Robert Demir is a Senior Associate Professor of Strategic Management. His research interests include strategy practices and processes in private and public organisations, open innovation practices and processes, business model innovation, digital transformation, unsanctioned innovation, bottom-up innovation, secrecy, and market making.
Dr Demir relies heavily on qualitative research methods but uses survey-based methods to test and explore new theoretical ideas and empirical phenomena.
He was awarded a PhD in Strategic Management from Stockholm Business School in 2010. He has been awarded several grants, including a post-doctoral grant from the Tore Browaldh and Jan Wallander Foundation and several other research grants from VINNOVA, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Marianne & Marcus Wallenberg Foundation, and Peter Wallenberg Foundation.
Dr Demir joined the Strategy and Organisation Group at the Department of Management and Engineering (Linköping University) in 2023.
Previously, he has held positions and research affiliations at Stockholm Business School (Stockholm University), Lancaster University Management School, House of Innovation (Stockholm School of Economics), and the Ratio Institute. He serves as the Deputy Vice President Events at IFSAM - International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management.
