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Jonas Söderlund

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I am a professor of Business Administration. I teach courses in strategy, management and organization. My research focuses on how firms develop capabilities and competitiveness, how projects succeed, and on project-based work.

About Jonas Söderlund

Assignments at Linköping University

Jonas Söderlund, Ph.D., Professor of Strategy and Organization at Linköping University.

He is a member of the management team at the Division of Business Administration and head of the Strategy and Organization unit at Linköping University.

Previous assignments

Member of the Advisory Board of Project Management Institute, Director of executive education programs at BI Norwegian Business School and professor at several universities and business schools around the world.

Member of Riksbankens Jubileumsfond’s evaluation committee for economics, business administration, law, economic geography and political science.

Member of Forte’s committee within the area of work and organization.

He has guest edited more than 15 special issues on topics such as project history, project studies, projects and innovation and project and institutions.

Ongoing assignments

He is on the editorial board of several academic journals, including Organization Studies and Human Relations.

He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Project Management Journal.

More about Jonas Söderlund

Research

His research centers on the dynamics of strategy and innovation with a particular focus on knowledge integration, temporality, and project-based organizing.

Professor Söderlund has conducted a number of multi-year studies on capability building, project organization and project-based work. He has published some 80 papers in top-tier journals within management and organization, and ten books. His research has been published in many of the leading journals in innovation and organization, such as Research Policy, Organization Studies, Human Relations.

Publications

Selected publications

2025

Ermal Hetemi, Jonas Söderlund, Sofia Pemsel, Anna Jerbrant (2025) Value Pathways in Emergent Programs: Tackling Grand Challenges in the Swedish Transportation Industry California Management Review (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Joana Geraldi, Giorgio Locatelli, Jonas Söderlund (2025) Author, Reviewer, Editor: A Generative Conversation Project Management Journal, Vol. 56, p. 163-172 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Sofia Pemsel, Jonas Söderlund (2025) Governance and Creativity in Project-Based Organizations: Archetypes and Agenda for Future Research Project Management Journal, Vol. 56, p. 141-157 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

Education and teaching

He teaches courses at LiU in strategy, innovation, change, HRM, and project management. He supervises master students in a wide range of areas, including strategy, organization, change and innovation.

News

Autumn at the Campus Valla and bikes.

Research at IEI holds a high standard

Stanford University has recently released an updated list of the top two percent most cited researchers globally, and it is gratifying to note that once again, several distinguished researchers from IEI are represented on the list.
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Jonas Söderlund receives the prestigious PMI Research Achievement Award

Jonas Söderlund, a distinguished scholar and professor at Linköping University, has been awarded the prestigious PMI Research Achievement Award. This esteemed award recognises his significant contributions to the field of project management.
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IEI researchers among the world´s most cited

Stanford University has recently published an update of the list of the two percent most cited scientists in the world. And again several researchers at IEI are on the list.

Organisation

International food market in Linköping

Business Administration (FEK)

Business Administration is a division at the Department of Management and Engineering. The division offers education on undergraduate, masters, and PhD levels, and is an active research environment.
Campus Valla overview.

Department of Management and Engineering (IEI)

The Department of Management and Engineering (IEI) strengthens and develops tomorrow’s industry, business world and society by ground-breaking research, education and innovation.
Studenthuset on Campus Valla in Linköping

About LiU

Linköping University, LiU, offers innovative education and boundary-crossing research. The students are among the most desirable in the labour market and international rankings consistently place LiU as a leading global university.

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