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Jonas Söderlund

Jonas Söderlund

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Business and Management
Sweden
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
47
Citations
8545
World Ranking
1167
National Ranking
13

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Jonas Söderlund is affiliated with Linköping University in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Decision Sciences and Business, Management and Accounting, with particular emphasis on Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Their work also extends into Building and Construction as well as Management Information Systems.

The scientist's research covers a variety of topics, including Construction Project Management and Performance, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Management and Organizational Studies, Complex Systems and Decision Making, BIM (Building Information Modeling) and Construction Integration, Innovative Education and Learning Practices, and Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling.

Jonas Söderlund has contributed to several recent papers, with notable publications including:

  • A Manifesto for project management research (2023), European Management Review
  • Cross-learning between project management and international development: Analysis and research agenda (2020), International Journal of Project Management
  • Exploring the Effects of Building Information Modeling on Projects: Longitudinal Social Network Analysis (2020), Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
  • Project-oriented agency and regeneration in socio-technical transition: Insights from the case of numerical weather prediction (1978-2015) (2022), Research Policy
  • Advancing Theory and Debate in Project Studies (2020), Project Management Journal

The venues where Jonas Söderlund frequently publishes include:

  • Project Management Journal
  • International Journal of Project Management
  • Scandinavian Journal of Management
  • European Management Review
  • Research Policy

Collaboration plays a significant role in their research, with several frequent co-authors including Joana Geraldi, Giorgio Locatelli, Sofia Pemsel, Lavagnon A. Ika, and Sylvain Lenfle.

Best Publications

  • Building theories of project management : Past research, questions for the future

    Jonas Söderlund

  • Pluralism in Project Management: Navigating the Crossroads of Specialization and Fragmentation

    Jonas Söderlund

  • Managing Product Development Projects: On the Significance of Fountains and Deadlines

    Lars Lindkvist;Jonas Soderlund;Fredrik Tell

  • On the broadening scope of the research on projects: A review and a model for analysis

    Jonas Söderlund

  • Business models in project business

    Kim Wikström;Karlos Artto;Jaakko Kujala;Jonas Söderlund

  • The Oxford Handbook of Project Management

    Pwg Morris;JK Pinto;J Söderlund

  • Project studies: What it is, where it is going

    Joana Geraldi;Jonas Söderlund

  • Rethinking project management education : Social twists and knowledge co-production

    Christian Berggren;Jonas Söderlund

  • Managing inter-institutional projects: The significance of isochronism, timing norms and temporal misfits

    Therese Dille;Jonas Söderlund

  • Project managers and career models: An exploratory comparative study

    Karin Bredin;Jonas Söderlund

  • DEVELOPING PROJECT COMPETENCE: EMPIRICAL REGULARITIES IN COMPETITIVE PROJECT OPERATIONS

    Jonas Söderlund

  • Managing and temporality

    Tor Hernes;Barbara Simpson;Jonas Söderlund

  • Reinventing project management, by Aaron Shenhar a Dov Dvir

    Jonas Söderlund

  • Liminality in Management and Organization Studies: Process, Position and Place

    Jonas Söderlund;Elisabeth Borg

  • The past and Present of Megaprojects

    Jonas Söderlund;Shankar Sankaran;Christopher Biesenthal

  • Project management scholarship: Relevance, impact and five integrative challenges for business and management schools

    Jonas Söderlund;Harvey Maylor

  • HRM in project‐intensive firms: Changes and challenges

    Jonas Söderlund;Karin Bredin

  • The P-form organization and the dynamics of project competence : Project epochs in Asea/ABB, 1950-2000

    Jonas Söderlund;Fredrik Tell

  • Managing complex development projects : Arenas, knowledge processes and time

    Jonas Söderlund

  • Theoretical Foundations of Project Management

    Jonas Söderlund

  • When neighboring disciplines fail to learn from each other: The case of innovation and project management research

    Andrew Davies;Stephan Manning;Jonas Söderlund

  • Project studies: What it is, where it is going, International Journal of Project Management.

    Joana Geraldi;Jonas Söderlund

Frequent Co-Authors

Harvey Maylor
Harvey Maylor University of Oxford
Jeffrey K. Pinto
Jeffrey K. Pinto Penn State Behrend
Ralf Müller
Ralf Müller BI Norwegian Business School
Derek H.T. Walker
Derek H.T. Walker RMIT University
Andrew Davies
Andrew Davies University of Sussex
Weisheng Lu
Weisheng Lu University of Hong Kong
Jack R. Meredith
Jack R. Meredith Wake Forest University
Tyson R. Browning
Tyson R. Browning Texas Christian University
Jörg Sydow
Jörg Sydow Freie Universität Berlin
Davide Nicolini
Davide Nicolini University of Warwick

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