Research

Overarching research theme

Technological discontinuities, Disruptive innovation, Innovation management, Busines models, Business history. A Google Scholar profile can be found here.

Peer reviewed journal publications

Batbaatar, M., Larsson, J.P., Sandström, C., Wennberg, K. (2023) The State of the Entrepreneurial State: Empirical Evidence of Mission-Led Innovation Projects around the Globe, accepted for publication in Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship.

Batbaatar, M., Larsson, J.P., Sandström, C., Wennberg, K. (2023) The State of the Entrepreneurial State: Empirical Evidence of Mission-Led Innovation Projects around the Globe, Ratio Working Papers No 367, available here.

Henrekson, Magnus and Sandström, Christian and Stenkula, Mikael, Learning from Overrated Mission-Oriented Innovation Policies: Seven Takeaways (November 6, 2023). IFN Working Paper No. 1478, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4624761

Björnemalm, R., & Sandström, C., Åkesson, N. (2023). ”A Public Choice Perspective on Mission-Oriented Innovation Policies and the Behavior of Government Agencies”, Ratio Working Papers No 366, available here.

Björnemalm, R., & Sandström, C. (2023). Interest groups and the failure of transformative innovation policy: Insights from the ethanol car bubble in Sweden 2003-2013. Working paper No. 362. Stockholm: Ratio, available here.

Sandström, C., & Åkesson, N. (2023). Recension: Andrew McAfee: Mer från mindre – hur kapitalism och ny teknik kan rädda världen. Ekonomisk Debatt, 51(5), 87-90, available here.

Sandström, C., Björnemalm, R. Hur uppstår gröna bubblor? Lärdomar från etanolbubblan som sprack, Ekonomisk Debatt, 50(5), ss. 65-71. Länk här

Sandström, C. Book review: Mariana mazzucato, mission economy: a moonshot guide to changing capitalism. New York, NY: harper business, 2021. 272 Pages. USD 29.99 (hardcover). Public Choice (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-022-00995-1.

Geissinger, A., Laurell, C., Öberg, C., & Sandström, C. (2023). Social media analytics for innovation management research: A systematic literature review and future research agenda. Technovation, 123, 102712.

Henrekson, M., Sandström, C., Alm, C. (2022) Slutreplik om vätgasstålsatsningen i Norrland, Ekonomisk Debatt 50(2), 75–77, tillgänglig här.

Johnson, P. C., Laurell, C., Ots, M., & Sandström, C. (2022). Digital innovation and the effects of artificial intelligence on firms’ research and development–Automation or augmentation, exploration or exploitation?. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 179, 121636.

Henrekson, M., Sandström, C., Alm, C. (2021) Investeringarna i Norrland, Vätgasstålet och hur EU:s nya miljöpolitik leder till miljönationalism, Ekonomisk Debatt, Vol. 49(6), ss. 50-55. Available here.

Collin, E, C Sandström och K Wennberg (2021), ”Välkommen kritik men slutsatserna håller”, Ekonomisk Debatt, Vol.49(7), s 48-51.

Collin, E., Sandström, C., Wennberg, K. (2021) Utvärderingar av Näringspolitik – En intressekonflikt mellan myndigheter, konsultföretag, politik och skattebetalare? Ekonomisk Debatt, Vol. 49(4), ss. 30-41. Available here.

Laurell, C., & Sandström, C. (2021). Social Media Analytics as an Enabler for External Search and Open Foresight—The Case of Tesla’s Autopilot and Regulatory Scrutiny of Autonomous Driving. IEEE transactions on engineering management, 69(2), 564-571. Available here.

Geissinger, A., Laurell, C., Öberg, C., Sandström, C., & Suseno, Y. (2021). The sharing economy and the transformation of work: evidence from Foodora. Personnel review. Available here.

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.

Karlson, N., Sandström, C. Wennberg, K. (2020) Bureaucracies or Markets in innovation policy – a critique of the entrepreneurial state, accepted for publication in Review of Austrian Economics. Available here.

Geissinger, A., Laurell, C., Öberg, C., Sandström, C., & Suseno, Y. (2020). Assessing user perceptions of the interplay between the sharing, access, platform and community‐based economies. Information Technology & People.

