Dear friends We regret to inform you that due to the continuing uncertainty regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, the decision has been made to postpone the 26th Nordic Academy of Management conference to August 2022. Discussions have been intensive regarding potentially moving the conference online, but we have made the decision that it is important to meet and discuss our topics face to face. Abstracts that are accepted for the conference will automatically be accepted to the conference in 20...

Strategies, Digitisation and Networks, 7.5 ECTS   *The course is supported by Nordic Academy of Management through our Covid-19 initiative and priority is given to doctoral students from NFF member universities.* Within industrial marketing, collaboration is central where inter-organizational interactions take place in relationships between companies. These business relationships, linked to a number of other relationships that make up the network, have been described as enabling co...

Digitalization of businesses has received much attention in recent years. Many different domains of academic research are today increasingly concerned with the how firms are affected by digitalization and how they can realize the novel opportunities that have emerged. Digital Business is increasingly regarded as a distinct topic within academia. As the roots of such a concept can be derived from a wide range of different literature fields such as information systems, entrepreneurship, strategic ...

Digital Media Analytics 4 ECTS Digital research methods are opening up possibilities to conduct research in new ways. Scholars have recently started to observe these opportunities across the social sciences in general and in industrial economics and business research in particular. As it is clear that digital methods will enable new research opportunities for our fields, a number of digital methods are currently being explored. This course aims to provide students with an introduction an...

Call for Papers: The futures of Industry 4.0 technologies for environmental sustainability: hope or hoax? Industry 4.0. was introduced in the German manufacturing industry to refer to the digital dimension of future industrial structures (Schroeder, 2016). It was defined as the technical integration of cyber-physical systems into production and logistics as well as the application of the Internet of Things in industrial processes (Forschungsunion & Acatech 2013 in Wolter, et al. 2015). Un...

Nord University organise a PhD course : Contemporary strands of institutional theory and their application to management and accounting in October 2020. The course will be held online and physical for locals. You find more information at the course here!

The 26th Nordic Academy of Management Conference 2021 in Örebro, Sweden   Call for Tracks and Symposia Dear members and friends of the Nordic Academy of Management, It is our pleasure to announce the celebration of the Nordic Academy of Management (NFF) Conference 2021 in Örebro, Sweden. The conference will take place at Örebro University Campus, 25-27 August 2021. You can find more information about the conference at oru.se/NFF2021. Our conference theme is “Bringing Research Tog...

NFF is responding to the Covid-19 crisis by sponsoring a number of virtual PhD courses in 2020-2021. If you have a course or course concept that fulfills our criteria. Please submit an application to NFF Secreatary Harpa Dís. Let us draw on the strength of Nordic collaboration to help our PhD students progress in their studies despite the exceptional times we are all experiencing now! Best wishes The NFF Board  

The Board of NFF has select Wilhelm Barner Rasmussen from  Finland as a new chair. The board sends warm regards and thanks to  Erlend Bullvåg from Norway for his good job for NFF the last two years.  

University Business has announced PhD courses ECTS credits: 7,5 Student workload: 6 weeks Level of course: PhD Course type: Elective Study location: Bodø/Trondheim/other locations Course coordinator: Professor Anatoli Bourmistrov, Nord University Business School Professor Inger Johanne Pettersen, Trondheim Business School/NTNU Teaching language: English/Scandinavian Teaching semester: Autumn 2019 - Autumn 2020 Modul 1: Bodø October 7th – 9th 2019; Module 2: Trondheim Marc...