Niclas Adler

Niclas Adler is professor of management, CEO and Dean of Jönköping
International Business School (JIBS). Prof. Adler holds an MSc and PhD
degree from Stockholm School of Economics and has served at the
faculties of SSE, Chalmers, Ecoles des Mines de Paris and Judge Business
School, Cambridge University.

Prof. Adler has co-founded and managed research centres such as the
Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship and FENIX Centre for Innovations in
Management.
He has founded and managed international research programs such as CARE
- Competitive Advantage, Regulation and Environment - in collaboration
between Chalmers University of Technology, Stockholm School of
Economics, Massachusetts Institute for Technology, Swiss Federal
Institute for Technology, Tokyo University and Judge Business School,
Cambridge University.
Prof. Adler has also co-founded 14 companies, many as spin-outs from
technical or medical universities. He is an active management
consultant, a director in Truepoint Partners, Boston and advisor to many
international companies and is a board member in seven companies.

He is also a fellow in the International Entrepreneurship Academy and
the Sunningdale Institute.

In his research he has elaborated on how to manage and organize complex
and boundary-spanning tasks and his on-going research can be categorized
into three main areas; assumptions, framework, systems and processes for
innovation, strategic change and renewal in established structures,
approaches on how to manage across different boundaries and approaches
on how to perform collaborative management research.
Current research on innovation, strategic change and renewal involves a
number of large private and public organizations. The purpose in many of
the projects is to capture the nature and logics of innovation,
discovery and creation processes and to elaborate on approaches that
support the co-existence of this explorative logic with the dominant
one.
Current research on managing across boundaries is performed together
with large public and private organizations on how to cope with
challenges as delivering health-care, welfare or integrated technology
shifts and to bridge different governing logics and groups of
stakeholder concerns.
Current research on Collaborative Management Research Approaches is
performed together with management researchers in different parts of the
world exploring different approaches and is focused on understanding and
bridging the gap between policies and actual prerequisites.