CBI researchers have been successful in publishing our work in renowned scientific journals and we have been presenting our research on international conferences. The PhD students have frequently been participating in international PhD work shops and courses.

Book Chapters

2012

Börjesson S. and Elmquist M., (2012). Att utveckla innovationsförmåga i stora industriella företag – erfarenheter från Volvo Personvagnar. In Richtnér, A. and Frishammar, J. (Eds.), Innovationsledning och kreativitet i svenska företag, Institute for Management of Innovation and Technology.

2011

Berglund, H. (2011). Interviews with Pioneers in Entrepreneurship Research: William Gartner.Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat (forthcoming).

Fredberg, T., Elmquist, M., Ollila, S and Yström, A. (2011) Role Confusion in Open Innovation Intermediary Arenas, forthcoming in Wittke V. and Hanekop H. (Eds.), Collaboration, production, innovation - New forms of Collaborative Innovation and Production on the internet, Universitätsverlag Göttingen, pp 177-193.

2010

Berglund, H. and Sarasvathy, S. (2010). On the Relevance of Decision Making in Entrepreneurial Decision Making. In Landström, H. and Lohrke,L. (Eds.). The Historical Foundations of Entrepreneurship Research, pp. 75-93. Edward Elgar, Aldershott, UK.

2009

Broström, A., McKelvey, M and Sandström, C. (2009) “Investing to locate near research universities – what are the perceived benefits?” in McKelvey, M., M. Holmén, 2009, Learning to Compete in European Universities, Edward Elgar.

Magnusson, M., McKelvey, M. and Versiglioni, M. (2009). The Forgotten Individuals: Attitudes and skills in Academic Commercialization in Sweden, in McKelvey, M., and Holmén, M. (Eds.), European Universities Learning to Compete: From Social Institutions to Knowledge Business, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK.

2008

Larsson, J. (2008). Starka Programmet. Den svårfångade relativismen: En uppslagsbok. Sven-Erik Liedman, Torbjörn Tännsjö och Dag Westerståhl (red.) . s. 219-225.

McKelvey, M., Magnusson, M. Wallin. M, and Ljungberg, D., (2008), Var ligger problemet ? Synen på sambandet mellan forskning och kommersialisering i Sverige (in Swedish), in Forska lagom – vara världsbäst?, Benner, M., and Sörlin, S. (Eds.) SNS-förlaget.

2007

Berglund, H. (2007). Researching Entrepreneurship as Lived Experience. In Neergaard, H. and Ulhöi, J. (Eds). Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods in Entrepreneurship. (75-93). Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK.

Wickenberg, J., & Kylén, S. (2007). How Frequent is Organizational Political Behaviour? A Study of Managers' Opinions at 491 Workplaces. In S. Reddy (Ed.), Organizational Politics - New Insights (pp. 82-94). Hyderabad: The ICFAI University Press.

Journal Articles

2012

Börjesson S. and Elmquist M (2012) Aiming at innovation: a case study of innovation capabilities in the Swedish defence industry. International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp.188–201.

Börjesson, S. and Löfsten, H., (2012) Capabilities for innovation in small firms – A study of 131 high-tech firms and their relation to performance. International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp.149–176.

2011

Badenfelt, U. (2011). Fixing the contract after the contract is fixed: a study of incomplete contracts in IT and construction projects. International Journal of Project Management. 29 (5) s. 568-576.

Berglund, H. (2011). Early stage VC investing: Comparing California and Scandinavia. Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance. Vol. 13.  Issue 2 119- 145

Björkdahl, J (2011). The Phenomenon, causes and effects of integrating ICTs in manufacturing products. International Journal of Innovation Management, Vol. 15, Issue 2, 335-358.

Björkdahl, J. and Börjesson, S., (2011) Organizational climate and capabilities for innovation: A study of the in nine forest-based Nordic manufacturing firms. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, Vol 26, No 5: 488-500

Björkdahl, J. and Holmén, M (forthcoming). Exploiting the control revolution: Uncertainty reduction, value creation and appropriation in the division of labour. Forthcoming in Industrial and Corporate Change.

