CURRICULUM VITAE NAME: Ragnhild Kvålshaugen ADDRESS: Svensenga 86, N-0882 Oslo, Norway PHONE: +47 22 23 94 46 (private), +47 46 41 04 78 (work) E-MAIL: ragnhild.kvalshaugen@bi.no Current positions: Associate Professor in strategy and Associate Dean Executive MBA BI Norwegian Business School. Adjunct Associate Professor Trondheim Business School. Degrees: 2001: Dr. Oceon. Norwegian School of Management BI. Title dissertation: The Antecedents of Management Competence: The Role of Educational Background and Type of Work Experience. 1994: MSc in Strategy and International Marketing, BI Norwegian School of Management, Norway. 1991: Pedagogical seminar, University of Oslo. 1987: Cand.mag., University of Oslo (Political Science, English and Business Administration), Norway. Previous positions: 2013: Visiting Scholar at University of California, Berkeley, from January June. 2009: Visiting Scholar at Scancor, Stanford University from January March. 2004 2006: Senior Researcher, SINTEF Knowledge and Strategy. 2001 2004: Associate professor at BI Norwegian School of Management, department of strategy. Dean of master programmes BI Norwegian School of Management from 2002 2004 (responsible for all full-time master programs at BI). 1998 2001: Doctoral student at BI Norwegian School of Management. In addition, adjunct position as assistant professor at the Polytechnical University College, today NITH. 1995 1998: Head of Department at the Polytechnical University College. 1989 1995: Assistant professor at the Norwegian School of Information Technology. 1987 1989: Administrative position at Bankakademiet. 1982 1983: Teacher in primary school. Board positions: 2007 dd: Board member in Nemko. 2008 2012: Board member BI Norwegian Business School faculty representative. 2007 2010: Board member in Acta Holding ASA. 2004 2008: Board member and vice chairman (from 2005) of NOKUT (National Agency of Quality Assurance in Higher Education). 2006 2008: Board member of Silverseed AS. Academic fellowship: 2006 dd: Norwegian editor Nordiske organisasjonsstudier (akademisk tidsskrift rettet mot studiet av organisasjoner). 2006 2011: Member of the council of NEON (Nettverk for organisasjonsstudier). 1
2006: Organizer of the NEON (Nettverk for organisasjonsstudier) at BI. 2010: Co-convenor of sub-theme: Learning to be global: Towards more effective global services and service firms EGOS 2010 in Lisbon. 2008: Co-convenor of the sub-theme: Organising interdependent co-production of services in space and time: Working and learning across boundaries at EGOS 2008 in Amsterdam. 2006: Co-convenor of the sub-theme: Communities of practice, learning and performance at EGOS 2006 in Bergen. 2005 2006: Member of the national program committee for the EGOS (European Group of Organization Studies) Colloquium in Bergen July 2006. Reviewer in peer-reviewed journals: Occasional reviewer in Management Learning, Journal of Management Studies, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, Management and Organizational History and Nordiske Organisasjonsstudier. Member of adjudication committees: 2013: Chair of Therese F. Dille s dissertation committee at BI. Title of dissertation: Inter- Institutional Projects in Time: A Conceptual Framework and Empirical Investigation. Committee members: Professor Pernille Eskerod and Associate Professor Anders Söderholm. 2008: Chair of Helene Loe Colman s dissertation committee at BI. Title of dissertation: Organizational Identity and Value Creation in Post-acquisition Integration. Committee members: Professor Mary Jo Hatch and Professor Niels Nooderhaven. 2008: Member of the adjudication committee Trude Høgvold Olsen s dissertation at NHH. Title of dissertation: Towards a Dynamic Understanding of Competence Management during Organizational Change. Committee members: Professor Kurt Klaudi Klausen and Professor Bjarne Espedal. 