Fredrik Tell
Professor at Department of Business Studies; Professors, teachers, researchers
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 31 27
- E-mail:
- fredrik.tell@fek.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, ingång C
751 20 UPPSALA - Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA
Affiliated Professor at Department of Economic History; Uppsala Centre for Business History
- E-mail:
- fredrik.tell@fek.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10
75120 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 Uppsala
- Academic merits:
- PhD, Docent
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Short presentation
My present research involves strategic temporal work and the relationship between the future and the present, development of organizational knowledge and capabilities, patent history, intellectual property rights and markets for technology, digitalization and changing organizational routines, temporary and distributed organizational forms in innovation, and multinational management during change. Currently I serve as a co-editor of the scientific journal Industrial and Corporate Change.
Biography
Since 1 September, 2015, I am Professor and Chair of Business Studies at Uppsala University. At the department I am chairing the scientific council, convene the higher seminar and teach courses mainly on master and doctoral level, primarily in strategy and research methods. My teaching experience covers all three cycles (undergraduate, master, doctoral) involving courses in organization, strategy, innovation, knowledge management, business history and scientific methods. I have acted on the advisory team for 14 PhD students that have completed their degrees, and am currently co-supervising two PhD students. I am Deputy Chair of the National Research School in Management and Information Technology (MIT). In my work at the department, I have been responsible, together with David Andersson and staff at the Swedish Patent Office (PRV) for enabling a searchable historical database denoted Swedish historical patents, 1746-1945.
I am a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), the The Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala (KVS) and the IMIT Foundation. I served as President of The Swedish Academy of Business and Management (FEKIS), 2018-2020.
Previously I was Professor in Business Administration at Linköping University, where I also completed my undergraduate and post-graduate education (Ph.D., 2000). I have been a founding member of five research groups: KITE (Knowledge Integration and Innovation in Transnational Enterprise, with Professor emeritus Christian Berggren); DRIM (Developing Research and Innovation in Multinationals: The case of Sweden and Brazil, with Professor Roberto Sbragia, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil); EPOK (Enterprising by Projects and Organizational Knowledge, with Professor emeritus Lars Lindkvist and Professor Jonas Söderlund, Linköping University); MEKA (Managing External Knowledge Acquisition, with Professor Nicolette Lakemond, Linköping University); Patent History Research Group (with Professor emeritus Mats Larsson, Uppsala University).
During my years as an academic researcher I have been very fortunate to be able to work as a visiting scholar/fellow at the following institutions (in chronological order): IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), Vienna, Austria, SCANCOR (Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research), Stanford University, USA; SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research), University of Sussex, UK; Department of Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK; Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University, Canada; Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto, Canada.
Research
I am currently involved in the following ongoing research projects:
SWEDISH PATENT HISTORY AND MARKETS FOR TECHNOLOGY
Extended title: “Micro dynamics of markets for ideas: Patent trade, costs and litigation during the industrialization of Sweden” (Funded by Jan Walllander and Tore Browald's Foundation, "From invention to innovation: Novelty, impact and value of patents in 20th century Sweden" (Funded by The Lars Erik Lundberg Foundation for Research and Education)
Collaborators: David Andersson (Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University), Matti La Mela (Department of ALM, Uppsala University), PhD student Yunting Xie (Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University).
Summary: Aims to describe patenting behavior and the emergence of a market for technology through a new dataset covering historical Swedish and Finnish patents.
FIRMS STRATEGIC USE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
Extended title: ”Buy, Sell or Keep? How do Swedish companies use their Intellectual Property Rights?” (Funded by Jan Wallanders och Tom Hedelius Stiftelse) and “ David and Goliath: The challenges with enforcing patents for small firms and entrepreneurs” (Funded by VINNOVA)
Collaborators: Marcus Holgersson (Chalmers University of Technology, Principal Investigator), David Andersson (Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University), PhD student Robert Heurlin (Chalmers University of Technology).
Summary: Aims to analyze the strategic use of IP by big and small firms through the study of domestic and international court cases.
DIGITALIZATION AND ROUTINE DYNAMICS
Extended title: “Digitalization and Routine Dynamics”
Collaborators: Dr Yunchen Sun (Linköping University and Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University)
Summary: Aims to show how digital technologies such as Model Based Systems Engineering influences organization of engineering work in management of innovation and manufacturing in Complex Product and Systems industries.