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.

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. Available here.

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. Available here.

Sandström, C., Jörnmark, J., Björklund, M. Hvarfner, K. (2019) Innovationspolitik – ett överutbud av stöd och hinder? Ekonomisk Debatt, Vol 47(7), p. 67-70. Available here.

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. available here.

Geissinger, A., Laurell, C., Öberg, C., Sandström, C. (2019) Description of sustainability connotations of sharing economy platforms – what is the picture from social media? Accepted for publication in Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 206, pp. 419-429. Available here.

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. Available here.

Laurell, C., Sandström, C. Suseno, Y. (2018) Assessing the interplay between crowdfunding and social media, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 141, April 2019, pp. 117-127, available here.

Geissinger, A., Laurell, C., & Sandström, C. (2018). Digital Disruption beyond Uber and Airbnb—Tracking the long tail of the sharing economy. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 119323. Available here.

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. Available here.

Axelson, M., Netz, J., Sandström, C. (2017) Innovation Challenges in the public sector – a business model perspective, Creativity and Innovation Management, Vol26(4), December 2017, pp. 370–378, available here.

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. Available here

Berglund, H., Sandström, C. (2017) A New Perspective on the Innovator’s Dilemma – Exploring the role of Entrepreneurship Incentives, International Journal of Technology Management, DOI: 10.1504/IJTM.2017.10006144, Vol.75, No.1/2/3/4, pp.142 – 156, available here.

Sandström, C., Ernkvist, M., Laurell, C., Jörnmark, J. (2016) Varför kan teknik slå politik? Ekonomisk Debatt, Vol 44(7), p. 42-53. Tillgänglig här.

Sandström, C., Wennberg, K., Wallin, M. Zherlygina, Y. (2016) Public Policy for Academic Entrepreneursip: A review and critical discussion, forthcoming in Journal of Technology Transfer, available here.

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. Available here.

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. Available here.

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. Available here

Laurell, C., Sandström, C. (2014). Disruption and Social Media – Entrant Firms as Institutional Entrepreneurs, International Journal of Innovation Management, Vol. 18(3). Available here.

Sandström, C. (2013) Facit and the displacement of mechanical calculators, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol 35(3), pp. 20-31. Available here.

Berglund, H., Sandström, C. (2013) Business Model Innovation from an Open Systems Perspective: Structural Challenges and Mangerial Solutions, International Journal of Product Development, special issue on Business Model Innovation, 18(3/4), pp. 274-285. Available here.

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. Available here.

Sandström, C. (2011) High-end disruptive technologies with an inferior performance, International Journal of Technology Management, Vol. 56(2-4), pp. 109-122. Available here.

Sandström, C., Osborne, R-G. (2011) Managing business model renewal, International Journal of Business and Systems Research, Vol. 5(5), pp. 461-474. Available
here.

Sandstrom, C. (2011) Hasselblad and the Shift to Digital Imaging, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 33(3), pp. 55 – 66. Available here.

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. Available here

Broström, A., McKelvey, M and Sandström, C. (2009) Investing in Localised Relationships to Universities: What are the benefits to R&D subsidiaries of multinational enterprises? Industry & Innovation, Vol. 16, pp 59-78. Available here.

Sandström, C., Magnusson, M., and Jörnmark, J. (2009) Exploring factors influencing incumbents’ response to disruptive innovation, Creativity and Innovation Management, Vol 18(1), pp. 8-15. Available here.

Dissertation
Sandström, C. (2010). A revised perspective on Disruptive Innovation – Exploring Value, Networks and Business models. Chalmers University of Technology. The thesis contains six articles and a 77 p. covering paper. Available
here.

Other journal publications
Sandström, C. (2015) How Disruptive is Tesla, really? MIT Technology Review, July 7, 2015. Available here.

Sandström, C. (2015) Is 3D Printing a Disruptive Technology? Evidence from the Hearing Aid Industry, EIPM Journal of Supply Chain Management.

Sandström, C. (2013) What visionary companies do differently, Innovation Management.se, June 2013, available here.

Sandström, C. (2011) You press the button, Kodak used to do the rest, MIT Technology Review, December 2011. Available here.