Erik Lakomaa and Rickard Björnemalm participated in the Baltic Connections & SSESH Joint Conference 2026 in Jyväskylä, 10th-12th June. Erik presented the paper “Retailing in the Financial Ice Age: The Effects of Credit Rationing in Swedish Retailing, 1950–1975” (co-authored with Simon Billinger) Rickard presented his dissertation work under the title “Strategy at Saab: Early dissertation exploration…

Multiple Dighist members presented at the 10th HiMOS workshop in Jyväskylä, June 8th-9th: Erik Lakomaa presented the paper “Too Big to Fail, Too Political to Quit: The Organizational Life of Videotex.” Simon Billinger and Rickard Björnemalm presented the paper “Strategic Intent Formation and Narrative Emplotment: A Sub-process of Strategy Emergence? The case of “The Great…

Erik Lakomaa and Rasmus Nykvist published their article on monopolist de-regulation on Business History. Have a read: Lakomaa, E., & Nykvist, R. (2025). Monopolists for Competition? Incumbent Action by Telecom Operators and Financial Exchanges 1980–1990. Business History, 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2025.2539273

Simon Billinger and Rickard Björnemalm published their article titled ”Managing to compete: the Swedish state-owned banks and competition, 1960–1985” in the Scandinavian Economic History Review. Go have a read: https://doi.org/10.1080/03585522.2025.2541344

In July, Rickard Björnemalm and Simon Billinger presented their paper “Whose (strategic) intent is it anyway? The merger between two Swedish state-owned banks as an emergent strategy, 1962-1974.”  at the 41st EGOS Colloquium in Athens, Sub-theme 63 Strategies in Organizations: Unintended Consequences and Emergent Patterns. In June, Rasmus Nykvist presented the paper ”Organisations’ strategic use of secrecy in…

Zeerim Cheung presented his article titled ”Institutional Custodianship During a Transition from an Analog to a Digital Platform” at the Academy of Management conference in Copenhagen. Eetu Poso presented his article ”Industry self-regulation during a sustainability transition in the Finnish forest industry” at the European Business History Association conference in Brussels.

Rickard Björnemalm presented the paper ”Bringing the State Back In: Reorganizing the Business-Government Interface in the Defence Sector in the Nordics ” written together with Rasmus Nykvist and Julia Fleischer.  Rasmus Nykvist presented the paper ”Organisations’ strategic use of secrecy in regulatory settings” written together with Simon Billinger.

Erik Lakomaa presented the paper ”Entrepreneurship and collusion. The rise of Voluntary Retail Chains, the case of Sweden 1945-1970” written together with Rickard Björnemalm at the  50th Economic and Business History Society Conference in Birmingham, Alabama, May 29-31, 2025

Rickard Björnemalm and Rasmus Nykvist presented their paper ”Bringing the State Back In: Reorganizing the Business-Government Interface in the Defence Sector in the Nordics ” at Baltic Connections 2025, held at University of Helsinki, Finland on 21-23 May.

In september 2024, Rickard Björnemalm Master’s thesis ”Strategy in Swedish state-owned enterprises: Managing market-orientation in energy, post, and telecommunications, 1980–1988” was awarded the Håkan Lindgren Prize for the best Bachelor or Master’s thesis of the year in Economic History in Sweden.