Björn Bjerke (1941–2018) was a

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, professor in entrepreneurship and small firms at Stockholm University, known for the 1997 book "''Methodology for Creating Business Knowledge''" written with Ingeman Arbnor. Bjerke received his PhD from the

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, the

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in Nigeria and the

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. He was also Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore in Singapore.Vitae - Björn Bjerke at fek.su.se. Retrieved 26 May 2008. Back in Sweden in the new millennium Bjerke was working at the

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Chris Steyaert, Daniel Hjorth (2006) ''Entrepreneurship as Social Change''. p.ix before going to Stockholm. At Stockholm University Bjerke led a research group in entrepreneurship consisting of 15 junior researchers. From 2007 to 2011 he has been working at the Baltic Business School at the

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, Sweden. Bjarke, coined the term "public entrepreneurship" attempting to describe the non-profit orientated standard, associated with subjects of the higher-stage-socialist welfare, operating with relative autonomy under a dominating state enterprise. Bjerke's research interests "centre around

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in order to study

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, the role of

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in successful entrepreneurships and successful regions of growth and entrepreneurship’s role in this connection".

Publications

Books, a selection: * 1974. ''Problemformulering och systemanalys: Introduktion till utredningsmetodik med exempel'' * 1975. ''Produktionsekonomi'' with Rolf Andersson and Bengt O. Färnström. * 1981. ''Some comments on methodology in management research'' * 1994. ''Företagsekonomisk metodlära'' with Ingeman Arbnor * 1997. ''Methodology for Creating Business Knowledge''. With Ingeman Arbnor. California : Sage Publications. (Third Edition 2009). * 1999. ''Facing Business''. Krieger Publishing Company. * 2000. ''Business Leadership and Culture. National Management Styles in the Global economy''. Edward Elgar. UK/US. * 2002. ''Entrepreneurial marketing : the growth of small firms in the new economic era''. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. * 2007. ''Understanding Entrepreneurship'' * 2011. ''Entrepreneurial Imagination : Time, Timing, Space and Place in Business Action'' with Hans Rämö. Edward Elgar. UK/US. * 2013. ''Social Entrepreneurship: To act as if and make a difference''. With Mathias Karlsson. Edward Elgar. UK/US.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bjerke, Bjorn 1941 births Living people Swedish business theorists Swedish economists Academic staff of Stockholm University Lund University alumni Academic staff of Lund University Academic staff of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Academic staff of the University of Waikato University of Southern California faculty Academic staff of Malmö University