Torbjörn Ljungkvist

Orchestrating Resources for Innovation: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Supportive Organizations

Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Jim Andersén, Christoffer Axell, Maria Hedelius

RENT 2025 - "Responsible Entrepreneurship & Technology – Combining the local and the global", November 19, 2025 - November 21, 2025, Enschede, The Netherlands

2025. Conference paper, oral presentation with abstract.

Resource orchestration through interactive creativity of family firm retail managers in times of uncertainty

Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Börje Boers, Christoffer Axell

20th EIASM Workshop on Family Firm Management Research, Echoes from the past, foundation for the future: Legacy as a catalyst in family entrepreneurship, Jönköping, October 2-3, 2025

2025. Conference paper, oral presentation with abstract.

Family firm identity on or off?: Coupling mechanisms between owning families and their businesses

Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Börje Boers, Olof Brunninge

20th EIASM Workshop on Family Firm Management Research, Echoes from the past, foundation for the future: Legacy as a catalyst in family entrepreneurship, Jönköping, October 2-3, 2025

2025. Conference paper, oral presentation with abstract.

Ceasing to communicate public family firm identity: the decoupling of internally experienced and externally communicated identities

Börje Boers, Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Olof Brunninge

Journal of Family Business Management

2024. Article. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFBM-01-2023-0003 Open Access

Managerial dynamic capabilities of family firm retail managers: strategic enabling in a context of economic uncertainty

Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Börje Boers, Christoffer Axell

International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research

2024. Article. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijebr-11-2023-1175 Open Access

Entrepreneurship and resource orchestration of family owned real estate firms in times of economic change

Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Urban Österlund, Jim Andersén, Maria Hedelius, Christoffer Axell

RENT 2024, The Multiple Faces of Entrepreneurship: Embracing the Diversity of Ambitions, Processes and Practices Worldwide, (13) 14-15 November, Nantes, France

2024. Conference paper, oral presentation with abstract.

A theory of venture capital family business: a governance trajectory

Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Börje Boers

Journal of Family Business Management

2023. Article. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFBM-08-2021-0096 Open Access

Managerial Dynamic Capabilities of Micro and Small Family Firm Managers in the Retail Industry: Strategic Actions to Manage Economic Downturn

Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Börje Boers, Christoffer Axell

18th EIASM Workshop on Family Firm Management Research Balancing Financial and Non-Financial Wealth, Naples, Italy, October 2-3, 2023

2023. Conference paper.

Family influences on entrepreneurial orientation in immigrant entrepreneurship

Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Quang Evansluong, Börje Boers

International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research

2023. Article. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-07-2022-0602 Open Access

Family firm versus non-family firm: the role of resource orchestration in fast-growing high-tech SMEs

Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Börje Boers, Jim Andersén

Journal of Family Business Management

2022. Article. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFBM-11-2021-0137 Open Access

Managerial dynamic capabilities within the real estate industry: Strategies to encounter economic decline

Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Urban Österlund

International Academy of Business and Economics®, IABE-2022 New York Conference, October 21-23, 2022

2022. Conference paper, poster.

Resource orchestration for team-based innovation: A case study of the interplay between teams, customers, and top management

Jim Andersén, Torbjörn Ljungkvist

R&D Management

2021. Article. https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12442 Open Access

Distinguishing VCFB, Family Offices and other devices for wealth transition and sustainability of owning families

Börje Boers, Torbjörn Ljungkvist

IFERA 2021: Family business: A model for the new world?

2021. Conference paper, poster.

The family influences of EO development in immigrant family businesses

Börje Boers, Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Quang Evansluong

EURAM 2021, Reshaping capitalism for a sustainable world, 16-18 June 2021

2021. Conference paper, oral presentation with abstract.

A taxonomy of ecopreneurship in small manufacturing firms: A multidimensional cluster analysis

Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Jim Andersén

Business Strategy and the Environment

2021. Article. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2691 Open Access

Can environmentally oriented CEOs and environmentally friendly suppliers boost the growth of small firms?

