WIJKSTRÖM, OCTOBER 2014
Curriculum Vitae
Name: Claes Filip Nicolas Wijkström
Born: 4th of February, 1965, Stockholm, Sweden Address: Handelsvägen 16, SE 122 32 Enskede, Sweden Phone: Mobile: +46 706 34 74 77; Office: +46 8 736 94 89 Digital: filip.wijkstrom@hhs.se; www.civilsociety.se
Studies and Academic Career:
• 2001-pres Currently and since 2001 appointed as Associate Professor (Docent, tenure position) in Business Administration at the Department for Management and Organization, Stockholm School of Economics, SSE (Handelshögskolan i Stockholm).
• 2012-2013 Guest Professor in Business Administration at the School of Business, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Nov 1, 2012 – Oct 31, 2013 (www.sbs.su.se).
• 2010-pres Center Director, Stockholm Center for Civil Society Studies, SSE Institute for Research.
• 2010-2011 Director of SIR, Stiftelsen SSE Institute for Research (www.economicresearch.se)
• 2010-2011 SSE Director of Research, Stockholm School of Economics.
• 2007-2009 Professor in organization and leadership at Ersta Sköndal University College in Stockholm (Ersta Sköndal högskola, www.esh.se).
• 2007-2010 Scientific Secretary (vetenskaplig sekreterare) at SparbanksAkademin.
• 2004-2011 Director, The Economic Research Institute (EFI, Ekonomiska Forskningsinstitutet)
• 2001.0614 Appointed as Associate Professor (docent) in Business Administration at SSE.
• 1999-2005 Researcher in nonprofit governance, strategy and organization theory at EFI/SSE on a six-year research grant funded by the Swedish Cancer Society (Cancerfonden) and the Swedish Red Cross.
• 1998.0514 PhD in Business Administration from SSE; with studies commenced January 1993, PhD thesis defended May 1998. Thesis (in 2 volumes) The Non-Profit Sector in Sweden (Manchester University Press) and Different Faces of Civil Society.
• 1997-1998 Invited as Visiting Scholar and teacher (MBA) at the Department for Management, University of Technology Kuring-gai Campus, Sydney Australia (www.uts.edu.au).
• 1993-1998 PhD studies at SSE. Focus on nonprofit and civil society economics, organization, governance, management and leadership.
• 1993.0120 MBA and ekonomexamen vid Handelshögskolan i Stockholm (SSE).
• 1986-1988 Studies in Engineering Physics (teknisk fysik) at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH).
WIJKSTRÖM, OCTOBER 2014
Present Position and Academic Teaching Experiences
Currently, Dr. Wijkström is Associate Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm). At the Department for Management & Organization, he has, from the early 1990s, established a research program (and from 2010 a Research Center) on civil society studies focusing on organization, strategy and governance topics.
Dr. Wijkström has been conducting and publishing his own research for more than two decades (list of publications upon request). Wijkström has developed special courses at Master level on Civil Society Organization and Corporate Social Responsibility. He frequently instructs professional audiences in different executive formats and extensive teaching in general management and organization theory at SSE and elsewhere and participation in PhD courses in Sweden and abroad are valuable parts of his teaching experience.
Wijkström is currently supervising PhD candidates and three students have successfully finished their PhDs with Wijkström as main supervisor (huvudhandledare). Wijkström has been appointed as faculty opponent at other universities (in sociology, Stockholm University: 2003; in business administration, Gothenburg University: 2006) and he has also served as member in PhD examination committees, both in Sweden and abroad (Ireland: Trinity College, Dublin, 2008; the Netherlands: Tilburg University, 2009).
Other Positions, Engagements and Research Funding
Dr. Wijkström has been appointed expert in several governmental committees, and was appointed scientific counsellor (vetenskapligt råd) with the National Board of Health in 2000 and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen renewed in 2003, 2006 and 2009. Dr. Wijkström chairs the jury on nonprofit reporting set up by the audit firm PwC and between 2005-2007, he was a member of the activity board (verksamhetsrådet) for Sida Civil Society Center. In 2003, he became member of the special area group on civil society studies set up for a six- year period at Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. Wijkström was appointed National Coordinator for Sweden in the CINEFOGO Network Council, a network of European Centers of Excellence in civil society research financed by the European Commission and in 2007- 2010, Dr. Wijkström served part-time as Scientific Secretary at SparbanksAkademin.
In the year 2000, Dr. Wijkström took part in the very first European PhD Dissertation Network Meeting on Civil Society held at LSE in London. He has since then been active as facilitator and part of the academic “faculty” at the annual meetings of this network, for example by organizing the Network Meeting in Stockholm in 2003. He serves in the editorial team for a book series on civil society at Nomos, a German academic publisher.
Dr. Wijkström currently serves as editorial board member in the Journal of Civil Society, Voluntary Sector Review and Nonprofit Policy Forum, and frequently serves as reviewer in these and other scholarly journals in his field of interest.
Wijkström has received substantial financial support for his research through grants and contracts. Most notable among the funders are Riksbankens Jubileumsfond; The Cancer Society (Cancerfonden) and the Swedish Red Cross; Stiftelsen Lantbruksforskning; Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences and KFs Jubileumsstiftelse.
Visiting Positions Abroad
Dr. Wijkström held a visiting position as invited Scholar at the School of Management at the University of Technology, Sydney in Australia, in 1997-1998. During Oct-Dec 2004, he was invited as Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Nonprofit Management Trinity College, Dublin. In the fall 2008 Dr. Wijkström was invited to develop and teach a course in nonprofit management at Wirtschaft Universität, Wien.
