Mikael Hilmersson
About Mikael Hilmersson
Mikael Hilmersson is the director of the Centre of International Business Studies, and he serves as Professor of business administration, with a specialization in international business at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg. Prior to this position, Mikael has held positions as senior lecturer in innovation science at Halmstad University and senior lecturer in marketing at Linnaeus University, where he completed his doctoral degree in 2011. Mikael was awarded the title of docent at Uppsala University in 2016 and was declared competent as professor in international business at Linnaeus University in 2017.
Mikael’s research has been published in journals such as the Journal of International Marketing, International Business Review, International Marketing Review, Management International Review and International Small Business Journal, among others. He is skilled in both qualitative and quantitative research. His research builds on the idea of sequentially combining different research methods where qualitative case studies are used to generate an in-depth understanding of the empirical field, whereas quantitative methods are used for more general results. In two review papers published in 2020, Mikael was ranked as one of the top five researchers globally on SME internationalization, and as number one in Scandinavia.
To date, Mikael has more than 7 years of full-time teaching experience at three Swedish universities. He has served as director of research, director of studies, head of programme, course leader and examiner at several courses and programmes at all academic levels. He is eagerly developing his pedagogical competences, and he works extensively with integration of research, teaching and knowledge exchanges with the industry, which often take place in LIVE case projects.
Mikael has supervised more than 100 bachelor and master theses, and he has supervised six doctoral students. He has been a faculty opponent as well as a member of doctoral grading committees. Mikael is an experienced and awarded reviewer. Since 2011 he has reviewed more than 120 manuscripts submitted to international journals, and he sits on four editorial review boards. In 2018, Mikael received the 2018 Outstanding Reviewer Award from the American Marketing Association for his services for the Journal of International Marketing.
Mikael has well developed experience communicating his research to the industry and broader society. He has been engaged as an advisor and ongoing evaluator for the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth, Innovation Skåne, Sahlgrenska Science Park for GU Ventures as well as for the municipality of Kalmar. He has regularly been invited to host lectures for entrepreneurs, business managers and business advisors in the innovation system.
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Research areas
- International business, International marketing & International entrepreneurship
Teaching areas
- International business, quantitative methods, survey research, strategy theory
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Small and medium-sized enterprises response to Covid-19: The effect of external openness and procedural
management
Jonas Fasth, Niklas Åkerman, Viktor Elliot, Mikael Hilmersson
International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship - 2022 -
Business unpredictability, improvisation and business network commitment in small and medium-sized enterprise market
entry
Mikael Hilmersson, Martin Johanson, Helene Lundberg, Stylianos Papaioannou
International Small Business Journal - 2022 -
Pace of innovation and speed of small and medium-sized enterprise international
expansion
Mikael Hilmersson, Firouze Pourmand Hilmersson, Sylvie Chetty, Roger Schweizer
International Small Business Journal - 2022 -
The Relationship Between Timing, Speed, and Performance in Foreign Market Network
Entry
Mikael Hilmersson, Roger Schweizer, Sylvie Chetty
Management International Review - 2022 -
Rapid internationalization and exit of exporters: The role of digital
platforms
Z. Deng, Z. Zhu, M. Johanson, Mikael Hilmersson
International Business Review - 2022 -
Serendipitous opportunities, entry strategy and knowledge in firms' foreign market
entry
Mikael Hilmersson, Martin Johanson, Heléne Lundberg, Stylianos Papaioannou
International Marketing Review - 2021 -
Opportunity novelty, improvisation and network adaptation
in the internationalization of Swedish
SMEs
Mikael Hilmersson, Martin Johanson, Helene Lundberg, Stylianos Papaioannou
Thunderbird International Business Review - 2021 -
Networking to accelerate the pace of SME
innovations
Firouze Pourmand Hilmersson, Mikael Hilmersson
Journal of Innovation and Knowledge - 2021 -
Knowledge acquisition strategy, speed of capability development and speed of SME
internationalisation
Mikael Hilmersson, M. Johanson
International Small Business Journal-Researching Entrepreneurship - 2020 -
Move first to grow slow: on the relationship between timing, speed and performance of the foreign network entry
process
Mikael Hilmersson, Roger Schweizer
McGill International Entrepreneurship Conference - 2018 -
Time, temporality, and internationalization: The relationship among point in time of, time to, and speed of international
expansion
Mikael Hilmersson, M. Johanson, H. Lundberg, S. Papaioannou
Journal of International Marketing - 2017 -
Speed of SME Internationalization and
Performance
Mikael Hilmersson, Martin Johanson
Management International Review - 2016 -
SME international opportunity scouting—empirical insights on its determinants and
outcomes
Mikael Hilmersson, Stylianos Papaioannou
International Journal of Entrepreneurship - 2015 -
Political knowledge, political turbulence and uncertainty in the internationalization process of
SMEs
Mikael Hilmersson, Susanne Sandberg, Firouze Pourmand Hilmersson
European Business Review - 2015 -
Small and medium-sized enterprise internationalisation strategy and performance in times of market
turbulence
Mikael Hilmersson
International Small Business Journal - 2014 -
The effect of international experience on the degree of SME insidership in newly opened business
networks
Mikael Hilmersson
Baltic Journal of Management - 2013 -
Experiential knowledge types and profiles of internationalising small and medium-sized
enterprises
Mikael Hilmersson
International Small Business Journal - 2012 -
International network extension processes to institutionally different markets: Entry nodes and processes of exporting
SMEs
Mikael Hilmersson, Hans Jansson
International Business Review - 2012 -
Reducing Uncertainty in the Emerging Market Entry Process: On the Relationship Among International Experiential Knowledge, Institutional Distance, and
Uncertainty
Mikael Hilmersson, Hans Jansson
Journal of International Marketing - 2012