Mathias Karlsson
Associate senior lecturer
Contact info
mathias.h.karlsson@lnu.se
0046709781002
Teaching
I am currently teaching in the following courses:
1FE466. Entreprenörskap och grundläggande affärsutveckling (course responsible)
4FE534. Contemporary issues in management (teacher)
2FE78E. Examensarbete i organisation (supervisor)
Research
Research
My research and teaching focus on topics such as entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, organization, ethics, and sustainability. In my research, I mainly use ideas and concepts from the humanities, and in particular philosophy.
My doctoral thesis Infinitely Demanding Entrepreneurship is an ethnographically inspired study where I use the philosopher Simon Critchley's work in order to analyze the social initiative 'IKEA's partnership with social entrepreneurs'.
Infinitely Demanding Entrepreneurship won the Oskar Sillén's Prize (2018) for best doctoral thesis in business administration in Sweden. You find the full thesis as a pdf below (publications).
From January 2021 to December 2023, I will work full-time as a researcher thanks to Handelsbanken and their Wallander Scholarship.
Read more about my research (only in Swedish)
Vi behöver försöka tänka nytt kring hur vi vill leva våra liv
Hängivet entreprenörskap bakom lyckat hållbarhetsarbete
Lyssna – om klimat i gränslandet mellan kunskap och känslor
Entreprenörskap för socio-ekologisk omställning på landsbygden
Prisad forskare tror på skrattets kraft
We are accredited
The School of Business and Economics at Linnaeus University are accredited by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business; AACSB.
My ongoing research projects
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Project: FLIARA – Female-Led Innovation in Agriculture and Rural Areas FLIARA is a Horizon2020 project with 15 partners across Europe. In our project, we will elevate innovative women, as well as…
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Project: InKuiS – Innovative Cultural Entrepreneurship in Collaborative Co-creative Research Thinking and acting entrepreneurially requires creativity, innovation, and an ability to take existing…
Publications
Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
- Karlsson, M. (2018). Infinitely Demanding Entrepreneurship. Doctoral Thesis. Växjö, Linnaeus University Press. 356.
Article in journal (Refereed)
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Karlsson, M. (2024). Reimagining ‘entrepreneuring as emancipation’ as a broader struggle for a freer life. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development.
Status: Epub ahead of print -
Karlsson, M. (2022). In pursuit of ignorant university teachers and intellectually emancipated students. Culture and Organization. 28 (3-4). 194-215.
Status: Published -
Bjerke, B., Karlsson, M. (2013). Why are some people behaving or acting entrepreneurially more than others? : Looking at opportunities as part of entrepreneurial behavior or action in more than one way. Journal of Business and Economics. 4 (6). 465-474.
Status: Published
Book (Other academic)
- Bjerke, B., Karlsson, M. (2013). Social entrepreneurship : to act as if and make a difference. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Bjerke, B., Karlsson, M. (2011). Samhällsentreprenör : att inte bara vara och agera som om. Malmö, Big Bad Books.
Chapter in book (Other academic)
- Jogmark, M., Kalonaityte, V., Karlsson, M. (2023). Det omänskliga ledarskapet?. Ledarskap på småländska : Utmaningar och engagemang i brytningstid. Växjö, Linnaeus University Press. 177-179.
- Karlsson, M. (2023). Att fästa blicken : en berättelse om meningsfullt ledarskap. Ledarskap på småländska : Utmaningar och engagemang i brytningstid. Växjö, Linnaeus University Press. 143-153.
- Jogmark, M., Kalonaityte, V., Karlsson, M. (2023). Flyktlinjer : vart är vi på väg och vilka vill vi bli?. Ledarskap på småländska : Utmaningar och engagemang i brytningstid. Växjö, Linnaeus University Press. 207-213.
- Karlsson, M. (2023). Posthumanistiskt ledarskap och ett experimenterande med verkligheten. Ledarskap på småländska : Utmaningar och engagemang i brytningstid. Växjö, Linnaeus University Press. 197-205.
- Jogmark, M., Karlsson, M., Rosenlund, J., Tillmar, M. (2022). Entreprenörskap för socio-ekologisk omställning på landsbygden. Förnyelse på småländska : Berättelser om utvecklingsarbete i vardagen. Växjö, Linnaeus University Press. 130-133.
- Karlsson, M. (2022). En alternativ väg : Smart Village som ekologisk bråkmakare, glädjedödare och möjliggörare. Förnyelse på småländska : Berättelser om utvecklingsarbete i vardagen. Växjö, Linnaeus University Press. 151-155.
- Jogmark, M., Karlsson, M., Rosenlund, J., Tillmar, M. (2022). Reflektioner kring vägar och vägval för socio-ekologisk omställning. Förnyelse på småländska : Berättelser om utvecklingsarbete i vardagen. Växjö, Linnaeus University Press. 156-162.
Conference paper (Refereed)
- Karlsson, M. (2016). The Practices and Power of Legitimizing Entrepreneurship in an MNC? : Subverting and Reinforcing ‘Business as Usual’. Paper presented at the 6th Latin American and European Meeting on Organization Studies, Viña del Mar, Chile, April 6–9, 2016.
Conference paper (Other academic)
- Karlsson, M., Taalas, S.L. (2015). Social Entrepreneurship Breaking Bad : Reflexive creative subjectivity of 'Friendly Rebels'. Paper presented at the 10th OS Summer Workshop 2015: Organizational Creativity, Play and Entrepreneurship, Chania, Crete, Greece, May 21–23, 2015.
- Karlsson, M. (2015). In search of the limits and possibilities of practicing responsibility and reflexivity in multi-sited ethnography. Paper presented at the 31st EGOS colloquium - Organizations and the Examined Life: Reason, Reflexivity and Responsibility, Athens, Greece, July 2–4, 2015 : Sub-theme 15.
- Karlsson, M. (2014). Dynamics of mosaic tensions that construct the alternative organising form – (corporate) social entrepreneuring. .
- Karlsson, M. (2013). Social entrepreneuring: a move forward through a glance backwards. 22nd Nordic Academy of Management Conference held in University of Iceland Reykjavík 21-23 August 2013. On Practice and Knowledge eruptions. (USB).
- Bjerke, B., Karlsson, M. (2010). On the importance of public entrepreneurs to local governments. Proceedings of the ResearchSymposium on Marketing and Entrepreneurship, Boston, MA.