I am an associate professor of business administration at the Department of Business Administration at the Institute of Social Sciences at Södertörn University. I am Vice-Dean of the Faculty Board and Chair of the Education Committee

My current research is mainly in sustainable development in island communities in Sweden. The ambition is to strengthen Swedish island and archipelago research from a social science perspective. This is done, among other things, within the network SNIR (Swedish Network for Island Research - www.snir.se)

I also have extensive experience working with collaborative research where the most recent assignments have been to collaborate with the archipelago and island interest organizations on the specific challenges and problems of archipelago entrepreneurs and their role in developing sustainable island communities

My research is mainly in entrepreneurship and innovation where I defended my thesis Team Entrepreneurship - A Process Analysis of the Venture Team and the Venture Team Roles in relation to the Innovation Process. In the thesis, I explore how companies with multiple founders (venture teams) are formed, developed and ultimately dissolved in relation to what happens in the innovation process in the company.

Earlier and later publications have also been in the field of business history, e.g. with the book Tetra - the story of the Rausing dynasty (1998, revised 2021, together with Peter Andersson). My research has focused on the diversity of the founding team and how different types of founder constellations affect how innovation processes and entrepreneurship develop over time. I am particularly interested in how the degree of trust and confidence as well as power relations in the founding team affect their ability to handle uncertainty, risk and ambiguity (meaning-making) in the start-up phase and in the innovation process.

The role of the brand in innovation processes in new companies is also part of my research interest and publications.

What distinguishes my research in entrepreneurship is the collective aspects of the role of leadership, and its relations to internal and external stakeholders, in innovation processes. At the same time, dynamic changes over longer periods of time are studied in a variety of contexts, industries and sectors. As a result, questions about the role of context in studies of entrepreneurial processes have become more in focus.