Mathias Cöster
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Business Studies; Professors, teachers, researchers
- Mobile phone:
- +46 76 785 22 20
- E-mail:
- mathias.coster@fek.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Campus Gotland, Cramérgatan 3
621 57 Visby - Postal address:
- Uppsala universitet, Campus Gotland
621 67 Visby
- Academic merits:
- Docent
Short presentation
Teaches Business Studies courses. Main research interest is digitalisation and how it influences price models, business models and business ecologies. Also research on organisations' management control systems for sustainable development. Participates in Uppsala University's graduate school in Sustainable Development (GRASS). In addition active in various contexts outside the university, e.g. board member of the business association Tillväxt Gotland.
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Biography
Received a PhD in 2007 with a thesis on how digitization has transformed the graphic industry. Carried out the graduate studies at Economic Information System (EIS), Linköping University and during this time also associated to the Swedish research school of Management and IT (MIT). Worked as a Lecturer and Assistant professor at Campus Gotland 2003-2020. During these years I, in addition to research and education, was also active as head of department, director of studies and undergraduate program manager. In-between 2020-2024 employed at the Department of Civil Engineering and Industrial Technology in Uppsala, where I participated in establishing education in Industrial Engineering and Management. Since 2024 I have been back at Campus Gotland and the Department of Business Studies.
For the past decade I have, together with research colleagues, been researching how digitalisation influence organisational price models and how these can be designed to be in line with its business model and the business ecology that surrounds the organisation. We have documented the experiences from this project in both books and articles and are continuing to develop methods for price model design in close collaboration with both companies and public organizations.
Since 2020 I am part of Uppsala University's multidisciplinary graduate school in Sustainable development. Here I am involved in the projects Digital innovation for sustainable consumption (DISCO) and Orchestration of Digital Sustainability in the Grocery Retail (ORCA) . In that context, I also study how organisations design business models and management control systems for sustainable development.

Publications
Recent publications
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Hållbara affärsmodeller: Ägare, strategi och styrning
Studentlitteratur AB, 2026
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Datorisering i ett historiskt perspektiv: Från redovisningsdata till styrinformation
Part of Digitalisering och styrning, p. 119-136, Studentlitteratur AB, 2025
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Part of Research Handbook on Accounting and Organizational Change, p. 254-270, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025
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2025
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2025
All publications
Articles in journal
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Part of Sustainability, 2020
- DOI for Are They Reporting the Right Thing and Are They Doing It Right?: A Measurement Maturity Grid for Evaluation of Sustainability Reports
- Download full text (pdf) of Are They Reporting the Right Thing and Are They Doing It Right?: A Measurement Maturity Grid for Evaluation of Sustainability Reports
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Part of Sustainability, 2018
- DOI for From global goals and planetary boundaries to public governance: A framework for prioritizing organizational sustainability activities
- Download full text (pdf) of From global goals and planetary boundaries to public governance: A framework for prioritizing organizational sustainability activities
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Från produkt till tjänst – prismodellers roll i digitaliserad affärsutveckling
Part of Management of Innovation and Technology, p. 2-4, 2016
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The Business Model Eruption and How Game Changing Mind Sets Challenge Existing Nodes of Business
Part of Journal of Business Models, 2014
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Part of International Journal of Management and Decision Making, p. 250-265, 2014
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How to Differentiate by Price: Proposal for a Five-dimensional Model
Part of European Management Journal, p. 109-123, 2013
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Part of Ekonomiska samfundets tidskrift, p. 175-190, 2010
Articles, review/survey
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Conceptualising innovative price models: the RITE framework
Part of Baltic Journal of Management, p. 540-558, 2019
Books
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Hållbara affärsmodeller: Ägare, strategi och styrning
Studentlitteratur AB, 2026
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Digital Transformation: Understanding Business Goals, Risks, Processes, and Decisions
Open Book Publishers, 2023
- DOI for Digital Transformation: Understanding Business Goals, Risks, Processes, and Decisions
- Download full text (pdf) of Digital Transformation: Understanding Business Goals, Risks, Processes, and Decisions
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Verksamhetsstyrning för hållbar utveckling
Studentlitteratur AB, 2023
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Strategic and Innovative Pricing: Price Models for a Digital Economy
Routledge, 2020
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Organisations, Processes, Decisions: Strategies for a Digitised Century
Sine Metu Productions, 2020
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Digitalisering och organisering: Att skapa värde i det 21:a århundradet
Liber, 2017
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Liber, 2016
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Prissättning: Affärsekologier, affärsmodeller, prismodeller
Studentlitteratur, 2013
Chapters in book
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Datorisering i ett historiskt perspektiv: Från redovisningsdata till styrinformation
Part of Digitalisering och styrning, p. 119-136, Studentlitteratur AB, 2025
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Part of Research Handbook on Accounting and Organizational Change, p. 254-270, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025
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Part of Research Handbook on Sustainability Reporting, p. 130-143, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024
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Enabling sustainable visits: Introduction
Part of Enabling Sustainable Visits, p. 7-20, Uppsala University, 2023
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Concluding remarks: Towards enabling sustainable visits
Part of Enabling Sustainable Visits, p. 277-281, Uppsala University, 2023
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Part of Enabling Sustainable Visits, Uppsala University, 2023
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Strategic Pricing: The Relationship Between Strategy, Price Models and Product Cost
Part of Strategic Management Control, p. 67-85, Springer, 2020
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Strategic Pricing: The Relationship Between Strategy, Price Models and Product Cost
Part of Strategic Management Control, p. 67-85, Springer, 2020
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Datorisering i ett historiskt perspektiv: Från redovisningsdata till styrinformation
Part of Digitalisering och styrning, Studentlitteratur AB, 2018
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Part of Controllerhandboken, Liber, 2018
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Strategic pricing: The relationship between strategy, price models and product cost
Part of Strategic Management Control, p. 131-163, Studentlitteratur AB, 2016
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Strategisk prissättning: Samband mellan strategi, prismodeller och kostnadskalkyler
Part of Strategisk ekonomistyrning, p. 125-154, Studentlitteratur AB, 2016
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Prismodeller som strategisktverktyg
Part of Bonnier Ledarskapshandböcker, Bonnier, 2013
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Priser ut, in och mellan - om risktagande, ansvar och prismodeller
Part of Bonniers ledarskapshandböcker, Bonniers, 2013
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IT Innovation Influence and Industrial Transformation: The Case of the Swedish Graphic Industry
Part of Management and information technology, p. 145-159, Routledge, 2011
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IT:s branschpåverkan: exempel från den grafiska industrin
Part of Gotlandsakademiker tycker om ..., p. 91-99, Gotland University Press, 2010
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De gotländska företagarna och forskarna – läge att samarbeta?
Part of Gotlandsakademiker tycker om …, p. 23-28, 2009
Collections (editor)
Conference papers
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2025
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2025
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Testing a Maturity Grid for Assessing Sustainability Reports
2018
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Price models: a missing link in business model research?
2015
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2013
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2012
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Usability and strategic logic in information systems – a new approach to directing change
2012
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European industrial transformation: the effects of digitization
Part of Proceedings of the 13th Swedish network for European studies in economics and business conference, p. 1-41, 2011
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The hen or the egg?: IT innovations’ influence on business strategy
Part of Proceedings of the Nordic Academy of Management conference 2011, p. 1-18, 2011
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Improving Supply Networks: Identifying drivers for sustainable change using process models
Part of Proceedings of the 13TH TOULON-VERONA CONFERENCE, p. 1-11, 2010