Christine Holmström Lind is Director of  Advanced Studies and a senior Lecturer in International Business at the Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University. She has teaching experience in International Business at the bachelor, master, and executive MBA level, and acts as a thesis advisor at the undergraduate-, master- and doctoral level. Christine has also worked as project manager and corporate (senior) market analyst for many years. Prior to her doctoral studies she was a consultant specialized in international expansion strategies.

Christine received her Licenciate degree and her Ph.D. at the Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University. This research was concerned with the strategic role of multinational subsidiaries as creators and disseminators of knowledge and innovations and a special attention was put on the development of so called “Centres of Excellence” subsidiaries. Other research interests concerns the development and transfer of knowledge/innovations in multinational corporations, the occurence of knowledge spillovers from MNC subsidiaries to local host country firms, and the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and growth.

Currently her work concerns the external impact of foreign MNC subsidiaries, in particular the question of “how” knowledge spillovers from MNC subsidiaries occur and how they affect innovation activities- and growth among local firms in the host country (see project description below). A part of this research is conducted in collaboration with scholars at the CIBI (Centre of International Business and Innovation) at Manchester Metropolitan University and Manchester Business School (MBS).

She has been engaged as an ad-hoc reviewer for several international business journals, and she is a member of the European International Business Association and the Academy of International Business. She is also part of Uppsala University’s Centre for Research on Innovation and Industrial Dynamics (CIND). 
 

Christine was awarded the Wallander-scholarship for excellent Ph.D. thesis in 2006.

Expert areas

• Knowledge development and transfer within MNC subsidiaries, the development of MNC subsidiaries with special focus on subsidiary entrepreneurship
• The external impact of MNC subsidiaries on local host country firms; the impact of MNC subsidiaries on local host country SMEs

Research projects

The Impact of foreign MNC Subsidiaries on local firms  - a network perspective

Exploiting Innovation Transfer (EXIT-project)

The Development of Centres of Excellence in Multinational Corporations (CoE-project)

Publications

Holmström Lind, C. (2012) Subsidiaries as straddling fields and the trade-off between knowledge development and knowledge transfer, International Journal of Business Environment, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 159-177 (available online Feb. 2011)

Holmström Lind, C., Kang, O. (2011) Subsidiary entrepreneurship and headquarters involvement during innovation development: Dual paths to subsidiary performance. In Entrepreneurship in the Global Firm, Emerald Publishing Ltd., pp. 139-164.

Hallin, C., Holmström Lind, C. (2012) Revisiting the external impact of MNC subsidiaries: An empirical study of the mechanisms behind knowledge spillovers from MNC subsidiaries, International Business Review, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 167-179

Holmström Lind, C. (2010) Managing the transfer of externally embedded subsidiary knowledge: The role of headquarters control mechanisms, in Managing the Contemporary Multinational: the Role of Headquarters, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar

Adenfelt, M., Holm, U., Holmström, C. (2006) Transfer of Subsidiary Knowledge within the MNC: The impact of Headquarters’ recognition and Inter-unit Relationships, in International Markets and Business Networks, Brain Korea Publishing, South Korea

Holm, U., Holmström, C., Sharma, D.D. (2005) Competence Development through Business Relationships or Competitive Environment? Subsidiary Impact on MNC Competitive Advantage, Management International Review, vol. 42, no. 2

Andersson, M., Holm, U., Holmström, C. (2001) Relationship Configuration and Competence Development in MNC Subsidiaries, in Business Network Learning, Oxford: Elsevier Science.

Andersson, M., Holmström, C. (2000) The Dilemma of Developing a Centre of Excellence – a Case Study of ABB Generation, in the Emergence and Impact of MNC Centres of Excellence: a Subsidiary Perspective, London: MacMillan

Holmström, C (1995). Swedish SME's and their market entry into the eastern German market , Europool-Publikation nr 24. Europool, c/o Handelshögskolan i Umeå, Umeå Universitet

Reports:

Adenfelt, M., Holmström Lind, C., Lundmark, M., Rovira Nordman, E.(2012) Conditions for innovation and growth in small- and medium sized enterprises in the defence- and security sector, FOI-R-3394-SE

Doctoral Thesis

Holmström, C. (2004). In search for MNC competitive advantage, the role of foreign subsidiaries as creators and disseminators of knowledge, Doctoral thesis no.110, Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University.

Licenciate Thesis

Holmström, C. (1999). Developing, recognizing and utilizing subsidiary competence: A study of MNC centres of excellence, Licenciate thesis no.36, Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University.
 

Forskningsprojekt

• Revisiting the External Impact of MNC Subsidiaries

Publikationer

Articles

• Hallin, C. and Holmström Lind, C. (2012) Revisiting the external impact of MNCs: An empirical study of the mechanisms behind knowledge spillovers from MNC subsidiaries, International Business Review, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 167-179.
• Holm, U., Holmström, C. and Sharma, D. (2005) Competence Development through Business Relationships or Competitive Environment?: Subsidiary Impact on MNC Competitive Advantage, Management International Review (MIR), vol. 45, no. 2005/2, pp. 197-218.

Book Chapters

• Holmström Lind, C. (2010) Managing the transfer of externally embedded subsidiary knowledge: the role of headquarters’ control mechanisms in Ulf Andersson and Ulf Holm (ed.) Managing the Contemporary Multinational: The Role of Headquarters. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
• Adenfeldt, M., Holm, U. and Holmström, C. (2006) Transfer of subsidiary knowledge within the MNC: the impact of headquarters recognition and inter-unit relationships in Business Networks and International Marketing.
• Adenfelt, M., Holm, U. and Holmström, C. (2006) Transfer of Subsidiary Knowledge within the MNC: The Impact of Headquarters' Recognition and Inter-unit Relationships in Business Networks and International Marketing. Doo Yang Publishing Co., Seoul, South Korea.
• Andersson, M. and Holmström, C. (2000) The Dilemma of Developing a Centre of Excellence - a Case-Study of ABB Generation in he Emergence and Impact of MNC Centres of Excellence. A Subsidiary Perspective.

Doctoral Thesis

• Holmström, C. (2004) In Search of MNC Competitive Advantage: The Role of Foreign Subsidiaries as Creators and Disseminators of Knowledge, Doctoral thesis / Företagsekonomiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet. ISSN: 1103-8454, Företagsekonomiska institutionen.