ACADEMIC CURRICULUM VITAE
Johan Fredrik Tell
Born 13 Nov. 1968, Swedish citizen, Married, Two children Department of Management and Engineering,
Linköping University, SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden Tel: +46-(0)13-282599 E-mail: [email protected] CURRENT POSITIONS
Full Professor, Business Administration, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden, January 1, 2009-
Director, Knowledge Integration in Transnational Enterprise (KITE) Research Group (http://www.liu.se/kite/?l=en), Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden, January 1, 14 senior researchers, 2011- (Co-director since 2007) Research Director, Business Administration, Department of Management and Engineering,
Linköping University, 2011-
PREVIOUS ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Lecturer/Assistant/Associate Professor, Business Administration, Department of Management and Economics, Linköping University, Sweden, April 1, 2000-December 31, 2008
Acting Head of Division (Vikarierande avdelningschef), Division of Business Administration, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden, December 1, 2007-April 30, 2008
Director of Doctoral Studies Program (Studierektor för forskarutbildningen), Department of Management and Economics, Linköping University, Sweden, May 1, 2003-August 31, 2006 Lecturer, Business History, Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and
Political Science, United Kingdom, October 1, 2001-September 30, 2002
Visiting Research Fellow, SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research), University of Sussex, United Kingdom, January 1-December 31, 2001
Visiting Scholar, SCANCOR (Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research), Stanford University, U.S.A., March 1-June 30, 1998; June 9-August 26, 2009
Young Scientist, IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), Laxenburg, Austria, June 1-August 31, 1997
Doctoral Candidate (Doktorand), IMIE (International Graduate School of Management and Industrial Engineering), Linköping University, Sweden, February 1, 1995-March 31, 2000
EDUCATION AND DEGREES
• Full Professor, Business Administration, Linköping University, 2008
• Associate Professor (Docent), Business Administration, Linköping University, 2005
• Ph.D. Degree (Ekonomie doktor), Business Administration and International Graduate School
of Management and Industrial Engineering, Linköping University, 2000
• Bachelor of Social Science Degree (Filosofie kandidat), Business Administration (major) and
Philosophy (minor), Linköping University, 1994
OTHER ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS
• Leader, Innovation in Emerging Markets research group, 5 senior researchers, 2 PhD students,
2013-
• Leader, Patent History research group, (with Professor Mats Larsson, Uppsala University), 3
senior researchers, 4 PhD students, 2010-
• Leader, Managing External Knowledge Acquisition (MEKA), (with Associate Professor
Nicolette Lakemond), Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, 7 senior researchers, 5 PhD students, 2010-
• Co-director, Enterprising by Projects and Organizational Knowledge (EPOK)
(http://www.epokresearch.se), (with Professors Lars Lindkvist and Jonas Söderlund), Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, 2004-2010, Approximately 6 senior researchers and 6 PhD students
• Coordinator, module on Micro-Economics of Innovation (with Professor Luigi Marengo,
Scuola St. Anna Superiori), DIMETIC PhD Summer School (http://dimetic.dime-eu.org/), Université Louis Pasteur, France, 2006-2011
• External faculty member, Ph.D. Program in Economics, The Laboratory of Economics and
Management (L.E.M.) (http://www.lem.sssup.it/), Scuola St. Anna Superiori, Pisa, Italy, 2008-2012
• Scientific Committee member, Ph.D. Program in Management, Università G. D’Annunzio,
Pescara, Italy, 2008-2012
• Associate Research Fellow, Complex Product Systems (CoPS) Innovation Centre
(http://www.cops.ac.uk/), University of Sussex, UK, 2001-2006
SELECTED ACADEMIC ASSIGNMENTS
• Co-editor, Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press (with Professors
Stefano Brusoni, Glenn Carroll, Giovanni Dosi, Daniel Levinthal, Franco Malerba, Paul Nightingale and David Teece), 2009-
