Eric Rhenman (1932–1993) was a business professor at
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 ...
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Lund University
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, budget = SEK 9 billion Sweden, and a guest professor at Harvard (1974–1976).Professor Eric Rhenman Memorial Foundation , SIAR Website He was named a Professor of Business Administration at Lund in 1967.Furusten, Staffa Popular management books: how they are made and what they mean for organisations p. 91–94 (1999)Kipping, Matthias and Engwall, Lars Management consulting: emergence and dynamics of a knowledge industry p. 42–45 (2002) He was offered a chair at Harvard, which he declined in order to focus on consulting at the Scandinavian Institutes of Administrative Research (SIAR).Engwall, Lars, et al. (1993) Bridge over troubled water Paper for the working group “Growth and Institutionalisation of Managerial and
Organisational Knowledge” at the first EGOS Collquium in Paris, July 6–8, 1993, Retrieved on 1 September 2009
Rhenman, together with four other academic researchers at the Stockholm School of Economics, founded the Scandinavian Institutes for Administrative Research (SIAR) in 1966, which functioned as a research institute until 1971, but was then transformed into a combined consulting company and research institute.
Among other work, Rhenman is known for his research on the gap between scholarly research on management and the perceived lack of relevance and actual application of that research to the real world. Also, Rhenman's work on stakeholders in management structures was very influential in Sweden, and considered the foundation of the "Swedish model."Vandekerckhove, Wi Whistleblowing and organizational social responsibility: a global assessment p. 86, 98–99 (2006)