Johan Roos (born 1961) is a Swedish

organizational theorist Organizational theory refers to the set of interrelated concepts that involve the sociological study of the structures and operations of formal social organizations. Organizational theory also attempts to explain how interrelated units of organiz ...

known for his work on

intellectual capital Intellectual capital is the result of mental processes that form a set of intangible objects that can be used in economic activity and bring income to its owner (organization), covering the competencies of its people ( human capital), the value rela ...

. He currently serves as Chief Strategy Officer at

Hult International Business School Hult International Business School (also known as Hult Business School or Hult) is a private business school with campuses in Cambridge, London, San Francisco, Dubai, New York City, and Shanghai. Hult is named for the school's benefactor Berti ...

, previously having served as President of

Copenhagen Business School Copenhagen Business School (Danish'': Handelshøjskolen i København'') often abbreviated and referred to as CBS (also in Danish), is a public university situated in Copenhagen, Denmark and is considered one of the most prestigious business schoo ...

and Dean of the

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 wit ...

Biography

In 1985 he also received his MSc in Agricultural Business and Management from the

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, or Swedish Agricultural University (Swedish: ''Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet'') (SLU) is a university in Sweden. Although its head office is located in Ultuna, Uppsala, the university has several ...

, and in 1989 his PhD in International Business from the

. Roos started his academic career as Research Associate at the

Wharton School The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ( ; also known as Wharton Business School, the Wharton School, Penn Wharton, and Wharton) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in ...

in 1988. Back in Scandinavia from 1990 to 1994 he was Associate Professor of Strategy at the

BI Norwegian Business School BI Norwegian Business School () is the largest business school in Norway and the second largest in all of Europe. BI has in total four campuses with the main one located in Oslo. The university has 845 employees consisting of an academic staff of ...

. From 1995 to 2000 he was Professor of General Management and Strategy at the

International Institute for Management Development International Institute for Management Development (IMD) is a private business school in Lausanne, Switzerland specializes in executive education offering open enrollment programs for senior executives, as well as longer-term educational engage ...

(IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2000 he founded the Imagination Lab Foundation, which he directed until 2006. In 2007 he returned to Sweden, where he was appointed Professor of Strategy and Dean of the

. After two years as President of

from 2009 to 2011, he became Dean & CEO of

Jönköping International Business School Jönköping International Business School (JIBS) is a business school located in Jönköping in south central Sweden. The school has focus areas in entrepreneurship, ownership and renewal. JIBS is known for its international education and researc ...

in 2012.

Selected publications

Lorange, Peter Peter Lorange (born 17 April 1943) is a Norwegian economist. He was the owner, President, and CEO of the Lorange Institute of Business Zürich, formerly known as GSBA Zurich, which he bought in July 2009. Peter Lorange has previously been Presi ...

, and Johan Roos. ''Strategic alliances: Formation, implementation, and evolution.'' (1993). *

Von Krogh, George Georg von Krogh (born 24 May 1963) is a Norwegian organizational theorist and Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) and holds the Chair of Strategic Management and Innovation. He also serves on Strategy Comm ...

, and Johan Roos. ''Organizational Epistemology.'' New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. * Roos, Johan,

Leif Edvinsson Leif Edvinsson (born 1946) is a Swedish organizational theorist, Professor at the University of Lund in Sweden and consultant, known for his work on intellectual capital. and knowledge management.Wenger, Etienne, Richard Arnold McDermott, and W ...

, and Goran Roos. ''Intellectual capital: navigating in the new business landscape.'' New York University Press, 1998. *

Lissack, Michael Michael Lissack (born 1958) is an American business executive, author, business consultant and former director of the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence. In 2019 Lissack was inducted into the International Academy for Systems and Cy ...

, and Johan Roos. ''The next common sense;'Mastering corporate complexity through.'' (2000).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Roos, Johan Living people 1961 births Hult International Business School administrators Swedish business theorists Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences alumni Stockholm School of Economics alumni Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania faculty BI Norwegian Business School faculty