Thomas Lennerfors
Professor at Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering; Industrial Engineering and Management
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 72 60
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 167 95 53
- E-mail:
- thomas.lennerfors@angstrom.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 169
751 04 Uppsala
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Short presentation
Professor in Industrial Engineering and Management. My research and teaching focuses on the one hand on industrial strategy and innovation, and on the other hand on ethics and sustainability, particularly in connection to technology and entrepreneurship.
Biography
Within the areas of industrial strategy and innovation, and ethics and sustainability, I am engaged in the following areas of study:
Industrial strategy and innovation within the context of industrial dynamics: This research area aims at understanding the relationship between industrial and institutional dynamics and corporate strategies from a modern historical perspective, especially within the shipping industry. The research area theoretically draws on strategy/management/organization theory, historical approaches from economic and maritime history, and philosophy. Methodologically, the research area draws on financial/market/resource analysis, in-depth interviews with key people, and archival studies.
Management, innovation and entrepreneurship: This research concerns alternative conceptualizations of management, entrepreneurship and innovation, emphasising processual aspects of bricolage and serendipity. Also, this area tries to bridge Western and Eastern management knowledge, including concepts such as anshin and satoruka into management thought.
Ethics and sustainability of technology and business: This research concerns the study of ethical issues related to technology and business, for example the study of inequalities in the distribution of environmental consequences of ICT, and a problematization of Sustainable ICT. The research area includes theories from non-Western contexts, for example Japanese and Buddhist ethics.
Corruption: I am engaged in studying corruption and anti-corruption. The research is aims to problematize the war on corruption, and suggest alternative theory-building within this area. Empirical studies are done in for example construction, healthcare, etc.
Research
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thomas_Lennerfors
Publications
Recent publications
- Socio-techno-ecological transition dynamics in the re-territorialization of food production (2024)
- The Virtuous, the Caring, and the Free (2024)
- What is the problem to which AI chatbots are the solution? (2024)
- Struggling With Technology: Hermann Hesse's View on How to Live Well With Craft, Modern, and Cybernetic Technologies (2024)
- The contested shoe box (2024)
All publications
Articles
- Socio-techno-ecological transition dynamics in the re-territorialization of food production (2024)
- The Virtuous, the Caring, and the Free (2024)
- The contested shoe box (2024)
- Foraging for development (2024)
- Lighting a fire (2024)
- Case hacks in action (2023)
- Ethical aspects of voice assistants (2022)
- Can blockchain-technology fight corruption in MNEs' operations in emerging markets? (2022)
- Fictional Film in Engineering Ethics Education (2022)
- Rooting for ro-ro (2022)
- Ethics as craft (2022)
- The impact of the Lean Principle Respect for People – A Case Study of a Swedish Supermarket (2022)
- Disalienation in the management classroom: lessons from Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game (2022)
- Culture as Suture (2021)
- Editorial Preface: Why Cross-National Studies Between Japan and Sweden? (2021)
- Editorial Preface (2021)
- The Lean principle respect for people as respect for craftsmanship (2021)
- Beyond "Leanear" production (2021)
- Case hacks (2020)
- The Individual-Care Nexus (2019)
- Shouldn’t We Expect More From Case-Based Learning? (2019)
- “We Started Building Green IT Back in the 1970s” (2018)
- The Laughing Matter of Corruption and Anti-Corruption (2018)
- Virtues and vices in project management ethics (2018)
- The animal (2018)
- Virtues and Vices in Project Management Ethics (2018)
- Green IT Did Not Take Place (2017)
- Critiquing corruption (2015)
- The Confucian Ethics of Junzi in Contemporary Light Capitalism (2015)
- Knud E. Hansen A/S - 75 Years of Ship Design (2015)
- A Buddhist Future for Capitalism? (2015)
- ICT and environmental sustainability in a changing society (2015)
- Stena Line – historien om ett färjerederi (2014)
- Förbund på sju hav - Sjöfolksförbundet blir SEKO sjöfolk (2014)
- An involuntary shipowner - the background and effects of Swedish state involvement in shipping during the 1970's and 1980's (2014)
- Sustainable and Fast ICT: Lessons from Dromology (2014)
- CSR as a Management Idea - Ethics in Action (2014)
- Chance Interventions – On Bricolage and the State As an Entrepreneur in a Declining Industry (2014)
- Whither Japanese keiretsu? (2013)
- GLOBAL BUSINESS The New, Improved Keiretsu (2013)
- Patriksson, Folke. Att kunna ta en storm (2013)
- Beneath good and evil? (2013)
- Organizational diaspora (2013)
- Vintage Book Review. Small is Beautiful (2013)
- Corruption and Hosophobia (2012)
- From mieruka to satoruka (2012)
- The Transformation of Swedish Shipping, 1970-2010 (2012)
Books
- Ethics in engineering (2019)
- Etik för ingenjörer (2019)
- Snow in the tropics (2019)
- SCOS (2019)
- Tetsugaku Companion to Japanese Ethics and Technology (2019)
- Elling Ellingsen - The Shipping Entrepreneur (2016)
- Eros, thymos, logos - a study of the spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation at Stena (2015)
- Att skapa en värld (2013)
- Etik (2011)
Chapters
- What is the problem to which AI chatbots are the solution? (2024)
- Struggling With Technology: Hermann Hesse's View on How to Live Well With Craft, Modern, and Cybernetic Technologies (2024)
- Innovation Ethics (2023)
- Organizational Anti-corruption (2018)
- Corruption (2017)
- Gamification for Sustainability (2016)
- Handel och sjöfart (2016)
- Smart Ethics (2013)
- Foreword to The Business of Global Energy Transformation (2012)
- The Two Declines of Swedish shipping 1960-2010 (2012)
Conferences
- Supporting Shared Responsibility for Integrating Ethics into Science and Technology Education (2022)
- Rewilding sustainability transitions (2021)
- Teaching Engineering Ethics With Drama (2020)
- Virtual Exchange for Education for Sustainable Development (2020)
- A Pragmatic Approach for Teaching Ethics to Engineers and Computer Scientists (2020)
- Etikutbildning för ingenjörer (2015)
- What is this thing called Stena? On innovation and thymos from 1939 to 2015 (2015)
- Confucian Ethics and Global Capitalism (2015)
- "Ethics as practice" as ethico-politics: the contributions from Alain Badiou's ethical thought (2015)
- Quality is to a product what character is to a man (2015)
- Which way is up? Acrobats and ascetics in technological development (2014)
- Beyond Keeping Going! Towards an ethics of change projects (2014)
- Sustainable ICT (2014)
- Translating Green IT (2013)
- Thinking Ethics with Badiou (2013)
- Can traditionalism be critical? (2013)
- Marketing the Information Society: Sustainability, Speed and Technomass (2013)
- "Dojo" as a space of learning and inheriting tacit knowledge (2013)
- Entrepreneurial subjectivities: Lacan and Badiou (2012)
- The translation and development of Green IT in Japan (2012)
- The transformation of Japanese institutions and governance (2011)
- Homogenization of Swedish governance (2011)
- Recovery of the spiritual (2011)
- Beyond compliance (2011)
- Reassembling anti-corruption (2011)
- From "mieruka" to "satoruka" (2011)
- The Smart, the Dumb and the Hybrid (2011)
- The current trends and issues of Green IT (2011)