Linköpings universitet IEI Företagsekonomi
Seminars in Management – Spring Semester 2011
The seminar series for the spring semester will be held every second Tuesday after lunch, with a couple of exceptions (please study the program carefully). The idea of the seminar is to invite internal and external colleagues to present manuscripts that they want feedback on, and from which we as faculty can learn. The duration of the seminar is 1 hour and 30-‐45 minutes, so there is sufficient time for presenting the main contents of the paper and also to discuss it thoroughly.
For the spring series, there is a mix of topics ranging over many fields in Management (företagsekonomi) and there will be papers presented using quite different
methodologies. Below you find a brief description of the presenters, who also represent different degree of seniority. If you have suggestions for future presenters or do want to present something yourself, please do not hesitate in contacting me. Most welcome to what I hope to be a stimulating and interesting seminar series!
Fredrik Tell
Program
Presenters
Linnéa Wahlstedt is PhD student at the division of Business Administration
(företagsekonomi) and is currently finalising her PhD thesis on knowledge integration and communication in an interdisciplinary information systems development project. She also teaches Marketing at undergraduate level.
Christine Räisänen is Professor in Construction Management at Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg. She has been studying construction projects and project
portfolios, in particular from narrative, interactional and discursive perspectives. She has also published a book on academic writing. Her research has been published in e.g.,
Building Research and Information, Construction Management and Economics,
International Studies of Management & Organization, Organization and in a number of book chapters. 07-jan Friday 10.15-12.00 Linnéa Wahlstedt, FEK/LiU
Knowledge creation and integration processes: The case of an Information Systems Development project. Slutseminarium på avhandlingsmanus. Diskutant: Professor Christine Räisänen, Chalmers
18-jan Tuesday
13.15-15.00 Malin Tillmar, FEK/LiU
Perservance through Adaptation - Defence strategies of municipal managers under attack
04-feb Friday 13.15-15.00 Gudrun Baldvinsdottir, Göteborgs universitet
Goodwillavskrivningar i banker ur ett riskperspektiv
15-feb Tuesday 13.15-15.00 Ainurul Rosli, Birkbeck College, University of London
Intellectual Property (IP) Governance in ICT Firms: Strategic Value Seeking through Proprietary and Non-proprietary IP Transactions
01-mar Tuesday 13.15-15.00
Karin Jonnergård, Linnéuniversitetet
Utvecklingen av svenska bolagsstyrelser från 1994 till 2009
15-mar Tuesday 13.15-15.00
Lars Frederiksen, Aarhus universitet
Media and networks in Open Source Software communities
29-mar Tuesday 13.15-15.00
Stefan Jonsson, Uppsala universitet
Organizational templates and form domination in the Swedish voucher school reform 1992-2009
12-apr Tuesday 13.15-15.00
Åsa-Karin Engstrand, FEK/LiU
Changing people through job coaching - a discourse analysis
26-apr Tuesday 13.15-15.00
Ivo Zander, Philip Kappen &
Katarina Blomkvist, Uppsala universitet
The role and evolution of advanced foreign subsidiaries – Some empirical findings and a look ahead
10-maj Tuesday 13.15-15.00 Katarina Östergren, Norges Handelshögskola, Bergen
Making sense of a new management accounting innovation - Putting Beyond Budgeting into practice
24-maj Tuesday 13.15-15.00
Stefan Schiller, FEK/LiU
Intangible assets - what are they worth and how should that value be recognized?
Malin Tillmar is Associate Professor (docent) in Business Administration at Linköping University and one of the research leaders in Helix Vinn Excellence Centre. She defended her PhD dissertation “Swedish Tribalism and Tanzanian Agency: Preconditions for Trust and Cooperation in a Small Business Context” in 2002, and does research on
Entrepreneurship, Inter-‐organizational relationships and Public Management. Her current research interests include new organizational forms in the era of New Public Management (NPM), societal entrepreneurship, as well as female entrepreneurship. Tillmar’s research has appeared for example in Entrepreneurship and Regional
Development, Scandinavian Journal of Management, International Journal of Sociology as well as International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship.
Gudrun Baldvinsdottir is Associate Professor (docent) in Management Accounting at the School of Business, Economics, and Law at Göteborg University. She defended her PhD dissertation” Management Accounting and the Institutionalisation of Trust” in 2001, and does research in Management Accounting, especially involving relational aspects such as trust, accountability and commitment. Her current research interests include ”Quality in Credit Assessments” and ”Management Accounting Innovation and Fads”. She is currently the leader of the Management Accounting research group at the School of Business, and her research has appeared in journals such as: Management Accounting Research, Qualitative Research in Management and Accounting, Financial Management, and the Auditing and Accountability Journal as well as in chapters in several Swedish books on Management Accounting.
Ainurul Rosli’s research is focused in economics and management of Intellectual Property (IP). She is currently a doctoral researcher and a U-‐KNOW fellow at Birkbeck Centre for Innovation Research, University of London, intending to graduate in 2011. Rosli received a bachelor degree in Financial Engineering (Hons) from Multimedia University, Malaysia in 2002, and an MSc in Operational Research from London School of Economics in 2003. She also spent 3 years working in an R&D arm for a
telecommunication company.
