Umeå School of Business and Economics Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden Department of Business Administration Ulrica Nylén Phone: +46 90 786 6152. E-mail: ulrica.nylen@usbe.umu.se Curriculum vitae Ulrica Nylén (August, 2014) 1. Education and degrees awarded Ekonomen degree, Umeå University, 1987 PhD in Business Administration, Umeå University, 1997 Docent title, Umeå University, appointed 2008 2. Other education and training, qualifications and skills Umeå University leadership development program for university managers, February 2009 May, 2010. 3. Linguistic skills Mother tongue: Swedish High proficiency in English incl. communication, reading and writing skills 4. Computer skills Microsoft Office programs 5. Academic positions Research Assistant, Department of Business Administration, Umeå university, 1987 1988 Lecturer, Department of Business Administration, Umeå University, 1988 1998 Doctoral student, Department of Business Administration, Umeå University, 1990 1995 Senior lecturer, Umeå School of Business and Economics, 1998 onwards Evaluator/researcher, Umeå Centre for Evaluation Research, Umeå University, 1999 2001 Associate Dean at Umeå School of Business, 2008 2010 6. External research funding Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg Foundation, 1990: SEK 125 000 (personal scholarship) The Swedish Bank Research Foundation, 1991: SEK 280 000 (personal scholarship) Tore Browaldh foundation for scientific research and education, 1995 1996: SEK 170 000 (personal scholarship)
2 7. Doctoral thesis supervision Completed: Jessica Ericsson (PhD defence 2004), secondary supervisor; Sofia Isberg (PhD defence 2006), secondary supervisor; Henry Chalu (licentiate defence 2007, doctoral defence 2010), secondary supervisor; Chris Nicol (licentiate defence 2009), secondary supervisor. Ongoing: Maira Babri (from 2011), primary supervisor from 2012. 8. Merits in teaching and pedagogical competence Academic assignments related to teaching (assorted): Director of Studies in Business Administration, Umeå School of Business and Economics, 2000 2002 Assistant manager of the Management Section, Umeå School of Business, 2006 2007 Program director for the Master s program in Management, 2007 Program director for the PhD Program in Business Administration, 2008 2010 Thesis coordinator in Business Administration, Umeå School of Business and Economics, 2011 present Expert judge at KPMG case competition, 2012 and 2013 Teaching portfolio (from 2009): Master s program in Management: People The human side of organizing (English) Bachelor programs: Organization and Management of the Firm (English and Swedish) Thesis supervision: 1 st year Master s theses, 15 credits; 2 nd year Master s theses, 15 and 30 credits; Degree projects, 30 credits. (English and Swedish) Reviewer of theses for the Grading committee in Business Administration Pedagogical training and competence (from 2009): Pedagogical courses at Umeå University: The role of the teacher, February March, 2011; Relationships in teaching, April, 2012; Simulations methods, March, 2013 (own translation of course titles). Workshop presentation: Supervision for high quality balancing conflicting demands (own translation), Fekis conference, Umeå, 17 th 18 th October, 2012 Advanced case teaching workshop, Case Center, IESE Business School, Barcelona, June 2014. Involvement in curriculum planning and the implementation of courses; development of teaching methods (assorted from 2009): Responsible for development of quality assurance routines in the doctoral program (2008-2010) Responsible for quality assurance and course development in bachelor and master theses and degree project work (2011 onwards) Member of reference group for development of the methods courses in Business Administration (2012/2013) 9. Other academic merits Pre-examiner or opponent of a doctoral dissertation or member in dissertation committees (from 2009) Internal opponent at final seminar for PhD.cand. Lars-Erik Lauritz, 2009 Member of grading committee, doctoral thesis, Lars-Erik Lauritz, 2009 Member of grading committee, doctoral thesis, Anna Jerbrant, Royal Institute of Technology, 2009 Member of grading committee, doctoral thesis, Lena Andersson, Linköping University, 2010 2
