Prof. Dr. Fredrik Hacklin

Arbeit an der ZHAW

Tätigkeit

Abteilungsleitung, International Business Mitglied der Geschäftsleitung, ZHAW School of Management and Law

Arbeits- und Forschungsschwerpunkte

His research, executive education and advisory activities are in the field of strategic entrepreneurship and innovation, with focus on challenges associated with digital disruption, industry reconfiguration and their implications for firm strategy. His work has been featured in various outlets such as the MIT Sloan Management Review and the Harvard Business Review case collection, and he is author of the book Management of Convergence in Innovation (2008). Being a regular speaker and trainer, he has worked with companies such as ABB, Art Basel, Bang & Olufsen, Danone, Deutsche Telekom, Johnson&Johnson, KPMG, Nokia and UBS, and advised organizations such as the European Parliament or the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. He is actively involved in start-up and corporate venturing activities, and is recipient of the research award by the Nokia–AlcatelLucent Foundation. His article “Strategic choices in converging industries” (2013) was selected “Top Strategy Article” by the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Netzwerk

Social Media

LinkedIn

Projekte

• SheCanLead x Athletes Network: Wie Führungsqualitäten im Spitzenteamsport entwickelt werden / Stellv. Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
• Revolutionizing Education60+: Digital Lifelong Learning / Teammitglied / abgeschlossen

Publikationen

Beiträge in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift, peer-reviewed

• Cattaneo, G. et al. (2025) 'The long tail of conflicts in innovation projects : conflicts and their impact on strategic renewal', Project Management Journal, 56(3), pp. 375–389. doi: 10.1177/87569728241285139.
• Hacklin, F. et al. (2021) 'The making of convergence : knowledge reuse, boundary spanning, and the formation of the ICT industry', IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 70(4), pp. 1518–1530. doi: 10.1109/TEM.2021.3087365.
• Hacklin, F., Björkdahl, J. and Wallin, M. W. (2018) 'Strategies for business model innovation : how firms reel in migrating value', Long Range Planning, 51(1), pp. 82–110. doi: 10.1016/j.lrp.2017.06.009.
• Salonen, A., Saglam, O. and Hacklin, F. (2017) 'Servitization as reinforcement, not transformation', Journal of Service Management, 28(4), pp. 662–686. doi: 10.1108/JOSM-05-2016-0121.

Buchbeiträge, peer-reviewed

• Massa, L. and Hacklin, F. (2020) 'Business model innovation in incumbent firms : cognition and visual representation', in Sund, K. J., Galavan, R. J., and Bogers, M. (eds) Business models and cognition. Bingley: Emerald, pp. 203–232. doi: 10.1108/S2397-521020200000004010.
• Loock, M. and Hacklin, F. (2015) 'Business modeling as configuring heuristics', in Baden-Fuller, C. and Mangematin, V. (eds) Business Models and Modelling. Emerald, pp. 187–205. doi: 10.1108/S0742-332220150000033005.

Schriftliche Konferenzbeiträge, peer-reviewed

• Tsujimoto, M. et al. (2025) 'Integrative capabilities of emerging ecosystems orchestration : the case of global hydrogen energy ecosystems', in Procedia Computer Science. Elsevier, pp. 447–456. doi: 10.1016/j.procs.2025.08.224.
• Björck, A. et al. (2022) 'Winning over the market orientation trap : a dynamic process model of market orientation evolution', in Academy of Management Proceedings. Academy of Management. doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2022.15608abstract.
• Tsujimoto, M. and Hacklin, F. (2018) 'Creating value through complexity : partial compatibility as a sustaining strategy in Japan's contactless integrated circuit payment system', in 2018 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET). IEEE. doi: 10.23919/picmet.2018.8481755.
• Cattaneo, G. and Hacklin, F. (2016) 'Cycles of organizational renewal : the interplay of strategy and innovation at Bang & Olufsen', in Krogstie, J., Mouratidis, H., and Su, J. (eds) CAiSE 2016 : Information Systems Engineering Workshops. Cham: Springer, pp. 72–77. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-39564-7_7.

Weitere Publikationen

• Clemente, M. et al. (2025) 'How one innovative energy company committed to green an entire country', Stanford Social Innovation Review, 23(3), pp. 18–27.
• Björck, A. et al. (2022) 'Winning over the market orientation trap : an evolutionary perspective on the deliberate iteration between market driving and market-driven orientations', in 22nd EURAM Annual Conference, Winterthur, Switzerland, 15-17 June 2022.

Mündliche Konferenzbeiträge und Abstracts

• Gulati, R. et al. (2023) 'Purpose-driven innovation and transformation : trajectories, mechanisms, and the human impact', in Academy of Management Proceedings. doi: 10.5465/AMPROC.2023.14807symposium.
• Van Boxstael, A., Hacklin, F. and Gruber, M. B. (2018) 'Disruptive innovation and entrepreneurial firms in the sheet music industry', in Academy of Management Proceedings. Academy of Management. doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2018.18572abstract.
• Puricel, E., Hacklin, F. and Battistini, B. (2017) 'The strategic value of corporate venture capital investments', in Academy of Management Proceedings. Academy of Management. doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2017.12085abstract.

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