Tomas Blomquist

Professor in Business Administration, Areas of interest: Innovation, Digitalization, IoT, Business models, Entrepreneurship, Project management, and Career development.

Educational qualifications: Distinguished university teacher

Contact

tomas.blomquist@umu.se

+46 90 786 77 22

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Professor at Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics (USBE) Units: Business Administration, Management

Samhällsvetarhuset, Biblioteksgränd 6, A34701 Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

Editorial: exploring human resources in the context of projects

Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers Media S.A. 2023, Vol. 14

Blomquist, Tomas; Farashah, Ali

Perceived employability of skilled migrants: a systematic review and future research agenda

International Journal of Human Resource Management, Taylor & Francis 2023, Vol. 34, (3) : 478-528

Farashah, Ali; Blomquist, Tomas; Al Ariss, Akram; et al.

Work experiences of qualified immigrants: a review of theoretical progress

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2022, Vol. 41, (7) : 1063-1090

Dehghanpour Farashah, Ali; Blomquist, Tomas

Preparing for Your Company’s First Meeting with a Startup Collaborator

Harvard Business Review

Gaim, Medhanie; Nair, Sujith; Blomquist, Tomas

Organizational culture and cultural diversity: An explorative study of international skilled migrants in Swedish firms

Journal of Global Mobility: The Home of Expatriate Management Research, Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2021, Vol. 9, (2) : 289-308

Dehghanpour Farashah, Ali; Blomquist, Tomas

Business model design in the case of complex innovations: a conceptual model

Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, Routledge 2021, Vol. 33, (2) : 176-187

Nair, Sujith; Blomquist, Tomas

Exploring docility: A behavioral approach to interventions in business incubation

Research Policy, Elsevier 2021, Vol. 50, (7)

Nair, Sujith; Blomquist, Tomas

The history and future of projects as a transition innovation: Towards a sustainable project management framework

Systems research and behavioral science, John Wiley & Sons 2021, Vol. 38, (5) : 696-714

Sankaran, Shankar; Jacobsson, Mattias; Blomquist, Tomas

Exploring employer attitude towards migrant workers: evidence from managers across Europe

Evidence-based HRM: A Global Forum for Empirical Scholarship, Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2020, Vol. 8, (1) : 18-37

Dehghanpour Farashah, Ali; Blomquist, Tomas

Orchestrating Ecosystems: Interactive Spaces for Startup-Corporate Collaboration

Management of Innovation and Technology, Göteborg: Stiftelsen IMIT 2020, (3) : 8-9

Gaim, Medhanie; Nair, Sujith; Blomquist, Tomas

The temporal dimensions of business incubation: a value-creation perspective

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Sage Publications 2020, Vol. 21, (1) : 38-46

Nair, Sujith; Blomquist, Tomas

Digital transformation: Five recommendations for the digitally conscious firm

Business Horizons, Elsevier 2020, Vol. 63, (6) : 825-839

Saarikko, Ted; Westergren, Ulrika H.; Blomquist, Tomas

Exploring the value of project management certification in selection and recruiting

International Journal of Project Management, Elsevier 2019, Vol. 37, (1) : 14-26

Dehghanpour Farashah, Ali; Thomas, Janice; Blomquist, Tomas

Failure prevention and management in business incubation: practices towards a scalable business model

Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, Routledge 2019, Vol. 31, (3) : 266-278

Nair, Sujith; Blomquist, Tomas

Feeling good, being good and looking good: motivations for, and benefits from, project management certification

International Journal of Project Management, Elsevier 2018, Vol. 36, (3) : 498-511

Blomquist, Tomas; Dehghanpour Farashah, Ali; Thomas, Janice

The Career of Skilled Migrants: A Literature Review and Future Research Agenda

Equality, Diversity And Inclusion Conference, Montreal, 2018, August 16–18

Farashah, Ali; Blomquist, Tomas

Initiating the Internet of Things: early adopters' expectations for changing business practices and implications for working life

The internet of people, things and services: workplace transformations, New York: Routledge 2018 : 111-131

Westergren, Ulrika H.; Saarikko, Ted; Blomquist, Tomas

Grass Root Involvement in a Mega Program: Managing and Working in Project Society

PM World Journal, Vol. 6, (12)

Blomquist, Tomas; Wåhlin, Nils; Lundin, Rolf A.

Perception of qualifications of migrant workers: the effect of individual characteristics of managers

WORK2017 - Work and Labour in the Digital Future 2017: Conference Abstracts, Turku: University of Turku 2017 : 142-143

Farashah, Ali D.; Blomquist, Tomas

The Behaviour of Participants in Business Incubation: Exploring the role of Docility

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017

Nair, Sujith; Blomquist, Tomas

The Internet of Things: are you ready for what's coming?

