Katarina Blomkvist
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Business Studies; Professors, teachers, researchers
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 13 78
- E-mail:
- katarina.blomkvist@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. Blomkvist is an Associate Professor at Uppsala University's Department of Business Studies with expertise in entrepreneurship and international business. She earned her Ph.D. in October 2009 with an emphasis on international entrepreneurship from Uppsala University.Her research is primarily concerned with corporate entrepreneurship and innovation development in established corporations. .
Biography
Dr. Katarina Blomkvist is an Associate Professor at Uppsala University's Department of Business Studies with expertise in entrepreneurship and international business. She earned her Ph.D. in October 2009 with an emphasis on international entrepreneurship from Uppsala University.
Her research is primarily concerned with corporate entrepreneurship and innovation development in established corporations. Currently she is working on a project concerning the underlying drivers of intrapreneurship and the significance of individual intrapreneurs for form growth. Furthermore, she is looking at the development and transfer of technology within established firms, with a specific focus on the evolution of subsidiary technological capabilities and the drivers of innovation.
Dr. Blomkvist has published in top-ranked academic journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Management of International Review, Long Range Planning, Research Policy and Journal of Knowledge Management.
Dr. Blomkvist is a member of the European International Business Association, the Academy of International Business, the Academy of Management. She has been a visiting scholar at Rutgers University and worked for the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee.
Reserach Projects
Innovation and Strategic Renewal of the Multinational Corporation
Publications
Recent publications
Part of Journal of Business Research, 2025
- DOI for Exploring innovative work behavior: A gender perspective on corporate competitive culture, role models and intrapreneurs
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Part of Technovation, 2024
- DOI for How organizational conditions affect employees' intentions to engage in intrapreneurial new venturing
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Weathering storms: Technological exploration of MNCs in times of financial crisis
Part of Journal of World Business, 2023
- DOI for Weathering storms: Technological exploration of MNCs in times of financial crisis
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Globala strategier: Hur hanterar svenska storföretag nutida och framtida utmaningar?
Part of Management of Innovation and Technology (MGMT), p. 7-9, 2021
2021
All publications
Articles in journal
Part of Journal of Business Research, 2025
- DOI for Exploring innovative work behavior: A gender perspective on corporate competitive culture, role models and intrapreneurs
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Part of Technovation, 2024
- DOI for How organizational conditions affect employees' intentions to engage in intrapreneurial new venturing
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Weathering storms: Technological exploration of MNCs in times of financial crisis
Part of Journal of World Business, 2023
- DOI for Weathering storms: Technological exploration of MNCs in times of financial crisis
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Globala strategier: Hur hanterar svenska storföretag nutida och framtida utmaningar?
Part of Management of Innovation and Technology (MGMT), p. 7-9, 2021
Who is in and who is out?: Integration of technological knowledge in the multinational corporation
Part of Industrial and Corporate Change, p. 437-457, 2019
Part of Journal of World Business, p. 1-16, 2017
Chinese outward foreign direct investments in Europe
Part of European Journal of International Management, p. 343-358, 2016
On the emergence and diffusion of technological capabilities and the theory of the MNC
Part of Management International, p. 95-111, 2015
On the emergence and diffusion of technological capabilities and the theory of the MNC
Part of Management International, p. 95-111, 2015
Part of Research Policy, 2014
Part of Long range planning, p. 16-31, 2014
- DOI for Win, Place, or Show?: How Foreign Investment Strategies Contribute to the Technological Growth of the Multinational Corporation
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Part of Research Policy, p. 669-682, 2014
- DOI for Superstar inventors - Towards a people-centric perspective on the geography of technological renewal in the multinational corporation
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The Impact of Psychic Distance on Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investments
Part of Management International Review, p. 659-686, 2013
Drivers and Motives for Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investments in Africa
Part of Journal of African Business, p. 75-84, 2013
Part of Mercury Magazine, p. 60-62, 2013
Knowledge management in MNCs: the importance of subsidiary transfer performance
Part of Journal of Knowledge Management, p. 904-918, 2012
Part of Journal of International Business Studies, p. 1525-1549, 2010
- DOI for Quo Vadis?: The entry into new technologies in advanced foreign subsidiaries of the multinational enterprise
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Chapters in book
Part of Knowledge, Networks and Power, p. 421-459, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
Part of Innovation and creativity: The driving force of Europe’s future economy?, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013
Superstar Subsidiaries of the Multinational Corporation: In Search of Origins and Drivers
Part of Innovation and Growth, Oxford University Press, 2012
Does cultural distance influence Chinese outward foreign direct investmetns?
Part of Emerging Economies and Firms in the Global Crisis., p. 154-178, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
Comprehensive doctoral thesis
Conference papers
Weathering storms: Technological pathfinding of MNCs in times of financial crisis
2019
The apple falls close to the tree: Technological imprinting in the multinational corproation
2017
Animal farm: On the diffusion of technological capabilities and the theory of the MNC
2015
2013
2013
2012
2012
Superstar inventors in foreign subsidiaries of the MNC
2012
Superstar subsidiaries of the multinational corporation - in search of origins and drivers
Part of 37th EIBA Annual Conference | Bucharest 8th - 10th December 2011, 2011
2011
The Impact of a common EU FDI approach on Individual Member States and overall EU Competitiveness.
2011
Superstar subsidiaries of the MNC: in search of origins and underlying drivers
2010
Diffusion patterns in new technological capabilities of Greenfield and acquired subsidairies
Part of 69th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, Illinois, August 7-11, 2009, 2009
2009
Exploring the drivers of "superstar" foreign subsidiaries of the MNC
2009
Animal Farm: The Emergence and Diffusion of Technological Capabilities in the MNC
Part of http://aib.msu.edu/events/2008/AIB2008_Proceedings.pdf, 2008
Part of Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business, 2008
2008
Quo vadis?: The entry into new technologies by foreign subsidiaries of the multinational corporation
2007
2007
The Dual Role of External Embeddedness on Excess Innovations by Subsidiaries in the MNC
Part of Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, June 25-28, 2007, 2007
Revisiting the Sherwood forest
Part of Symposium on the contemporary MNC, Uppsala University, Sweden, 2007