Jim Andersén, Christian Jansson, Torbjörn Ljungkvist

Business Strategy and the Environment

2020. Article. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2366

Social value creation and family entrepreneurship in communities

Börje Boers, Torbjörn Ljungkvist

IFERA 2020 Proceedings: Generations to Generations: Bridging Past and Future in Family Business

2020. Conference paper, oral presentation with abstract. Open Access

The founder’s psychological ownership and its strategic implications

Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Börje Boers

Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development

2020. Article. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSBED-12-2018-0386

The management of resource orchestration in fast-growing owner-led companies

Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Börje Boers, Jim Andersén

IFERA 2020 Proceedings: Generations to Generations: Bridging Past and Future in Family Business

2020. Conference paper, oral presentation with abstract. Open Access

Three stages of Entrepreneurial Orientation: The Founder’s role

Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Börje Boers, Joachim Samuelsson

International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research

2020. Article. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-10-2018-0630

A founder's heritage: the development of organizational identity

Börje Boers, Torbjörn Ljungkvist

Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship

2019. Article. https://doi.org/10.1080/08276331.2018.1466849 Open Access

A theory of venture capital family business (VCFB): professionalization trajectories

Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Börje Boers

15th EASIM Workshop on Family Firm Management Research, Family Entrepreneurship and Society, Nantes, France, May 23-25, 2019

2019. Conference paper, oral presentation with abstract.

Rapid growth of founder-led companies: the role of resource orchestration

Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Börje Boers, Jim Andersén, Mattias Nordqvist

International Academy of Business and Economics (IABE)-2019, Los Angeles, June 14-16, 2019

2019. Conference paper, oral presentation with abstract.

Giving Up The Family Name While Staying A Family Business: The Family Business As Acquirer

Börje Boers, Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Olof Brunninge

14th Workshop on Family Firm Management Research: 'Entrepreneurial Families Across Generations, Larnaca, Cyprus, May 17-19, 2018

2018. Conference paper, oral presentation with abstract.

Regional Resilience

Anders Edström, Margareta Oudhuis, Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Björn Brorström

The Resilience Framework: Organizing for Sustained Viability

2018. Chapter in book. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5314-6_13

The family influences of EO development in immigrant family businesses

Quang Evansluong, Börje Boers, Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Sandor Ujvari

Sustainable entrepreneurship: A win-win strategy for the future

2018. Conference paper.

Quasi-markets and abnormal growth: The case of the Swedish personal assistant industry

Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Urban Österlund

International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines (IABPAD) Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA, January 2-5, 2018

2018. Conference paper, oral presentation with abstract.

Quasi-markets and abnormal growth: The case of the Swedish personal care assistance industry

Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Urban Österlund

International Journal of Business Strategy

2018. Article. https://doi.org/10.18374/IJBS-18-2.1

Rent appropriation management of strategic human capital in practice

Jim Andersén, Christian Jansson, Torbjörn Ljungkvist

37th Strategic Management Society (SMS) Annual Conference, Houston, October 28-31, 2017

2017. Conference paper.

A founder’s heritage: the development of psychological ownership

Börje Boers, Torbjörn Ljungkvist

13th Workshop on Family Firm Management Research Creativity and Family Businesses, Bilbao, Spain, May 25-27, 2017

2017. Conference paper.

Going private: A socioemotional wealth perspective on why family controlled companies decide to leave the stock-exchange

Börje Boers, Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Olof Brunninge, Mattias Nordqvist

The Journal of Family Business Strategy

2017. Article. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfbs.2017.01.005

Constructive business advice?: Different trajectories between family businesses and startups

Torbjörn Ljungkvist

Journal of Family Business Management

2017. Article. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFBM-05-2017-0011

Another hybrid?: Family businesses as venture capitalists

Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Börje Boers

Journal of Family Business Management

2017. Article. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFBM-02-2017-0006

Resource immobility and sustained performance: A systematic assessment of how immobility has been considered in empirical resource-based studies

Jim Andersén, Christian Jansson, Torbjörn Ljungkvist

International journal of management reviews (Print)

2016. Article. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12067

An integrated approach to rent appropriation and rent generation

Jim Andersén, Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Christian Jansson

International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines (IABPAD) Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, October 19-22, 2016

2016. Conference paper, oral presentation with abstract.

Family businesses as venture capitalists: the exception that proves the rules?

