CURRICULUM VITAE NILS WÅHLIN
Name: Nils Wåhlin
Family: Married with Lena. One son, Anders.
Address: Umeå School of Business and Economics
University of Umeå
SE - 901 87 UMEÅ, SWEDEN
Phone: +46 90 786 76 34
E-mail: Nils.Wahlin@usbe.umu.se
Education:
1995 PhD (Ek.dr) in Business Administration. Umeå School of Business and Economics, Umeå University, March
1995
Academic Positions:
- Director of PhD-programme, Fall 2010 –.
- Head of Management Section Fall 2010 – 2012, Director of PhD-programme, Fall 2010 –.
- Associate Professor (Docent) Fall 2004 –, Director of Research, Fall 2004 – Fall 2007.
- Director of the PhD-programme, Fall 2001 – Fall 2004.
- Assistant Professor, Research Fellow, Umeå University, Fall 1999.
- Senior Lecturer, Umeå University, Spring 1995 - present.
- Lecturer, PhD-candidate, Fall 1990 - Spring 1995.
- Assistant Lecturer, Fall 1982 - Fall 1987.
Research project
Strategy, Design and Organizing in City Development Processes.
Book review
(2008). Book review of A Grammar of Organizing by Hansen, Hans. Organization Studies. 29 (12): 1591-1592.
Publications (selected):
Books
(2009). A Grammar of Organizing. (With Maria Bengtsson; Tomas Müllern and Anders Söderholm). Cheltenham,
UK: Edward Elgar. Paperback ISBN 978 1 84376 604 7.
(2007). A Grammar of Organizing. (With Maria Bengtsson; Tomas Müllern and Anders Söderholm). Cheltenham,
UK: Edward Elgar. Hardback ISBN 978 1 84376 604 9.
(2001). Resa genom arbetslivet. Om människors organisationsbyten och identitetsskapande (Journey Through
Working Life. Individuals Organizational Shifts and Identity Construction). Lund: Academia Adacta. ISBN 91-8930004-1 (With Monica Lindgren and Johann Packendorff).
(1998). Ledarskapsforskning (Leadership Research). Lund: Academia Adacta. ISBN 91-973200-3-X (With Lennart
Eriksson).
(1994). Näringslivsledares arbete i nätverk. Identitetsskapandets dynamik (The Work of Multibusiness Leaders in
Networks. The Dynamics of Identity Creating Processes). Umeå University: Umeå School of Business and
Economics. PhD-thesis (322 pages). ISBN 91-7174-961-6.
Book chapters in edited publications
(2011). Diversity and Diversity Management in Business and Organization Studies (With Kiflemariam Hamde,
Maddy Janssens, Koen Van Lear and Patrizia Zanoni). In Knotter, Steven et al. (Eds.) Diversity Reserch and Policy. A
Multidisciplinary Exploration. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN 978-90-855-044-0.
1 (2010). Towards sustainable diversity in organizations: Lessons from good diversity management practices (With
Patrizia Zanoni, Angela Nilsson and Maddy Janssens). In Janssens, Maddy et al. (Eds.) The Sustainability of Cultural
Diversity. Nations, Cities and Organizations. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, ISBN 978-1-84980-289-5.
(2010). Managing diversity conceptually: Shifting conceptualizations of diversity in the context of immigrant
organizations in Sweden (With Kiflemariam Hamde). In Janssens, Maddy et al. (Eds.) The Sustainability of Cultural
Diversity. Nations, Cities and Organizations. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, ISBN 978-1-84980-289-5.
(2009). Ledarskap och strategisk förändring. (With Maria Bengtsson och Jessica Eriksson). In Jönsson, Sten och
Strannegård, Lars (red.). Ledarskapsboken. Malmö: Liber. ISBN 978 91 08875 1.
(2006). Transcultural Encounters in Cities: Convergence Without Becoming Coincident. In Clegg, Stewart &
Kornberger, Martin (Eds.) Space, Organization and Management. Advances in Organization Studies. Malmö: Liber &
Copenhagen Business School Press. ISBN 87-630-0164-0.
(2003). Diversity and Reflexive Identity Construction (With Monica Lindgren). In Leijon, Svante; Widell, Gill &
Lillhannus, Ruth (Eds.) Reflecting diversity. Viewpoints from Scandinavia. Göteborg: BAS Publishing. ISBN 917246-202-7.