• Ad-hoc reviewer for: British Journal of Management; European Management Review; Long
Range Planning; Management Learning; Organization; Organization Studies; Research Policy; Scandinavian Journal of Management; Science, Technology & Human Values
• Member of the organizing committee for the 2nd and 3rd international KITE workshops on
”Knowledge Integration and Innovation”, Linköping, May 24-25, 2010; September 12-13, 2012
• Chairman of the organizing committee for the international KITE workshop “Integrating
Knowledge: A challenge for R&D Management”, in cooperation with the R&D Management journal, Linköping, September 15-16, 2008
• Member of the organizing committee for the conference “What Do We Know About
Innovation – A Conference in Honour of Keith Pavitt”, SPRU, November 13-15, 2003
• Sub-theme convenor at European Group on Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquiums • ”Open sub-theme” (with Professor Peter Karnøe, Copenhagen Business School),
Helsinki, July 2-4, 2000
• “Knowledge Integration and Innovation”, (with Professor Kristian Kreiner,
Copenhagen Business School and Professor Jacky Swan, University of Warwick, Barcelona July 2-4, 2009
• Conference track convenor ”International patenting”, European Business History Association
conference, Uppsala, August 22-24, 2013
• Conference track convenor ”Knowledge integration mechanisms and processes in
organizations”, Nordic Academy of Management Conference, Stockholm, August 22-24, 2011
• Expert reviewer for research proposals submitted to the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary
Foundation, the Swedish Research Council, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), the Research Council of Norway, Italian Ministry for Education and Research (MIUR), Accreditation Agency Denmark (ACE).
SCHOLARSHIPS
• Wallander-scholarship, Handelsbanken’s Research Foundations, SEK 1 million, 2001-2003 • Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) scholarship, International Institute for Applied
Systems Analysis (IIASA), Forskningsrådsnämnden (FRN), SEK 38,000, 1997
• Rut Wallensteen Jaeger’s Internationaliseringsfond, Linköping, SEK 8,000, 1993 • Scandinavian Management Center, Åkeshov, SEK 5,000, 1993
RESEARCH GRANTS (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR)
• “Developing Research and Innovation in Multinationals: The cases of Sweden and Brazil”,
joint project with School of Economics, Business and Accounting, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, STINT, 2013-2016, principal investigator SEK 800,000
• “Protected or Unprotected? Patent strategies of Swedish ‘Genius Enterprises’ at the turn of the
century, 1900”, SEK 2.4 millions, Handelsbanken’s Research Foundations, 2011-2014
• “Integrating Knowledge: A challenge for R&D Management”, workshop, SEK 100,000,
Swedish Research Council, 2008
• ”Management of External Knowledge Acquisition: Sources and Strategies”, SEK 3.4 millions,
VINNOVA, 2008-2011
• ”Open Innovation – Opportunities and Challenges”, SEK 200,000, VINNOVA (Swedish
Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems), 2007
• ”Sectoral modes of open innovation and policy implications (SEMOIPI): Module III”, SEK
432 000, Vision ERA-Net/VINNOVA, 2007-2008
RESEARCH GRANTS (CO-APPLICANT)
• ”Knowledge Integration and Innovation in an Internationalizing Economy” (PI: Professor
Christian Berggren), SEK 29 millions, The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, 2007-2014
• Global coordination of R&D Processes, co-applicant, (PI: Associate Professor Per-Olof
Brehmer), SEK 2 millions, Toyota Material Handling Europe, 2011-2014
• Post-doc scholarship on Knowledge Integration and Innovation, ”Project organization and
innovation (PI: Associate Professor Per-Olof Brehmer), SEK 1.4 millions, Handelsbanken’s Research Foundations, 2011-2013
• Exchange program with CoPS Innovation Centre, University of Sussex/Brighton, (PI:
Professor Lars Lindkvist), SEK 2.4 millions, STINT, 2004-2011
• ”Project organization and innovation” (PI: Professor Lars Lindkvist), SEK 2 millions,
Handelsbanken’s Research Foundations, 2005-2010
• ”Innovations and technology strategies in large enterprises: Technology-bases and capabilities
in science-based industries”, (PI: Professor Christian Berggren), SEK 2.2 millions, Swedish Research Council, 2005-2008
