Andreas Werr

Andreas Werr holds the Lars Erik Lundberg Chair in Business Administration, especially Human Capital Management. He is also chair of the Center for HRM and Knowledge Work at the SSE Institute for Research (SIR). He earned his PhD at the Stockholm School of Economics with a dissertation focusing on the functions of methodologies in the work of management consultants. His current research interests focus on talent management, knowledge integration in knowledge intensive teams, failure sharing, HRM in professional organizations and the procurement, use and consequences of management consultants in their client organizations.

Andreas Werr has been involved in teaching on all levels, mainly within the areas of Management Consulting, Change management, HRM, the management of professional service firms and qualitative methods.

Education

• 1999; PhD Stockholm School of Economics
• 1994; Master of Science, Stockholm School of Economics

Academic Employment

• 2015- Head of Department of Management and Organization, Stockholm School of
• Economics
• 2011 Professor, Stockholm School of Economics
• 2004 Associate professor, Stockholm School of Economics
• 2000 Assistant professor, Stockholm School of Economics

Awards (selection)

• Winner of the Thomson South-Western Award for Outstanding Research Based Paper on Management Consulting, Academy of Management Meeting 2017 (with Markus Reihlen & Christoph Seckler)
• Winner of the Management Consulting Division best paper award, Academy of Management Meeting 2017 (with Markus Reihlen & Christoph Seckler)
• Winner of the Thomson South-Western Award for Outstanding Research Based Paper on Management Consulting, Academy of Management Meeting 2016 (with Frida Pemer & Love Börjesson)
• Winner of the Management Consulting Division best paper award, Academy of Management Meeting 2016 (with Frida Pemer & Love Börjesson)
• Awarded the 2011 “HR research of the year” award (utmärkelsen årets HR forskning) together with Annika Schilling & Philip Runsten.
• Winner of the Thomson South-Western Award for Outstanding Research Based Paper on Management Consulting, Academy of Management Meeting 2007 (with Jesper Blomberg & Jan Löwstedt)
• Winner of Best Paper award, 2nd International Conference on Management Consulting, Lausanne, June 2004
• Recipient of the Stockholm School of Economics Partner Program’s research award 2003
• Winner of the William Jerome Arnold Meritorious Paper Award, Academy of Management, 1998 (with Torbjörn Stjernberg)
• Winner of the William Jerome Arnold Meritorious Paper Award, Academy of Management, 1996 (with Torbjörn Stjernberg & Peter Docherty)
• Winner of the “Cappelen Akademisk Forlag scholarship for excellent PhD project with a Nordic perspective” presented at the doctoral conference at the “Nordiska
• Företagsekonomiska Konferensen 1997” in Bodö

Books & Special Issues

• Heusinkveld, S., Gabbioneta, C., Werr, A., & Sturdy, A. (2018) Forum: Management, professional occupations and knowledge as contested terrain. Journal of Professions and Organizations 5(3).
• Furusten S and Werr A (2017) (eds) The organization of the expert society. New York & London: Routledge.
• Runsten, P. & Werr, A. (2016) Kunskapsintegration – Om kollektiv intelligens i organisationer. Lund: Studentlitteratur. (Nominated HR book of the year 2016)
• Kaiser, S., Kozica, A. Swart, J. & Werr,. A. (2015) Human Resource Management in Professional Service Firms. Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (German Journal of Research in Human Resource Management), 29(2)
• Furusten, S. & Werr, A. (Eds) (2012) Expertsamhällets organisering – Okunskapens Triumf? Lund: Studentlitteratur.
• Reihlen, M. & Werr, A. (eds.) (2012). Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship in Professional Services. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Heusinkveld, S., Sturdy, A & Werr, A. (2011) The co-consumption of management ideas and practices. Part Special Issue. Management Learning 42(2)
• Buono, A, Sturdy, A., Werr, A. &. (2009) Management Consulting: Introducing the Client. Special issue Scandinavian Journal of Management 25:3.
• Furusten, S., & Werr, A. (Eds.) (2005) Dealing with Confidence. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press.
• Werr, A., Norén, M., & Bryskhe, H. 2000. Baby Elephant Walk - Om nyskapande i etablerade strukturer. Stockholm: IMIT.
• Werr, A. (1999). The Language of Change. The roles of methods in the work of management consultants. PhD thesis. Stockholm: EFI.