Johan Roos

{{short description|Swedish organizational theorist (born 1961)}}

{{BLP sources|date=October 2021}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Johan Roos

| birth_date = 1961

| birth_place = Sweden

| nationality = Swedish

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| alma_mater = Stockholm School of Economics

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Johan Roos (born 1961) is a Swedish organizational theorist known for his work on intellectual capital and measuring the intellectual performance of companies as well as being the co-creator of Lego Serious Play.{{Cite journal |last=Roos |first=Johan |last2=Victor |first2=Bart |date=2018-12-21 |title=How It All Began: The Origins Of LEGO® Serious Play® |url=https://www.ijmar.org/v5n4/18-025.html |journal=International Journal of Management and Applied Research |language=en |volume=5 |issue=4 |pages=326–343 |issn=2056-757X}} He is Chief Strategy Officer at Hult International Business School, previously having been President of Copenhagen Business School and Dean of the Stockholm School of Economics.Dyllick, Thomas, and Kai Hockerts. "Beyond the business case for corporate sustainability." Business strategy and the environment 11.2 (2002): 130-141.Petty, Richard, and James Guthrie. "Intellectual capital literature review: measurement, reporting and management." Journal of intellectual capital 1.2 (2000): 155-176.

Biography

In 1985 he also received his MSc in Agricultural Business and Management from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and in 1989 his PhD in International Business from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Roos started his academic career as Research Associate at the Wharton School in 1988. Back in Scandinavia from 1990 to 1994 he was Associate Professor of Strategy at the BI Norwegian Business School. From 1995 to 2000 he was Professor of General Management and Strategy at the International Institute for Management Development (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 Stockholm School of Economics. After two years as President of Copenhagen Business School from 2009 to 2011, he became Dean & CEO of Jönköping International Business School in 2012.

Selected publications

Roos's books and articles include:{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=nl&user=ec6eNOkAAAAJ |title=Johan Roos, Chief Academic Officer |access-date=10 September 2023 |website=scholar.google.com |publisher=Google}}

=Books=

  • {{Cite book |first1=Peter |last1=Lorange |author-link1=Peter Lorange |first2=Johan |last2=Roos |title=Strategic alliances: Formation, implementation, and evolution |location=Oxford |publisher=Basil Blackwell |date=1992 |oclc=465091401 |isbn=9781557861023}}
  • {{Cite book |last1=von Krogh |first1=Georg |author-link1=Georg von Krogh |last2=Roos |first2=Johan |date=1995 |title=Organizational Epistemology |trans-title= |url= |url-status= |url-access= |format= |language= |location=New York |publisher=St. Martin's Press |isbn=9780333609873 |oclc=32430062 |archive-url= |archive-date= |via= |quote=}}
  • {{Cite book |last1=Roos |first1=Johan |last2=Roos |first2=Göran |last3=Dragonetti |first3=Nicola Carlo |last4=Edvinsson |first4=Leif |author-link4=Leif Edvinsson |date=1997 |title=Intellectual capital: navigating in the new business landscape |trans-title= |url= |url-status= |url-access= |format= |language= |location=Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire |publisher=Macmillan Business |isbn=9780333694794 |oclc=877592412 |archive-url= |archive-date= |via= |quote=}}
  • {{Cite book |last1=Lissack |first1=Michael |author-link= Michael Lissack |last2=Roos |first2=Johan |date=1999 |title=The next common sense. Mastering corporate complexity through coherence |trans-title= |url= |url-status= |url-access= |format= |language= |location=London |publisher=Nicholas Brealey Pub. |isbn=9781857882407 |oclc=40305541 |archive-url= |archive-date= |via= |quote=}}

=Articles=

  • {{Cite journal |last1=von Krogh |first1=Georg |last2=Roos |first2=Johan |last3=Slocum |first3=Ken |date=Summer 1994 |title=An essay on corporate epistemology |url= |journal=Strategic Management Journal |volume=15 |issue=S2 |pages=53-71 |doi=10.1002/smj.4250151005 |pmc= |pmid= |access-date=}}
  • {{Cite journal |last1=Roos |first1=Göran |last2=Roos |first2=Johan |date=June 1997 |title=Measuring your company's intellectual performance |url= |journal=Long Range Planning |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=413-426 |doi=10.1016/S0024-6301(97)90260-0 |pmc= |pmid= |access-date=}}

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