Ian Wilkinson

Professor Ian Wilkinson is an Honorary Professor of Marketing in the Discipline of Marketing at the University of Sydney Business School. He is also a Professor in the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Relationship Management, University of Southern Denmark. With degrees including BSc, MSc, and PhD, Wilkinson has built a distinguished career spanning multiple continents. His previous positions include Professor of Marketing at the University of New South Wales School of Marketing, Professor at the University of Bath, visiting or full appointments at the University of California at Berkeley, University of Cincinnati, Helsinki School of Economics, Lancaster University, Stockholm School of Economics, Temple University, and the University of International Business and Economics, Beijing.

Wilkinson's primary research specializations lie in business relationships and networks, the dynamics of marketing systems, firm internationalization processes, innovation within networks, market orientation, trust and power in inter-firm relationships, and agent-based modeling techniques for simulating business systems. He explores international entrepreneurship and contributes to marketing theory development. His collaborative research with international partners from Asia, Europe, and the United States has been funded by the Australian Research Council, the Australian Trade Commission, and university research grants. Wilkinson has produced four books and over 250 scholarly papers and articles. Among his key publications are the editorship of Fundamentals of Business-to-Business Marketing (Springer, 2015), "Roger A. Layton and Marketing Systems Theory" (Australasian Marketing Journal, 2012), and various works on agent-based models and network evolution.

He has received major honors such as the Distinguished Researcher of the Year Award from the Australia New Zealand Marketing Academy in 2005, Fellowship of the Academy (FANZMAC) in 2010, and Fellowship of the Royal Society of New South Wales (FRSN) in 2014, where he currently serves on the Council. Additionally, he holds positions on editorial review boards of numerous international journals and serves as regional editor for the Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing and the Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing. Wilkinson's work has had substantial impact in the field, reflected in more than 16,700 citations on Google Scholar.

Professional Email: ian.wilkinson@sydney.edu.au