Lars Engwall

Biography

DEGREES: Officer’s Commission (1966), Master of Political Science (1966), Doctor of Philosophy (1970) and Docent Habilitation (1973), Stockholm University, Sweden; Doctor Honoris Causa (2002), Åbo University, Finland; Doctor Honoris Causa (2011), Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden.

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: Visiting Scholar, the Graduate School of Business Administration, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA and the Graduate School of Business Administration, University of California at Berkeley, CA (1970-1971); Associate Professor (1972-1981), Professor (1981-2009) and Senior Professor (2009-2013) of Business Administration, Uppsala University; Professor of Management, the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, Brussels (1977-1978); Directeur de Recherche, Centre de Recherche en Gestion, École Polytechnique, Paris (Spring Semester 1995).

ELECTED MEMBERSHIP OF LEARNED SOCIETIES: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1984, Second Vice President 1997-2000); the Royal Swedish Society of Sciences (1985, President 2010-2011, Vice President 2011-2012); the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (1989); the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities (1991); the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (1998); the Royal Society for the Publication of Manuscripts concerning Scandinavian History (1998); the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of Uppsala (1999); the Letterstedt Society (2001), Academia Europea (2006) and Idun Society (2011).

MEMBERSHIP OF INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC BODIES: Member of the Standing Committee for the Social Sciences, the European Science Foundation (1983-1992) and its Core Group (1985-1992); the Commission for Educational Exchange between Sweden and the United States of America (1989-1991); Planning Committee (1991-1992), Steering Committee and Executive Committee (1993-1997) of the ESF Research Programme “European Management and Organisations in Transition”; Main Co-ordinator of the TSER Programme CEMP, the Creation of European Management Practice (1997-2001); Board Member of the European Institute of Advanced Management (EIASM), Brussels (2000-2009).

ASSIGNMENTS AT UPPSALA UNIVERSITY: The Board of the Faculty of Social Sciences (1984-1999), Chairman of the Committee for the Awarding of Docentships (1987-1996) and Member of the Executive Committee (1992-1996); Chairman of the Uppsala University Quality Management Group (1993-1998); Deputy Member (1994-1997) and Member of the Uppsala University Board (1997-2003).

ASSIGNMENTS OUTSIDE UPPSALA UNIVERSITY: Chairman of the Mission for Evaluating Swedish Economics launched by the Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences (1989-1992); Member of several Government Expert Commissions among them the Special International Mission for the Swedish Government Research Advisory Board (1989), the Working Group on the Government’s Role in Research Policy (1993-1994), and the Government Commission on the Banking Crisis (1993-1994); Member of several research funding bodies among them the Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences (1983-1989) and the Board of the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (1992-1998). Member of the Nobel Assembly (2000-2005), Board of Åke Wiberg Foundation (2000-  ; Chairman 2008-  ), Chamberlain at the Royal Swedish Court (2001-2009), Secretary of H.M. King Gustaf VI Adolf’s Foundation for Swedish Cultural Activities (2003-  ), Additional Member of the Committee for the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2003-2011), Scientific Secretary of the Foundations of Jan Wallander, Tom Hedelius and Tore Browaldh (2003-  ), Deputy Member of the Foundation for the Anders Wall Chair in Entrepreneurship (2003-  ) and Lord-in-Waiting at the Royal Swedish Court (2009-  ).

PUBLICTATIONS: More than 300 items, among them Models of Industrial Structure (Lexington Books, 1973); Newspapers as Organizations (Saxon House, 1978); Från vag vision till komplex organisation (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia Oeconomiae Negotiorum, 1985); Mercury Meets Minerva (Pergamon, 1992 and EFI, 2009), Management Education in Historical Perspective (Manchester University Press, 1998, ed. with Vera Zamagni), Regulation and Organizations (Routledge, 1999, ed. with Glenn Morgan), Management Consulting (Oxford University Press, 2002, ed. with Matthias Kipping), The Expansion of Management Knowledge (Stanford Business Books, 2002 with ed. Kerstin Sahlin-Andersson), The University in the Market (Portland Press, 2008, ed. with Denis Weaire), Reconfiguring Knowledge Production (Oxford University Press, 2010 ed. with Richard Whitley and Jochen Gläser), Scholars in Action: Past-Present-Future (2012, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis), Trust in Universities (Portland Press, 2013 ed. with Peter Scott), Bibliometrics: Use and Abuse in the Review of Research Performance, (Portland Press, 2014, ed. with Wim Blockmans and Denis Weaire), From Books to MOOCs? (Portland Press, 2016, ed. with Erik De Corte and Ulrich Teichler), Defining Management (Routledge, 2016, with Matthias Kipping and Behlül Üsdiken), Universitet under uppsikt (Dialogos, 2016) and Corporate Governance in Action (Routledge, 2018, ed.)

Education

Ph.D. Stockholm University 1970

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

Management studies, organization, governance

Books

Articles