Frida Pemer

Frida Pemer is Associate Professor at the Department of Management and Organization and House of Innovation at SSE. Her research centers on digital transformation and professional services, and she has been visiting researcher at Scancor, Stanford University, and at Saïd Business School, Oxford University.

She is program director and teacher at SSE Executive Education and SSE in programs on digitalization and transformation.

In 2021, she received funding from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for a 3-year project called Organizing ecosystems for learning. The project is run jointly with Anna Jonsson, Lund University, and Charlotta Kronblad, SSE.

In 2020, she received funding from AFA Försäkring for a 3-year project called Leading and collaborating at a distance - effects of Covid-19 in project based organizations. The project is run jointly with Svjetlana Pantic-Dragisic at Linköping University.

In 2017 she received funding from Forte for a 3-year project called From Human to Robotized Expertise. The project explores how digitalization, robotization and AI might lead to profound changes in professional service firms.

In 2014 she received funding from Forte for a 3-year research project on how the need for hiring professional services is constructed in private and public organizations.

In 2010 Frida received funding from Ragnar Söderbergs Stiftelse for a 3-year project on how companies organize their use and purchase of different types of professional services.

In 2008, she defended her dissertation Failure or Success? An empirical study of how management consulting projects are evaluated in client companies. The dissertation was selected as one of the best Swedish dissertations in business administration 2008 and was awarded the prestigious Wallander scholarship.

Companies

• Board Member HHSS Consulting (2020)
• Associate Professor (tenured) at Stockholm School of Economics Stockholm School of Economics (2020)
• Coach EMBA Leading Change Executive Education at Stockholm School of Economics (2014)
• Presenter, chair Academic conferences (2005)
• Assistant Professor (Swedish title: Docent) Stockholm School of Economics (2009 — 2020)
• Director Supply Negotiation Institute (SNI) (2015 — 2019)
• Visiting Scholar at Scancor Stanford University (2019 — 2019)
• Project Manager - organizing the Oxford Saïd Annual Conference on Professional Service Firms Saïd Business School and Stockholm School of Economics (2017 — 2017)
• Representative at large, Management Consulting Division Academy of Management (2014 — 2016)

Education

• Stockholm School of Economics (2018)
• International Teachers Programme (ITP) (2017)
• Ledarskapsprogrammet [Leadership program] Stockholm School of Economics IFL Executive Education (2015)
• Civ.ek./MSc Handelshögskolan i Stockholm (1994 — 2000)
• Stockholm School of Economics (1994 — 2000)
• Stockholm University (1993 — 1997)