Björn Bjerke

Björn Bjerke

Björn Bjerke (1941) is a Swedish economist, professor in entrepreneurship and small firms at Stockholm University, known for his international bestseller "Methodology for Creating Business Knowledge" from 1997 written with Ingeman Arbnor.

Biography

Björn Bjerke was born in 1941 in Sweden and got educated to PhD level at Lund University.

His research, lecturing and business consulting experience spans four decades and as many continents. Björn has held professorships at the Waikato University in New Zealand, the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia, University of Maiduguri in Nigeria, the University of Southern California and a Senior Fellowship at the National University of Singapore in Singapore.

Back in Sweden Bjerke worked for a while at the Malmö University before going to Stockholm. At Stockholm University Bjerke has lead a research group in entrepreneurship consisting of 15 junior researchers. [http://www.fek.su.se/inst/faculty/vitae.asp?id1=199 Vitae - Björn Bjerke] . Retrieved 26 May 2008. ] Since 2007 he is working at the Baltic Business School at the University of Kalmar in Sweden.

Work

Bjerke's research interests centres around methodologies in order to study entrepreneurship, the role of marketing in successful entrepreneurships and successful regions of growth and entrepreneurship’s role in this connection.

Publications

Books, a selection:
* 1997. "Methodology for Creating Business Knowledge". With Ingeman Arbnor. California : Sage Publications. (Third Edition 2009).
* 2000. "Business Leadership and Culture. National Management Styles in the Global economy". Edward Elgar. UK/USA.
* 2002. "Entrepreneurial marketing : the growth of small firms in the new economic era". Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
* 2007. "Understanding Entrepreneurship"

References

External links

* [http://www.fek.su.se/inst/faculty/presentation.asp?id1=199 Homepage] Björn Bjerke at the Stockholm University.


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