Leon Poblete
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Business Studies; Professors, teachers, researchers
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 14 00
- E-mail:
- leon.poblete@fek.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, ingång C
751 20 UPPSALA - Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA
- Academic merits:
- PhD, docent
Short presentation
Dr. Poblete is an Associate Professor (Docent) at Uppsala University. He holds a Ph.D. and a M.Sc. degree from Uppsala University in Business and Economics. Part of his Ph.D studies were conducted at Harvard University, Kellogg School of Management and University of Michigan in the U.S.
Dr. Poblete is currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Keywords
- marketingresearchgroup
Biography
Dr. Poblete holds a Ph.D. and a M.Sc. degree from Uppsala University in Business and Economics, and a B.Sc. degree from Oxford Brookes University, UK. Part of his Ph.D. studies were conducted at Harvard University, Kellogg School of Management/Northwestern University and University of Michigan in the US. He teaches at the Master Programme in Business and Economics, and at the Faculty of Science and Technology at the Master Programme in Sociotechnical Systems Engineering at Uppsala University.
Prior to joining Uppsala University, Dr. Poblete worked at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) and at the Department of Innovation and Economic Organization at BI Norwegian Business School. He as also been a Research Fellow at the Department of Technology Management and Economics at Chalmers University of Technology.
Dr. Poblete is currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Research
Dr. Poblete's research interests include interorganizational relationships, complex industrial networks, industrial economics and industrial management. The Swedish Defense and Security industry has been the main empirical context in his research.

Publications
Selection of publications
Recent publications
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Part of Journal of Business Research, 2026
- DOI for Relationship agility practices as a dynamic relational capability for relocating business activities during exogenous shocks
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Part of Construction Management and Economics, p. 7-25, 2025
- DOI for Challenges with collaboration: the interaction of formal and informal ties in infrastructure construction
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User involvement and value co-creation in well-being ecosystems
Part of Journal of Health Organization & Management, p. 34-55, 2023
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Sourcing energy services in business-to-business contexts: practices among end-customers
Part of Energy Efficiency, 2023
- DOI for Sourcing energy services in business-to-business contexts: practices among end-customers
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Temporality, temporariness and keystone actor capabilities in innovation ecosystems
Part of Industrial Marketing Management, p. 301-310, 2022
- DOI for Temporality, temporariness and keystone actor capabilities in innovation ecosystems
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All publications
Articles in journal
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Part of Journal of Business Research, 2026
- DOI for Relationship agility practices as a dynamic relational capability for relocating business activities during exogenous shocks
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Part of Construction Management and Economics, p. 7-25, 2025
- DOI for Challenges with collaboration: the interaction of formal and informal ties in infrastructure construction
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User involvement and value co-creation in well-being ecosystems
Part of Journal of Health Organization & Management, p. 34-55, 2023
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Sourcing energy services in business-to-business contexts: practices among end-customers
Part of Energy Efficiency, 2023
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Temporality, temporariness and keystone actor capabilities in innovation ecosystems
Part of Industrial Marketing Management, p. 301-310, 2022
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Resource interaction: Key concepts, relations and representations
Part of Industrial Marketing Management, p. 48-59, 2022
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The reconstitution of broken interfirm relations
Part of Long range planning, 2022
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Resuming business operations after a Hiatus: The case of reappearing relationships
Part of Industrial Marketing Management, p. 256-266, 2022
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Part of Journal of Business Research, p. 179-192, 2021
- DOI for Nominated procurement and the indirect control of nominated sub-suppliers: Evidence from the Sri Lankan apparel supply chain
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Resource transformation in the reconstitution of broken interorganizational relationships
Part of Journal of Strategy and Management., p. 207-226, 2021
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The role of social ties in collaborative project networks: A tale of two construction cases
Part of Construction Management and Economics, p. 723-738, 2021
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The Direct and Indirect Control of Sub-Suppliers Through Nominated Procurement in Emerging Market
Part of Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, 2020
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“I want you back”: On the strategic roles of boundary spanners in supplier switching-back processes
Part of Industrial Marketing Management, p. 234-245, 2020
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Många intressenter och många krav på e-handelsdistribution
Part of Supply Chain Effect, p. 14-17, 2019
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How B2B Companies Can Win Back Customers They’ve Lost
Part of Harvard Business Review, p. 2-5, 2019
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Foreign investment and economic integration: Meat industry in the baltic sea region
Part of Baltic Worlds, p. 38-44, 2013
Conference papers
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2016
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Part of Proceedings of the 31st IMP Conference, Kolding, Denmark, 2015, 2015
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The Re-activation of Business Relationships: A study from the Swedish Defence and Security Industry
2015
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Breakup and reconciliation: Reactivating business relationships
2015
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2015
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2014
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What do we know about the re-activation of business relationships?
2014
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The Re-activation of Business Relationships: – PhD Thesis Proposal
2013
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Micro-level analysis of the Baltic Sea Region economic integration
2012