Eric Rhenman (1932–1993) was a business professor at

Stockholm School of Economics The Stockholm School of Economics (SSE; sv, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, HHS) is a private business school located in city district Vasastaden in the central part of Stockholm, Sweden. SSE offers BSc, MSc and MBA programs, along with ...

and

Lund University , motto = Ad utrumque , mottoeng = Prepared for both , established = , type = Public research university , budget = SEK 9 billion Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

, and a guest professor at

Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

(1974–1976).Professor Eric Rhenman Memorial Foundation
, SIAR Website He was named a Professor of Business Administration at Lund in 1967.Furusten, Staffa
Popular management books: how they are made and what they mean for organisations
p. 91–94 (1999)Kipping, Matthias and Engwall, Lars
Management consulting: emergence and dynamics of a knowledge industry
p. 42–45 (2002) He was offered a chair at Harvard, which he declined in order to focus on consulting at the

Scandinavian Institutes of Administrative Research (SIAR) Scandinavian Institutes for Administrative Research (SIAR) was a Swedish consulting company and research institute founded by the late Professor Eric Rhenman in the mid-1960s. From 1966 to 1971 SIAR was a research institute. During the 1970s the pr ...

.Engwall, Lars, et al. (1993)
Bridge over troubled water
Paper for the working group “Growth and Institutionalisation of Managerial and Organisational Knowledge” at the first EGOS Collquium in Paris, July 6–8, 1993, Retrieved on 1 September 2009 Rhenman, together with four other academic researchers at the Stockholm School of Economics, founded the Scandinavian Institutes for Administrative Research (SIAR) in 1966, which functioned as a research institute until 1971, but was then transformed into a combined consulting company and research institute. Among other work, Rhenman is known for his research on the gap between scholarly research on management and the perceived lack of relevance and actual application of that research to the real world. Also, Rhenman's work on stakeholders in management structures was very influential in Sweden, and considered the foundation of the "Swedish model."Vandekerckhove, Wi
Whistleblowing and organizational social responsibility: a global assessment
p. 86, 98–99 (2006)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rhenman, Eric 1932 births 1993 deaths Swedish business theorists Academic staff of the Stockholm School of Economics Lund University Stockholm School of Economics alumni