Torbjörn Stjernberg joined the School of Economics and Commercial Law at Gothenburg University 1997, as professor in the Department for Business Administration and chair in Organization Theory. Previously he has held academic positions at the Stockholm School of Economics and at Agder University College (located in Kristiansand, Norway).
His doctorate at Stockholm School of Economics in 1977 was based on an action research project where he focused on the relation between organizational changes and the changes of the individual organizational members' quality of life. These are still key words among his research interests, today with a focus on work life in project organizations. His research interests also concern the viability and diffusion of organizational innovations, processes in organizational networks, knowledge development and knowledge transfer in and between complex projects, methods and tools in organizational changes, and new forms of organization on the labor market.
Torbjörn Stjernberg is coordinating research at the School of Economics in the field of knowledge economy, i.e. managing global knowledge, innovations and entrepreneurship. He is also, as member of the network Project Sweden, where he coordinate studies of the development and transfer of knowledge between projects, as well as the complexity and stress in project organizations. As consultant he has had assignments in organizational change processes, evaluation of changes, facilitating and/or evaluating downsizing (especially strategies to help the unions and the individuals concerned to deal with the downsizing and to find alternative careers). He has lead courses based on action learning or problem based learning approaches, such as courses in management consultation, international management etc.