Publications
Recent publications
- Family first (2024)
- Tensions in Digital Transformation (2024)
- Project collegiality: Boundary work and boundary integration in governing science (2024)
- AC/DC High Voltage: The evolution of Gateway Technologies and the Battle of the Systems reconsidered (2024)
- Industrial design rights and the market value of firms (2023)
All publications
Articles
- Family first (2024)
- Tensions in Digital Transformation (2024)
- Industrial design rights and the market value of firms (2023)
- Att försvara ett patent (2023)
- Boundary objects, knowledge integration, and innovation management (2023)
- A palace fit for the future (2022)
- Globala strategier (2021)
- Sectoral systems of innovation in the era of the fourth industrial revolution (2021)
- Technology strategy and MNE subsidiary upgrading in emerging markets (2021)
- Att försvara sin IP (2020)
- Foolishness without consequence? (2020)
- Digitala projekt — Utveckling av rutiner och digital teknik för smart industri (2020)
- En strävan efter sanning: Vetenskapens teori och praktik (2020)
- From Fighting Monopolies to Promoting Industry (2019)
- Inter-firm and intra-firm coordination of buyer-supplier collaborations in new product development under conflicts of interest (2019)
- The market for patents in Sweden (2018)
- Determinants of reverse knowledge transfer in emerging market multinationals (2017)
- Tänka vidare: Forskning, finansiering, framtid, RJ:s årsbok 2015/16 (2017)
- Patent agencies and the emerging market for patenting services in Sweden, 1885-1914 (2016)
- Patent agencies and the emerging market for patenting services in Sweden, 1885-1914 (2016)
- Match & Manage (2016)
- Öppen innovation - i teori och praktik (2016)
- Where and how to search? Search paths in open innovation (2016)
- Open to a Select Few? Matching Partners and Knowledge Content for Open Innovation Performance (2015)
- Kunskapsintegration och innovation i en internationaliserande ekonomi – en musikalisk avslutningskonferens efter 9 år med KITE (2015)
- The role of Brazilian subsidiary R&D in Swedish MNEs – towards tropicalized innovations? (2015)
- Uncertainty in collaborative NPD: effects on the selection of technology and supplier (2014)
- Leverantörssamarbeten i produktutveckling – utmaningar i tekniskt osäkra utvecklingsprojekt (2014)
- Strategy and Capabilities in the P-form Corporation: Linking Strategic Direction to Organizational Capabilities (2011)
- Knowledge integration at the edge of technology: On teamwork and complexity in new turbine development (2010)
- Johann Peter Murmann, Knowledge and Competitive Advantage: The Coevolution of Firms, Technology, and National Institutions (2010)
- Do technology strategies matter? A comparison of two electrical engineering corporations (2009)
- Exploring the dynamics of the P-form organization: Project epochs in Asea/ABB 1950-2000 (2009)
- Martin Jes Iversen, GN Store Nord – A Company in Transition, 1939-1988 (2009)
- Technological capabilities and late shakeouts (2008)
- Epilogue (2008)
- Managing near decomposability in complex platform development projects (2007)
- Exploring the dynamics of knowledge integration (2006)
- John Roberts, the Modern Firm (2006)
- From CoPS to mass production? Capabilities and innovation in power generation equipment manufacturing (2005)
- What do organizations know? Dynamics of justification contexts in R&D activities (2004)
- Magnus Henrekson, Mats Larsson & Hans Sjögren, Entrepreneurship in Business and Research: Essays in Honour of Håkan Lindgren’, Henreksson (2003)
- Inter-project learning (2001)
- Managing Product Development Projects - On the Significance of Fountains and Deadlines (1998)
Books
- Managing knowledge integration across boundaries (2017)
- Öppen innovation i teori och praktik (2016)
- Styrning (2012)
- Organizational Capabilities – A Study of Electrical Power Transmission Equipment Manufacturers, 1878-1990 (2000)
- Knowledge and Justification – Exploring the Knowledge Based Firm (1997)
Chapters
- Project collegiality: Boundary work and boundary integration in governing science (2024)
- Foreword (2022)
- The resource-based view (2020)
- Open innovation: Managing knowledge integration across multiple boundaries (2017)
- Relating knowledge integration and absorptive capacity: Knowledge boundaries and reflective agency in path-dependent processes (2017)
- Managing across knowledge boundaries (2017)
- Introduction: Managing knowledge integration across boundaries (2017)
- Teknologimarknader - idéer som ekonomiska tillgångar (2016)
- Teknologimarknader - idéer som ekonomiska tillgångar (2016)
- Hur arbetar svenska företag med öppen innovation? (2016)
- Öppen innovation i teori och praktik: En kort introduktion (2016)
- Öppen innovation på vid gavel? (2016)
- Att hantera osäkerheter vid val av leverantör i öppen innovation (2016)
- Kompetensförstärkande eller kompetensförstörande? Tankar kring konsekvenser av agil projektorganisation (2015)
- Knowledge articulation (2014)
- Knowledge Management (2013)
- Rutin – den tysta styrningen (2012)
- Styrning (2012)
- Kunskapsstyrning och kunskapstyper (2012)
- Management i samverkan (2012)
- Knowledge integration in inter-firm R&D relationships: How do firms balance problems of coordination with problems of cooperation? (2011)
- Knowledge integration in project-based corporations: Complexity and the evolution of project epochs (2011)
- The P-form corporation (2011)
- Knowledge integration and innovation (2011)