• ”Technology strategies, organization and innovations in large enterprises” (PI: Professor
Christian Berggren), SEK 1 million, Lars Erik Lundberg’s foundation for Science and Education, 2005-2007
• “Power shift - Mind shift: Innovation strategies in the electrical engineering industry” (PI:
Professor Christian Berggren), SEK 1.7 million, The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, 2002-2006
• ”Management of project-based firms” (PI: Professor Lars Lindkvist), SEK 1.8 million,
Swedish Research Council, 2000-2004
AWARDS
• Best paper award, Knowledge integration at the edge of technology, (with Cecilia Enberg and
Lars Lindkvist), the 9th the International Research Network on Organizing by Projects (IRNOP) Conference, 2009, Berlin, Germany
• Finalist, Coleman Prize, Association of Business Historians, University of Reading, 2002 • “Best Lecturer of the Year”, the Business Students’ Association (ELIN) at Linköping
University, 1998
• Named to the Faculty of Arts Sessional Academic Achievement List, York University,
Canada, 1993
UNIVERSITY SERVICE PhD Advising
Completed degrees
• Supervisor, Ramsin Yakob, Linköping University, 2005-2009, The Problem with Errors:
Solution Search in Platform Development, (currently Assistant Professor at Linköping University, and visiting researcher at Gothenburg University)
• Co-supervisor, Åsa Käfling, Linköping University, 2006-2008, The Chinese Volvo –
Sino-Foreign Joint Ventures and Perceived Performance, (currently working at the Swedish Competition Authority)
• Co-supervisor, Cecilia Bjursell, Linköping University, 2006-2007, Integration through
framing: A study of the Cloetta Fazer merger, (currently Director of Encell, the National Centre for Lifelong Learning at the School of Education and Communication, Jönköping
University)
• Co-supervisor, Cecilia Enberg (Frohm), Linköping University, 2000-2007, Knowledge
Integration in product development projects, (currently Assistant Professor, Linköping University), winner of the Oscar Sillén Prize for best Swedish dissertation in Business Administration 2007.
• Co-supervisor, Rögnvaldur Saemundsson, Chalmers University of Technology, 2002-2003,
Entrepreneurship, Technology, and the Growth Process: A Study of Young, Medium-Sized Technology-Based Firms, (currently Associate Professor, Reykjavik University, Iceland) In progress
• Co-supervisor, Josefine Rasmussen, 2013-, Research project: Investments in renewable
energy
• Co-supervisor, Lisa Malmberg, 2012-, Research project: Industrial design and innovation • Supervisor, David Andersson, Linköping University, 2011-, Research project: Patent agents
• Supervisor, Susan Riedel, Linköping University, 2011-, Research project: Patent enforcement
strategies in international contexts
• Supervisor, Lisa Melander, Linköping University, 2009-, Research project: Supplier selection
under technological uncertainty in collaborative NPD projects PhD Assessment
External examiner (opponent) PhD Dissertation
• Nadika A. Bulathsinsala, Innovation processes in the energy sector, University of Southern
Denmark, Institute of Technology and Innovation, 2013
• Arne Stjernholm Madsen, The Evolution of Innovation Strategy: Studied in the context of
medical device activities at the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk A/S in the period 1980-2008, Copenhagen Business School, 2012
• Dajana D’Andrea, Organisational routines in project-based organisations: An exploratory
study, SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research), University of Sussex, 2011
• Camilla Niss, Project Becoming and Knowing Trajectories: An Epistemological Perspective
on Human and Non-human Project Making, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 2009 Pre-viva discussant of PhD Dissertation manuscripts
• Marcus F. Holgersson, Innovation and Intellectual Property: Strategic IP Management and
Economics of R&D and Technology, Chalmers University of Technology, 2012
• John Bang Mathiesen, Learning within a product development working practice: an
understanding anchored in practice, Aarhus University, 2011
• Hans Pohl, Paradigmatic shifts in an evolutionary perspective – the development of electric
and hybrid electric vehicles, Chalmers University of Technology, 2010
