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Frans Prenkert

Position: Professor School/office: Örebro University School of Business

Email: frans.prenkert@oru.se

Phone: +46 19 302444

Room: N3016

Research subject

Business Administration

Research environments

About Frans Prenkert

Frans Prenkert is professor in business administration at Örebro University School of Business and head of the Center for Sustainable Business | CSB.

Teaching

Frans Prenkert has experience from all levels of graduate- and undergraduate teaching, including executive MBA-classes and external consulting. He is currently teaching classes in the Industrial Management program in Engineering and in the Master of Sustainable Business and supervises PhD-students.

Research

Frans Prenkert conducts research within the area of economic organizing with emphasis on the external flows of the industrial corporation and inter-organizational networks.

Frans Prenkert has researched several application domains including primary industries of fish, meat and milk, as well as the logistics and retail sectors with a focus on internationalization, innovation, organizing of distribution, strategy, technological development, commercialization, SCM and sustainability.

Common for all his research is an interest in, and focus on empirically oriented investigations of organizing processes creating the preconditions for economizing in complex networks comprised of social, technological and economic links and entities.

The aim of Frans Prenkerts research is to create knowledge on the functioning of real economies by investigating the socio-technical-economic matrix within which organized economic activity is performed in order to increase our understanding of what constitutes sustainable economic systems.

Frans Prenkert is a research member in the research groups CSB Value Chain (previously ORULOG) and CSB Circular Economy.

Active projects

Completed projects

Research groups

Information Security

Publications

Articles in journals | Articles, reviews/surveys | Books | Chapters in books | Collections (editor) | Conference papers | Reports |

Articles in journals

Harrison, D. , Prenkert, F. , Hasche, N. & Carlborg, P. (2023). Business networks and sustainability: Past, present and future. Industrial Marketing Management, 111, A10-A17.
Harrison, D. , Munksgaard, K. B. & Prenkert, F. (2023). Coordinating Activity Interdependencies in the Contemporary Economy: The Principle of Distributed Control. British Journal of Management, 34 (3), 1488-1509.
Prenkert, F. , Hedvall, K. , Hasche, N. , Frick, J. E. , Abrahamsen, M. H. , Aramo-Immonen, H. , Baraldi, E. , Bocconcelli, R. & et al. (2022). Resource interaction: Key concepts, relations and representations. Industrial Marketing Management, 105, 48-59.
Karlsson, F. , Hedström, K. , Frostenson, M. , Prenkert, F. , Kolkowska, E. & Helin, S. (2021). Attempts to share information between public sector organisations over time: A case-based exploration of value conflicts. Information Polity, 26 (3), 289-310.
Borglund, T. , Prenkert, F. , Frostenson, M. , Helin, S. & Du Rietz, S. (2019). External facilitators as ‘Legitimizers’ in designing a master's program in sustainable business at a Swedish business school: A typology of industry collaborator roles in RME. The International Journal of Management Education, 17 (3).
Prenkert, F. , Hasche, N. & Linton, G. (2019). Towards a systematic analytical framework of resource interfaces. Journal of Business Research, 100, 139-149.
Harrison, D. , Hoholm, T. , Prenkert, F. & Olsen, P. I. (2018). Boundary objects in network interactions. Industrial Marketing Management, 74, 187-194.
Kask, J. & Prenkert, F. (2018). From small and generalized to big or specialized: A historical analysis of sports retail forms in Sweden. Journal of Management History, 24 (3), 340-358.
Karlsson, F. , Frostenson, M. , Prenkert, F. , Kolkowska, E. & Helin, S. (2017). Inter-organisational information sharing in the public sector: A longitudinal case study on the reshaping of success factors. Government Information Quarterly, 34 (4), 567-577.
Prenkert, F. (2016). Market investments in resource interfaces: understanding market assets in networks. The IMP Journal, 10 (3), 409-442.
Frostenson, M. & Prenkert, F. (2015). Sustainable supply chain management when focal firms are complex: a network perspective. Journal of Cleaner Production, 107, 85-94.
Prenkert, F. & Følgesvold, A. (2014). Relationship strength and network form: An agent-based simulation of interaction in a business network. Australasian Marketing Journal, 22 (1), 15-27.
Olsen, P. I. , Prenkert, F. , Hoholm, T. & Harrison, D. (2014). The dynamics of networked power in a concentrated business network. Journal of Business Research, 67 (12), 2579-2589.
Prenkert, F. (2013). The Interactive Constitution of Actors in Industrial Networks: The Case of the Norwegian City of Ålesund. International Journal of Business Administration, 4 (6), 10-28.
Prenkert, F. (2012). Business Network Simulation: Combining Research Cases and Agent-Based Models in a Robust Methodology. International Journal of Business Administration, 3 (6), 82-92.
Prenkert, F. (2012). Commentary to "From new-product development to commercialization through networks". Journal of Business Research, 65 (2), 207-209.
Prenkert, F. (2010). Tracing the Roots of Activity Systems Theory An Analysis of the Concept of Mediation. Theory & psychology, 20 (5), 641-665.
Folgesvold, A. & Prenkert, F. (2009). Magic pelagic - An agent-based simulation of 20 years of emergent value accumulation in the North Atlantic herring exchange system. Industrial Marketing Management, 38 (5), 529-540.
Harrison, D. & Prenkert, F. (2009). Network strategising trajectories within a planned strategy process. Industrial Marketing Management, 38 (6), 662-670.
Huemer, L. , Håkansson, H. & Prenkert, F. (2009). The Becoming of Cermaq: The interplay between network influences and firm level control ambitions. The IMP Journal, 3 (3), 53-75.
Prenkert, F. (2006). A theory of organizing informed by activity theory: The locus of paradox, sources of change, and challenge to management. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 19 (4), 471-490.
Prenkert, F. & Hallén, L. (2006). Conceptualising, delineating and analysing business networks. European Journal of Marketing, 40 (3-4), 384-407.
Prenkert, F. & Ehnfors, M. (1997). A measure of organizational effectiveness in nursing management in relation to transactional and transformational leadership: a study in a Swedish county hospital.. Journal of Nursing Management, 5 (5), 279-287.

