Fredrik Lavén
Senior Lecturer
Department of BusinessAbout Fredrik Lavén
Fredrik Lavén works as a researcher and teacher within business administration and particularly management and organization studies. His research interests concern organizing, innovation, strategy and organizational change. Several of his studies have specifically focused on the relationship between plans and action in organizing.
After receiving a B.Com. Honours degree in Business studies at the University of Edinburgh in 2002, Fredrik wrote a doctoral thesis on how innovation policy is translated into practice, which was defended at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg in 2008. He subsequently carried out a follow-up study based on his Ph.D. thesis, together with colleagues at the School of Business, comparing different innovation initiatives. Fredrik then led a VINNOVA-project focusing on how competence standards and validation methods were put into practice and has participated in several labour market restructuring projects. His current research focuses on two areas: 1) organising innovation and particularly efforts of organizing renewable energy production, and 2) organisational change and labour market restructuring.
In 2011, Fredrik was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS) at the University of Oxford, and in 2013 he was a visiting scholar at the Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (SCANCOR) at Stanford University.
Fredrik teaches and directs graduate courses. He also works with executive education in the E-MBA programme and other organization-specific programmes. His current areas of tuition are: Strategy and organization, scenario planning, innovation management and policy, business renewal, organizational learning and change.
Alongside his engagement at the university, Fredrik is also an associated consultant at NormannPartners, which is an applied research and management consulting firm working with strategic renewal, scenario planning and business innovation.
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Research areas
- Organizing, innovation, business development, renewable energy, strategy and organizational change
Research in progress
- Implementing building-integrated solar electricity: obstacles and opportunities in practice, 2017-01 - 2020-12
Teaching areas
- Strategy and organization, innovation management and policy, business renewal, organizational learning and change.
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Negotiating organizing and institutional logics in renewable energy
production
Fredrik Lavén, Sandra Samuelsson
15th Organisation Studies Workshop - 2020 -
Kompetenslandskapets omvandling mot industri 4.0 Långsiktiga perspektiv på kompetensbehovet inom industri och industrinära tjänster i Västra
Götaland
Martin Henning, Joakim Boström Elias, Johan Jakobsson, Fredrik Lavén
2017 -
Strukturomvandling och automatisering. Konsekvenser på regionala
arbetsmarknader
Martin Henning, Jonathan Borggren, Joakim Boström Elias, Kerstin Enflo, Fredrik Lavén
2016 -
Analysing the Designs of Existing Value Creating
Systems
Rafael Ramírez, Ulf Mannervik, Fredrik Lavén, Shirin Elahi, Claude Nahon, Assaad Saab
Strategy for a Networked World - 2016 -
Personalförsörjning och validering inom
Försvarsmakten
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Organizing sustainability innovation: A case of installing rooftop solar
arrays
Fredrik Lavén, Kajsa Lindberg
APROS / EGOS Conference 2015. "Spaces, Constraints, Creativities: Organization & Disorganization" Sydney, Australia, December 9–11, 2015. - 2015 -
Effects of restructuring at regional level and approaches to dealing with the consequences: Saab Automobile,
Sweden
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Dismantling SAAB: The role of transition agencies in
deinstitutionalization
Fredrik Lavén, Ola Bergström
Proceedings of the 30th EGOS Colloquium, July 3-5 2014, Amsterdam. - 2014 -
Exploring the Performativity Turn in Management
Studies
Andreas Diedrich, Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist, Lena Ewertsson, Johan Hagberg, Anette Hallin, Fredrik Lavén, Kajsa Lindberg, Elena Raviola, Egle Rindzeviciute, Lars Walter
2013 -
Frozen fish and mummies: On the role of preserved objects in
organizing
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I förändringens tid - vardagsberättelser från
Försvarsmakten
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When policy meets practice - Exploring performativity and translation in efforts of organizing
innovation
Fredrik Lavén
28th EGOS Colloquium, Helsinki. - 2012 -
In what way do policy scripts influence
practice?
Fredrik Lavén, Björn Remneland, Torbjörn Stjernberg
Innovation Governance in an Open Economy: Shaping Regional Nodes in a Globalized World - 2012 -
Konversationer om Fältet – Empiriska och Teoretiska Resonemang i
Praktiken
Fredrik Lavén
Ringar på Vattnet – En Vänbok till Torbjörn Stjernberg - 2011 -
Frozen Fish and mummies: On the Role of preserved objects in
organizing
Andreas Diedrich, Fredrik Lavén
27th EGOS Colloquium, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg - 2011 -
Ringar på Vattnet, en vänbok till Torbjörn
Stjernberg
Katarina Lagerström, Fredrik Lavén, Björn Remneland Wikhamn, Lars Walter
2011 -
Standardizing management or competence? The case of the Management System for Strategic Competence Support (SS 62 40
70)
Andreas Diedrich, Fredrik Lavén
Proceedings - 25th EGOS Colloquium, ESADE Business School, Barcelona - 2009 -
Organizing Innovation - How Policies are Translated into
Practice
Fredrik Lavén
2008 -
Organizing Collaboration: A Study of the Construction of a Microwave Technology
Cluster
Fredrik Lavén
Paper presented at the NFF Conference, 2005, Århus - 2005 -
Constructing Collaboration: Organizing, Translation and Boundaries in a Microwave Technology
Cluster
Fredrik Lavén
Paper presented at the EGOS Colloquium, 2005, Berlin - 2005