Christine Holmström Lind
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Business Studies; Professors, teachers, researchers
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 12 39
- E-mail:
- christine.holmstrom_lind@fek.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, ingång C
751 20 UPPSALA - Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Uppsala University Conflicting Objectives Research Nexus (UUniCORN)
- Visiting address:
- MTC-huset, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 14B, 1 tr
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset
751 85 Uppsala
- Academic merits:
- PhD, Docent
Biography
Christine Holmström Lind is Associate Professor in International Business and former Director of Advanced Studies at the Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University. Christine received her Ph.D. at the Department of Business Studies, and the research was concerned with the strategic role of multinational subsidiaries as creators and disseminators of knowledge and innovations. More recent research concerns international market strategies of firms and sustainable business strategies. Christine was awarded the Wallander-scholarship for excellent Ph.D. thesis in 2006.
Christine has teaching experience in International Business, International Marketing, Industrial Marketing, and within the field of CSR and Sustainability. Prior to her doctoral studies she worked as CRM manager and corporate (senior) market analyst.
Recent research revolves around international business strategies and sustainable business strategies. One specific research project relates to the role of MNCs in social value added activities and social innovation. Another research project concerns the process and determinants behind HQs approval or rejection of so called subsidiary initiatives.
She has been engaged as an ad-hoc reviewer for several international business journals, and she is a member of the European International Business Association and the Academy of International Business. She is also part of Uppsala University’s Centre for Research on Innovation and Industrial Dynamics (CIND).
Expert areas
- Knowledge- and innovation development and transfer within MNC subsidiaries
- International Business Strategies
- Subsidiary evolution
- Sustainable business strategies
- Social value creation in MNCs
Research projects
Social value creation - a study on MNCs involvement in social value added activities
The Impact of foreign MNC Subsidiaries on local firms - a network perspective
Exploiting Innovation Transfer (EXIT-project)
The Development of Centres of Excellence in Multinational Corporations (CoE-project)

Publications
Recent publications
Involvement of multinational corporations in social innovation: Exploring an emerging phenomenon
Part of Journal of Business Research, p. 207-221, 2022
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Subsidiary Strategic Influence: The Role of Subsidiary Attention-Building Behavior
Part of Management Decision, p. 48-65, 2022
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Social value creation in international business: introduction to the special issue
Part of Critical Perspectives on International Business, p. 1-6, 2020
Part of Journal of International Management, 2019
Making Waves in a Huge Pond: Subsidiary Attention-Building Behaviour to Gain Strategic Influence
Part of Making Waves in a Huge Pond, 2019
All publications
Articles in journal
Involvement of multinational corporations in social innovation: Exploring an emerging phenomenon
Part of Journal of Business Research, p. 207-221, 2022
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Subsidiary Strategic Influence: The Role of Subsidiary Attention-Building Behavior
Part of Management Decision, p. 48-65, 2022
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Social value creation in international business: introduction to the special issue
Part of Critical Perspectives on International Business, p. 1-6, 2020
Part of Journal of International Management, 2019
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Management, p. 51-62, 2018
MNC involvement in social innovations: the issue of knowledge, networks and power
Part of Critical Perspectives on International Business, p. 79-99, 2018
Part of Management International Review, ISSN 0025-181X, 2017
Part of Management International Review, p. 571-602, 2017
- DOI for The value-adding role of the corporate headquarters in innovation transfer processes: The issue of headquarters' knowledge situation
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Part of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, p. 657-680, 2016
Do I stay or do I go? Sub-national drivers for post-entry subsidiary development
Part of International Business Review, p. 266-275, 2015
Part of International Business Review, p. 167-179, 2012
Subsidiaries as straddling fields and the trade-off between knowledge development and transfer
Part of International Journal of Business Environment, p. 159-177, 2012
Part of Management International Review (MIR), p. 197-218, 2005
Chapters in book
Part of Entrepreneurship in the Global Firm, p. 139-166, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2011
Part of Managing the Contemporary Multinational: The Role of Headquarters, p. 231-253, Edward Elgar, 2010
Part of Business Networks and International Marketing, Doo Yang Publishing Co., 2006
Relationship Configuration and Competence Development in MNC Subsidiaries
Part of Business Network Learning, p. 185-205, Pergamon Press, 2001
The Dilemma of Developing a Centre of Excellence: A Case Study of ABB Generation
Part of The Emergence and Impact of MNC Centres of Excellence, p. 240-258, Palgrave Macmillan, 2000
Comprehensive doctoral thesis
Conference papers
Making Waves in a Huge Pond: Subsidiary Attention-Building Behaviour to Gain Strategic Influence
Part of Making Waves in a Huge Pond, 2019
Towards explaining recurrent innovation inflows in MNC subsidiaries
Part of International Business and the Catching-up Economies, 2008
Knowledge Spillover and Agglomeration Effects of Product Innovation Transfer in MNCs
Part of 32nd EIBA Annual Conference, Fribourg, Switzerland, December 7-9, 2006