After five years of waiting, another IRNOP conference was finally organized. This time, it was the 15th in order and also the 30th anniversary of the first conference organized in Lycksele, Sweden. The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH) hosted the conference, and they did it in a magnificent manner with the confidence dinner at the Vasa Museum. Lots of colleagues and friends attended; Beata Jałocha (Jagiellonian), Derek and Beverly Walker (RMIT), Anders Söderholm (KTH), Tina Karrbom Gustafsson (KTH), Mats Ragnarsson (Wenell), Henrik Linderoth (JU), and Tomas Blomquist (UMU), to mention a few. Honestly, there were so many present that I did not have time to talk to everyone.

The week was wonderful but hectic. Among other things, I gave a talk at the doctoral symposium and discussed a number of doctoral articles together with the very talented Susanna Hedborg (UU). Henrik Linderoth (JU) and I presented our paper on Technological niches, and together with Sofia Pemsel (CBS) and Joana Geraldi (CBS), we organized a panel debate,  “On the soul of temporary organizations.” The panel debate was based on the Special issue, with the same name, that we are editing for the Scandinavian Journal of Management.

The week was crowned with a visit to the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at KTH, where I participated in the grading committee for Lilly Rosander, who defended her thesis “Adhocracy in the Bureaucracy: Practices of implementing collaborative contracting in infrastructure client organizations“. A wonderful event with Mike Bresnen (MMU) as the opponent.

All in all, a wonderful week!