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Research focus

Henrik Dellestrand is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Business Studies and has been affiliated with the International Business research group since September 2006. Mr. Dellestrands interests are related to management issues in the multinational enterprise.

His dissertation work is concerned with headquarters role in subsidiary level activities and what factors make headquarters involve itself in subsidiary projects. Furthermore, Mr. Dellestrand is looking at the value-added role of the parent in the multinational enterprise.

Other areas of interests are the performance implications of innovations and how innovations are developed and assessed by different actors inside and outside the multinational enterprise.

Expert areas

• Subsidiary-headquarter relationships.
• Innovation development and transfer in the multinational enterprise.

Projects

Transfer of Innovations in Multinational Enterprises (TIME).

Reviewer positions

Mr. Dellestrand has acted as a reviewer for Journal of Management Studies and for international conferences such as the Academy of International Business, Academy of International Business UK & Ireland and the European International Business Academy.

Visiting position

Mr. Dellestrand spent four months as a visiting researcher at the Centre for International Business University of Leeds (CIBUL) between November 2008 and February 2009.

Between October 2009 and February 2010 Mr. Dellestrand was a visiting researcher at the Strategic Management department at Temple University in Philadelphia.

Awards

• Nominated for the Haynes Prize at the 2008 AIB conference.
• Awarded the Copenhagen Prize (together with Philip Kappen) at the 2008 EIBA conference.
• Best reviewer prize at the 2008 EIBA conference.
• Awarded the Michael Z. Brooke Prize at the AIB UK & Ireland conference 2009.

Teaching

Mr. Dellestrand has taught International Business at both the bachelor and master level.

Publications

Conference Papers

• Dellestrand, H. (2009) Relational Embedded Subsidiaries and the Involvement of Headquarters in Knowledge Transfer Processes. Paper presented at the 36th Annual Conference of the Academy of International Business (UK and Ireland chapter), 2-4 April 2009
• Dellestrand, H. and Kappen, P. (2008) Headquarter allocation of resources to intra-MNE transfer projects. Winner of the Copenhagen prize at the European International Business Academy annual conference, Dec. 11-13, Tallinn.
• Ciabuschi, F., Dellestrand, H. and Martín Martín, O. (2008) Corporate drivers of innovation importance. Presented at the 34th EIBA annual conference, Tallinn, Estonia, December 11-13, 2008
• Dellestrand, H. (2008) Innovation characteristics, transfer management and headquarter involvement in the transfer of innovations between MNE subsidiaries. Paper nominated for the Haynes Prize.
• Dellestrand, H. (2007) To be or not to be… – the question of subsidiary and headquarter involvement in MNE knowledge transfer.