Markus Hällgren

Markus Hällgren (markus.hallgren@umu.se; www.markushallgren.com) is a professor in Management at Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics, Umeå University. Hällgren also serves as Head of Research for the department of Business administration, and as co-coordinator of the “AI-Management” theme of Centre for Transdisciplinary AI for the Good of All (TAIGA), at Umeå University. His primary research interest is the everyday practice in extreme contexts, precisely organizational routines, leadership, sensemaking and group dynamics. His research includes ethnographic fieldwork on commercial ski guiding, commercial high-altitude mountaineering, hospital emergency departments, police detectives, the police Incident Command Center's handling of COVID-19, Armed forces County administrative board incident command work, indoor climbing, and IT- and construction projects. He also uses fiction to understand contemporary society and future unimaginable events, through (zombie) fiction.

Hällgren is the founder, and leader of the interdisciplinary research program Extreme Environments – Everyday Decisions (www.tripleEd.com); co-founder and coordinator of the international "Organizing Extreme Contexts" network (www.organizingextremecontexts.org) with more than 700 scholars; co-founder and coordinator of “Competence Forum Region North”, a forum for scientifically based discussions for organizations (e.g. Police, Armed forces, Security police, County administrative boards, municipalities) that are critical for society; the "Extreme Contexts Virtual workshop series"; co-founder of the "Projects-as-Practice approach" (2006) (with Professor Anders Söderholm);  “Extreme Contexts Research” (2014, with Professor Linda Rouleau and Professor Mark De Rond); the “Extreme fiction” approach (2018, with Professor David Buchanan). Between 2011-2013 Hällgren was visiting researcher at Stanford University (Scancor and Department of Sociology). Hällgren has received several international and national awards, including the Best paper in Academy of Management Annals, and the Royal Skyttean Award. Hällgren’s work has been featured in e.g., Financial Times, Irish times, Tidningen Chef, Dagens industri, Swedish national TV (Gokväll etc), and published in outlets such as Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Perspectives, Journal of Management Studies, Management Learning, and International Journal of Project Management.
 
TripleEd (Extreme Environments - Everyday Decisions) was founded in 2010 by Markus Hällgren, the leader ever since. TripleEd is an international interdisciplinary research program that investigates decision making and organizing in extreme contexts. Söderbergsstiftelserna, Umeå University, Riksbanken, Handelsbanken, and FORTE, etc. has provided funding. The TripleEd team consists of four full professors, five Associate Professors, two postdocs, one Ph.D. and two doctoral students from Business Administration, Department of education, Computer Science, and Department of Clinical Sciences at Umeå University; School of Management at Cranfield University (UK), and HEC Montreal (Canada). TripleEd works closely with researchers at e.g. Cambridge University, McGill University, John Hopkins, and the University of Hamburg, to mention but a few. 
 
Organizing in Extreme Contexts was co-founded in 2014 by Hällgren and Rouleau as a result of a workshop at HEC Montreal, co-organized by Rouleau, Hällgren, Genevieve Musca and Viviane Sergi. The network currently consists of approximately seven hundred scholars interested in the practice of Extreme Contexts. Since then, multiple workshops and activities have been organized. From 2020 the network is a Standing Working Group at the EGOS conference, and the Extreme Contexts Virtual workshop series was launched in 2020 together with Derin Kent (Warwick University), April Wright (Warwick University), and Linda Rouleau (HEC Montreal).
 
Knowledge forum Region North was co-founded in 2019 by Hällgren and Lars Wahlberg, deputy Police Chief in Region North. Later the Security police, the Defense forces of Region North, the County Administrative Board of Västerbotten and Norrbotten, Umeå University, county councils of Norrbotten and Västerbotten joined. The forum aims to bring together organizations critical for society, and through reflection and science, increase their ability to cope with extreme events. Since 2019 multiple workshops have been organized.