(1999). Reflexive Identity Creation through Boundary Spanning and Boundary Crossing. In Johannisson, Bengt &
Landström, Hans (Eds.) (1999). Images of Entrepreneurship and Small Business - Emergent Swedish Contributions to
Academic Research. Lund: Studentlitteratur. ISBN 91-44-01256-X.
Journal articles and articles in progress
(2012). Reassembling studies of organizational practices. Paper in preparation for scientific journal (With Stewart R.
Clegg and Chris Carter).
(2011). When science meets strategic realpolitik: The case of the Copenhagen UN climate change summit (With Chris
Carter and Stewart R. Clegg). Critical Perspectives on Accounting. Vol 22: 682-697.
(2011). Convergence or divergence in processual approaches to practices of organizing? Paper submitted to scientific
journal (With Stewart R. Clegg and Chris Carter).
(2010). Virtual identities and market segmentation in and through Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs)
(With Peter Zachariasson and Timothy L. Wilson) . Services Marketing Quarterly. Vol. 31(3):275–295.
(2010). Identity construction in careers involving multiple international assignments. Paper submitted to scientific
journal (With Malin Näsholm).
(2009). Reflections on Marketing in MMOGs (With Peter Zachariasson and Timothy L. Wilson). AMS Quarterly, 9 –
3/4: 18.
(2009). Leadership and the Identity-Alterity Interface. Paper in preparation for scientific journal (With Tomas
Müllern).
(2005). Cross-cultural Encounters: A Reflexive Journey Inwards and Outwards. Paper accepted for publication in the
scientific journal Concepts and Transformation.
(2001). Identity Construction Among Boundary-Crossing Individuals. Article published in the scientific journal
Scandinavian Journal of Management. Vol 17:3, pp 357-377. (With Monica Lindgren).
Conference papers
(2012). Organization as process: A poetic mystery? Short paper to the 26th European Group of Organization Studies
(EGOS) Colloquium “Design?” Aalto University & Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland, July 5-7.
(2011). Reassembling studies of organizational practices. Paper presented at the Nordic Academy of Management,
School of Business, Stockholm University, August 20-24 (With Chris Carter and Stewart R Clegg).
2 (2011). Reassembling new product development practice: Brands as boundary objects and organizing devices. Paper
presented at the 27th European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS) Colloquium “Reassembling organizations”,
Subtheme 11 “The Works of Branding: Shaping Organizational Identities and practices”, School of Business,
Economics & Law, University of Gothenburg. July 6-9 (With Thommie Burström).
(2008). Cities as meta-organizing spaces. Paper presented at the 24th European Group of Organization Studies
(EGOS) Colloquium "Upsetting organizations", Subtheme 46 "Conceptualizing, Organizing, and Managing Cities",
Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
(2007). Identity work: Losing the plot or plot rediscovered? Paper presented at the 19th Nordic Academy of
Management Conference (NFF). The Future of Nordic Business Schools. Norwegian School of Economics and
Business Administration, Bergen, Norway, 9th – 11th August, 2007.
(2004). Affirming Alterity in Transcultural Encounters: Exploring the Call for Organizational Conscience. Paper
presented at the 20th EGOS Colloquium, Ljubljana University, Slovenia, July 1 - 3, 2004.
(2003). Transculturality and a New Grammar of Organizing. Paper presented at the 17th Nordic Conference on
Business Studies, Scandinavian Academy of Management, 14-16th of August 2003, Reykjavik, Iceland.
(2002). Leadership and Multiple Identity Constructions. Paper presented at 2nd Annual EURAM conference,
"Innovative Research in Management", May 9 - 11, 2002, Stockholm, Sweden.
(2001). Repatriation and Identity Constructions: Narratives for New Belongings. Paper presented at 16th Nordic
Academy of Management Meeting, August 16-18, Uppsala, Sweden.
Supervisor for PhDs
- Johan Sandström (Organizational Approaches to Greening. Technocentrism and Beyond), completed and defended
PhD-thesis, December 12, 2002.
- Mikael Alkbring (Branschreceptets dubbelhet), completed and defended Licentiate thesis, June 6, 2003.
- Peter Zackariasson (Cyborg Leadership) completed and defended Licentiate-thesis, December 9, 2003 and
completed and defended PhD-thesis (World Builders. A Study on the Development of a Multiplayer Online RolePlaying Game), June 5, 2007.