Business Horizons, Elsevier 2017, Vol. 60, (5) : 667-676

Saarikko, Ted; Westergren, Ulrika H.; Blomquist, Tomas

The IoTguide: a business guide to the Internet of Things

Umeå: Umeå University 2017

Westergren, Ulrika H.; Saarikko, Ted; Blomquist, Tomas

IoTguiden

Umeå: Umeå universitet 2017

Westergren, Ulrika H.; Saarikko, Ted; Blomquist, Tomas

Project management self-efficacy as a predictor of project performance: Constructing and validating a domain-specific scale

International Journal of Project Management, Vol. 34, (8) : 1417-1432

Blomquist, Tomas; Dehghanpour Farashah, Ali; Thomas, Janice

The Inter-organizational Dynamics of a Platform Ecosystem: Exploring Stakeholder Boundaries

2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2016), IEEE Computer Society 2016 : 5167-5176

Saarikko, Ted; Westergren, Ulrika H.; Blomquist, Tomas

Urban strategies for culture-driven growth: co-creating a European Capital of Culture

Edward Elgar Publishing 2016

Wåhlin, Nils; Kapsali, Maria; Harryson Näsholm, Malin; et al.

Strategic project management: One program and three partners

Project Management Watch, Vol. 7, (2) : 44-45

Blomquist, Tomas

Business incubators: Designing for failure management’

31st EGOS Colloquium, Athens, Greece, July 2–4, 2015

Nair, Sujith; Blomquist, Tomas

Business models within the quintuple helix: enablers of complex innovations

23rd Nordic Academy of Management Conference, Aug 12-14, 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark

Nair, Sujith; Blomquist, Tomas

Co-creation as a strategy for program management

International Journal of Managing Projects in Business/Emerald, Vol. 8, (1) : 58-73

Näsholm, Malin H.; Blomquist, Tomas

The meanings of co-creation of culture

Culture and Growth: Magical Companions or Mutually Exclusive Counterparts? Proceedings, Sibiu: Lucian Blaga University Press 2015 : 10-28

Näsholm, Malin; Tomas, Blomquist

Guest editorial

International Journal of Managing Projects in Business/Emerald, Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015, Vol. 8, (4)

Wåhlin, Nils; Blomquist, Tomas

Materializing urban design through boundary spaces

APROS/EGOS Conference “Spaces, Constraints, Creativities: Organization and Disorganization”, Sydney, Australia, December 9-11, 2015

Wåhlin, Nils; Kapsali, Maria; Harryson Näsholm, Malin; et al.

Time managers in a platform project

Advancing research on projects and temporary organizations, Koege: Copenhagen Business School Press 2014 : 71-90

Burström, Thommie; Blomquist, Tomas

Business incubation models: challenges for the next generation of incubators

International Research Conference on Incubation and Regional Development, Toulouse, France, October 23, 2014

Nair, Sujith; Blomquist, Tomas

Narrating city development: Umeå as a European Capital of Culture 2014 in the local newspaper

30th EGOS Colloquium, Sub-theme 53: Designing Innovative Organizations: Cities and Workplaces, Rotterdam, Netherlands, July 3–5, 2014

Näsholm, Malin; Blomquist, Tomas

Interactive recycling: Service innovation in a green cluster

Marketing management in geographically remote industrial clusters: Implications for business-to-consumer marketing, Singapore: World Scientific 2013 : 213-227

Blomquist, Tomas; Isberg, Sofia; Renström, Helena

Organizing by co-creation: emerging cultural projects

22nd Nordic Academy of Management Conference held at University of RIceland Reykjavik, 21-23 August, 2013: Final Program and Abstracts

Näsholm, Malin; Blomquist, Tomas

Boundary spaces for city development: bridging cultural and commercial interests in strategy practices

Proceedings of the 22nd Nordic Academy of Management Conference (NFF), Reykjavik, Iceland, August 21-23, 2013, Track 17. : 1-26

Wåhlin, Nils; Kapsali, Maria; Blomquist, Tomas

Strategizing through urban spaces: materializing a capital of culture

European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS) Colloquium; Sub-theme 05: (SWG) Strategizing Activity and Practice: Connecting the Material to the Social, Canada, July 4-66, 2013

Wåhlin, Nils; Kapsali, Maria; Blomquist, Tomas

The case of a self-emerging cultural community

8th Organization Studies Summer Workshop, Mykonos, Greece, May 23-25, 2013

Wåhlin, Nils; Kapsali, Maria; Näsholm, Malin; et al.

Project-as-practice: in search of project management research that matters

IEEE Engineering Management Review, IEEE Xplore 2012, Vol. 40, (3) : 88-103

Blomquist, Tomas; Hällgren, Markus; Nilsson, Andreas; et al.

Relevance Lost! : A Critical Review of Project Management Standardisation

International Journal of Managing Projects in Business/Emerald, Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012, Vol. 5, (3) : 457-485

Hällgren, Markus; Nilsson, Andreas; Blomquist, Tomas; et al.

A new approach for project scheduling using fuzzy dependency structure matrix

International Journal of Project Management, Elsevier 2012, Vol. 30, (4) : 503-510