Research Team
Project members
Eero Aalto
Doctoral candidate at Aalto University Department of Industrial Engineering and Management
Research in strategic management – Technological and institutional change and implications for firm strategy
Role in the project: Working on telecommunications industry: Nonmarket strategy, internationalization and strategy work.
eero.aalto(at)aalto.fi
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Twitter: @EeroAalto1
Simon Billinger
PhD student at the Stockholm School of Economics
Simon’s primary research interest is in financial history, institutional change, and the interaction between regulations and market forces. His doctoral project focuses on the historical development of Swedish banking and finance in the postwar era, when markets were strictly regulated, and market innovations had to occur outside the purview of existing rules.
Role in the project: Working with projects and data collection related to Swedish financial markets
simon.billinger(at)phdstudent.hhs.se
Rickard Björnemalm
PhD Student at Linköping University
Björnemalm is a PhD student in Strategy at the Department of Management and Engineering at Linköping university. He holds an M.Sc. in Economic History and has previously worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Economic and Business History Research at Stockholm School of Economics. His research interest includes strategy and project management in state-owned enterprises and private enterprises with a close connection to the state.
Role in the project: Collecting, digitizing, coding, and analyzing Swedish archival data.
rickard.bjornemalm(at)gmail.com
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Dr. Zeerim Cheung
Lecturer (Assistant Professor), The University of Sydney, Discipline of International Business
Zeerim Cheung’s research focuses on strategy and the relationship between firms, states, and institutions, such as corporate political strategies, state-owned enterprises, and social movements. He also has broad methodological interests such as historical methods, qualitative comparative analysis, and topic modeling. He is the co-organizer of the HiMOS series.
Role in the project: Member of the board of DIGIHIST. The main administrator of the database.
zeerim.cheung(at)sydney.edu.au
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Twitter: @Zeerim
Dr. Mirko Ernkvist
Jan Wallander Postdoctoral Researcher, The Ratio Institute, Stockholm
Mirko’s major research has focused on tech industries such as gaming, games and fintech. Within these industries he has explored questions related to innovation, policy, political economy, social change, strategy and organization. He has been a visiting researcher at Stanford University and the University of Tokyo in addition to his Swedish career at the University of Gothenburg, Ratio institute and the SSE. Currently his research interest is focused on AI and questions related to innovation and philosophy of AI ethics. He has a keen renewed interest in philosophy and ethics of novel technologies.
Role in the research project
Mirko is a founding member of Digihist consortium and the original designer of the relational database that has revolutionized the method of digital history. He has been a major contributor to the method of the project and has published results in top journals such as e.g. Technological Forecasting and Social Change..
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Dr. Robin Gustafsson
Associate Professor of Strategic Management
Aalto University, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management
Robin Gustafsson’s research focuses on strategy, organization, and policy in industry and market disruptions. His recent research explores digitalization and platform economy, specifically how industries are disrupted, sources of competitive advantage in the digital age, platform and data business models, open science and innovation, and agile strategy work. Robin is an expert in flipped classroom and experienced-based learning methods, and a skilled user of the Harvard case teaching method, and the LEGO® Serious Play® facilitation method.
Role in the project: Founding and current member of the board of DIGIHIST. Working jointly with the DIGHIST consortium members on cutting-edge advanced digital history methods and approaches with relational databases for studying more rigorously strategy and organization processes that can account for firm environment effects.
robin.gustafsson(at)aalto.fi
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Twitter: @robingustafs
Dr. Erik Lakomaa
Associate Professor in Economic History, Stockholm School of Economics, and Executive Director of the Institute for Economic and Business History Research (EHFF).
PhD in Economic History from Stockholm School of Economics, Erik is primarily doing research in business history and institutional economics, mainly focused on how organizations (public and private) have reacted to external change (new legislation, new technology). He has previously written on the media industry, telecommunications, advertising, public-private cooperation, and public sector reform.
Role in the project: Founding member and Chairperson of the board of DIGIHIST.
erik.lakomaa(at)hhs.se
EHFF
Dr. Pasi Nevalainen
Academy Research Fellow, Aalto University, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management
Role in the project: Member of the board of DIGIHIST.
pasi.nevalainen(at)aalto.fi
Dr. Rasmus Nykvist
Assistant Professor, Linköping University and Affiliate researcher at the House of Innovation, Stockholm School of Economics and the Ratio Institute in Stockholm
Rasmus Nykvist’s research focuses on processes of change in institutions and organizations. His main interest lies in studying the historical interaction between regulation and technology and its impact on such processes.
Role in the project: Member of the board of DIGIHIST
Working on multiple papers all related to our data on Swedish financial exchanges and/or our research methodology. This includes studies on the entrant options exchange OM, incumbent monopoly Stockholm Stock Exchange and a comparative study with Stockholm Stock Exchange and the Helsinki Stock Exchange.
rasmus.nykvist(at)ratio.se
Eetu Poso
PhD student at the University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics
Eetu Poso’s research interests lie within the domains of strategy research and business history with a focus on industry self-regulation strategies. With an academic background in history, he is interested in incorporating historical methodology into strategy and organizational research.
Role in the project: Working on the forestry industry data collection and research. Adminstrator of this website and soon-to-be adminstrator of the database.
eekaposo(at)jyu.fi
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Dr. Christian Sandström
Senior Associate Professor at Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School and the Ratio Institute
Interested in the interplay between technological and institutional change.
Role in the project: Founding member of DIGIHIST. Working on how entrants and incumbent firms differ in their non-market strategies.
christian.sandstrom(at)ratio.se
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