- Tommy Jensen (Översättning av konkurrens i ekonomiska laboratorier) completed and defended his PhD-thesis,
December 10, 2004.
- Markus Hällgren (Avvikelsens mekanismer. Observationer av projekt i praktiken). Completed dissertation defence
March 27, 2009.
- Lars Erik Lauritz (Spirande polisidentiteter. En studie av polisstudenters och nya polisers professionella identitet).
Completed dissertation defence, June 12, 2009.
- Thommie Burström (Organisering av utvecklingsprojekt: Praktik, dynamik och gränsiterationer), completed and
defended Licentiate thesis, December 8 2006 and completed and defended PhD-thesis (Organizing boundaries in early
phases of product development. The case of an interorganizational vehicle platform project setting) September 3,
2010.
- Malin Näsholm (Construction of transnational identities? A study of how multiple international assignments
influence individuals identity processes), completed and defended Licentiate thesis October 3, 2008 and completed
and defended PhD-thesis (Global careerists’ identity construction. A narrative study of repeat expatriates and
international itinerants) April 20, 2011.
- Thomas Biedenbach (Organizing the Early Project Phases for Frequent Innovation in Hypercompetitive Industries),
completed and defended Licentiate thesis, June 5, 2008 and completed and defended PhD-thesis (Capabilities for
Frequent Innovation: Managing the Early Project Phases in the Pharmaceutical R&D Process) November 17, 2011.
3 - Medhanie Gaim Asgedom. New PhD-student studying organizational design (started Fall 2011).
Member of academic communities
Företagsekonomiska ämnesföreningen (FEKIS), Nordic Academy of Management (NFF), European Group for
Organizational Studies (EGOS), European Academy of Management (EURAM) and Academy of Management
(AoM).
Reviewer for scientific journals
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Reviewer for “Academy of Management Conferences” USA, 2008 –
Reviewer for the scientific journal “Scandinavian Journal of Management”, 2005 –
Reviewer for the scientific journal “Nordic Organization Studies, 2003 –
Reviewer for the scientific journal “International Journal of Project Management, 2006 –
Reviewer for the scientific journal “Entrepreneurship & Regional Development” , 2007 –
Reviewer for the scientific journal “International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management”, 2003 –
Organizer of conferences and conference tracks
One of the organizers of the fifth Swedish Academy of Management Conference (FEKIS) on “Business in the World
and the World in Business”, 17th – 18th of October 2012, Umeå, Sweden.
One of the organizers of the first Nordic Academy of Management Winter Conference on “Perspectives on Corporate
Responsibility and Sustainability”, 16th – 18th of March 2006, Umeå, Sweden.
Organized the conference track “A New Grammar of Organizing” at the 17th Nordic Conference on Business Studies,
Scandinavian Academy of Management, 14-16th of August 2003, Reykjavik, Iceland.
External PhD-opponent
(2009). Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden. Lena Andersson: Ledarskapande retorik. Dag
Hammarskjöld och FN:s övriga generalsekreterare som scen för karisma, dygder och ledarskap (PhD – thesis).
(2007). University of Vaasa, Faculty of Business Studies, Vaasa, Finland. Eeva Kohonen: Essays on the
Consequences of International Assignments on Exaptriates’ Identity and Career Aspirations (PhD – thesis).
(2005). Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki, Finland. Martin Fougère: Sensemaking
in the third space. Essays on French-Finnish Experiences in organizations and their narratives (PhD – thesis).
(2005). Örebro University, Sweden. Helén Stockhult. Medarbetaransvar – ett sätt att visa värderingar. En
konceptualisering av medarbetarnas ansvar och ansvarstagande i callcenters (Licentiate – thesis).
(2003). Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Lars Nelleman Thisted: Mangfoldighetens dilemmaer. Hvad
livshistorier fortæller om identitet, arbejde og integration (PhD – thesis).
(2002). Jönköping International Business School, Sweden. Ethel Brundin: Emotions in Motion. The Strategic Leader
in a Radical Change Process (PhD-manuscript).
Member of grading committees
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland;
University of Vaasa, Finland; Linköping University, Sweden; Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; Mälardalen
University, Sweden; Umeå School of Business and Economics, Sweden; Umeå University, Sweden.
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