Frida Pemer

Frida Pemer’s research centers on digital transformation in knowledge-intensive firms. She leads the research group “Digitalization of expertise” and has been visiting researcher at Stanford University and Oxford University. Frida is involved in various programs at the SSE Executive Education and is program leader for Leading Transformative Organizations.

Keywords

Digital transformation, Organizational change, Knowledge-intensive firms, professional services, Transformative leadership

Areas of expertise

  • How can organizations transform themselves to take advantage
    of digitalization?
  • What are the implications of digitalization and potential digital disruption for the human expert?
  • How can we better lead, manage, and implement organizational change?

Teaching and outreach

  • Program leader: Leading Transformative Organizations
  • Course director: Managing the Organization (EMBA)
  • Speaker/teacher at various programs at SSE Executive Education
  • SSE: Global Challenges, EMBA , CEMS Business project
  • Frequently engaged as keynote speaker at practitioner-
    oriented conferences and workshops

Publications in Selection (2018-2022)

  • Pemer, F. (forthcoming). Re-Shapers of The Industry? The Emergence of New Tech-Based Management Consultancies. In: Szabla, D. & Gorman, M. (Eds.) Management Consulting in the Era of the Digital Organization. Information Age Publishing.
  • Pemer, F. (2021). Enacting professional service work in times of digitalization and potential disruption. Journal of Service Research.
  • Pemer, F., Börjeson, L. & Werr, A. (2020). The role of chief executive tenure for public organizations’ hiring of management consultants. Governance: An international journal of policy, administration and institutions.
  • Pemer, F. & Skjølsvik, T. (2019). The cues that matter: Screening for quality signals in the ex-ante phase of buying professional services. Journal of Business Research, 98, 352-365
  • Pemer, F., Sieweke, J., & Werr, A. (2018). The relationship between national culture and the use of professional services: Evidence from two cross-country studies. Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, 24(4), 314-325
  • Essén, A., Pemer, F., Englund, P. & Szczesny, K. (2018). Well, what do you know? Exploring physicians’ embedded framings of management consultants and their expertise. Journal of Professions and Organizations, 5(3), 262-278
  • Skjølsvik, T., & Breunig, K. J., & Pemer, F (2018). Digitalization of Professional Services: The Case of Value Creation in Virtual Law Firms. In: Andersson, P., et al. (Eds.) Managing Digital Transformation. Stockholm: SIR xx

Other Engagements

  • Board member of HHSS Consulting

Academic degree
PhD

Nationality
Swedish