3 Member of grading committee, doctoral thesis, Mattias Jacobsson, 2011 Internal opponent at final seminar for PhD cand. Marlene Johansson, 2012 Member of grading committee, doctoral thesis, Marlene Johansson, 2012 Discussant of PhD stud. Virginia Rosales research proposal, 2013 Evaluation of academic/scientific competence Evaluation of senior lecturer position in Business Administration with a specialization in organization and management, University of Borås, 2012 Referee for scientific and scholarly journals (after 2009) Ephemera: theory and politics in organization, 2008-2009 Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management, 2010 Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, 2011-2012 International Journal of Integrated Care, 2012 Scandinavian Journal of Management, 2012-2013 Other academic assignments (not previously mentioned) Member of board at Umeå Centre of Evaluation Research, 2007 2009 Head of Research at Umeå School of Business, 2008 2010 Member of the academic representative body for recruitment of new Vice-Chancellor at Umeå University, 2009-2010 Deputy member of the employment committee at the Faculty of Social Sciences, 2011 - onwards Member of the body of electors at the Faculty of Social Sciences for assignment of teacher representatives to the University Board, 2012 and onwards 10. Arranging conferences and workshops Co-arranger for session on Quality in student theses at the Fekis conference (The Association for Business Administration in Sweden) in Umeå, October 2012. 11. Main research areas Ethics in Business (PhD work). Collaboration within health care and social services; driving forces and obstacles, consequences for efficiency and quality of care (Evaluation assignment followed with research). Qualitative methods development; methods for text analysis, strategies for presentation of field work. Boundary-spanning organizing within health care; organizing of boundary-spanning work, identification processes in multi-professional teams (family care centres). The value of stability; deconstructing the organizational change discourse. 12. Publications Journal articles: Nylén, Ulrica (2014). The value of stability. Submitted to Journal of Management Inquiry. Nylén, Ulrica (2013). The mutual shaping of identification and organizing processes. Accepted for review in Group and Organization Management. Nylén, Ulrica (2013). Boundary modification or preservation The challenge of collaboration in health care, Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, 16(2): 115-142. 3
4 Nylén, Ulrica (2007). Interagency Collaboration in Human Services: Impact of Formalization and Intensity on Effectiveness, Public Administration, 85 (1): 143-166. Jensen, Tommy & Nylén, Ulrica (2006). Striving for Spontaneity Bureaucracy strikes back, Problems and Perspectives in Management, 4 (2): 144-158. Nylén, Ulrica (1998). Ethical views on tax evasion among Swedish CEOs, Journal of Accounting, Ethics and Public Policy, 1 (3): 435-459. Nylén, Ulrica (1995). Humanitarian Versus Organizational Morality, Journal of Business Ethics, 14 (12): 977-986. Books and book chapters: Nylén, Ulrica (2009). Familjecentralen som gränsöverskridande team, i Berlin, J., Carlström, E. & Sandberg, H. (red.) Team i vård, behandling och omsorg. Erfarenheter och reflektioner. Lund: Studentlitteratur, s. 75-100. Nylén, Ulrica (2005). Att presentera kvalitativa data. Framställningsstrategier för empiriredovisning. Malmö: Liber. Lindqvist, Rafael & Nylén, Ulrica (2002). Bassjukvårdsförsöket. Slutrapport från utvärdering av försöksverksamhet med lokal vård, omsorg och social service i fem Västerbottenskommuner. Umeå Centre for Evaluation Research, Umeå universitet. Nylén, Ulrica (1999). En text: - flera metoder, i Lindén, J., Westlander, G. & Karlsson, G. (red.): Kvalitativa metoder i arbetslivsforskning. Stockholm: Rådet för Arbetslivsforskning, s. 52-76. Nylén, Ulrica (1998). Ethical Views on Tax Evasion Among Swedish CEOs, in McGee, R.W. (Ed.) The Ethics of Tax Evasion, South Orange, N.J.: The Dumont Institute for Public Policy Research, pp. 260-282. Nylén, Ulrica (1996). Gott och ont inom affärslivet. Utveckling av ett etiskt perspektiv på företags relationer med aktörer. Studier i företagsekonomi, Umeå universitet. (ak. avh.) Nylén, Ulrica (1992). A Study of Ethical Views of Swedish Business Leaders, in Mahoney, J. & Vallance, E. (Eds.): Business Ethics in A New Europe, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 102-113. Conference papers: Nylén, Ulrica (2013). The value of stability, Nordic Academy of Management: Reykjavik, Iceland, August 21 st 23 rd. Nylén, Ulrica (2013). Boundary-spanning leadership, Nordic Academy of Management: Reykjavik, Iceland, August 21 st 23 rd. Nylén, Ulrica (2011). Identity construction in a multi-discursive setting Professional identification processes in a collaborative health care unit, Nordic Academy of Management: Stockholm, 22 nd 24 th August. Nylén, Ulrica (2007). Two steps forward and one back Talk, planning and action in an interorganising process in the human services sector, EURAM Annual Conference: Paris, 16 th 19 th May. Nylén, Ulrica (2006). Multi-professional teamwork for interagency collaboration. The tension between boundary preservation vs. modification, Nordic Workshop on Health Management and Organization: Copenhagen, Denmark, December 7 th -8 th. Nylén, Ulrica (2005). Coping with trinity. Human service professionals in interorganisational team work. The 18 th Nordic Conference of the Scandinavian Academy of Management: Aarhus, Denmark, August 18 th -20 th. 4
