Expertise
Patrick Regnér is a Professor of Strategic Management at the Stockholm School of Economics and director of the Center for Strategy and Competitiveness (CSC). He holds a PhD from Stockholm School of Economics and has been a visiting scholar at Rutgers Business School. His research has been published in leading journals like the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business, Journal of Management Studies, Management International Review, British Journal of Management and Human Relations. Patrick’s research interests fall at the intersection of sociological and behavioral strategy perspectives with a particular focus on strategy process and practice. Specifically, he examines strategy practices and organizational outcomes including strategy micro-foundations and how strategy practices, individual actors, their activities and social interactions shape strategies, strategic responses to institutions and, in the end, organizational capabilities. Patrick is a member of the Editorial Boards of Academy of Management Review, Long Range Planning, Journal of Management Studies and Strategic Organization.
Patrick’s research is informed not only by his field work, but by executive training with leading corporations such as ABB, Abbvie, Alleima, Bosch, Ericsson, Volvo, SAS, SEB, Scania, among many others. Besides having taught in numerous executive programs he has taught strategic management to international students for many years at the undergraduate, MSc and MBA levels. He is co-authoring the leading strategy textbook in the world (Financial Times, 2021), Exploring Strategy (Pearson) and has written multiple teaching cases. He has been the Co-Director of the Institute of International Business and Academic Dean of the International Graduate Program at the Stockholm School of Economics and is now Director for the Center for Strategy and Competitiveness (CSC).
Besides being a researcher, author and educator, Patrick is a strategic management advisor. He is a Senior Advisor at the Stockholm based strategic advisory firm Value Formation and he has worked and consulted with many public and private corporations, private equity firms, start-ups as well as with non-for profit and public sector organizations.