11/30/2008 - ABOUT ROBIN TEIGLAND

Prior to completing my doctoral thesis on knowledge networking at the Institute of International Business at SSE, I worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Company in Stockholm. Additionally, I hold a B.A. in Economics with distinction from Stanford University, an M.B.A. from The Wharton School, and an M.A. in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

Click here for a presentation of my interests and here for a video clip where I talk about my teaching and lecturing in the Executive MBA program (IFL) at the Stockholm School of Economics.

Here is my presentation, "Leveraging Networks for Tangible Results", as well as my presentation "Fad or Future? What do Second Life and Other Virtual Worlds Have to Offer".

Currently, I am working in several areas within virtual worlds, such as Second Life. For example, I am working with Brian Donnellan and Johan Gorecki at the National University of Ireland - Galway on a project with IBM for IRCSET (the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology) in which we are developing a "virtual innovation system". In addition, I am experimenting with Steve Mahaley, the Director of Learning Technology at Duke CE, with the use of virtual worlds in business education. Here is our presentation: "Stepping into the Internet: Innovating Business Education with Second Life". 

Our efforts in Second LIfe have been written up in the Financial Times:

1) Students take a leap into the virtual world

2) A Second Life for classrooms with vision

Some colleagues and I are Guest Editors for a special issue on virtual worlds for MIS Quarterly. Here is the Call for Papers.

Here is my avatar, Karinda Rhode, together with Ace Carson (aka Steve Mahaley) from Duke CE in the 3D version of van Gogh's Starry Night. 

In November 2008, I won the "Researcher of the Year - 2008" Award at the Stockholm School of Economics. Here is Karinda making a presentation to the Corporate Partners at the Annual Fundraising Event in connection with the award ceremony.

11/23/2008 - MY CV

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11/23/2008 - CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

11/23/2008 - LECTURING AND TEACHING INTERESTS

I enjoy lecturing on a variety of subjects such as social networks, organizational change, strategy, and knowledge management at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels.  I am also proficient at using and teaching social network analysis. Recently I have been experimenting with the use of virtual worlds such as Second Life together with Steve Mahaley, the Director of Learning Technology at Duke CE.

Some of my more recent talks include the below. These talks and others can be found on slideshare at www.slideshare.net/eteigland/slideshows. Feel free to download them for your own purposes. 

• "Energizing Change through Network Leadership"
• "Web 2.0: Creating Value through Social Media and Virtual Worlds"
• "Leading in a Global Networked Multinational"
• "Going Global: Internationalization Strategies"
• "Leveraging Networks for Tangible Results"
• "Across the Border with Communities of Practice"
• "Fad or Future? What do Second Life and Other Virtual Worlds Have to Offer"
• "Stepping into the Internet: Innovating Business Education with Second Life"
• "Knowledge Management in a Global Knowledge-based Firm"
• "Ensuring Project Success in Public-private partnerships in e-government: A Pilot Study of Bygga Villa"
• "Improving Regional Competitiveness: The Vinnvxt Program and Uppsala BIO the Life Science Initiative"

Click here for a video where I talk about my lecturing and teaching in the Executive MBA program (IFL) at the Stockholm School of Economics.

During the spring of 2005 I taught The Uppsala Biotech Cluster, and participating firms in this live case included Uppsala BIO-X, Svanova AB, QUIAtech AB, Resistentia AB, Pharmacia Diagnostics, and GE Amersham.  During this course, the MBA students visited the University of California San Diego and the San Diego biotech cluster for one week as well as organized together with SwedenBIO a symposium on the competitiveness of the Nordic region in biotechnology.  The symposium was well attended by the public and hosted speakers such as Mads vlisen, Chairman of Novo Nordisk and Lego; Mats Pettersson, CEO of Biovitrum AB; and Dr. Christian Ketels of the Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School.  Click here for an overview of the Uppsala Biotech Cluster Master Case.

Of late, I have been extremely interested in exploring the emerging educational possibilities through virtual worlds. Much of this collaboration has been in cooperation with Steve Mahaley at Duke CE and together we have run several exercises in Second Life. Here is an overview of this work.