Articles, reviews/surveys

Prenkert, F. (2017). Understanding business networks from a mixed network and system ontology position: A review of the research field. The IMP Journal, 11 (2), 301-326.
Karlsson, F. , Kolkowska, E. & Prenkert, F. (2016). Inter-organisational information security: a systematic literature review. Information & Computer Security, 24 (5), 418-451.

Books

Frostenson, M. , Hasche, N. , Helin, S. & Prenkert, F. (2017). E-handel: Organisering, distribution och hållbarhet (1ed.). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB.
Prenkert, F. (2016). Interaktion, relationer och nätverk: industrial marketing purchasing (1ed.). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB.
Frostenson, M. & Prenkert, F. (2015). Företagsekonomi: I praktik och princip (grundbok) (1ed.). Stockholm: Sanoma Utbildning.
Frostenson, M. & Prenkert, F. (2015). Företagsekonomi: I praktik och princip (övningsbok) (1ed.). Stockholm: Sanoma Utbildning.

Chapters in books

Munksgaard, K. B. , Olsen, P. I. & Prenkert, F. (2017). Boundaries of Business Actors and Networks: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections. In: Håkan Håkansson & Ivan Snehota, No business is an island: making sense of the interactive business world (pp. 213-233). Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
Frostenson, M. , Hasche, N. , Helin, S. & Prenkert, F. (2017). Ethical Issues in E-Commerce: A renewed analysis based on the multiplicity of customer relationships. In: Jacob Dahl Rendtorff, Perspectives on Philosophy of Management and Business Ethics: Including a Special Section on Business and Human Rights (pp. 181-195). . Springer.
Frostenson, M. , Hedström, K. , Helin, S. , Karlsson, F. , Kolkowska, E. & Prenkert, F. (2017). Samverkan mellan aktörer i industriella nätverk skapar nya utmaningar för informationssäkerheten. In: J. Hallberg, P. Johansson, F. Karlsson, F. Lundberg, B. Lundgren, M. Törner, Informationssäkerhet och organisationskultur (pp. 61-75). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB.
Prenkert, F. (2013). Varumärken i industriella nätverk. In: Mats Larsson, Mikael Lönnborg, Karin Winroth, Entreprenörskap och varumärken (pp. 195-216). Möklinta: Gidlunds förlag.
Prenkert, F. & Cantillon, S. (2009). Exploring Using Interfaces. In: Use of Science and Technology in Business: Exploring the Impact of Using Activity for Systems, Organizations, and People (pp. 183-204). Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
Håkansson, H. & Prenkert, F. (2004). Exploring the exchange concept in marketing. In: Håkansson, Håkan; Harrison, Debbie; Waluszewski, Alexandra, Rethinking marketing: developing a new understanding of markets (pp. 75-97). Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.
Prenkert, F. (2000). Responsiveness in Digitally Mediated Business Interaction: Conceptual Notes from a Marketing Perspective. In: Hills, G. E., Singh, R. P., Research at the Marketing/Entrepreneurship Interface: proceedings of the University of Illinois at Chicago Symposium on Marketing and Entrepreneurship (pp. 309-330). Chicago: The University of Illinois at Chicago.

