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
Professor at Uppsala University Conflicting Objectives Research Nexus (UUniCORN)
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 167 95 53
- Visiting address:
- MTC-huset, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 14B, 1 tr
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset
751 85 Uppsala
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
Part of Sustainability Science, 2024
- DOI for Socio-techno-ecological transition dynamics in the re-territorialization of food production: the case of wild berries in Sweden
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Towards a socio-techno-ecological approach to sustainability transitions
Part of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 2024
- DOI for Towards a socio-techno-ecological approach to sustainability transitions
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Part of Hermann Hesse's Global Impact. Past, Presence, Future, p. 229-242, Camden House, 2024
Foraging for development: An analysis of the Swedish wild berry innovation system
Part of Agricultural Systems, 2024
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The contested shoe box: revisiting the role of aesthetics in the modern cargo shipping industry
Part of Forum navale, p. 64-93, 2024
All publications
Articles in journal
Part of Sustainability Science, 2024
- DOI for Socio-techno-ecological transition dynamics in the re-territorialization of food production: the case of wild berries in Sweden
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Towards a socio-techno-ecological approach to sustainability transitions
Part of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 2024
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Foraging for development: An analysis of the Swedish wild berry innovation system
Part of Agricultural Systems, 2024
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The contested shoe box: revisiting the role of aesthetics in the modern cargo shipping industry
Part of Forum navale, p. 64-93, 2024
Part of European Journal of Engineering Education, p. 1-21, 2024
- DOI for The Virtuous, the Caring, and the Free: Ethical Theory to Understand the Ethics of the Teacher as a Role Model in Engineering Education
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Part of puntOorg International Journal, 2024
- DOI for Lighting a fire: A letter written by Tito Designori about bringing teaching back to management education
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Part of Digital Chemical Engineering, 2023
- DOI for Case hacks in action: Examples from a case study on green chemistry in education for sustainable development
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Can blockchain-technology fight corruption in MNEs' operations in emerging markets?
Part of Review of International Business and Strategy, p. 39-56, 2022
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Ethical aspects of voice assistants: a critical discourse analysis of Indonesian media texts
Part of Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, p. 18-36, 2022
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Ethics as craft: some explorations
Part of Meiji Business Review, p. 1-17, 2022
Disalienation in the management classroom: lessons from Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game
Part of Culture and Organization, p. 216-226, 2022
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Part of International Journal of Maritime History, p. 63-82, 2022
- DOI for Rooting for ro-ro: Exploring how strategic choices by pulp and paper companies contributed to Sweden's specialized maritime export systems, 1960-2015
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The impact of the Lean Principle Respect for People – A Case Study of a Swedish Supermarket
2022
Fictional Film in Engineering Ethics Education: With Miyazaki's The Wind Rises as Exemplar
Part of Science and Engineering Ethics, 2022
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Part of Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021
Part of The Review of Socionetwork Strategies, p. 71-85, 2021
- DOI for Culture as Suture: on the Use of “Culture” in Cross-Cultural Studies in and Beyond Intercultural Information Ethics
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Editorial Preface: Why Cross-National Studies Between Japan and Sweden?
Part of Review of Socionetwork Strategies, 2021
Editorial Preface: Why Cross-National Studies Between Japan and Sweden?
Part of REVIEW OF SOCIONETWORK STRATEGIES, p. 67-70, 2021
The Lean principle respect for people as respect for craftsmanship
Part of International Journal of Lean Six Sigma, p. 1209-1230, 2021
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Part of Högre Utbildning, p. 1-15, 2020
- DOI for Case hacks: Four hacks for promoting critical thinking in case-based management education for sustainable development
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The Individual-Care Nexus: A Theory of Entrepreneurial Care for Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Part of Sustainability, 2019
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Part of Transformative Dialogues, 2019
Part of Sustainability, 2018
- DOI for “We Started Building Green IT Back in the 1970s”: Making Sense of Sustainable ICT through Organizational History
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Part of Project Management Journal, p. 5-16, 2018
The Laughing Matter of Corruption and Anti-Corruption
Part of Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik = Journal of Business, Economics and Ethics, p. 40-56, 2018
Part of Culture and Organization, p. 263-267, 2018
Part of Project Management Journal, p. 5-16, 2018
Green IT Did Not Take Place: The Translation of Environmentally Friendly IT in Japan
Part of Journal of Information and Management, 2017
A Buddhist Future for Capitalism?: Revising Buddhist Economics for the Era of Light Capitalism
Part of Futures, p. 67-75, 2015
Part of Information Technology and People, p. 758-774, 2015
Critiquing corruption: A turn to theory
Part of Ephemera, p. 319-336, 2015
The Confucian Ethics of Junzi in Contemporary Light Capitalism