Additionally, I have been involved in writing a few teaching cases:

• Icon Medialab International AB: Strategic Decisions in the E-Consulting Industry (with N. Billou and J.M. Birkinshaw), 2003. London Business School.  In Bartlett, Ghoshal, & Birkinshaw (eds.) Transnational Management:  Text, Cases, and Readings in Cross-Border Management.
• Volvo Truck AB: Entry in the North American Market (with O. Slvell), 1999. Institute of International Business.  Stockholm School of Economics. A more recent version of this case has been written by . Slvell and M. Porter and is available at Harvard Business Online.
• Sandvik AB: Conglomerate or Related Diversified? (A and B Cases and Teaching Note) (with J.M. Birkinshaw and R. White), 1998.  The Richard Ivey School of Business.  University of Western Ontario. Available from Harvard Business Online.

11/23/2008 - PUBLICATIONS ON EMERGENT NETWORKS AND NETWORKS OF PRACTICE

For a hard or electronic copy of any of these articles, please contact me at robin.teigland@hhs.se

Schenkel, A. & Teigland, R. 2008.  Investigating the relationship between communities of practice and organizational performance.  Journal of Knowledge Management.

Teigland, R. & Wasko, M.M. Forthcoming. Knowledge Exchange in Networks of Practice.  In Knowledge Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. London: Idea Group Inc.

Teigland, R. & Hamrefors, S. 2005.  Utveckling av kommunikationsntverk i kunskapsfretag (Developing informal networks in knowledge-intensive organizations).  Research report published online by the Swedish Public Relations Association (Sveriges Informationsfrening).

Smatt, C., Wasko,M., & Teigland, R.  2005. Tie Diversity, Network Position, Electronic Resources & Knowledge Exchange.  In The Proceedings of the 2005 Americas Conference on Information Systems (ACIS). 

Teigland, R. & Wasko, M.M. 2005. Knowledge Exchange in Electronic Networks of Practice.  In The Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, London: Idea Group Inc.

Wasko, M.M. & Teigland, R. 2005. Using Theories of Public Goods and Collective Action to Examine Social Structure in an Electronic Network of Practice.  In (M. Khosrow-Pour, ed.) The Encyclopedia of Virtual Communities and Technologies, London: Idea Group Inc.

Teigland, R. & Wasko, M.M. 2005.  What are Electronic Networks of Practice and How Do These Online Social Structures Differ from Communities of Practice? In (M. Khosrow-Pour, ed.) The Encyclopedia of Virtual Communities and Technologies, London: Idea Group Inc.

Teigland, R. & Wasko, M.M. 2005.  Networks of Practice: A Review of Inter-organizational Knowledge Exchange.  In (E. Coakes & S. Clarke, eds.) The Encyclopedia of Communities of Practice in Information and Knowledge Management, London: Idea Group Inc.

Landqvist, F. & Teigland, R. 2005.  Collective Action in Electronic Networks of Practice:  An Empirical Study of Three Online Social Structures.  In (P. van den Besselaar, G. de Michelis, J. Preece, and C. Simone, eds.) Communities and Technologies 2005, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Hustad, E. & Teigland, R.  2005.  Taking a Differentiated View of Intra-organizational Distributed Networks of Practice: A Case Study Exploring Knowledge Activities, Diversity, and Communication Media Use. In (P. van den Besselaar, G. de Michelis, J. Preece, and C. Simone, eds.) Communities and Technologies 2005, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Teigland, R. & Wasko, M.M. 2004. Extending Richness with Reach:  Participation and Knowledge Exchange in Electronic Networks of Practice.  In P. Hildreth & C. Kimble (eds.), Knowledge Networks: Innovation Through Communities of Practice.  London: Idea Group Inc., 230-242.

Wasko, M.M., Faraj, S., & Teigland, R. 2004.  Collective Action and Knowledge Contribution in Electronic Networks of Practice.  Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), Special Issue on Theory Development, 5, 11, article 15.

Wasko, M.M. & Teigland, R. 2004. Public Goods or Virtual Commons?  Applying Theories of Public Goods, Social Dilemmas, and Collective Action to Electronic Networks of Practice.  Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application (JITTA), 6,1, 43-60.

Teigland, R. 2003. Knowledge Networking: Structure and Performance in Networks of Practice.  Published Doctoral Dissertation.  2003. Stockholm:  Stockholm School of Economics.

Teigland, R. & Wasko, M.M. 2003. Integrating Knowledge through Information Trading: Examining the Relationship between Boundary Spanning Communication and Individual Performance.  Decision Sciences, Special Issue on Knowledge Management, 34, 2, 261-286.