5 Nylén, Ulrica (2005). The three logics of organising. Building a theoretical framework for the management of human service organisations, EURAM Annual Conference: Munich, Germany, May 4 th -7 th. Nylén, Ulrica (2004). Organizing across boundaries. The Four P s of interagency collaboration. EISAM Workshop on Public Sector in Common Europe - Trends and Fashions: Lofoten Islands, Norway, June 6 th 8 th. Nylén, Ulrica & Jensen, Tommy (2003). Competition or Co-operation Striving for spontaneity, heading for bureaucracy, 17 th Nordic Conference of the Scandinavian Academy of Management: Reykjavik, Island, August 14 th 16 th. Nylén, Ulrica (2003). Co-operation strategies in the Swedish Welfare Sector Annual Conference of the European Academy of Management: Milan, Italy, April 3 rd 5 th. Nylén, Ulrica (1999). En text: - flera metoder, RALF workshop on the Development of qualitative research approaches: Bergendal, Sweden, January 14 th -15 th. Nylén, Ulrica (1997). Good and Bad in Business An ethical perspective on stakeholder relations, Proceedings of 14 th Nordic Conference on the Scandinavian Academy of Management: Bodö, Norway, August 14 th -17 th, pp. 128-131. Nylén, Ulrica (1994). Ethical Organizational Behavior in Relations Between Participants, Proceedings of the 23 rd Annual Meeting of the Western Decision Sciences Institute: Maui, Hawaii, March 29 th -April 2 nd, pp. 173-177. Nylén, Ulrica (1991). Ethical Views of Swedish Business Leaders, European Business Ethics Network Conference on Business Ethics in a New Europe: London, September 25 th - 27 th. Nylén, Ulrica (1991) Business, Man and Morality - A study of ethical views of business leaders in Swedish Corporations, IAREP/SASE Conference on Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of economic problems: Stockholm, June 16 th -19 th. Research reports: Lindqvist, Rafael, Nyberg, Lars & Nylén, Ulrica (2003). Hemrehabilitering i samverkan i Vännäs kommun. Äldrecentrum Västerbotten. Lindqvist, Rafael & Nylén, Ulrica (2000). Försöksverksamheten med lokal vård, omsorg och social service i Västerbottens län 1998-2001 politikernas och tjänstemännens syn. Resultat från en enkätundersökning bland styr- och ledningsgruppsledamöter. Umeå Centre for Evaluation Research, Umeå universitet. Lindqvist, Rafael & Nylén, Ulrica (2000). Samverkan i vård och omsorg. Delrapport 2 från utvärdering av försöksverksamhet i Västerbottens län. Umeå Centre for Evaluation Research, Umeå universitet. Lindqvist, Rafael & Nylén, Ulrica (2000). Samverkan i vård och omsorg. Delrapport från utvärdering av försöksverksamhet med lokal vård, omsorg och social service i Västerbotten. Umeå Centre for Evaluation Research, Umeå universitet. Nylén, Ulrica (1992). Företaget, människan och moralen - en undersökning av företagsledares attityder till etiska frågor inom affärslivet. Inst. för företagsekonomi: FE- Publikation. 13. Merits related to dissemination of research results and external collaboration Executive education and speeches for an external audience (assorted): Speech: Good and bad in business, Rotary, Umeå, 1997 Speech: The ethical contract, Swedish association for small business owners, Linköping, 1997 5
6 Lecture: Ethics and morality in business, Executive education for board members in SMEs, 1997 Lecture and workshop: Ethical analysis from a stakeholder perspective, trainee program at Swedish work environment authority, 1997 Speech: What could we learn from evaluations in health care? Conference at the County council of Västerbotten, 2002. Member of work group for the development of USBE Leadership Academy, 2005 Responsible for two-day workshop on Leadership ethics for the Leadership Academy, 2006 Invited speaker on Vännäs Family care center 10-year anniversary, 2007. Science communication via interviews in popular media (assorted): Interviewed in newspaper Dagens Industri, 1989 Interviewed in newspaper SAF-tidningen, 1993 Interviewed in regional TV Västerbottensnytt, 2003 Interviewed in regional radio Radio Gävleborg, 2003 Research projects in collaboration with external partners: Engaged as external evaluator of a three-year, cross-disciplinary experimental work on collaboration in health care and social services, County of Västerbotten, 1999-2001. Engaged as external evaluator in a cross-disciplinary study of home-rehabilitation, Municipality of Vännäs, 2003. Oral and written presentations of empirical research results to informants at studied family care centres, 2005-2006. Co-author of a multi-disciplinary research application to Vinnova/Vårdal Foundation: Developing models for palliative care in rural parts of Northern Sweden an action science initiative, 2007. 14. Positions of trust in society and other societal merits Secretary of the local chapter board of the Centre for Business and Policy Studies (SNS), 1991 1993. 6