Björkdahl, J. and Magnusson, M (2011). Managerial Challenges from Integrating ICTs into Established Products. Forthcoming in International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital.

Börjesson S., (2011) Collaborative research for sustainable learning: the case of developing innovation capabilities at Volvo Cars. Action Learning: Research and Practice, Vol 8, No 3: 187-209

Börjesson S. and Elmquist M. (2011) Developing capabilities for innovation – A longitudinal study of a project at Volvo Cars, Journal of Creativity and Innovation Management, 29(3):171-184.

Ollila S. and Elmquist M. (2011) Managing Open Innovation: exploring challenges at the interfaces of an open innovation arena, Journal of Creativity and Innovation Management, 20(4): 273-283.

2010

Badenfelt, U. (2010). I trust you, I trust you not: a longitudinal study of control mechanisms in incentive contracts´, Construction Management and Economics, 28(3), 301–310.

Björk, J., Boccardelli, P., and Magnusson, M (2010). Ideation Capabilities for Continuous Innovation. Creativity and Innovation Management, vol 19, 385-396.

Giannopoulou, E., Yström, A., Ollila, S., Fredberg, T. and Elmquist M. (2010) Implications of Openness: A Study into (All) the Growing Literature on Open Innovation, Journal of Technology Management & Innovation, 5 (3) pp. 162-180.

Pohl, H. and Elmquist, M., (2010), Radical innovation in a small firm – a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) development project at Volvo Cars, R&D Management 40(4):372-382.

Sandström, C. (2010). Hasselblad and the shift to digital imaging, accepted for publication in Annals of the history of Computing.

Sandström, C., Osborne, R. (2010). Managing Business Model renewal, forthcoming in International Journal of Business and Systems Research.

Sandström, Christian., and Björk, Jennie., (2010). Idea management systems for a changing innovation landscape. International Journal of Product Development, Vol. 11, No. 3/4.

Styhre, A. and Börjesson, S. (2010) Project Management in the Culture Industry, International Journal of  Project Organization and Management.

2009

Adler N., Elmquist M. and Norrgren F. (2009): The Challenge of Managing Boundary-Spanning Research Activities: Experiences from the Swedish Context, Research Policy, 38(7): 1136-1149.

Aggeri F., Elmquist M., and Pohl H., (2009): Managing learning in the automotive industry – the innovation race for electric vehicles, International Journal of Automotive Technology, 9 (2): 123-147.

Björk and Magnusson (2009) Where Do Good Innovation Ideas Come From? Exploring the Influence of Network Connectivity on Innovation Idea Quality, Journal of Product Innovation Management, 26(6), pp. 662-670.

Björkdahl, J (2009). Technology cross-fertilization and the business model: Integration of ICTs in mechanical engineering products. Research Policy, 38(9), 1468-1477.

Elmquist M., Fredberg T. and Ollila S., (2009): Exploring the field of open innovation, European Journal of Innovation Management, 12(3):326-345.

Elmquist, M., Fredberg, T. and Ollila, S. (2009): Open Innovation Forschung in Europa, IP Manager- Journal for the Knowledge Economy, 3, 50-51.

Elmquist M. and Le Masson P., (2009): The value of a failed R&D project: emerging evaluation criteria for innovation projects, R&D Management, 39(2): 139-152.

Elmquist M. and Segrestin, B. (2009): Sustainable development through innovative design: lessons from the KCP method experimented with an automotive firm. International Journal of Automotive Technology Management, 9(2): 229-244.

Kadefors, A & Badenfelt, U (2009). ’The roles and risks of incentives in construction projects’, International Journal of Project Organisation and Management, Vol. 1(3):268-284.

Magnusson, M., Boccardelli, P., and Börjesson, S. (2009). Managing the Efficiency-Flexibility Tension in Innovation: Strategic and Organizational Aspects, Creativity and Innovation Management, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 2-7

Pohl H., Styhre A. and Elmquist M. (2009): The concept of ‘interessement’: The story of a power-split technology for hybrid electric vehicles, International. Journal of Innovation Management, 13(1):47-64.