Wasko, M.M. & Teigland, R. 2002. The Provision of Online Public Goods:  Examining Social Structure in a Network of Practice.  In The Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Barcelona, Spain, 2002. Nominated runner-up Best Paper ICIS 2002.

11/23/2008 - OTHER INFORMATION

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

McKinsey & Company

Associate Consultant, Stockholm, Sweden, 1992-2005

• Leave of absence for doctoral studies
• Consulting projects in operations effectiveness in the transportation and heavy manufacturing industries.
• "Building Competitive Advantage through Environmental Strategy," joint project with the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and WWF. 
• Knowledge management project on inter-office knowledge transfer.

Simpleworld

Adjunct Board Member and Advisory Board Member, Stockholm, Sweden, 1999-2001

• Strategic advisor on e-commerce and globalization

BrandAngels

Advisory Board Member, Stockholm, Sweden, 2000-2003

• Strategic advisor on e-commerce and globalization

Adventagon

Advisory Board Member, Stockholm, Sweden, 2000

• Strategic advisor on e-commerce and globalization

Icon Medialab

Strategic Consultant, Stockholm, Sweden, 1999-2001

• Facilitated development of business plan at both the domestic and international levels
• Facilitated project on development of vision and values statement

Oriflame S.A

Consultant, Brussels, Belgium, 1997 (With Dr. Jonas Ridderstråle, IIB)

• Facilitated development of Vision Statement for Oresa Eastern European operations

The Exxon Corporation

Internal Consultant, Transportation Logistics, Santiago, Chile, 1991

ID International

Business Development, Pharmaceutical Start-Up, Oslo, Norway, 1987-1989

H&Q Technology Partners

Analyst, Palo Alto, CA, 1986-1987

E.F. Hutton International

Analyst, Madrid, Spain, 1983-1984

ACTIVITIES

• Parent Representative, Vasaskolan (Grammar school), Danderyd County, 2000-2007.  Responsible for design and analysis of annual parent questionnaire
• Co-Chairman, Stanford Alumni Club of Sweden, 1997-present
• Stingers Soccer Team Captain, Korpen Sundbyberg Women’s Soccer Team, 2005-2006 
• Parent Representative, Pärlan Förskolan, Danderyd County Childcare, 1999-2001 and 1996-1997

LANGUAGES

• Fluent in English, Swedish, and Norwegian
• Proficient in Spanish
• Basic French and German skills

PERSONAL STATUS

• Married to Norwegian citizen with five children
• U.S. Citizen with permanent Swedish residence status

REFERENCES

• Dr. Julian M. Birkinshaw, Associate Professor, London Business School
• Dr. Hans Pennings, Professor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
• Dr. Örjan Sölvell, Professor, Stockholm School of Economics
• Dr. Udo Zander, Professor, Stockholm School of Economics

1/5/2008 - PUBLICATIONS ON CLUSTERS, CLUSTER INITIATIVES, AND PPPs

For a copy of any of these articles, please contact me at robin.teigland@hhs.se.

Teigland, R. & Lindqvist, G.  2007. Seeing Eye-to-Eye: How Do Public and Private Sector Views Differ of a Biotech Cluster and its Cluster Initiative?  European Planning Studies, 15, 6, 767.

Teigland, R. & Schenkel, A. 2005. Exploring the Role of Communities of Practice in Regional Innovation Systems.  In (E. Coakes & S. Clarke, eds.) The Encyclopedia of Communities of Practice in Information and Knowledge Management, London: Idea Group Inc.

Teigland, R., Lindqvist, G., Malmberg, A., & Waxell, A. 2003. Investigating the Uppsala Biotech Cluster.  CIND Research Paper,  2004:1.

1/5/2008 - OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Lerpold, L., Mårtensson, P., Mähring, M., & Teigland, R. 2005.  MBALive gör europeiska MBA-utbildningar unika. Management Magazine, 4: 83-87.

1/5/2008 - DOCTORAL THESIS

1/5/2008 - EDUCATION

Institute of International Business, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden

   - Ph.D., 1996-2003

The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

   - M.B.A., Operations Management and Multinational Management (Attended the Lauder Institute Dual Degree Program), 1992

The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

   - M.A., International Studies, Focus on Latin America, 1992

Stanford University, Stanford, CA

   - B.A., Economics with Distinction, 1987

1/5/2008 - CONTACT INFORMATION