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 courses in Industrial management. Main research interest is digitalisation and how it influences price models, business models and business ecologies. Also currently studying organisations' management control systems for sustainable development. Participates in Uppsala University's graduate school in Sustainable Development. In addition active in various contexts outside the university, e.g. board member of the business association Tillväxt Gotland.
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. Since August 2020 employed at the Department of Civil Engineering and Industrial Technology in Uppsala.
For the past ten years, I and four colleagues have 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 now continuing to develop methods for price model design in close collaboration with both companies and public organizations. We do this through a collaboration that we call CASIP (Center for Advanced Studies of Innovative Price models).
From 2020 I will also be part of Uppsala University's new multidisciplinary graduate school in Sustainable development. Here I am involved in the project Digital innovation for sustainable consumption (DISCO). In that context, I also study how organizations design management control systems for sustainable development.

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