Bjørn-Tore Flåten

Tilleggsinformasjon:

Bjørn-Tore Flåten is an Associate Professor at the University of Agder, Norway, where he teaches courses in International Management, Marketing, Strategy and Organizational Behaviour at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He holds a PhD in International Management. Prior to joining UiA he served as a unit manager in a major Norwegian non-profit organization where he held responsibilities for personnel and training and for managing international educational tours for groups of 150 people involving cross-cultural exchanges. He is also an experienced consultant with a record of managing projects involving organizational structure and design, change, re-structuring, and building of compensation and evaluation schemes in different industries. His research interests revolve around strategic management of knowledge work and entrepreneurship in virtual worlds, with a particular focus on knowledge sharing and Internet-enabled collaboration within and beyond the boundaries of the firm.

Research Interests:

Strategic management of knowledge work; Knowlede sharing; Web 2.0; Internet-enabled collaboration; 3d Internet and virtual worlds

Recent Publications

Di Gangi, P, Teigland, R, Flåten, B.T, and Giovacchini, E. (2011), “Are we in this together? Exploring private-collective knowledge communities”, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)

 

Di Gangi, P, Teigland, R, Flåten, B.T, and Giovacchini, E. (2011), “Exploring the Organization-User Relationships in Private-Collective Knowledge Communities”, Strategic Management Society (SMS) Prahalad Conference

 

Frølunde, L, and Flåten, B.T. (2011), “Leveraging the Affordances of the Emerging 3d Internet for Entrepreneurial “Next Practices”: Selected Case Studies from the Nordic Creative Industries”, Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC)

 

Flåten, B.T. (2011), “Problem Solving in Extended Virtual Teams”, Doctoral Dissertation at the University of Agder 30, (ISSN 1504-9272)

 

Flåten, B.T, and Hansen, J.Ø. (2009), “Virtual Worlds and Learning in Multinational Corporations”, Skriftserie (149), University of Agder, pp. 61-72

 

Flåten, B-T. and Shneor, R. (2008), "Strategic e-HR: Matching e-Business Value Drivers and HR Management Tasks", in Fuxman, L., Delener, N., Lu, F. V. and Rivera-Solis, E. L. (eds.), Evolution and Revolution in the Global Knowledge Economy: Enhancing Innovation and Competitiveness Worldwide, Global Business and Technology Association (GBATA), pp. 328-339 (ISBN 1-932917-04-7) 

 

Shneor, R. and Flåten, B-T. (2008), "Internet-enabled Internationalization Process: A Focus on Stages and Sequences", Journal of e-Business, Vol. VIII, Num. 1,2, pp. 45-52 (ISSN 1542-0846)

Prosjekter:

• The Nordic Virtual Worlds Network (NVWN) project is a pan-Nordic, inter-disciplinary project focused on investigating entrepreneurship and innovation in relation to virtual worlds. (http://nordicworlds.net)
• Private-collective knowledge communities - case study at the eZ Share Community (http://share.ez.no/)