• Linda Gustavsson, Creating Advantage – Exploring the complexity of industrial knowledge
formation in the knowledge based economy, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 2009
• Markus Ejenäs, Kunskapsintegration: En studie av fusioner mellan konsultbolag, Stockholm
School of Economics, 2007
• Eva Maaninen-Olsson, Projekt i praktiken - en studie av integrering av kunskap i tid och rum,
Uppsala University, 2006 External examiner Licentiate Thesis
• Martin Wallin, Managing sponsored spin-offs from large firms, Chalmers University of
Technology, 2005
Member of PhD grading committees
• Linn Andersson, Pricing capability development and its antecedents, Lund University, 2013 • Anna Yström, Managerial Practices for Open Innovation Collaboration, Chalmers
University of Technology, 2013
• Olga Yttermyr, Varför blev det (bara) en? En studie av offentlig marknad i förändring,
Linköping University, 2013
• Henry Lopez-Vega, Open innovation: Organizational practices and policy implications,
ESADE Business School, Ramon Lull University, Barcelona, 2012
• Maximillian Pasche, Managing Product Architectures – A Study of Strategic and
• Tao Yang, The Effect of Guanxi on the Foreign Market Entry Process into China: the
Swedish Case, Uppsala University, 2010
• Erik Nilsson, Strategi, styrning och konkurrenskraft – en longitudinell studie av Saab AB,
Linköping University, 2010
• Katarina Blomkvist, Technological Growth in the MNC - A Longitudinal Study of the Role of
Advanced Foreign Subsidiaries, Uppsala University, 2009
• Göran Bergström, Från svensk malmexport till utländsk etablering. Grängesbergsbolagets
internationalisering 1953–1980, Uppsala University, 2009
• Christian Kowalkowski, Managing the Industrial Service Function, Linköping University,
2008
• Christina Öberg, The Importance of Customers in Mergers and Acquisitions, Linköping
University, 2008
• Johan Brink, Accumulation, Boundaries, Capabilities and Dynamics – Explaining Firm
Growth,Chalmers University of Technology, 2007
• Eva Maaninen-Olsson, Projekt i tid och rum – Kunskapsintegrering mellan projektet och dess
historiska och organisatoriska kontext, Uppsala University, 2007
• Charlotta Windahl, Integrated Solutions in the Capital Goods Sector – Exploring innovation,
service and network perspectives, Linköping University, 2007
• Ingeborg Knauseder, Organizational Learning Capabilities in Swedish Construction Projects,
Chalmers University of Technology, 2007
• Nadja Sörgärde, Förändringsförsök och identitetsdramatisering: en studie bland nördar och
slipsbärare i ett IT-företag, Lund University, 2006 Academic position assessment
• Full Professor, Marketing and Economic Methodology, Copenhagen Business School, 2013 • Associate Professor promotion, Gothenburg University, 2013
• Associate Professor promotion, Lund University, 2012
• Full Professor MSO, Innovation Management and New Product Development, Aarhus
University, 2011
• Associate Professor, Innovation and Technology Management, Chalmers University of
Technology, 2011
• Associate Professor promotion, Stockholm School of Economics, 2011 • Full Professor in Industrial Management, Halmstad University College, 2010 • Assistant/Associate Professor in Organizational Behaviour, Lund University, 2008 • Assistant Professor in Management and Economics of Innovation, Copenhagen Business
School, 2007
RESEARCH THEMES
• Management of Organizational Knowledge
• Open Innovation and External Knowledge Acquisition • Innovation Strategies and Industrial Dynamics
• Intellectual Property Rights Strategies • Innovation in Emerging Markets • Business History
PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING
• Teaching in Higher Education, Step 2 (Designing, Evaluating and Organizing Learning),
Linköping University, 2008
• Teaching in Higher Education, Step 3a (Supervision in Doctoral Studies) Linköping
University, 2004
• Introduction to Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, London School of Economics
and Political Science, 2001
TEACHING • Corporate Strategy • Organizational Behaviour • Knowledge Management • Management of Innovation • Business History
• Social Science Methods
LANGUAGES
• Swedish (mother tongue) • English (fluent)
• German (basic) • French (basic)
