Maria Elmquist

2025

Scaling or growing agile? Proposing a manifesto for agile organization development

2025

Jakten på hållbar beredskap i svensk livsmedelsförsörjning

2025

Making sense in “less-hierarchical” forms of organizing

2022

Joining forces to create value: The emergence of an innovation ecosystem

Towards a Follettian foundation for self-managing organizations: Learning to lead together through making together

Practicing Agility: Proposing an Agile Organization Design Manifesto

Agile Organizations: Challenges and Tensions from the Employee Perspective

Innovation Theory and the (Re-)foundation of Management: Facing the Unknown

Öppna innovationsarenor: organisering av gemensamt kunskapsskapande

Framing Design Thinking: The Concept in Idea and Enactment

Beyond intermediation: The open innovation arena as an actor enabling joint knowledge creation

The Challenges of Using Design Thinking in Industry - Experiences from Five Large Firms

Design thinking: Exploring values and effects from an innovation capability perspective

The challenges of innovation capability building: Learning from longitudinal studies of innovation efforts at Renault and Volvo Cars

Exploring the use of design thinking in large organizations: towards a research agenda

Leveraging on open innovation: A study of why organizations engage in open innovation collaboration

Perceptions of the value of Design Thinking in innovation in large firms

From Collaboration to Innovation: challenges and opportunities in building Open Arenas

Implementing Design Thinking in Large Organizations

Aiming at innovation: a case study of innovation capabilities in the Swedish defence industry

Att utveckla innovationsförmåga i stora industriella företag – erfarenheter från Volvo Personvagnar

Towards new R&D processes for sustainable development in the automotive industry: experiencing innovative design

Implementing design thinking – an exploratory study of large companies using design thinking in innovation efforts

Managing Open Innovation: Exploring Challenges at the Interfaces of an Open Innovation Arena

2011

CBIs studie om innovationsledning

Role Confusion in Open Innovation Intermediary Arenas

Enabling knowledge creation among competitors: the open innovation arena

Developing Innovation Capabilities: A Longitudinal Study of a Project at Volvo Cars

Communities of Practice for Open Innovation - Enabling Organizational Creativity?

Implications of openness: A study of (all) the growing literature on open innovation

Radical innovation in a small firm – a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) development project at Volvo Cars

Exploring the field of open innovation

Exploring the management of collaborative arenas from a platform perspective

Sustainable development through innovative design: lessons from the KCP method experimented with an automotive firm

The Role of Design Firms in Innovation: How Design Firms Contribute to the Innovative Capabilities of Core Firms

The value of a failed R&D project: emerging evaluation criteria for innovation projects

Triangulating relations to explore openness of innovation

The Challenge of Managing Boundary-Spanning Research Activities: Experiences from the Swedish Context: The challenge of managing boundary spanning research

The challenges of managing open innovation in highly innovative fields: exploring the use of the KCP method

Open Innovation - Forschung in Europa

Managing learning in the automotive industry – the innovation race for electric vehicles

The concept of interessement: The story of a power-split technology for hybrid electric vehicles

Alternative design strategies to combine environmental and economic sustainability: Lessons from an empirical experiment with an automotive firm

Developing innovative capabilities: Lessons from an experimental process in the automotive industry using a design theory approach

Managing innovation fields: another look at how eco-innovation capabilities are built in the automotive industry

Organizing open innovation in practice: a case study of an environmental innovation project in the automotive industry

Managing learning strategies in the automotive industry – the race for hybridization

Innovation and the limits of the selection logic: Introducing generative capacity as a complement to absorptive capacity

Design in innovation: how external design firms contribute to the development of the innovative capabilities of large firms

Managing Open Innovation: Present Findings and Future Directions

Aiming at innovation in the Swedish defense industry – the difficulties of responding to disruptive market change in a technology driven context

On the way to electric cars - a case study of a hybrid electric vehicle project at Volvo Cars

Enabling Innovation: Exploring the prerequisites for innovative concepts in R&D

Loud killers and already-invented-here: managing change in professional organizations

Vehicles for innovation and learning: The case of a neglected concept car project

Working with concepts in the fuzzy front end: exploring the context for innovation for different types of concepts at Volvo Cars

Vehicles for Innovation: the case of a neglected concept car project at Volvo Cars

Towards a New Logic for Front End Management: From Drug Discovery to Drug Design in Pharmaceutical R&D

Managing Open Innovation: Present Findings and Future Directions,