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<p class="MsoNormal">Greetings,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">the next IPSERA (International and Purchasing and Supply Education and Research Association) conference is organized by the University of Tennessee, in Knoxville, April 5<sup>th</sup> – 8<sup>th</sup>, 2020. Attached
the Call for Papers for the conference, Educators’ and Doctoral Workshop.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For more information, here’s the link also for the conference webpage:
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-fareast-language:FI"><a href="https://haslam.utk.edu/ipsera2020"><span style="color:blue">https://haslam.utk.edu/ipsera2020</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:FI"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:FI">Kind regards,
</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Script MT Bold";mso-fareast-language:FI">Marika Tuomela-Pyykkönen<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7B7B7B;mso-fareast-language:FI">Ph.D. Researcher, M.Sc. (Econ. and Bus. Admin.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7B7B7B;mso-fareast-language:FI">IPSERA Executive Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#777777;mso-fareast-language:FI"><br>
Department of Management, Marketing and International Business<br>
Oulu Business School<br>
<b>University of Oulu<br>
</b>Finland<br>
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mobile +358 40 6736 877<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#777777;mso-fareast-language:FI">Email: marika.tuomela—pyykkonen(at)oulu.fi<br>
</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:FI"><a href="http://www.oulu.fi/oulubusinessschool/"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#777777">www.oulu.fi/oulubusinessschool</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FI"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A;mso-fareast-language:FI">“People don’t buy a quarter-inch drill bit, they buy a quarter-inch hole.
</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:FI"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A;mso-fareast-language:FI">You’ve got to study the hole, not the drill.
</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:FI"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A;mso-fareast-language:FI">The drill is just the solution for it</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#44546A;mso-fareast-language:FI">.”
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:FI"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#44546A;mso-fareast-language:FI"> </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#44546A;mso-fareast-language:FI">– Theodore Levitt</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:FI"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#777777;mso-fareast-language:FI"><img border="0" width="368" height="127" style="width:3.8333in;height:1.325in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D58293.D6330950" alt="cid:image001.png@01D4B3E2.2EA7D9C0"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#777777;mso-fareast-language:FI"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2E2E2E;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-fareast-language:FI">Interested in key aspects associated with procurement in the context of the real estate
and construction sector (RECS)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-fareast-language:FI">? Have a look on our article:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2E2E2E;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-fareast-language:FI"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-fareast-language:FI"><a href="https://solecris.oulu.fi/crisyp/disp/11_/fi/cr_suorite/edi/edi/fet?id=256433079&verkko=1&cro=2930383731382229243022343834273334242721232118233622232528292838273822292738393739283727351836321717"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;text-decoration:none">Tuomela-Pyykkönen,
M.; Aaltonen, K.; Haapasalo, H. (2015) Procurement in the real estate and construction sector (RECS) - Preliminary context-specific attributes. - Procedia economics and finance 21, 264-270</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-fareast-language:FI">,
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F3864;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-fareast-language:FI"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/S2212-5671(15)00176-8" target="_blank" title="Persistent link using digital object identifier"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F3864">https://doi.org/10.1016/S2212-5671(15)00176-8</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:FI"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:FI"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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