- Två snilleföretags patentstrategier runt förra sekelskiftet (2010)
- ASEA - Managing Big Business the Swedish Way (2008)
- Detecting Errors Early: Management of problem-solving in product platform projects (2008)
- The electrical industry (2007)
- Making Sense of Learning Landscapes in Project-Based Organizations (2005)
- Styrning av produktutvecklingsprojekt (2001)
- Lärande mellan projekt (2001)
- Leren in projekten - das anpaak van Ericsson (1996)
Conferences
- AC/DC High Voltage: The evolution of Gateway Technologies and the Battle of the Systems reconsidered (2024)
- Routine design: Understanding intentional routine change under digital transformation (2021)
- Reconsidering Bartlett & Ghoshal’s role typology: a sense-making approach to subsidiary role change (2020)
- Designing value: Design protection and the market value of firms (2019)
- Dancing with an economic turmoil in emerging markets: A Longitudinal Study of Subsidiary Role Change in Swedish R&D Subsidiaries (2019)
- Designing Routines in the Digital Age: A Tale of Two Processes (2019)
- Designing routines in the digital age (2019)
- Designing routines in the digital age (2019)
- Temporary Organizing and Technological Change: A Two-edged Sword? (2019)
- Rethinking temporary organizing in megaprojects setting: Theoretical development and future research directions (2018)
- Understanding the construction of temporal structures in Megaprojects (2018)
- From Fighting Monopolies to Promoting Industry: Patent Laws and Innovation in Sweden, 1819-1914 (2018)
- Dependent Invention and Dependent Inventors: Evidence from Historical Swedish Patent Data (2018)
- The formation of organizational capabilities in a global science-based industry: Some heavy electrical manufacturers in the western world, 1878-1990 (2018)
- Organizational Capabilities in the Heavy Electrical Manufacturing Industry: A Comparative Study of European and American Firms, 1878-1990 (2018)
- In search for future paths of project management research (2018)
- Subsidiary Strategies of MNCs in emerging economies: The case of Brazil (2017)
- A REAPPRAISAL OF THE SOURCES OF INVENTION: PATENT STATISTICS, INVENTORS AND FACTORIES, 1834-1914 (2016)
- A reappraisal of the sources of invention: Patent statistics, inventors and factories, 1834-1914 (2016)
- Financing Innovation: The Size and Structure of Markets forTechnology in Sweden, 1885-1914 (2015)
- The Structure of Markets for Technology in Sweden, 1885-1914 (2015)
- Open Innovation: Managing knowledge integration across multiple boundaries (2015)
- Open Innovation: Managing knowledge integration across multiple boundaries (2015)
- Embedding R&D units in emerging economies: The case of Brazil (2015)
- Organizing the Temporary Permanently? On the Governance of P-form Corporations (2015)
- Approaches to theorizing Large Projects: A commentary (2015)
- 3D Open Innovation – Practices and Outcomes (2014)
- On the Silence of Routine and the Significance of Socks – Reflections on Cohen’s ‘Organizational Character' (2014)
- The role of knowledge governance in open innovation (2014)
- Embedding R&D units in emerging economies: The case of Brazil (2014)
- Embedding R&D units in emerging economies: The case of Brazil (2014)
- Determinants of reverse knowledge transfer in emerging market multinationals (2014)
- The Door to Sweden: Patent Agents and (Foreign) Patenting in Sweden (1885-1909) (2013)
- Patent Agents and Patenting in Sweden, 1885-1914 (2013)
- Cooperation with suppliers in New Product Development projects: Conflicts of interest and the moderating role of buying firms’ internal organization (2013)
- In search of innovations: Intermediaries and external knowledge acquisition (2012)
- In search of innovations: Intermediaries and external knowledge acquisition (2012)
- Integrating knowledge on knowledge integration (2012)
- Balancing Exploration and Exploitation: The Moderating Role of Market Dynamism (2011)
- The Effects of Knowledge Integration on New Product Performance (2011)
- The Effects of Knowledge Integration on New Product Performance (2011)
- Strategy and Capabilities in the P-form Corporation (2011)
- Product complexity and collaborative modes of knowledge sourcing (2008)
- Knowledge integration at the edge of technology (2008)
- The Dynamics of P-form Organizations (2008)
- Exploring the dynamics of the P-form organization (2008)
- The Management of problem-solving in Product Platform Projects (2008)
- Shaping and shifting project epochs (2007)
- Concept Formation in Knowledge Exploration (2007)
- Breaking a path once chosen? Generations of gateway technologies and the "battle of the systems" revisited (2007)
- Diversification, Learning, and Corporate Coherence (2007)
- Decomposing and Recomposing - On Anatomies and Integration. A case study of a platform development project in the Telecom Industry (2007)
- Managing Near Decomposability in Complex Platform Development Projects (2007)
- Decomposing and Recomposing - On Anatomies and Integration (2007)
- Emerging Technological Paths in a Mature Market (2005)
- Concept Formation and Subjective Knowledge (2005)
- Do Innovation Strategies Matter? (2004)
- Processes of Interacting and Interrelating in Projects (2004)
- Processes of interacting and interrelating in projects: exploring the individual-collective dynamic in distributed knowledge contexts (2004)
- Interacting and interrelating in projects (2004)
- Complexity and learning in projects (1996)