Christian Sandström
Christian Sandström is senior associate professor in digital business.
He has previously been a visiting scholar at Victoria University in New Zealand, ETH in Switzerland and at the University of Cambridge doing research on the disruptive potential of 3D Printing.
Sandström wrote his PhD thesis (2010) on Disruptive Innovation (available online here). Based on historical studies of technological change in e.g. the camera industry, the calculator industry and video surveillance he developed new theory on the topic.
Current research concerns the interplay between digital technological and institutional change, and the competitive implications of such transitions. His research approach is partly historical and partly about contemporary issues like the evolving platform economy.
Sandström was in 2009 awarded as the best lecturer by industrial engineering students at Chalmers. In 2018, he received the Pedagogical Prize at Chalmers University of Technology for innovative teaching methods.
A Google Scholar profile can be found here.
Recent publications:
Grafström, J., Sandström, C., Wieslander, A. (2020) Mycket mer för mindre - Tillväxt och Hållbarhet i Sverige, Ratio. Available here.
Tillväxtanalys (2020) Tredje generationens näringspolitiska program - kunskapsöversikt och problematisering, PM 2020:12. Available here.
McCauley, B., Berndt, A., Helmefalk, M., Sandström, C. (2022) Organizing for Consumer Engagement in a Hybrid online-offline environment - The case of gaming in the Modern LANscape, accepted for publication in Technological Forecasting and Social Change (ABS ranking: 3).
Laurell, C., Sandström, C. (2021) Applying social media data to Strategic foresight, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (ABS ranking: 3)
Geissinger, A., Laurell, C., Öberg, C., Sandström, C., & Suseno, Y. (2021, forthcoming). The sharing economy and the transformation of work: Evidence from Foodora. Accepted in Personnel Review. (ABS ranking: 2)
Karlson, N., Sandström, C., & Wennberg, K. (2021). Bureaucrats or Markets in Innovation Policy? – a critique of the entrepreneurial state. The Review of Austrian Economics, 34(1), 81-95. (ABS ranking: 1).
Geissinger, A., Laurell, C., Öberg, C., Sandström, C., Sick, N., Suseno, Y. (2020) Social Media Analytics for acquisition of market and non-market perceptions in the sharing economy, accepted for publication in Journal of Knowledge Management. (ABS ranking: 2)
Ingram Bogusz, C., Laurell, C., & Sandström, C., (2020). Beyond the Bubble: Is the Blockchain crowding out Crowdfunding, or converging on a new ICO standard? Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. (ABS ranking: 3)
Geissinger, A., Laurell, C., Sandström, C. (2020) Digital Disruption beyond Uber and Airbnb – tracking the long tail of the sharing economy, Technological Forecasting and Social Change Vol 155, 119323 (ABS ranking: 3).
Geissinger, A., Laurell, C., Öberg, C. Sandström, C. & Suseno, Y. (2020). Assessing the interplay between the sharing, access, platform and community-based economies – one or several economies? Accepted for publication in Information Technology and People. (ABS ranking: 3)
Laurell, C., Sandström, C., Eriksson, K. & Nykvist, R. (2020). Digitalization and the future of Management Learning – New technology as an enabler of historical, practice oriented and critical research, Management Learning, Vol. 51(1), pp. 89-108 (ABS ranking: 3).
Eriksson, K., Ernkvist, M., Laurell, C., Moodysson, J., Nykvist, R., Sandström, C. (2019). A revised perspective on innovation policy for renewal of mature economies – Historical evidence from finance and telecommunications in Sweden 1980-1990. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 147, Oct 2019, pp. 152-162. (ABS ranking: 3)
Geissinger, A., Laurell, C., Sandström, C., Eriksson, K., Nykvist, R. (2019) Digital Entrepreneurship and Institutional Change – Exploring the role of cities, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 146, pp. 877-886. (ABS ranking: 3)
Laurell, C., Sandström, C., Berthold, A. & Larsson, D. (2019). Exploring barriers to adoption of Virtual Reality through Social Media Analytics and Machine Learning – an assessment of technology, network, price and trialability, Journal of Business Research, Vol. 100, July 2019, pp. 469-474 (ABS ranking: 3).
Geissinger, A., Laurell, C., Öberg, C., Sandström, C. (2019) How sustainable is the sharing economy? On the sustainability connotations of sharing economy platforms, Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 206, pp. 419-429. (ABS ranking: 2).
Laurell, C., Sandström, C. Suseno, Y. (2019) Assessing the interplay between crowdfunding and social media, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 141, April 2019, pp. 117-127 (ABS ranking: 3).
Laurell, C., Sandström, C. (2018) Comparing the impact of social and traditional media on disruptive change – evidence from the sharing economy, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 129, April 2018, pp. 339-344 (ABS ranking: 3).
Axelson, M., Netz, J., Sandström, C. (2017) Collective action problems in public sector innovation: A business model perspective, Creativity and Innovation Management, Vol. 26(4), pp. 370-378 (ABS ranking: 2).
Laurell, C., Sandström, C. (2017) The sharing economy in social media – analyzing tensions between market and non-market logics, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 125, pp. 58-65 (ABS ranking: 3).
Berglund, H., Sandström, C. (2017) A New Perspective on the Innovator’s Dilemma – Exploring the role of Entrepreneurship Incentives, DOI: 10.1504/IJTM.2017.10006144, Vol.75, No.1/2/3/4, pp. 142 – 156 (ABS ranking: 2).
Laurell, C., Sandström, C. (2016) Analysing Uber in Social Media – Disruptive Technology or Institutional Disruption? International Journal of Innovation Management, Vol. 20(7), DOI: 10.1142/S1363919616400132. Knut Holt Best paper award vid ISPIM Innovation Summit, 5-7 December in Brisbane, Australia (ABS ranking: 2).
Sandström, C., Wennberg, K., Wallin, M. W., & Zherlygina, Y. (2018). Public policy for academic entrepreneurship initiatives: A review and critical discussion. The Journal of Technology Transfer, 43(5), 1232-1256 (ABS ranking: 3).
Sandström, C. (2016) The non-disruptive emergence of an Ecosystem for 3D Printing – Insights from the Hearing aid industry’s transition 1989-2008, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Vol 102, pp. 160-168 (ABS ranking: 3).
Sandström, C., Berglund, H., Magnusson, M. (2014). Symmetric assumptions in the theory of disruptive innovation – Theoretical and Managerial implications, Creativity and Innovation Management, Vol. 23(4), pp. 472-483 (ABS ranking: 2).
Laurell, C., Sandström, C. (2014). Disruption and Social Media – Entrant Firms as Institutional Entrepreneurs, International Journal of Innovation Management, Vol. 18(3), DOI 14440006 (ABS ranking: 2).
Sandström, C. (2013) Facit and the displacement of mechanical calculators, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol 35(3), pp. 20-31.
Berglund, H., Sandström, C. (2013) Business Model Innovation from an Open Systems Perspective: Structural Challenges and Managerial Solutions, International Journal of Product Development, special issue on Business Model Innovation. 18(3/4), pp. 274-285 (ABS ranking: 1).
Pihl, C., Sandström, C. (2013) Social media, value creation and appropriation – the business model of fashion bloggers in Sweden, International Journal of Technology Management, Vol. Vol. 61(3/4), pp. 309-323 (ABS ranking: 2).
Sandström, C. and Björk, J. (2010) Idea management systems for a changing innovation landscape, International Journal of Product Development, Vol. 11, No 3-4, pp. 310 – 324 (ABS ranking: 1).