Part of Taiwan Journal of East Asian Studies, 2015
Sustainable and Fast ICT: Lessons from Dromology
Part of Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, p. 284-297, 2014
Part of International Journal of Maritime History, p. 702-719, 2014
Chance Interventions – On Bricolage and the State As an Entrepreneur in a Declining Industry
Part of Culture and Organization, p. 377-391, 2014
Part of Asia Pacific Business Review, p. 70-84, 2013
GLOBAL BUSINESS The New, Improved Keiretsu
Part of Harvard Business Review, p. 109-+, 2013
Part of Business Ethics. A European Review, p. 380-392, 2013
Organizational diaspora: The aftermath of the Saleninvest bankruptcy
Part of Culture and Organization, p. 430-450, 2013
Part of Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies, p. 16-21, 2012
The Transformation of Swedish Shipping, 1970-2010
Part of Business history review, p. 417-445, 2012
From mieruka to satoruka: On a Communities Based View of Organization
Part of Business Review, Meiji University, p. 1-9, 2012
Books
Studentlitteratur AB, 2019
Studentlitteratur AB, 2019
Snow in the tropics: A history of the independent reefer operators
Brill Academic Publishers, 2019
Elling Ellingsen - The Shipping Entrepreneur
Medströms Bokförlag, 2016
Eros, thymos, logos - a study of the spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation at Stena
Bokförlaget BAS, 2015
Breakwater Publishing in collaboration with BAS, 2013
Liber, 2011
Chapters in book
Part of Hermann Hesse's Global Impact. Past, Presence, Future, p. 229-242, Camden House, 2024
Part of Ethics and Sustainability in Digital Cultures, p. 31-48, Routledge, 2024
Part of Debating Innovation, p. 33-53, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
Organizational Anti-corruption: De-normalization Through Anxiety, Superego, Courage and Justice
Part of Challenges in Managing Sustainable Business, p. 313-334, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
Corruption: maximising, socialising, balancing, and othering
Part of The handbook of business and corruption, p. 25-48, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2017
Gamification for Sustainability: Beyond the Ludo-Aesthetical Approach
Part of The Business of Gamification, p. 163-181, Routledge, 2016
Part of Sjövägen till Sverige: Från 1500-talet till våra dagar, Universus Press, 2016
Part of ICT-ethics: Sweden and Japan, CTE centrum för tillämpad etik / center for applied ethics, 2013
The Two Declines of Swedish shipping 1960-2010
Part of Global Shipping in Small Nations, p. 100-128, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
Foreword to The Business of Global Energy Transformation
Part of The Business of Global Energy Transformation, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
Collections (editor)
SCOS: Searching Collectively for Our Soul
Editoriale Scientifica, 2019
Tetsugaku Companion to Japanese Ethics and Technology
Springer, 2019
Conference papers
Supporting Shared Responsibility for Integrating Ethics into Science and Technology Education
Part of 2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2022
- DOI for Supporting Shared Responsibility for Integrating Ethics into Science and Technology Education
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2021
Virtual Exchange for Education for Sustainable Development
Part of 2020 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2020
Teaching Engineering Ethics With Drama
Part of 2020 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2020
A Pragmatic Approach for Teaching Ethics to Engineers and Computer Scientists
Part of 2020 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2020
Etikutbildning för ingenjörer: Övningar, verktyg, metoder
Part of 5:e utvecklingskonferensen för Sveriges Ingenjörsutbildningar, p. 30-31, 2015
2015
"Ethics as practice" as ethico-politics: the contributions from Alain Badiou's ethical thought
2015
Confucian Ethics and Global Capitalism
2015
What is this thing called Stena? On innovation and thymos from 1939 to 2015
2015
Sustainable ICT: A Critique from the Perspective of World Systems Theory
Part of Proceedings of 11th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC11 2014, p. 57-68, 2014
Which way is up? Acrobats and ascetics in technological development
2014
Beyond Keeping Going! Towards an ethics of change projects
2014
Translating Green IT: The case of the Swedish Green IT Audit
Part of ICT4S 2013, p. 208-216, 2013
Marketing the Information Society: Sustainability, Speed and Technomass
Part of The possibilities of ethical ICT, p. 310-315, 2013
"Dojo" as a space of learning and inheriting tacit knowledge
2013
Can traditionalism be critical?
2013
2013
Entrepreneurial subjectivities: Lacan and Badiou
Part of Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, 2012
The translation and development of Green IT in Japan
Part of The Japan Association for Management Information (JASMIN) Annual Conference 2012, 2012
Part of Standing conference on Organizational Symbolism, 2011
Homogenization of Swedish governance: The case of the Swedish shipping industry 1980-2010
Part of Critical Management Studies 7, 2011
Part of European Group for Organizational Studies, 2011
Recovery of the spiritual: the Buddhist turn of Sustainability
Part of Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, 2011
Beyond compliance: Exploring the Relevance of Badiou's Ethics for Business Ethics
Part of Badiou, Business, Ethics Symposium, 2011
The Smart, the Dumb and the Hybrid: An exploration into the future of the Grid
2011
The current trends and issues of Green IT
2011
Part of Academy of International Business, 2011
Other
2021
2021
Knud E. Hansen A/S - 75 Years of Ship Design
Part of Forum navale, 2015
CSR as a Management Idea - Ethics in Action
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Management, p. 386-387, 2014
Förbund på sju hav - Sjöfolksförbundet blir SEKO sjöfolk
Part of Forum navale, p. 159-161, 2014
Stena Line – historien om ett färjerederi
Part of Forum navale, p. 156-159, 2014
Vintage Book Review. Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, E. F. Schumacher
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Management, p. 402-403, 2013
Patriksson, Folke. Att kunna ta en storm
Part of Forum Navale, p. 116-120, 2013