Börje Boers, Torbjörn Ljungkvist

19th Nordic Conference on Small Business Research - NCSB 2016, May 19-20, Riga, Latvia

2016. Conference paper, oral presentation with abstract.

Remembering the Founder in Times of Ownership and Leadership Changes

Börje Boers, Torbjörn Ljungkvist

RENT Proceedings 2016

2016. Conference paper.

The impact of business advice: interplay between entrepreneur and experts

Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Jim Andersén

Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship

2016. Article. https://doi.org/10.1080/08276331.2016.1189684

Structural crisis?: Regional culture and resilience in family business-dominated regions in Sweden

Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Börje Boers

Journal of Enterprising Communities

2016. Article. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEC-05-2015-0030

Dubious entrepreneurship and abnormal growth in a quasi-market

Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Urban Österlund

International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines (IABPAD) Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, October 19-22, 2016

2016. Conference paper.

Formal accounting planning in SMEs: the influence of family ownership and entrepreneurial orientation

Joachim Samuelsson, Jim Andersén, Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Christian Jansson

Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development

2016. Article. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSBED-12-2015-0167

A Dynamic Approach to Causal Ambiguity - How Organizational Learning Affects Causal Ambiguity

Jim Andersén, Christian Jansson, Torbjörn Ljungkvist

Proceedings of ICICKM 2015 The 12^th International Conference on Intellectual Capital Knowledge Management and Organisational Learning

2015. Conference paper.

Entrepreneurial orientation and employee well-being

Jim Andersén, Torbjörn Ljungkvist

International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines (IABPAD) Las Vegas Conference, October 22-25, 2015

2015. Conference paper, oral presentation with abstract.

Entrepreneurially oriented in what? A business model approach to entrepreneurship

Jim Andersén, Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Lotten Svensson

Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development

2015. Article. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSBED-11-2013-0170

Going private: Why family controlled, publicly-listed companies decide to leave the stock-exchange

Börje Boers, Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Olof Brunninge, Mattias Nordqvist

11th Workshop on Family Firm Management Research Shifting Boundaries in Family Firm Research, Lyon, France, May 29-30, 2015

2015. Conference paper.

Accounting principles and judgement

Hossein Pashang, Urban Österlund, Kjell Johansson, Torbjörn Ljungkvist

International Journal of Business Strategy

2015. Article. https://doi.org/10.18374/IJBS-15-2.5

Effects of Capital Structure, Composition of Managament Team and Performance Among Swedish SME Companies

Urban Österlund, Torbjörn Ljungkvist

11th International Business and Social Sciences Research Conference, Dubai, 8-9 January 2015

2015. Conference paper, oral presentation with abstract.

A model for measuring resource immobility

Jim Andersén, Christian Jansson, Torbjörn Ljungkvist

IABPAD Spring Conference, Dallas, TX , April 24-27, 2014

2014. Conference paper, oral presentation with abstract.

Family business, resilience and regional culture: Examples from Sweden

Börje Boers, Torbjörn Ljungkvist

10th EIASM Workshop on Family Firm Management Research: Innovation, family Firms and Economic Development, Bergamo, Italy, May 23-24, 2014

2014. Conference paper.

Resiliens genom regional företagskultur

Torbjörn Ljungkvist

Organisatorisk resiliens: Vad är det som gör företag och organisationer livskraftiga?

2014. Chapter in book.

Resilience and family businesses and regional culture

Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Börje Boers

10th EIASM Workshop on Family Firm Management Research: Innovation, family Firms and Economic Development, Bergamo, Italy, May 23-24, 2014

2014. Conference paper, oral presentation with abstract.

Uthålligt företagande: Om regionala förutsättningar och förhållningssätt

Björn Brorström, Anders Edström, Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Margareta Oudhuis

2012. Book.

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