Esbjörn Segelod (born 1951) is a Swedish organizational theorist and Professor in Business Administration at the

Mälardalen University College Mälardalen University (Swedish: ''Mälardalens universitet''), or MDU, is a Swedish university college located in Västerås and Eskilstuna, Sweden. It has 16,000 students and around 1000 employees, of which 91 are professors, 504 teachers, a ...

, School of Business Society and Engineering. He is best known for his work on "knowledge in the software development process" and "software innovativeness"Lamastra, Cristina Rossi. "Software innovativeness. A comparison between proprietary and Free/Open Source solutions offered by Italian SMEs." R&d Management 39.2 (2009): 153-169.

Life and work

Segelod obtained his PhD at the

University of Gothenburg The University of Gothenburg ( sv, Göteborgs universitet) is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities and with 37,000 students and 6000 st ...

in 1986 with the thesis, entitled "Kalkylering och avvikelser : empiriska studier av stora projekt i kommuner och industri" (Capital expenditure planning and planning deviations). After graduation Segelod started his academic career at the

. In the late 1980s Segelod moved to the

Uppsala University Uppsala University ( sv, Uppsala universitet) is a public university, public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the List of universities in Sweden, oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries still in opera ...

, where he was affiliated with its Företagsekonomiska institutionen (Institute for Business Administration). In the late 1990s Segelod was appointed Professor in Business Administration at the

Segelod's research interest have broadened over the years, focussing on topics as "sophisticated methods of capital budgeting" in the 1980s, "corporate control of investments" in the 1990s, to the "software development process" and "software innovativeness" in the new millennium.

Selected publications

* Segelod, Esbjörn. ''Capital investment appraisal: towards a contingency theory.'' Chartwell Bratt, 1991. * Segelod, Esbjörn. ''Renewal through internal development.'' Avebury, 1995. Articles, a selection: * Segelod, Esbjörn. "Capital budgeting in a fast-changing world." ''Long Range Planning'' 31.4 (1998): 529-541. * Segelod, Esbjörn. "A comparison of managers’ perceptions of short-termism in Sweden and the US." ''International Journal of Production Economics'' 63.3 (2000): 243-254. * Segelod, Esbjörn, and Gary Jordan.
The use and importance of external sources of knowledge in the software development process
" ''R&D Management'' 34.3 (2004): 239-252. * Jordan, Gary, and Esbjörn Segelod. "Software innovativeness: outcomes on project performance, knowledge enhancement, and external linkages." ''R&D Management'' 36.2 (2006): 127-142. * Segelod, Esbjörn, and Leif Carlsson.
The emergence of uniform principles of cost accounting in Sweden 1900–36.
Accounting, Business & Financial History 20.3 (2010): 327-363.

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Esbjörn Segelod
Mälardalen University {{DEFAULTSORT:Segelod, Esbjorn 1951 births Living people Swedish business theorists University of Gothenburg alumni Academic staff of the Stockholm School of Economics People from Västra Götaland County 20th-century Swedish economists Academic staff of Mälardalen University College