Our Special Issue Editorial is Out!
Twelve-ish years ago, we formulated the idea to ourselves: to commemorate the very influential 1995 Special Issue on Temporary Organizations in the Scandinavian Journal of Management (SJM) with an anniversary […]
Author Archives: Mattias Jacobsson
Popular Science publication
To try to reach the practitioner audience of our research project “Meaningful Routines”, we (i.e, Malin Näsholm, Virginia Rosales, and yours truly) decided to write a popular science article for […]
#33 An essay on deprojectification
As the result of some very intense work at the end of last year, the very talented Dr. Beata Jalocha and I have now had our second joint paper accepted […]
#32 Meaningful organizational routines
In the spring of 2020, we came up with the idea to study what makes organizational routines perceived as meaningful and thus worth upholding. After some pondering, we wrote an […]
On Homo academicus (dux) and Ontological Assumptions in Academia
There are few moments in academia that bring more sense of satisfaction than when you first see your thoughts and ideas printed on paper. Today, Anders Söderholm and I could […]
Three years in a row!
In the beginning of week it was time for the yearly ARCOM conference, this time at the London South Bank University. The conference celebrated its 40th anniversary, and for me, […]
What a wonderful week!
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 […]
Funding for a new research project
What started as a rather boring week ended slightly more pleasant. Yesterday, I got information from the board of Umeå School of Education that they had granted me funding for […]
Most influential researchers globally
That was surprising! Apparently, I’m researching “intelligent manufacturing,” and I’m also quite impactful. In a recent review of the most influential researchers globally in the field of Intelligent Manufacturing, I’m […]
Good things come in pairs
Apparently, good things come in pairs! At this year’s Arcom conference, we won not only one, but two, best paper awards. The first award was the Rod Howes Award for […]
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