Chris­ter Karls­son

Concurrently with professor at CBS also Professor emeritus, Stockholm School of Economics;  Professor European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM), Brussels;  Professor, NIMI, Chengdu, China;  Laureate IVA; Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences; Vice president EIASM; member several scientific journals editorial boards. Research interests: a) Product development management: Project types and their contribution to competitiveness, The role of product platforms,  Cross-functional integration and project organization. b) Product development in industrial systems: Development activities deployment, Development sourcing. c) Production system design:  Global production networks,  Sourcing and partnership, outsourcing and off-shoring, Lean production.