Anna Karin Olsson

Senior Lecturer

Docent i företagsekonomi

anna-karin.olsson@hv.se

+46520223644

J305

Organization

Staff member at Division of Business Administration.

Research area

Conducts research in social sciences, workintegrated learning, economics and business, business administration.

Research area/Research Interest

Anna Karin has a PhD in Business Administration and is an Associate Professor in Business Administration at University West. Anna Karin holds the following academic roles: thematic research leader in the management team for the complete academic environment for work-integrated learning, KAM AIL, as well as research leader for the core area of industrial work-integrated learning, I-WIL, within the KK-funded research environment PRIMUS. She is also a member of the subject committee for PhD education in work-integrated learning.

In her research, Anna Karin has mainly studied collaboration and co-production from an organizational and leadership perspective in various contexts, from the tourism industry to the manufacturing industry. The research interest includes individuals and organizing related to leadership, innovation, digitalization, entrepreneurship, learning and co-production. Anna Karin has experience in leading and participating in interdisciplinary research projects in collaboration between academia and surrounding society/industry. PROWIL human-centric smart automation is an example of an ongoing transdisciplinary project focusing on human-centric perspectives in the introduction of smart technology related to Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0.

Ongoing international research and PhD education collaboration mainly with Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY, US; Kristiania University College in Oslo, Norway; and University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa and partners within the STARS EU Alliance.

Teaching/Supervision

Anna Karin teaches on PhD courses in WIL and in the field of organization and leadership at advanced level. She is main and assistant supervisor in the PhD education in WIL. Anna Karin has broad experience in developing courses and programs at all academic levels.

Keywords

Organization, leadership, collaboration, co-production, WIL, digitalization innovation, entrepreneurship

External assignments

Anna Karin has assignments as guest lecturer nationally and internationally. She is a reviewer of international scientific journals and has assignments as a reviewer of doctoral theses and as a member of theses assessment committees.

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ResearchGate

Work context is a key issue for learning leadership

Teachers’ Reflections on Digitally Enhanced Work-Integrated Learning in Phd Education

Transforming Scientific Writing with Feedforward Practices

“The ultimate way to build knowledge!” : industrial PhD Education Bridges Academia and Industry

Feedforward to promote scientific writing skills together : Joy at work instead of fear of failure

Be Smarter! : Strategic Career Planning Via Work-Integrated Learning In Phd Education

Breaking the mold : Reinterpreting industrial digital transformation and co-workership

Crafting your career path using the principles of Work-integrated learning (WIL) during your PhD journey : Workshop 20240516 Alnarp

Transforming doctoral education : Exploring industrial PhD collaboration in Sweden

One foot in academia and one in work-life : the case of Swedish industrial PhD students

Industrial PhD students spanning the boundaries between academia and practice : a collaboration for organisational learning, Organisational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities.

A co-workership approach on digital transformation : Towards smart manufacturing

Desperately seeking industrial digital strategy : a dynamic capability approach

Library-faculty collaboration in the light of a business administration bachelor’s program : ‘The Scientific Wave’

Industrial PhD Education : Exploring Doctoral Students Acting in the Intersection of Academia and Work-Life

Artificial and human aspects of Industry 4.0: an industrial work-integrated-learning research agenda

Destination service volunteering

Becoming a smart old town : How to manage stakeholder collaboration and cultural heritage

Artificial and Human Intelligence through Learning : How Industry Applications Need Human-in-the-loop

Stakeholder Involvement in City Transformation : Towards a Smart Old Town

A conceptual model for university-society research collaboration facilitating societal impact for local innovation

The Active Learning Classroom Experience : A Passion for Collaboration in Higher Education

Understanding Women Entrepreneurs' Encounters with an Increasingly Digitalized Workplace

The Way to the Wave : To Integrate Media and Information Literacy in the "Scientific Wave" Throughout a Bachelor Program in Business Administration

Network collaboration for local and regional development the case of Swedish women entrepreneurs

Stakeholder Collaboration for Place Innovation : Challenges and Visions in Local Regeneration

Conceptualizing University-Society Collaboration : A Literature Review Focusing on Drivers of Collaboration

Att utveckla Lysekils centrum tillsammans : utmaningar och möjligheter

En gränsöverskridande workshop om : Hvordan kan vi bruke undersøkelser til å skape et bedre sentrum?

