Philip Kappen

Dr. Philip Kappen is associate professor of tech-based entrepreneurship at the Department of Industrial Economics and Management, KTH Royal Institute of Technology. In 2023, he was appointed professor of international business at Uppsala University, and prior to this position, he was associate professor of strategy and international management at Copenhagen Business School. Dr. Kappen has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University, Rutgers University, and Temple University.

His research spans the strategy, entrepreneurship, and international business domains and include topics like management of innovation, internationalization processes, green intrapreneurship and resource allocation strategy in diversified firms. He has published in top-ranked journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Research Policy, Long Range Planning and Journal of World Business.

He is a member of the European International Business Association, the Academy of International Business, and the Academy of Management.

Research Area

Management of innovation
International strategy
Headquarters-subsidiary relations

Intrapreneurship

Selected Publications

Blomkvist, K., Kappen, P., and Zander, I. (2023) Weathering storms – Technological exploration of MNCs in times of financial crisis.Journal of World Business, 58(2), 101416. [AJG 4]

Håkanson, L., Kappen, P. (2017) The 'casino model' of internationalization: An alternative Uppsala paradigm.Journal of International Business Studies. [AJG 4*]

Nell, P.C., Kappen, P., Laamanen, T. (2017) Reconceptualising hierarchies: The disaggregation and dispersion of headquarters in multinational corporations.Journal of Management Studies.[AJG 4]

Blomkvist, K., Kappen, P., Zander, I. (2017). Gone are the creatures of yesteryear? On the diffusion of technological capabilities in the 'modern' MNC.Journalof World Business, 52(1):1-16. [AJG 4]

Blomkvist, K., Kappen, P., Zander, I. (2014). Superstar inventors - Towards a people-centric perspective on the geography of technological renewal in the multinational corporation.Research Policy, 43(4): 669-682. [AJG 4*]

Blomkvist, K., Kappen, P. and Zander, I. (2014) Win, Place, or Show?: How Foreign Investment Strategies Contribute to the Technological Growth of the Multinational Corporation,Long Range Planning,47(1-2): 16-31. [AJG 4]

Dellestrand, H., Kappen, P. (2012). The effects of spatial and contextual factors on headquarters resource allocation to MNE subsidiaries.Journal of International Business Studies, 43(3): 219-243. [AJG 4*]

Ciabuschi, F., Dellestrand, H., Kappen, P. (2012). The good, the bad, and the ugly: technology transfer competence, rent-seeking, and bargaining power.Journal of World Business, 47(4): 664-674. [AJG 4]

Kappen, P. (2011). Competence-creating overlaps and subsidiary technological evolution in the multinational corporation.Research Policy, 40(5): 673-686. [AJG 4*]

Blomkvist, K., Kappen, P., Zander, I. (2010). Quo Vadis?: The entry into new technologies in advanced foreign subsidiaries of the multinational enterprise.Journal of International Business Studies, 41(9): 1525-1549. [AJG 4*]