Sanne Bor

Sanne Bor
Associate professor
Business Studies
LUT Business School
Mikkeli
+358 50 439 2393
Research areas
Sociology and Political Science
Strategy and Management
Industrial relations
Business and International Management

Biography

Sanne Bor holds a PhD in Management and Organization from Hanken School of Economics (2015) and the title of docent in organisation and management (orientation: meta-organization and sustainability) from Åbo Akedemi (2025). Her research focuses on inter-organizational collaboration, and particularly works to apply her insights in situations where collaboration is essential to solve the big societal challenges we meet in today's world (climate change, moving into circular economy, environmental challenges).

Sanne has a special interest in meta-organizations, organizations of organizations, and works to develop theory to understand this type of organization better, but also actively supports the growth of this research community by organizing conference tracks and seminars on the topic, currently as coordinator of the standing working group (SWG01) at EGOS (https://www.egos.org/SWGs/SWG-01).

Sanne likes working in multidisciplinary research settings. She has previously been involved in the strategic research council -funded project COllaborativeREmedies (2017-2021), introducing collaborative tools in solving environmental challenges, and PackageHeroes (2019-2023), studying what collaboration and competition takes place in the process of moving to sustainable food packaging. Her work has been published in journals such as Organization Studies, Journal of Management Inquiry, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, and Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning.

Sanne teaches the MIBE courses Dimensions of Entrepreneurship Theory and Melting Pot of Entrepreneurial Competencies, MIBE and she supervises on bachelors, masters and PhD level.


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