Lessons Learned From A Cross-Sector Development Project : An Integrative Research Approach

Women Entrepreneurs in Local Community Networks : Participation, Challenges and Place Development

Making sense of social media implementation : a longitudinal case study of the technological frames of hotel employees

Women Entrepreneurs' Participation in Local Tourism Networks in Sweden : a Pilot Study

Integration, entreprenörskap och hållbar samhällsutveckling

A Nordic Perspective on Co‐Operation for Sustainable Destination and Regional Development

Exploring Nordic ways of tourism cooperation around canals, rivers and in‐land water areas

Destination development through storytelling focused on maritime culture

Members in Tourism Settings : their Motivations, Behaviours and Roles

Members in Tourism Settings : their motivations, behaviours and roles

Storytelling and destination development

Storytelling : A Means of Creative Destination Development?

Storytelling and destination development

Members as Participating Supporters and Front Line Co-Creators : Spatial Aspects of Member Interactions in Tourism Settings

Bokrecension Ledarskapsutveckling – individuell och kollektiv utveckling : Kjellström utmanar det traditionella narrativet om ledarskap som ett hjälteideal och menar att ledarskapsutveckling måste relateras till dagens komplexa omvärld

Pedagogical Reflections on Teaching Leadership in Business Administration and Nursing in Master’s Level Online Courses

Work-integrated learning in action : How do women entrepreneurs in small businesses learn and develop digital skills?

Transforming Education – Transforming Lives : Reports from a special session on Current Issues in Work-Integrated Learning (CIWIL) in Europe

Transdisciplinary Engineering and Co-Creation Towards Human-Centric Smart Automation

Exploring career paths using the principles of work-integrated learning during the PhD journey

Beyond lean production practices and Industry 4.0 technologies toward the human-centric Industry 5.0

Management toward Industry 5.0 : a co-workership approach on digital transformation for future innovative manufacturing

Exploring Socially Sustainable, Smart Manufacturing : Building Bridges Over Troubled Waters

Reviewing human-centric themes in intelligent manufacturing research

What are the prerequisites for a successful industrial PhD education collaboration?

Retailing and cultural heritage as means for the future city

Managers’ Perceptions of Industrial Digitalization in the Early Phases of a Pandemic : A Qualitative Study

To digitalize or not? Navigating and merging human : and technology perspectives in production planning and control

Taking Responsibility for Industrial Digitalization : Navigating Organizational Challenges

Collaboration for Learning - Industrial PhD-students in the Intersection of Academia and Work-life

Taking care of Digital initiatives : Managers approaching industrial digitalization

University-Industry Collaboration in Higher Education : Exploring the Informing Flows Framework in Industrial PhD Education

Keeping up the pace of digitalization in small businesses : Women entrepreneurs' knowledge and use of social media

University-Industry collaboration in higher education : Industry views on investing in industrial PhD students

Inclusive place innovation as a means for local community regeneration

Work-Integrated Learning and Collaboration in Higher Education 3rd Cycle : The Case of Industrial PhD Students

In an urban food desert : A study of mobile farmers markets and social entrepreneurship in Washington, DC

Bachelor students in research projects : boosting WIL and University-Society Collaboration

Framing organizational social media : a longitudinal study of a hotel chain

Approaches to inclusive networking in place development : an illustration from six smaller Scandinavian cities

Besökar- och boendestudie i Lysekil sommaren 2017

Besökar- och boendestudie i Lysekil sensommaren 2016