Christine Holmström Lind
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Företagsekonomiska institutionen
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 12 39
- E-mail:
- christine.holmstrom_lind@fek.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, ingång C
751 20 UPPSALA - Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA
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- Academic merits:
- PhD, Docent
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Biography
Christine Holmström Lind is Associate Professor in International Business and former Director of Advanced Studies at the Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University. Christine received her Ph.D. at the Department of Business Studies, and the research was concerned with the strategic role of multinational subsidiaries as creators and disseminators of knowledge and innovations. More recent research concerns international market strategies of firms and sustainable business strategies. Christine was awarded the Wallander-scholarship for excellent Ph.D. thesis in 2006.
Christine has teaching experience in International Business, International Marketing, Industrial Marketing, and within the field of CSR and Sustainability. Prior to her doctoral studies she worked as CRM manager and corporate (senior) market analyst.
Recent research revolves around international business strategies and sustainable business strategies. One specific research project relates to the role of MNCs in social value added activities and social innovation. Another research project concerns the process and determinants behind HQs approval or rejection of so called subsidiary initiatives.
She has been engaged as an ad-hoc reviewer for several international business journals, and she is a member of the European International Business Association and the Academy of International Business. She is also part of Uppsala University’s Centre for Research on Innovation and Industrial Dynamics (CIND).
Expert areas
- Knowledge- and innovation development and transfer within MNC subsidiaries
- International Business Strategies
- Subsidiary evolution
- Sustainable business strategies
- Social value creation in MNCs
Research projects
Social value creation - a study on MNCs involvement in social value added activities
The Impact of foreign MNC Subsidiaries on local firms - a network perspective
Exploiting Innovation Transfer (EXIT-project)
The Development of Centres of Excellence in Multinational Corporations (CoE-project)
Publications
Recent publications
- Subsidiary Strategic Influence (2022)
- Involvement of multinational corporations in social innovation (2022)
- Social value creation in international business (2020)
- Does proactivity matter? (2019)
- Making Waves in a Huge Pond (2019)
All publications
Articles
- Subsidiary Strategic Influence (2022)
- Involvement of multinational corporations in social innovation (2022)
- Social value creation in international business (2020)
- Does proactivity matter? (2019)
- Leveraging networks, capabilities and opportunities for international success (2018)
- MNC involvement in social innovations (2018)
- The value-adding role of the corporate headquarters in innovation transfer processes (2017)
- The Value-Adding Role of the Corporate Headquartersin Innovation Transfer Processes: The Issueof Headquarters Knowledge Situation (2017)
- The performance of international returnee ventures (2016)
- Do I stay or do I go? Sub-national drivers for post-entry subsidiary development (2015)
- Revisiting the external impact of MNCs (2012)
- Subsidiaries as straddling fields and the trade-off between knowledge development and transfer (2012)
- Regional Motives for Post-Entry Subsidiary Development: The Case of Poland (2012)
- Competence Development through Business Relationships or Competitive Environment? (2005)
- Intra-MNC transfer of innovations and knowledge flows from subsidiary to location
Books
- In Search of MNC Competitive Advantage (2004)
- Developing, recognizing and utilizing subsidiary competence (1999)
Chapters
- Subsidiary entrepreneurship and headquarters involvement during innovation development (2011)
- Managing the transfer of externally embedded subsidiary knowledge: the role of headquarters’ control mechanisms (2010)
- Transfer of Subsidiary Knowledge within the MNC (2006)
- Relationship Configuration and Competence Development in MNC Subsidiaries (2001)
- The Dilemma of Developing a Centre of Excellence (2000)
Conferences
- Making Waves in a Huge Pond (2019)
- Towards explaining recurrent innovation inflows in MNC subsidiaries (2008)
- Knowledge Spillover and Agglomeration Effects of Product Innovation Transfer in MNCs (2006)
Reports
