I have a Ph.D from Umeå School of Business and Economics, Umeå University. Besides academic work in Sweden, and at BI since 1999, I have been a visiting scholar at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile (2004-2006) and at University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (1995).
Research areas
My research interests include interorganisational relationships and international management. Trust and identity are often core concepts. A recent project concerns interactions between multinational corporations and indigenous groups.
Teaching areas
Strategic management and Supply management. The role of business for economic and social development.
Resource interaction: Key concepts, relations and representations
Industrial Marketing Management, 105, s. 48- 59. Doi: -
Huemer, Lars & Wang, Xiaobei (2021)
Resource bundles and value creation: An analytical framework
Journal of Business Research, 134, s. 720- 728. Doi: -
All organizations intend to create some form of value. Yet, the most influential analytical frameworks focusing on resources emphasize competitive advantage, which is a concern for only some organizations. This study proposes a novel analytical framework focusing on value creation. Moreover, the framework returns to the emphasis on the bundled nature of resources stressed in earlier strategy theory. The concepts of resource interfaces, resource imprints and cogency effects, are combined to (i) highlight the bundled and interdependent nature of resources (ii) reinterpret the classical emphasis on rareness and inimitability and (iii) redefine the meaning of a strategic resource. With help of a longitudinal case study, the scope of value creation is broadened by reconsidering the meaning of the ‘best resource’ and the ‘weakest link’; focusing on being ‘better with…’ rather than being ‘better than….’.
Huemer, Lars (2017)
Everything is one? Relationships between First nations and salmon farming companies
Verbos, Amy Klemm; Henry, Ella & Peredo, Ana Maria (red.). Indigenous aspiration and rights: The case for responsible business and management
Huemer, Lars (2017)
Strategizing in horizons and verizons: Distinguishing between mediators and firms' mediating functions.
The IMP Journal, 11(2), s. 274- 288. Doi: -
Abrahamsen, Morten H.; Henneberg, Stephan C., Huemer, Lars & Naudè, Peter (2016)
Network picturing: An action research study of strategizing in business networks
Industrial Marketing Management, 59, s. 107- 119. Doi:
Our paper is concerned with how managers understand their surrounding network and what strategic actions they take based on this insight. Recent research in the areas of network management and business relationships shows increasing interest in the interplay between cognition and action, particularly on how managers relate perceptions about their business network (“network picturing”) to decision-making and strategizing activities. In this study, we apply a novel research approach combining process research and action research methodology. Our sample is introduced to business network theories and concepts, and the use and adaptation of these concepts results in managerial options being articulated and applied. Our findings add new insight in the field of network strategy and network picturing. Network picturing represents a way to understand the boundaries of the firm and how this understanding affects managers' decisions. This differs from the fundamental distinction between the external and the internal environments of classical strategy analysis. In terms of network picturing, strategizing is a way to understand the resulting actions or network outcomes that managers see as viable within their surrounding network. We also provide a conceptual process exercise as an example of how this insight can be relevant for managers in their decision-making processes.
Wang, Xiaobei; Persson, Kurt Gøran & Huemer, Lars (2016)
Logistics Service Providers and value creation through collaboration: A case study
Long Range Planning, 49(1), s. 117- 128. Doi:
Huemer, Lars (2014)
Creating cooperative advantage: The roles of identification, trust, and time
Industrial Marketing Management, 43(4), s. 564- 572. Doi:
Huemer, Lars & Furlan, Andrea (2013)
Value Logic Interactions: Perspectives on Logistics Service Provider-Client relationships
MERCATI E COMPETITIVIT脌, s. 35- 51. Doi:
Huemer, Lars (2013)
When in Rome, be(come) a Roman? An actor focus on identities in networks
Industrial Marketing Management, 42(7), s. 1112- 1120. Doi:
Huemer, Lars & Wang, Xiaobei (2012)
From chains and tiers to layers and exchange streams: An analysis of information flows and intelligent goods
Dreyer, Heidi Carin & Foss, Trond (red.). Intelligent goods in transport system
Huemer, Lars (2012)
Organizational identities in networks: Sense-giving and sense-taking in the salmon farming industry
The IMP Journal, 6(3), s. 240- 253.
