Jun 11, 2019
Guest: Robin Teigland, Professor in Management of Digitalization
in the Entrepreneurship and Strategy Division at Chalmers
University of Technology, Department of Technology Management and
Economics.
Quote: “Digitalization challenges many of the basic
assumptions around the way business is being conducted for “.
- “If you love knowledge, set it free”: this is what Robin and
her team are doing with their work, focused on social networks for
knowledge creation and knowledge sharing (electronic networks of
practice) for tomorrow’s businesses. In fact, you can find lots of
material about her projects and lectures on SlideShare!
- Robin starts the episode explaining that, according to a recent
survey she analysed, 63% of executives believes that digitalization
will revolutionise their business, but only the 3% adopts some form
of AI-related technology. Is a digital disruption happening, then?
And how?
- Robin is one of the main brains involved in the Peniche Ocean
Watch Initiative, to rejuvenate coastal communities through
enabling a blue circular economy. The initiative is located in
Portugal and takes a holistic and integrated perspective on
regional empowerment, digital transformation, and ocean
initiatives. Reusing ocean waste for producing graphene-reinforced
3D printing material is an example of what the initiative is
creating. Plus, those in the coastal community who are involved in
the project are paid back in cryptocurrency. Robin is passionate
about the ocean also outside her work time: she is a surfer!
- Robin explains what the challenges of being a
multi-disciplinary researcher are, and this is the advice she
shares: ensuring between depth and depth, creating a collective
competence, adopting consistent language across the teams,
understanding what drives the individual contributors.
Check out Robin’s publications:
Ingram Bogusz, C., Teigland, R., & Vaast, E. (2019). Designed
entrepreneurial legitimacy: the case of a Swedish crowdfunding
platform. European Journal of Information
Systems, 28(3), 318-335.
https://orsociety.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0960085X.2018.1534039#.XP168YgzaUk
Felländer, A., Ingram, C., & Teigland, R. (2015). Sharing
economy. In Embracing Change with Caution.
Näringspolitiskt Forum Rapport (No. 11)
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robin_Teigland/publication/278410531_SHARING_ECONOMY_EMBRACING_CHANGE_WITH_CAUTION/links/5580805808aed40dd8cd27ee.pdf
Wasko, M. M., Faraj, S., & Teigland, R. (2004). Collective
action and knowledge contribution in electronic networks of
practice. Journal of the Association for Information
Systems, 5(11), 15. https://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol5/iss11/15/