2008: Member of the adjudication committee Erlend Dehlin dissertation at NTNU. Title of dissertation: The Flesh and Blood of Everyday Organizing. A study of How Managers Improvise. Committee members: Professor Chris Carter and Associate Professor Alf Steinar Sætre. Ph.D. supervision: Yen Tran: Organizing for Stylistic Innovation in Turbulent Fashion Markets. Copenhagen Business School, second supervisor. Nominated to the Award for Outstanding Dissertation Research in Business Policy and Strategy, Academy of Management. Defended in January 2010. Karl Joachim Breunig: Realizing Reticulation: A Comparative Study of Capability Dynamics in two International Professional Service Firms over 10 years. BI Norwegian Business School. Defended in November 2013. Sebastiano Lombardo: Client-Consultant Interaction Practices: Sources of Ingenuity, Value Creation and Strategizing. BI Norwegian Business School. Handed in January 2014. Vedrana Jez: Managerial Attention and Strategic Decision Making. BI Norwegian Business School (2 nd advisor). Externally funded research projects: 1993-1994: Project member in a project concerning knowledge management in Grøner. The project was financed by Grøner. Support investigator. 1998 2001: Project member in the Creation of European Management Practice (CEMP) project (an EU project: TSER Contract SOE1-CT97-1072). Support investigator. 2
2003 2005: Project leader of Management competence for self-organized teams. The project was partly financed by Gjensidige and Forsikringsakademiet. Prime investigator. 2004 2005: Project member in a project concerning the relationship between the process organization and the line organization in MARINTEK. This project was part of the research project KUNNE Balanse which was partly financed by the Norwegian Research Council and the participating companies. Support investigator. 2004 2006: Project leader in a project concerning understanding of business models in Trondheim Energiverk (TEV). The project was followed up by a leadership development program, which I am contributing in. This project was part of the research project KUNNE Balanse which was partly financed by the Norwegian Research Council and the participating companies. Prime investigator. 2005-2006: Project manager KUNNE Synergi in SINTEF. Responsible for the synergy activities between the KUNNE projects. For more information, please visit the website: www.kunne.no 2006 2009: Academic responsible of the Terrella project where the research focus is on knowledge sharing practices in international professional services. The project is partly financed by the Norwegian Research Council and the participating companies. Three researchers, one post.doc and two doctoral students are involved in the project. Prime investigator. 2006 2008: Project member and work package responsible in the Service Innovation in the Nordic Countries Key Factors for Policy Design (ServINNo project). The project focuses on innovation processes in Nordic service firms and how policy can be designed to promote service innovation in the Nordic countries. The project is financed by the Nordic Innovation Centre. Prime investigator. 2009 2011: Project leader Knowledge-Based Services in the research project A Knowledge- Based Norway: http://www.ekn.no/. This project focuses on the roles knowledge intensive business services has for the innovation of other companies. Further, the project also gives an overview of central characteristics of knowledge intensive business service industries in Norway. Prime investigator. Publications in peer reviewed journals: Kvålshaugen, R. & Amdam, R.P.: Stability and Change in Managerial Elites: The Institution of Management Education in Norway from 1936 to 2009. In press Management & Organizational History. Breunig, K.J., Kvålshaugen, R. & Hydle, K.M.: Knowing you Boundaries: Integration Opportunities in International Professional Service Firms. In press Journal of World Business (published online December 19, 2013). Lombardo, S. & Kvålshaugen, R. (2014): Constraint-Shattering Practices and Creative Action in Organizations, Organization Studies, 35 (4): 587-611. Hydle, K.M., Kvålshaugen, R. & Breunig, K.J. (2014): Value Creating Practices in International Professional Service Firms: Transnational Service Delivery through Communities of Tasks and Communities of Practices. In press Management Learning (published online December 2, 2013). Kvålshaugen, R. (2012): Kunnskapsbaserte tjenesteytere: Koblere og meglere av kunnskap i norsk næringsliv. Magma, 15 (1): 41-50. Amdam, R.P. & R. Kvålshaugen (2010): Utdanning av norske næringslivstopper: Kontinuitet eller brudd. Magma, 13(3): 37-42. Kvålshaugen, R. & K.J. Breunig (2009): Strategisk kompetansestyring i prosjektbaserte organisasjoner: Fra et forbrukerperspektiv til et produsentperspektiv. Praktisk Økonomi og Finans, 25(3):73-81. 3