Collections (editor)

Håkansson, H. (ed.) , Waluszewski, A. (ed.) , Prenkert, F. (ed.) & Baraldi, E. (ed.) (2009). Use of Science and Technology in Business: Exploring the Impact of Using Activity for Systems, Organizations, and People. Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited (International Business and Management 25).

Conference papers

Carlborg, P. , Harrison, D. , Hasche, N. & Prenkert, F. (2022). Advancing sustainability through business network transformation. Paper presented at 38th Annual IMP Conference, Florence, Italy, August 30 - September 2, 2022.
Ertelt, S. , Prenkert, F. & Kask, J. (2022). Understanding the impact of sustainable & circular-oriented innovations on business networks: the case of sustainable road freight transport. Paper presented at 38th Annual IMP Conference, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, August 30 – September 2, 2022.
Hasche, N. , Kask, J. , Linton, G. & Prenkert, F. (2020). Conceptualizing tangible resources in interaction: sites and interfaces. Paper presented at European Academy of Management (EURAM 2020 Online Conference), Dublin, Ireland, December 4-6, 2020.
Carlborg, P. , Babri, M. & Prenkert, F. (2020). Reconsidering place in relation to sustainability: An analysis of the intricate interplay in complex organizational networks. Paper presented at 7th biennial International Symposium on Cross-Sector Social Interactions (CSSI 2020), Online Conference, June 23-26, 2020.
Hasche, N. , Hedvall, K. , Prenkert, F. , Abrahamsen, M. H. , Aramo-Immonen, H. , Baraldi, E. , Bocconcelli, R. , Carlborg, P. & et al. (2020). Resource Interaction: Towards a common understanding?. Paper presented at 36th Annual IMP Conference (IMP 2020 Virtual), Örebro, Sweden, September 3-4, 2020.
Swahn, M. & Prenkert, F. (2018). Effects of greening measures in transport logistics systems. In: Proceedings of 7th Transport Research Arena TRA 2018, April 16-19, 2018, Vienna, Austria. Paper presented at 7th Transport Research Arena (TRA 2018), Vienna, Austria, April 16-19, 2018.
Shahin Moghadam, S. , Klügl, F. & Prenkert, F. (2018). Investigating the Cannibalizing Effect in a Two-Market Situation Using Agent-Based Simulation. Paper presented at 9th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling (MATHMOD 2018), Vienna, Austria, February 21-23, 2018. (pp. 115-120). Elsevier.
Arbin, K. , Kask, J. & Prenkert, F. (2018). Is there a Hierarchy among Activities, Resources, and Actors in Business Networks?: Exploring the Relationship Between the Components of the ARA-model. Paper presented at 34th Annual IMP Conference and Doctoral Colloquium: "From Business to Research and Back Again", Marseille, France, September 4-7, 2018.
Shahin Moghadam, S. , Prenkert, F. & Klügl, F. (2018). Role and Position Dynamics in Business Networks: Using an Agent-Based Model to Simulate the Impact of a New Market Solution on a Focal Actor’s Role and Position. Paper presented at European Academy of Management Conference (EURAM18), Reykjavik, Iceland, June 19-22, 2018.
Arbin, K. , Kask, J. & Prenkert, F. (2018). The Creation of Business Deals for a Sustainable Supply Chain: The Case of Rail Transportation. Paper presented at 27th IPSERA Conference, Athens, Greece, March 25-28, 2018.
Swahn, M. & Prenkert, F. (2017). Greening of Transport Logistics Systems in the Swedish section of the ScanMed Corridor: Based on cases in the Swedish section of the ScanMed Corridor. Paper presented at 4th International Workshop on Sustainable Road Freight Transport, Cambridge, UK, November 30 - December 1, 2017.
Prenkert, F. , Linton, G. , Hasche, N. & Kask, J. (2017). Interaction sites and resource interfaces: A conceptualization of resource interaction. Paper presented at IMP Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 5-8, 2017. IMP Group.
Hasche, N. , Linton, G. & Prenkert, F. (2016). A model of Depth of Resource Interfaces in Networks. In: 32nd IMP Conference. Paper presented at 32nd IMP Conference, Poznan, Poland, August 30 - September 3, 2016.
Frostenson, M. , Hasche, N. , Helin, S. & Prenkert, F. (2016). Understanding e-commerce strategies anew: What happens when everyone turns hybrid?. Paper presented at Nordic Retail and Wholesale Conference 2016, Aarhus, Denmark, November 8-19, 2016.