Karin Jonnergård is Professor in Accounting at the Linneaus University, Campus Växjö. Her research on corporate governance, management accounting, quality, professions, and gender has been published in Law & Policy, International Journal of Auditing, Journal of Management and Governance, International Studies of Management and Organization,
Scandinavian Journal of Management and Gender, Work and Organization as well as several books and numerous book chapters in Swedish
Lars Frederiksen is Research Fellow in the Department of Marketing and Statistics at Aarhus School of Business, Denmark. He specializes in the management of innovation and technology, and he previously worked at the Innovation and Entrepreneurship group at Imperial College, London. Lars is engaged in two parallel but converging streams of research: First, he studies how individuals generate ideas, solve problems and collaborate to modify and develop new products and services in online
communities. He also investigates the accompanying process of how organizations gain access to and productively employ this external source of knowledge. Second, Lars explores innovation in project-‐based organizations. In his research Lars employs both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Lars’s research has been published in
in the Sociology of Organisations, Construction Management and Economics and
International Journal of Project Management as well as a number of book chapters.
Stefan Jonsson is Associate Professor (docent) at the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University. He defended his PhD dissertation “Making and breaking norms: competitive imitation patterns in the Swedish mutual fund industry” at the Institute for International Business, Stockholm School of Economics in 2003. He has previously been a Fulbright Scholar at SCANCOR, Stanford, and between 2007-‐2010 he worked as the Swedish counsellor of science and technology at the Swedish embassy in New Delhi, India. Current research projects include:”The spread of corporate scandals: Media and the dynamics of reputation loss” together with Henrich Greve (Insead) and Helena Buhr (North Western Univ) and “The Organizational Dynamics of Swedish Charter Schools” (together with Karl Wennberg, SSE and Anna Krohwinkel-‐Karlsson, Score). Stefan’s research has appeared in Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science,
Strategic Management Journal and Sociological Theory.
Åsa-‐Karin Engstrand is Research Fellow at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO) and Guest Lecturer at the Division of Business
Administration, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University. Her current research interests are within projectification and corporatisation of labour market policies. She graduated with a PhD in Labour Studies from Gothenburg University in 2003. Her previous research concerned strategies for local economic development, labour flexibility, deregulation of shop opening hours, and immigrant businesses. She has also a particular interest in methodology issues.
Ivo Zander is the Anders Wall Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University. He received his PhD from the Institute of
International Business, Stockholm School of Economics. Before moving into the field of entrepreneurship, he conducted research on regional agglomerations and the
internationalization of research and development in multinational corporations. His work has appeared in journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of International Management, Journal of Management Studies, Industrial and Corporate Change, and Research Policy. Current research interests include corporate
entrepreneurship, the entrepreneurial dynamics of accelerated internationalization, the evolution of advanced foreign subsidiaries of the multinational corporation, and art entrepreneurship.
Katarina Blomkvist is researcher and lecturer of international business and entrepreneurship at the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University. She
defended her doctoral thesis “Technological Growth in the MNC: A Longitudinal Study of the Role of Advanced Foreign Subsidiaries” in October 2009. Her research focus is how
technological capabilities and innovations emerge and diffuse within the modern multinational corporation, with a specific focus on the evolution of subsidiary
technological capabilities and the drivers of innovation diffusion. During 2010, she has been working at the European Parliament in Brussels as a political advisor.
Philip Kappen is researcher and lecturer of international business and
entrepreneurship at Uppsala University's Department of Business Studies. He defended his doctoral thesis “Technological Evolution in Foreign Subsidiaries: Among Average
Joes, Superstars and the New Kids on the Block” in spring 2009, which subsequently was awarded the Wallander scholarship from Handelsbanken’s research foundations. His research is concerned with the management of innovation and innovation diffusion within established corporations, with a specific focus on the strategic role of
headquarters in the contemporary diversified firm.
Katarina Östergren is Professor in Accounting and Head of Department at the Department of Accounting, Auditing and Law, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen. Her research interests are within Management Control e.g., Budgeting, Governance in Public Sector, and Strategy, Change and Learning. She graduated with a PhD in Business Administration from Umeå University in 1995. Her research has been published in International Journal of Public Sector Management,
Corporate Governance: An International Review, Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change, Financial Accountability and Management, Health Economics, Policy and Law, British Journal of Management, Construction Management and Economics and book contributions in English, Swedish and Norwegian.
Stefan Schiller is Associate Professor (docent) in Accounting at the Department of Management and Engineering (IEI), Linköping University. He graduated with a PhD in Business Administration from Gothenburg School of Economics in 1987 (Design and Use of Management Accounting Systems). His research interests are within Innovation and Intangible Assets. At IEI he has initiated the research program Accounting for Intangible Assets and Resources. In the paper Dynamic capabilities for management control systems: Managers’ perceptions, the authors, focusing on dynamic capabilities, identify a learning framework useful for analyzing systematically the knowledge creating ability of the firm.
