Pär Mårtensson

  • Pär Mårtensson is a tenured Associate Professor at the SSE House of Innovation
  • …has written or co-edited eight books and published 30+ book chapters
    & articles
  • …has 25+ years of experience of teaching in business school settings
  • …has experiences from development and direction of various open and
    in-company programs with focus on driving change in practice
  • … is a frequent coach and advisor to business leaders, particularly related to change or transformation initiatives, and in family businesses
  • … has worked with family businesses for more than ten years both in education programs and supporting their management processes, governance structures, and transformation processes related to succession.

Keywords

Change Management, Management Education, Reflective Dialogues, Evaluating Research, Faculty Development, Family Businesses

Areas of expertise

  • Change Management: How to lead and drive change in practice
  • Management Education: How to design & develop educational programs
  • Reflective Dialogues: How to run reflective dialogues with executives
  • Evaluating Research: How to assess research practice and quality
  • Faculty Development: How to develop faculty related to teaching
  • Family Business: How to support transformation between generations

Teaching and outreach

  • “Tools for Change”
  • “Teaching Executives”
  • “Developing Teaching Excellence”
  • “The Inclusive Classroom”
  • “Reflective Dialogues”
  • “Faculty Coaching”

 

Publications in Selection (2018-2022)

  • Söderblom A. and Mårtensson, P. (2020). Y – A model for structuring and focusing change processes, Stockholm School of Economics Institute for Research, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Carlsson-Wall and Mårtensson, P. (2020). “Educational Hybrids – The Importance of Physical Arenas to Engage All Senses” in Sweden Through the Crisis, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Mårtensson, P., Fors, U., Fröberg, E., Zander, U. and Nilsson, G. H. (2019). “Quality of Research Practice – An interdisciplinary face validity evaluation of a quality model”, PLoS ONE, Vol. 14, No. 2, e0211636.
  • Mårtensson, P., Fors, U., Zander, U. and Nilsson, G. H. (2017). “Managing Research out of the Dark? Exploring Implications and Applications of an Objective Model for the Evaluation of Research Practice and Quality”, Rutgers Business Review, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 377-385.
  • Mårtensson, P., Fors, U., Wallin, S-B., Zander, U. and Nilsson, G. H. (2016). “Evaluating Research: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Assessing Research Practice and Quality”, Research Policy, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 593-603.
  • Bild, M. and Mårtensson, P. (2016). Ordspråksekonomi (Management by Proverbs), Upnose förlag, Stockholm, Sweden.

Other Engagements

  • Head of Pedagogy and Faculty Development, SSE
  • Chairman of the board of International Schools of Business Management (ISBM) a consortium of twelve business schools including e.g., HEC Paris, IMD, INSEAD, LBS, SDA Bocconi and SSE, with a focus on faculty development.
  • Core faculty member and coach in the International Teachers Programme (ITP).

Academic degree
PhD

Nationality
Swedish