Skjølsvik, T., B.R. Løwendahl, R. Kvålshaugen & S.M. Fosstenløkken (2007): Choosing to Learn and Learning to Choose: Co-production and Knowledge Development. California Management Review, 49 (3):110-128. Kvålshaugen, R. (2007): Autentisk ledelse en effektiv lederstil? Magma, 10(5): 22-28. Kvålshaugen, R. (2000): Implicit Theories and Managerial Discretion. In Sanchez, R. & A. Heene: Advances in Applied Business Strategy, Volume C, pp. 147-163, Stamford: JAI Press. Kvålshaugen, R. & R.P. Amdam (2000): Etablering og utvikling av ledelseskulturer: Norsk kenningisme. Nordiske Organisasjonsstudier, 2(1):86-106. Kvålshaugen, R. & R.P. Amdam (1998): Education and the Social Construction of Managerial Practice Vezetéstudomány (Budapest Management Journal), 07-08: 80-91. Kvålshaugen, R. (1998): Hvordan påvirker ulike kunnskapskilder lederes praksis? Magma, 1(3). Kvålshaugen, R. (1997): Sosiale paradokser og organisasjonsutvikling. BETA 2/97: 62-73. Books, book chapters and research reports: Kvålshaugen, R. & Wennes, G. (2012): Organisere og lede: Dilemmaer i praksis. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget. Kvålshaugen, R. (2011): Kunnskapsbaserte tjenester. Forskningsrapport 10/2011. BI Norwegian Business School. (http://etkunnskapsbasertnorge.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/eknkunnskapsbaserte-tjenester.pdf). Kvålshaugen, R. & Lervik, J.E. (2010): Learning International Servicing: Simultaneously Creating Knowledge and Value. Insight from the research project Terrella. BI Norwegian School of Management. (http://www.bi.no/institutterfiles/terrella_learning%20intern%20servicing2.pdf). Amdam, R.P. & Kvålshaugen, R. (2009): Mercury and Minerva: Scenes from a Marriage. In Wedlin, L., Sahlin, K. & Grafström, M. (eds): Exploring the Worlds of Mercury and Minerva. Essays for Lars Engwall, pp. 31 43. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Amdam, R.P., R. Kvålshaugen, E. Larsen (eds) (2003): Inside the Business Schools: Content of European Business Education. Oslo/Stockholm/Copenhagen: Abstrakt, Liber, Copenhagen Business School Press. Kvålshaugen, R., Vabø, A. & Larsen, E. (2003): National Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in Business Education Programs. In Amdam, R.P., Kvålshaugen, R. & Larsen, E.: Inside the Business Schools: The Content of European Business Education, pp. 110-130. Oslo/Stockholm/Copenhagen: Abstrakt, Liber, Copenhagen Business School Press. Kvålshaugen, R. (2003): Fra beslutning til gjennomføring. In Løwendahl. B.R. & Wenstøp, F.E.: Grunnbok i strategi, 2nd ed, ch. 11, pp. 339-370, Oslo: Damm. Book reviews: Larsen, E. & Kvålshaugen, R. (2008): Om å stå på utsiden av organisasjoner. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, 25 (1): 103-107. Kvålshaugen, R. (2000): Exporting the American Model. The Postwar Transformation of European Business. Organization Studies, 21: 827. Practice articles: Kvålshaugen, R. (2003): Likevekt, motvekt og mangfold. ISCO Group Communication. Vol. 15, nr 2/2003. Kvålshaugen, R. (2002): Ledelse i profesjonstunge organisasjoner fagkompetanse versus lederkompetanse. Diskusjonsnotat skrevet til prosjektet Ledelse av sykehus (samarbeidsprosjekt mellom SINTEF Unimed Helsetjenesteforskning og SINTEF KUNNE). 4
Teaching: I have extensive experience in teaching at levels bachelor, master, Ph.D. and executive (more than 15 years). At the moment, most of my teaching concerns strategy and leadership in executive education such as Master of Management and Executive MBA. I have also advised more than 20 MSc thesis and more than 100 Master of Management theses. Current course responsibilities: GRA 8111 Leadership (EMBA) MAN 2965 Strategisk ledelse Consultancy project EMBA programmes Leadership development program: I have run and developed leadership and organizational development programs in Marintek, Trondheim Energi, BI, ORAS and Brødrene Dahl. In addition, I have been invited to participate in development programs in Aschehoug, DNV, Nemko, Statens Vegvesen, ISCO, Politidirektoratet, SFT, Oslo Kommune, Asker Kommune and If Forsikring. 5