Presentations of some of the entrepreneurship researchers who teaches on our Master’s Program in Business Development and Internationalization.
Professor in Business Administration, with a focus on Entrepreneurship
My research focus is on coopetition, i.e. simultaneous cooperation and competition among firms, cross-sectoral organizing for sustainability, entrepreneurship in the cultural and creative industry. More specifically I am studying (1) tension in coopetition and the coopetition capability needed to manage the tension (2) the organizing to manage paradoxical demands such as trust vs distrust, privat vs public interests, creation of economic value vs artistic value, and (3) the intersection between entrepreneurial ecosystems and industrial ecosystems.
My work has been published in journals such as Organization Studies, Industrial Marketing Management, Business Strategy and the Environment, Long Range Planning, and International Small Business Journal.
Associate Professor in Business Administration
My research interests center on immigrant entrepreneurship, the entrepreneurial opportunity creation process, social integration, diversity, sustainable entrepreneurship, and digital entrepreneurship. More specifically, I’m working on research projects studying (1) transnational immigrant family entrepreneurship and opportunity creation in Sweden and Vietnam, (2) sustainable entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in family firms in Vietnam, (3) digitalization in migrant entrepreneurship in Sweden, and (4) green entrepreneurship in Northen Sweden.
My work has been published in journals such as Technological Forecasting and Social Change, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research and International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business.
Associate Professor (Docent) in Business Administration.
My research interests span different aspects of organising for innovation and entrepreneurship, renewal, and sustainability, with empirical studies focusing entrepreneurs, interorganisational relationships, entrepreneurial ecosystems, industries, as well as regions. Recent projects have focused the intersection between entrepreneurial ecosystems and industrial ecosystems and entrepreneurship in the cultural and creative industries.
My work has been published in journals such as Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, European Management Journal, and Strategic Organization.
Associate Professor (Docent) in Business Administration.
My research focuses on the understanding of the interplay between structure and agency and the performative role of context. Specifically, I study women entrepreneurship in different contexts, the role of family-friendly policies on women entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial decision-making, learning, well-being and identity processes.
My work has been published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice; Small Business Economics; Entrepreneurship and Regional Development; Journal of Family Business Strategy among others as well as in edited books. I have co-edited a book entitled Contextualizing Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies and Developing Countries.
Professor in Business Administration, with a focus on Entrepreneurship
Norbert Steigenberger is interested in how organization members create meaning and order in the face of novelty, complexity and uncertainty. He works with theoretical perspectives such as signaling theory, performance feedback theory, materiality, identity, or sensemaking and is empirically predominantly interested in entrepreneurial phenomena in dynamic settings, such as in emerging digital markets or, more locally, in changes taking place in the context of the “green transformation” in northern Sweden. He also studies reliability-oriented organizations.
His research is published in journals such as Organization Science, Human Relations or Organization Studies, among others.
Associate Professor (Docent) in Business Administration and International Business.
In my research I focus on internationalisation processes and international business strategies; M&A. Among other high-profile acquisitions, the internationalisation of emerging market multinationals specifically interests me; how they make investments in competitive catch-up through learning and capability upgrading. Another area of my research concentrates on development and transformation of various innovation networks; industry clusters and innovation ecosystems. I also study entrepreneurship in the context of green transformation of Northern Sweden.
My work has been published in journals such as Competitiveness Review and Thunderbird International Business Review, Industrial Marketing Management and as chapters in books.
