2024 – Best Paper Award winner, the Taylor and Francis Award for Best Theoretical Paper at ARCOM 2024, London UK. (the Association for Researchers in Construction Management) – Winning paper, “Looking inwards to move forward:  On how to do things differently in Construction Management research”, Co-author: Henrik Linderoth. More information about ARCOM awards can be found here.

2023 – Best Paper Award winner, the Rod Howes Award for Best Conference Paper at ARCOM 2023, Leeds, UK.  (the Association for Researchers in Construction Management) – Winning paper, “The challenges of trying something new: On (in)congruence and (in)consistency of technological frames in a Swedish railway infrastructure case”. Co-author: Henrik Linderoth. More information about ARCOM awards can be found here.

2023 – Best Paper Award winner, the Taylor and Francis Award for Best Theoretical Paper at ARCOM 2023, Leeds, UK.  (the Association for Researchers in Construction Management) – Winning paper, “Orchestrators, Ambassadors and Brokers: Understanding informal roles for the enabling of digital ambidexterity in construction firms”. Co-authors: Bekzat Musrepova and Thomas Biedenbach. More information about ARCOM awards can be found here.

2023 – Top Downloaded Article in Systems Research and Behavioral Science during 2021. Article in question, “The history and future of projects as a transition innovation: Towards a sustainable project management framework”. Co-author: Shankar Sankaran and Tomas Blomquist. Can be downloaded here.

2022 – Best Paper Award winner, the Rod Howes Commemorative Award for Conference Theme at ARCOM 2022, Glasgow, Scotland.  (the Association for Researchers in Construction Management) – Winning paper, “Why Strategic Innovation Programs Struggle with Dissemination of Results: The Case of Smart Built Environment”. Co-author: Linderoth, Henrik. More information about ARCOM awards can be found here.

2017 – Outstanding Reviewer winner at Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence – More information about the 2017 Awards for Excellence can be found here.

2016 – Outstanding Reviewer winner at Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence– Review work done for International Journal of Managing Projects in Business during 2015. More information about the Awards for Excellence can be found on the Emerald website.

2014 – Highly Commended Paper Award winner at Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence – Winning paper, “The informal liaison role of project controllers in new product development projects” published in International Journal of Managing Projects in Business. Co-author: Thommie Burström. More information about the Awards for Excellence can be found on the Emerald website.

2012 – Pedagogical prize winner, Handelshögskolans Pedagogiska pris, [the Pedagogical prize from Umeå School of Business and Economics]. More information can be found here.

Motivation: “The 2012 Pedagogical prize at Umeå School of Business (USBE) has been awarded Assistant Professor Mattias Jacobsson. Jacobsson, active at the Department of Business Administration, is awarded the prize owing to the way he in which has been able to combine scientific knowledge with an excellent understanding of the students and their learning. He has, with innovative thinking and responsiveness, developed courses that have given students a good understanding of, and confidence in, areas such as project management. His courses have for several years received solely positive reviews from students”. [Translated from Swedish]

2012 – Outstanding Paper Award winner at Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence – Winning paper, “Breaking out of the straitjacket of project research:  In search of contribution” published in International Journal of Managing Projects in Business. Co-author: Söderholm, Anders. More information about the Awards for Excellence can be found on the Emerald website.