Sandström, C., Magnusson, M., and Jörnmark, J. (2009) Exploring factors influencing incumbent's response to disruptive innovation, Creativity and Innovation Management, Vol 18(1), pp. 8-15.

2008

Badenfelt, U (2008). ’The selection of sharing ratios in target cost contracts’, Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, Vol. 15(1):54-65.

Broström, A., McKelvey, M and Sandström, C. (2008) Investing in Localised Relationships to Universities: What are the benefits to R&D subsidiaries of multinational enterprises? Industry & Innovation, Feb 2009. Vol. 16, Iss. 1, pp 59-78

Magnusson, M. G., and Vinciguerra, E. (2008). Key factors in small group improvement work: an empirical study at SKF, International Journal of Technology Management, Vol. 44, No. ¾, pp. 324-337.

Magnusson, M. and Martini, A. (2008). Dual organizational capabilities: from theory to practice - the next challenge for continuous innovation, International Journal of Technology Management, Vol. 42, No. 1/2, pp. 1-19.

Yar Hamidi, D., Wennberg, K. and Berglund, H. (2008). Creativity in Entrepreneurship Education, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development (Special Issue on Entrepreneurship Education). 15(2): 304-320.

2007

Backman, M., Börjesson, S., Setterberg, S., (2007) Working with concepts in the fuzzy front end: exploring the context for innovation for different types of concepts at Volvo Cars, R & D Management, 37 (1):17-28.

Berglund, H. (2007). Opportunities as Discovered and Created: A Study of Entrepreneurs in the Swedish Mobile Internet Industry. Journal of Enterprising Culture. 15(3): 243-273.

Berglund, H. (2007). Risk Conception and Risk Management in Corporate Innovation: Lessons from two Swedish Cases. International Journal of Innovation Management. 11(4): 497-513.

Berglund, H., Hellström, T. Sjölander, S. (2007). Entrepreneurial Learning and the Role of Venture Capitalists. Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, 9(3): 165-181.

Holmén, M., McKelvey, M., and Magnusson, M. (2007), What are innovative opportunities?, Industry and Innovation, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 27-45.

Conference Papers

2011

Carlgren, L., Elmquist, M., Rauth, I. (2011) Implementing design thinking – an exploratory study of large companies using design thinking in innovation efforts, proceedings of  the 2011 Tsinghua-DMI International Design Management Symposium HK in Hong Kong , 2011

Elerud-Tryde, A., Soonvald, A., Elmquist, M. (2011) Introducing A Framework For Idea Selection: A Study Of An Innovation Jam Project At Volvo Cars. Presented at 12th International CINet Conference, September 2011, Arhus, Denmark.

Linder, M (2011) Green business opportunities. Proceedings of R&D Management conference in Norrköping 2011.

Olsson, K., Pedersén, C., & Wickenberg, J. (2011). Is it all about culture? A study on frustration with respect to the work situation in dispersed, global IT projects at a merged, multinational company. Proceedings of the 9th EIASM Workshop on International Strategy and Cross-Cultural Management, Moscow, October 20-21, 2011.

Wickenberg, J., Stamlin, R., Persson, M., & Börjesson, S. (2011). Challenges for increasing component commonality in platforms. Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Management of Technology, EuroMOT2011, September 18-20, 2011, Tampere, Finland.

2010

Björk, Jennie. (2010) Dual-connected individuals in Ideationt. Presented at 11th International CINet Conference, September 2010, Zürich, Switzerland.

Björk, J.  Di Vincenzo, Magnusson M. and Mascia D. (2010) The impact of social capital on ideation - untapping the knowledge creation potential of internal networks, presented at the DIME conference - Organizing for networked innovation.

Björkdahl, J., and Holmén, M. (2010). Making Innovation Audits Rigorous. to be presented at the 2010 Academy of Management Conference, August 6-10, Montreal, Canada. Peer-reviewed by three referees.

Björkdahl, J. and Linder, M. (2010). Formulating Problems for Commercializing New Technologies: The Case of Green. ETH workshop on Business Models and Problem Solving Perspective, Zurich, Switzerland,  March 18-19.

