Magnus Mähring

Magnus Mähring, Ph.D., is Professor of Business Administration, particularly Information Management, at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE).  Previously serving as SSE’s Associate Dean for MSc programs and as Academic Director for the CEMS Master in International Management program, he is currently responsible for strategic internationalization initiatives at SSE and serves as SSE’s representative on the CEMS Executive Board. He has held visiting positions at Georgia State University and Ecole de Management Strasbourg. Presently, he also serves as a Government Expert to the Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation and the Swedish National Financial Management Authority.

His research is broadly concerned with digital innovation and transformation, including organizational decision-making and transformation processes, interorganizational collaboration, organizational consequences of AI, and innovation ecosystems. He regularly contributes to international conferences, has co-edited four books, and publishes in journals such as California Management Review, Decision Sciences, Human Relations, Organization Studies, European Journal of Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Information Systems Research, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, and MIS Quarterly. He has served in various editorial roles for major journals and has received several best paper awards and mentions for his work.

Magnus has extensive teaching and consulting experience, including assignments for organizations such as Bang & Olufsen, Microsoft, Scandinavian Airlines Systems, The Swedish Red Cross, public healthcare organizations, and the Swedish Government. He has been a regular columnist in the CIO Sweden professional magazine, is on the jury for the Swedish CIO Awards and leads the meetings of a Stockholm-based CIO Executive Club (with IDG Publishing).

His paper “IT Project Escalation: A Process Model” (with Mark Keil) was awarded the 2008 Best Paper Award in Decision Sciences, and he received the Journal of Strategic Information Systems Best Paper Award 2009 (with Mark Keil and Anandhi Bharadwaj) for the paper “The Effects of Information Technology Failures on the Market Value of Firms”.

Education

• Ph.D. Stockholm School of Economics
• Gymnasieexamen (Swedish degree) Frans Schartaus Gymnasium (1980 — 1983)

Companies

• Erling Persson Professor of Entrepreneurship and Digital Innovation Stockholm School of Economics (2018)
• Facilitator CIO Executive Club (2005)
• Professor of Business Administration (Information Management) Stockholm School of Economics (2015 — 2018)
• Associate Professor Stockholm School of Economics (2009 — 2015)
• Associate Dean, MSc Programs Stockholm School of Economics (2010 — 2014)
• CEMS Academic Director Stockholm School of Economics (2010 — 2014)
• Program Director, MSc in Business and Economics Stockholm School of Economics (2010 — 2013)
• Affiliated Professor Ecole de Management Strasbourg (2009 — 2011)
• Assistant Professor Stockholm School of Economics (2004 — 2009)