Areas of responsibility
Tor Geir Kvinen is associate professor and study program manager for the Leadership Program at the Executive Unit of the UiA School of Business and Law. He has a PhD from Aalborg University, a master's in management from the BI Center for Management Education, and a cand.mag. from the University of Stavanger. The PhD thesis was on co-creation in adventure parks with the subtitle how can human resources be used in co-creation of experiences.
Kvinen has been a senior researcher at Agderforskning, as well as a college lecturer for over 15 years at BI Business School, where he has lectured in over 25 subjects from foundation level to master's level. He has also been associated with the University of Tromsø and NTNU.
Kvinen has received BI's national lecturer award. In the justification for the lecturer's award, it is written: "Tor Geir has a fresh and involving way of lecturing. He manages to combine theory and practice in an excellent way."
Kvinen has over 25 years' experience as a course leader and consultant within organization and leadership development for the private and public sector through her own company Kvinen Consult AS. He practices trilingualism through a combination of practically oriented theory rooted in research.
Kvinen has experience from a number of board positions from private companies, public companies as well as voluntary teams and associations.
Teaching
ORG109 Organizational theory
ORG969 HR in Organizations, Executive MBA
ORG976 Change management and organizational change
ORG977 The leadership role in theory and practice
ORG978 Project Management
ORG9007 Project Management I Theory and Practice
ORG979 Self-management and coaching
ORG989 Digitization, change management and organizational development
ORG993 Change Agent - a practical leadership program in change management
ORG999 Co-creative organizations
Supervision bachelor and master students
Courses lectured at other universities and colleges: HR, change management, project management, coaching, co-creation / co-creation, experience economics and several subjects within strategy, organization and management
Research
Academic interests
HR, change management, project management, coaching, co-creation / co-creation, experience economics as well as in strategy, organization and management.
Selected publications
Zhang, H., Wang, L., Li, L., Kvinen, T.G. and Karlsen, J.T. (2026). In-role or Extra-role stakeholder engagement: What matters for value co-creation in new product development projects. Production Planning and Control. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2026.2647230
Wang,L., Zhang, H., Rashed, Md., Kvinen, T.G. and Karlsen, J.T. (2026). Towards a Multi-layer Project Resilience Framework: A hybrid approach from the dynamic capability perspective. International Journal of Managing Projects in Business. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJMPB-09-2025-0376
Kvinen, T.G., Nyhus, E.K., Wallevik, K. og Kyllingstad, N. (2016). Sørlandets ukjente verdensmestere. Hvem er de og hva kjennetegner dem. FoU-rapport nr. 1/2016. Agderforskning AS. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346463221_Sorlandets_ukjente_verdensmestre
Kvinen, T.G. (2015). Samskaping i opplevelsesparker. Hvordan kan menneskelige ressurser benyttes i samskaping av opplevelser. PhD-avhandling, Aalborg Universitetsforlag. ISBN: 978-87-7112-180-3. https://doi.org/10.5278/vbn.phd.hum.00012