Huemer, Lars (2012)
Unchained from the chain: Supply management from a logistics service provider perspective
Journal of Business Research, 65(2), s. 258- 264. Doi:
Persson, Kurt Gøran & Huemer, Lars (2011)
Samarbeid i forsyningskjeder
Persson, Kurt G酶ran (red.). Logistikk og ledelse av forsyningskjeder
Huemer, Lars (2010)
Corporate Social Responsibility and Multinational Corporation Identity: 黑料专区 Strategies in the Chilean Aquaculture Industry
Journal of Business Ethics, 91(suppl. 2), s. 265- 277. Doi:
Felzensztein, Christian; Huemer, Lars & Gimmon, Eli (2010)
The effects of co-location on marketing externalities in the salmon-farming industry
The journal of business & industrial marketing, 25(1), s. 73- 82. Doi:
Huemer, Lars; Boström, Gert-Olof & Felzensztein, Christian (2009)
Control-trust interplays and the influence paradox: A comparative study of MNC-subsidiary relationships
Industrial Marketing Management, 38(5), s. 520- 528. Doi:
Huemer, Lars; Boström, Gert-Olof & Felzensztein, Christian (2009)
Control - Trust Interplays and the Influence Paradox: A comparative study of MNC-subsidiary relationships
Industrial Marketing Management, 38(5), s. 520- 528.
Huemer, Lars; Håkansson, Håkan & Prenkert, Frans (2009)
The Becoming of Cermaq: The interplay between network influences and firm level control ambitions
The IMP Journal, 3(3), s. 53- 75.
Huemer, Lars & Fjeldstad, Øystein (2008)
Value configuration analysis. A new view of supply management
Jan Stentoft Arlbj酶rn, 脕rni Halld贸rsson, Marianne Jahre, Karen Spens (eds.), Northern Lights in Logistics & Supply Chain Management
Becerra, Manuel; Lunnan, Randi & Huemer, Lars (2008)
Trustworthiness, Risk, and the Transfer of Tacit and Explicit Knowledge Between Alliance Partners
Journal of Management Studies, 45(4), s. 691- 713. Doi:
Huemer, Lars (2006)
Supply Management: Value creation, coordination and positioning in supply relationships
Long Range Planning, 39(2), s. 133- 153.
Huemer, Lars; Becerra, Manuel & Lunnan, Randi (2004)
Organizational identity and network identification: Relating within and beyond imaginary boundaries
Scandinavian Journal of Management, 20(1/2), s. 53- 74.
Huemer, Lars (2004)
Balancing between stability and variety: Identity and trust trade offs in networks
Industrial Marketing Management, 33(3), s. 251- 260.
Huemer, Lars (2004)
Activating trust:The redefinition of roles and relationships in an international construction project
International Marketing Review, 21(2), s. 187- 201.
Gadde, Lars-Erik; Huemer, Lars & Håkansson, Håkan (2002)
Strategizing in industrial networks
Industrial Marketing Management, 32(5), s. 357- 364.
Becerra, Manuel; Huemer, Lars & Hoivik, Heidi von Weltzien (2002)
Moral character and relationship effectiveness: an empirical investigation of trust within organizations
Moral Leadership in Action
Huemer, Lars (2001)
Om förtroende och affärsrelationer
Tillitens ansikten/Aronsen,G. och J.C.Karlsson (red.)
Becerra, Manuel & Huemer, Lars (2001)
Moral character and relationship effectiveness : an empirical investigation of trust within organizations
Moral leadership in action, Edgar Elgar/H酶ivik, H.v.W
Håkansson, Håkan & Huemer, Lars (2001)
Marknader som organiserade nätverk
Nordiske organisasjonsstudier, 3
Østergren, Katarina & Huemer, Lars (1999)
Strategic thinking in the swedish construction industry