Tomas Blomquist

Professor i företagsekonomi med intresse för: Innovation, Digitalisering, IoT, Affärsmodeller, Entreprenörskap, Projektledning och Karriärutveckling.

Pedagogisk meritering: Excellent lärare

Kontakt

tomas.blomquist@umu.se

090-786 77 22

Verksam som

Professor vid Handelshögskolan vid Umeå universitet Enhet: Företagsekonomi, Management

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

Tomas Blomquist, PhD, Professor i företagsekonomi, Handelshögskolan vid Umeå universitet.

Forskningsintressen: Specialiserad inom innovation, digitalisering, IoT, affärsmodeller, entreprenörskap, projektledning och karriärutveckling. Mitt forskningsarbete syftar till att överbrygga teoretiska koncept med praktiska tillämpningar när affärslandskapet utvecklas.

Pedagogiska Meriter: Mottagare av Umeå universitets Pedagogiska Pris 2007 som erkänner framstående undervisningsinsatser. Utnämnd som Excellent lärare vid Umeå universitet 2022 vilket återspeglar ett åtagande för innovativ och pedagogisk utbildning.

Publikationer: Författare till flera artiklar i tidskrifter som Business Horizons, International Journal of Project Management, Project Management Journal, Industrial Marketing Management, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Research Policy och Harvard Business Review. Mitt arbete utforskar ofta samspelet mellan teknik och management, och erbjuder insikter i hur digitala framsteg omformar affärspraxis.

The impact of workplace diversity climate on the career satisfaction of skilled migrant employees

European Management Review, John Wiley & Sons 2025, Vol. 2, (1) : 218-234

Farashah, Ali; Blomquist, Tomas; Bešić, Almina

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