Expertise

Magnus Mähring, Ph.D., is the Erling Persson Professor of Entrepreneurship and Digital Innovation at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), Chair of the House of Innovation and Head of the Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology. He is also a Fellow at Cambridge Digital Innovation (Hughes Hall and Cambridge Judge Business School), Co-director of the Swedish Center for Digital Innovation, and a member of the Swedish Government’s Digitalization Council.

At SSE, he previously served as Associate Dean for MSc Programs, as CEMS Academic Director, and as Head of Strategic International Collaborations. He has held visiting positions at Georgia State University, Ecole de Management Strasbourg and Cambridge University, served as Government Expert to the Swedish Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation and the Swedish National Financial Management Authority, and served on the Swedish Government’s Expert Committee for Digital Investments.

His research focuses on digital innovation, particularly in relation to organizational decision-making, transformation processes and work practices. He regularly contributes to international conferences, has co-edited five books, and publishes in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Organization Studies, Human Relations, California Management Review, Decision Sciences, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Information Systems Journal and Journal of Strategic Information Systems. He has served as Senior Editor for Journal of the Association for Information Systems and Information Systems Journal, and as Associate Editor for Information Systems Journal and MIS Quarterly; currently, he is an Associate Editor at Information Systems Research and International Advisory Board member at California Management Review.

Magnus has extensive teaching and consulting experience, including assignments for large commercial organizations, public healthcare organizations, NGOs, and the Swedish Government. He has been a regular columnist in the CIO Sweden professional magazine, led the meetings of a Stockholm-based CIO Executive Club (with IDG Publishing) for over ten years, and is on the jury for the Swedish CIO/Tech Awards since over a decade.

He has been awarded Best Paper Awards from Decision Sciences and Journal of Strategic Information Systems and received a best-paper runner-up award from Information & Organization. He was also nominated for the 2016 European Research Paper of the Year, named a finalist for the German Association for Business Research (VHB) 2016 Best Paper Award, and was again nominated for the 2017 European Research Paper of the Year.

Organizational Affiliations

Professor, Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology (House of Innovation)

Head of Department, Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology (House of Innovation)

Professor, Center for Security and Resilience

Affiliated Researcher, Mistra Center For Sustainable Markets

Chair, Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology (House of Innovation)

Research Fellow, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom, Cambridge)

Co-director, Swedish Center for Digital Innovation (SCDI)

Education

Economics and Business Administration
1989, Master of Science, Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden, Stockholm) - HHS
Economics and Business Administration
1992, Licentiate, Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden, Stockholm) - HHS
Business Administration
2002, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden, Stockholm) - HHS