Strategizing over business cycles to enhance competence development - a proactive model to manage change

​This collaborative project between Chalmers and a construction company aims to enhance proactive strategizing over business cycles in the construction industry to improve competence development. An in-depth ethnographic case study and a quantitative survey are carried out. The ambition is to achieve better understanding of the complex interdependencies between strategizing, organising and change processes and their influence on macro and micro organisational processes. It is timely to carry out this study in view of the dramatic global economy and the challenges this has on the balancing of short-term cost-cutting actions and strategizing for long-term competence development. The outcome is a viable action-oriented model to enable integrated strategizing. This project fills a gap in the strategy literature and benefits practitioners within and beyond Sweden.

The project is carried out at the Division of Construction Management.

• Martin Löwstedt

  Associate Professor, Technology Management and Economics, Innovation och R&D Management

  Martin is an Associate Professor at the Division of Innovation and R&D Management. Grounded in a practice perspective his research is focused on managerial work, with a special interest in the built...
• Ann-Charlotte Stenberg

  Research assistant, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Construction Management

  Ann-Charlotte is a Research Assistant at the Division of Construction Management at Chalmers.
• Christine Räisänen

  Full Professor emerita, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Construction Management

  Christine is a full professor emerita at the Division of Construction Management at Chalmers.