Associate Professor - Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Biography
I have a Masters Degree in International Management from BI and defended my Phd i Strategy at BI in 2013.
My research interests are within interorganizational relationships and alliances. I am especially interested in collaboration, coordination, trust, and practices. I am working closely with firms in the construction industry and are part of Centre for the Construction Industry at BI. I am national course responsible for the Strategy course at Bachelor third year and I am teaching parts of courses (mainly related to trust and cooperation) at Master of Management and Master of Science.
A central issue in project-based organizations (PBOs) is how to balance the need for flexibly responding to changing customer demands and creating consistent performance in the organization at large. This article discusses the relevance of a routine dynamics lens for understanding this dilemma. We show how routine dynamics might help to understand how and under what conditions routines—with their dual capacity for stability and change—produce a variety of performances, some stable and some varying, in the PBO. As such, we contribute to the stream of research that seeks to explain how PBOs build capabilities and how they work.
Bygballe, Lena Elisabeth; Swärd, Anna & Vaagaasar, Anne Live (2020)
Temporal shaping of routine patterning.
Reinecke, Juliane; Suddaby, Roy, Langley, Ann & Tsoukas, Haridimos (red.). Time, Temporality, and History in Process Organization Studies
Bygballe, Lena Elisabeth; Swärd, Anna & Vaagaasar, Anne Live (2019)
Routines as truces in temporary multi-organizations
It is widely held that collaborative project delivery models, such as partnering, represent a key means of improving construction project performance. Institutionalizing these models in practice, however, is not straightforward. We suggest that the (in)ability to establish new routines may be one reason for the variance in partnering outcomes. Based on a study of a partnering project, we develop a model of how partnering is institutionalized through the establishment of routines, enabled through common understanding and truces between the partners’ interests. The model illustrates how such routines develop through a balance between top-down structural interventions and emergent social learning processes.
Swärd, Anna & Bygballe, Lena Elisabeth (2017)
Lean Construction i et Strategisk perspektiv
Kalsaas, Bo Terje (red.). Lean Construction. Forstå og forbedre prosjektbasert produksjon
Swärd, Anna (2017)
Kontroll er bra - tillit bedre? :
Magma - Tidsskrift for økonomi og ledelse, 20(2), s. 27- 34.
Swärd, Anna Sundberg (2016)
Trust, reciprocity, and actions: The development of trust in temporary inter-organizational relations