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Andrea Fried

Senior Associate Professor

The deviance and the violation of standards and regulations are ‘necessary possibilities’.

CV, research and teaching

CV

I obtained a Master degree (Diplomkauffrau) in Business Administration and Vocational Economics from the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and a PhD from the Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany. At Chemnitz University of Technology, I also worked as a Senior Researcher and later held a C1 (Habilitation) position at Chemnitz University of Technology. Before becoming a senior associate professor of business administration (with a focus on management control and organisation) at Linköping University in 2013, I was an international visiting researcher at the Department of Economic and Industrial Development here. I have also been a visiting researcher at the Department of Science Studies and Sociology of Science, University of Basel, Switzerland, at the Institute of Management, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and at the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa.

I have been a member of the Research Council of the Department of Economic and Industrial Development, IEI, since 2018, and a member of the Doctoral Education Council of the Faculty of Arts since 2023. From 2017 to 2020, I have been responsible for the Organisation and Entrepreneurship Unit at the Department of Business Administration, Linköping University.

Research

Andrea's research focuses on the impact of standards and regulation on business as an important aspect of modern organisation. Standards and legislation are seen as a general attempt to minimise risk through audit and control processes. Andrea is particularly interested in how standards and laws are created and implemented in organisations, how organisations deviate from them, how they follow them with different consequences, and how they themselves influence standards and laws.

Andrea's research is funded by high-level national and international funding organisations. These include the Swedish Research Council VR and the German Research Foundation DFG, as well as the Swedish Energy Agency and the Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation, including the Tore Browaldh Foundation. She has led the DaDriS research programme, which has twice received substantial funding from the DFG and deals with dangerous but also innovative deviations from the norm in modern work organisations. VR is currently funding her research on the organisational dimension of cybersecurity (CODIRES project). CODIRES looks empirically at how organisations deal with cyber-attacks, how cyber-resilience can be conceptualised and what the regulatory implications might be.

Teaching

  • Management Control Systems, Master level, 7.5 ETCS (722A46)
  • Ekonomisk styrning, civilekonom program, 15 hp (722A14)
  • Management Control, Bachelor level, 7.5 ETCS (723G71, 723G72, 723G84)
  • Organising for Cybersecurity, Advanced Course, Master level, 7.5 ECTS (723G56)
  • Master thesis course, SMIO program, Master level, 30 ECTS (722A31)
  • Examensarbete i företagsekonomi, civilekonom program, 30ECTS (722A35)

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International affiliations

Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena

Otto Schott Institute of Materials Research
DFG Research Project DaDriS (FR 2892/3-1)

Reviewer for research funding bodies and scientific journals

  • Reviewer for the Austrian research council FFG
  • Reviewer for the Dutch research council NWO
  • Reviewer for the German research council DFG
  • Reviewer for the South African research council NRF
  • Reviewer and guest editor for numerous international peer-reviewed journals
  • Liaison docent of the Hans Böckler Foundation, Germany

International PhD thesis examination boards

  • Member of PhD Examiners Board, School of Economic and Business Sciences, Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Member of PhD Examiners Board, School of Management, IT & Governance, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Research

Collaborative Research Seminar Series at IEI

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