al. (2011). Flexibility in international B2B service relationships: The moderating roles of international experience, competition and market turbulence. EMAC, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

 

Medlin, C. J. and Törnroos, J.-Å. (2011). Adaptive and Exchange Interacting: Joining the Interaction and Actor-Resource-Activity Frameworks. IMP 2011. Glasgow.

               

Other Work

Medlin, C. J. (2011). Review of "Use of Science and Technology in Business: Exploring the Impact of Using Activity for Systems, Organizations, and People" by Hååkan Hååkansson, Alexandra Waluszewski, Frans Prenkert, and Enrico Baraldi. Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing. 18: 305-312.

               

Medlin, C. J. (2011). Time and process in business network research. International Business Research Roundtable. University of Adelaide.

               

Publications

Professional Associations

Fellow of the Australian Marketing Institute

Member, Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy

Member, European Marketing Academy

Member, Academy of Marketing Science

Entry last updated: Saturday, 5 May 2012