Sandström, C., Magnusson, M. (2010). Value, Actors and Networks - A revised perspective on disruptive innovation, presented at the DIME conference ‘Organizing for networked innovation’ in Milan, 14-16 April.

Yström, A. ; Ollila, S. ; Fredberg, T. And Elmquist M. (2010). Communities of Practice for Open Innovation - Enabling Organizational Creativity?. ICICKM - 7th International Conference on Intellectual Capital & Knowledge Management, 11-12 Nov, Hong Kong.

2009

Berglund , H. (2009) Austrian Economics and the Study of Entrepreneurship: Concepts and Contributions. Academy of Management Meeting, Chicago, USA, August.

Björk J. , Boccardelli P. and Magnusson M. (2009) Ideation Capabilities for Continuous Innovation, The 10th CINet conference, September 5-8, Brisbane, Australia.

Boccardelli, P., Lechner, C., Magnusson, M. and Oriani, R. (2009). Distinctiveness and flexibility of resources: a study of the motion picture industry, the Academy of Management Meeting, August 6-8, 2009, Chicago, USA.

Elmquist, M., Fredberg, T. and Ollila S. (2009) Exploring the management of collaborative arenas from a platform perspective, the IPDM Conference, Enschede, The Netherlands, June 7-9.

Elmquist M. and Fredberg T. (2009) Triangulating relations to explore openness of innovation, Academy of Management Conference, Chicago, August.

Elmquist M. and Segrestin B. (2009) The challenges of managing open innovation in highly innovative fields: exploring the use of the KCP method, European Academy of Management Conference, Liverpool, UK, May 11-14.

Hordern, T. and Elmquist, M. (2009) The Role of Design Firms in Innovation: How Design Firms Contribute to the Innovative Capabilities of Core Firms, European Academy of Management, Liverpool, England.

Hordern, T. and Linder, M. (2009) Observing Environmental Strategy: Environmental Consideration and the Strategic Management of the Firm, the 10th CINet Conference, September 5-8, Brisbane, Australia

Leone, M.I., Reichstein, T. Boccardelli, P. and Magnusson, M., (2009). Fuel on the Invention Funnel: Technology Licensing-in, antecedents and invention performance, the 14th DRUID Summer Conference, 2009, June 16-18, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Pasche, M. and Magnusson, M. (2009). Continuous innovation and improvement of product platforms, the 10th CINet conference, September 5-8, 2009, Brisbane, Australia.

Sandström, C. (2009) High-end Disruptive Technologies with an Inferior Performance, the 10th CINet conference, Brisbane, Australia. Runner up for the John Bessant Best paper award.

2008

Aggeri. F, Elmquist M. and Pohl H. (2008) Managing learning strategies in the automotive industry – the race for hybridization, Gerpisa Conference, Turino, Italy, June 18-20.

Aggeri F. Elmquist, M. and Pohl H. (2008) Managing learning in the automotive industry– the race towards electric vehicles, Dynamics of Institutions and Markets in Europe Conference, Bordeaux, France, Sept 11-13.

Aggeri. F, Elmquist M. and Pohl H. (2008) Managing innovation fields: another look at how eco-innovation capabilities are built in the automotive industry, Strategic Management Society, Köln, Germany, October 12-15.

Börjesson S. and Elmquist, M. (2008) Aiming at innovation in the Swedish defense industry – the difficulties of responding to disruptive market change in a technology driven context, Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities Conference, Köpenhamn, Denmark, April 28-30, 2008.

Berglund, H. (2008). Between Cognition and Discourse: Phenomenology and the Study of Entrepreneurship. SCANCOR 20th Anniversary Conference, Stanford University.

Berglund H. and Wennberg, K. (2008). Creativity and Entrepreneurship Education. SCANCOR 20th Anniversary Conference, Stanford University.

Björk J. and Magnusson M. (2008) Ideation performance in Projects and Informal groups, The 1st ISPIM Innovation Symposium.