Frostenson, M. , Hasche, N. , Helin, S. & Prenkert, F. (2015). Ethical issues in e-commerce: A renewed analysis based on the multiplicity of customer relationships. In: EBEN Research Conference 2015. Paper presented at EBEN Research Conference 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 1-3, 2015.
Kask, J. & Prenkert, F. (2015). Half a century of development: Mapping the evolution of a business network. In: 31th Annual Conference on Industrial Marketing & Purchasing. Paper presented at 31th Annual Conference on Industrial Marketing & Purchasing (IMP), Kolding, Denmark, August 25-29, 2015.
Prenkert, F. (2015). Industrial business networks as empirical manifestations of complex adaptive economic systems: Ontological consequences and methodological challenges. In: Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP), Workshop on Theory and Methods. Paper presented at Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP), Workshop on Theory and Methods, Lugano, Switzerland, October 6-8, 2015.
Kask, J. & Prenkert, F. (2015). The evolution of retail formats from a common origin: Investigating a century of Swedish sporting goods retailing. In: Annual 15^th EURAM Conference. Paper presented at 15th European Academy of Management (EURAM) Annual Conference, Warzaw, Poland, June 17-20, 2015.
Prenkert, F. (2012). Agent-based Simulation of Non-linear Interactions in Business Networks. In: 28th IMP Conference. Paper presented at 28th IMP Conference. Rome, Italy:
Harrison, D. , Prenkert, F. , Olsen, P. I. & Hoholm, T. (2011). Boundary objects in multi-actor interactions within tightly structured networks. In: the 27th Annual IMP Conference. Paper presented at the 27th Annual IMP Conference, Scotland. (pp. 1-19). Glasgow, Scotland:
Prenkert, F. (2011). Elements of an aporetic transcendental theory of organization. Paper presented at 27th EGOS Colloquium 2011, Sub-Theme 18: Pragmatism, Organizing, and Learning, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 6-9, 2011.
Harrison, D. , Prenkert, F. , Olsen, P. I. & Hoholm, T. (2011). Power Games in Networks: A Case of New Mercantilist Network Organizing. In: the 27th Annual IMP Conference. Paper presented at the 27th Annual IMP Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, 2011. Glasgow, Scotland:
Prenkert, F. (2011). Time and Process in Social Simulation: Agent-Based Simulation of Non-linear Interactions in Business Networks. Paper presented at 7th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA 2011), Montpellier, France, September 19-23, 2011.
Prenkert, F. , Engelseth, P. & Raabe, H. (2010). Exploring the Networked Region. In: 26th IMP-conference in Budapest. Paper presented at 26th IMP-conference in Budapest, Hungary, 2010.
Prenkert, F. (2008). Feed the Hungry and Care for the Sick: Tangible and Intangible Investments in Resource Ties in the Chilean Salmon Production Network. In: 4th IMP Journal Seminar. Paper presented at 4th IMP Journal Seminar. Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.: IMP Journal.
Harrison, D. & Prenkert, F. (2008). Network strategising trajectories within a planned strategy process. In: 24th Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) Conference. Paper presented at 24th Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) Conference, Uppsala, Sweden, September 3-6, 2008. (pp. 1-21). Uppsala, Sweden:
Gunnarsson, C. , Jonsson, S. & Prenkert, F. (2002). The stabilizing role of Internet technology in business partnerships: a cross-case study of integration shifts between small- and medium-sized enterprises and demanding industrial partners. Paper presented at 47th World Conference of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB), June 16-19, 2002, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Reports

Prenkert, F. & Swahn, M. (2017). Assessments of measures for the greening of transport logistics systems from three use cases in the Swedish section of the Scandinavian – Mediterranean corridor: Final report from the project Get Greener. Gothenburg: CLOSER.
Prenkert, F. , Hasche, N. , Frostenson, M. & Helin, S. (2016). Mat på nätet: E-handelns distributionssystem och affärsmodeller. Stockholm: Handelsrådet (Handelsrådets rapportserie 2016:9).