Björk J. and Magnusson M. (2008) Where Do Good Innovation Ideas Come From? Exploring the Influence of Network Connectivity on Innovation Idea Quality, International Product Development Management Conference, Hamburg, Germany, June 29-July 1.

Björk and Magnusson(2008) Heterogeneity and Performance in Innovation Idea Networks, Presented at CINet.

Björkdahl, J, Holmén, M and Saemundsson, R. (2008). Boundary changes and the co-evolution of knowledge and opportunities in existing supplier-buyer relationships. DRUID conference, May 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark. Peer-reviewed by two referees.

Boccardelli, P., Lechner, C., and Magnusson, M. (2008). Distinctiveness and flexibility of resources: a study of the motion picture industry, Strategic Management Society conference, October 12-15, 2008, Cologne, Germany.

Bohlin, E., Björkdahl, J., Blackman, C. et al. (2008). Assessment of Spectrum Management Options: Evaluation of Selected Swedish Spectrum Management Cases. 17th Biennial International Conference of the International Telecommunications Society, 24-27 June, 2008.

Börjesson, S., Elmquist, M.Aiming at Innovation’, presented at the International Conference on Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities (OLKC), Copenhagen. April 28-30.

Elmquist, M. (2008) Innovation and the limits of the selection logic: Introducing generative capacity as a complement to absorptive capacity, Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities Conference, Köpenhamn, Denmark, April 28-30.

Elmquist M. and Segrestin B. (2008) Developing innovative capabilities: Lessons from an experimental process in the automotive industry using a design theory approach, European Academy of Management Conference, Ljubliana, Slovenia, May 14-17.

Elmquist M. and Segrestin B. (2008) Alternative design strategies to combine environmental and economic sustainability: Lessons from an empirical experiment with an automotive firm, Gerpisa Conference, Turino, Italy, June 18-20.

Elmquist M. and Segrestin B. (2008) Organizing open innovation in practice: a case study of an environmental innovation project in the automotive industry, International Product Development Management Conference, Hamburg, Germany, June 29-July 1.

Hordern T. and Elmquist M. (2008) Design in innovation: how external design firms contribute to the development of the innovative capabilities of large firms, International Society for Professional Innovation Management Symposium, Singapore, December 14-17, 2008.

Leone, M.I., Boccardelli, P., Magnusson, M., and Reichstein, T. (2008). License to learn: the role of technology license agreements in meeting innovation goals, paper presented at the 24th EGOS Colloquium, July 10-12, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Pohl H. and Elmquist M.(2008) On the way to electric cars - a case study of a hybrid electric vehicle project at Volvo Cars, R&D Management Conference, Ottawa, Canada, June 17-20.

Sandström, C. (2008) New Channel Disruptive Innovation, the ISPIM Conference, Singapore 14-17 December .

Sandström, C. and Osborne, R. (2008) Changing the business model to overcome innovation adoption barriers - the case of new value distribution in the customer's organization, in proceedings of the 9th CINet conference, September 8-9, 2008, Valencia, Spain.

2007

Adler N, Elmquist M., Frössevi B., Fredberg T. & Norrgren F, (2007) Loud killers and already-invented-here: managing change in professional organizations, Academy of Management, Philadelphia, August 4-8, 2007.

Berglund, H. (2007). Opportunities as Existing and Created: A Study of Entrepreneurs in Sweden’s Mobile Internet Industry. Academy of Management Meeting, Philadelphia, USA, August.

Boccardelli, P., Leone, M.I., and Magnusson, M. (2007). The learning potential of strategic licensing, in proceedings of the 8th CINet conference, September 8-11, 2007, Göteborg, Sweden.

Börjesson, S (2007) ‘Overcoming innovation obstacles in large firms: A case study of a path-breaking initiative in an automotive firm’, presented at the Continuous Innovation Network Conference (CINet), Gothenburg 7-11 September.

Sandström, C., Magnusson, M., Jörnmark, J. (2007) Surviving disruptive innovation: does incumbent size and strategy matter? Presented at the CINet conference in Gothenburg, 7-11 September.