Birger Rapp

Professor in Economic Information Systems

Professor Birger Rapp is born in 1940. He is married to Birgitta and they have three children. He has, since 1987, a chair in Economic Information Systems, Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping Institute of Technology and Linköping University. Earlier he has been associate professor in Business Administration and in Production Economics and in Forest Economics at the Universities of Stockholm, Linköping and Umeå. Before 1987 he was deputy full professor in Business Administration at Stockholm University. He has also been visiting professor at EIASM, Brussels. Today he is a member of the board of the Department of Computer and Information Science. He is also research leader for the research group Information Technology and Organisational Structure.

He has been the president of SORA, The Swedish Operational Research Association and their representative both in EURO (The Association of European Operational Research Societies within IFORS) and in IFORS. He was the second president of EURO and is now vice president at large of IFORS, 1995-1998. He has been session co-ordinator at several conferences and he was the general co-ordinator for the EURO-TIMS conference in Lausanne.

He is program director in Management and Economic Information Systems at IMIT (Institute of Management of Innovation and Technology). He is the president of the board of Distansforum (The Swedish association for Telework) and he has been an expert in the public investigation of Telework (Distansarbetsutredningen).

He belongs to the editorial (advisory) boards to the following international journals, EJOR, IJMSD, JORBEL and Omega. He is also a referee to several other scientific journals.

He has published books in investment theory, in production planning and in control and principal agent theory and a great many papers in international journals. He is a senior consultant to many Swedish companies and he has been the president of the Pronova Research and Development Board in Sweden.

Phone:

+46-(0)13-28 15 25,

+46-0708-15 26 50

Room:

Hus B, ingång 29, rum 218

E-Mail:

birra@ida.liu.se

Address:

Economic Information Systems
Department of Computer and Information Science
Linköping University
S-581 83 Linköping
Sweden

Research area

Some recent publications 1997 - 2000

1. Alvehus, J., Moberg, A., Rapp, B., (1997) Support for flexible Teams; ICT and Office Design, paper presented at the 7th Mini EURO Conference: Decision Support Systems, Groupware, Multimedia and Electronic Commerce, Bruges, Belgium.

2. Alvehus, J., Moberg, A., Rapp, B., (1997) Communication and Performance: A Study of Individual and Group-Related Work. Paper presented at the Second International Workshop on Telework: Building Actions on Ideas, Amsterdam,

3. Bergum, S., Rapp, B., (1998), Challenges of managing remote workers Some empirical results from interviews in Sweden and Norway, Paper presented at the ITS-98 Conference in Stockholm,

4. Björkegren, C., Rapp, B., (1999) Learning and Knowledge Management - a theoretical framework for learning in flexible organisations, Jackson, P. J. (Ed.) Virtual Working: social and organisational dynamics, London: Routledge

5. Björkegren, C., Rapp, B., (1997) Learning in Flexible Organisations - On Learning in Teleworking Organisations, Paper presented at the Second International Workshop on Telework: Building Actions on Ideas, Amsterdam

6. Janson, Å., Nilsson, F., Rapp, B., (2000) Implementing Environmentally - Driven Business Development: A Management Control Perspective Scandinavian Journal of Management 16 (1)

7. Nilsson, F., Jansson, Å., Kald, M., Rapp, B., (1999) Creating Environmentally-driven Models of Business Development: Empirical Evidence. Submitted

8. Nilsson, F., Rapp, B., Svensson, L.,(2000) Creating completive advantage: The importance of strategic congruence and integrated control systems, Submitted

9. Kald, M., Nilsson, F., Rapp, B., (2000). On strategy and management control: The importance of classifying the strategy of the business, British Journal of Management Forthcoming.

10. Forsebäck, L., Ohlsson, K., Rapp, B (1998), Distansarbete och produktivitet, Rapport till Distansarbetsutredningen, SOU:1998

11. Lindström, J., Moberg, A., Rapp, B., (1997) On Classification of Telework situations. European Journal of Information Systems, 6, pp 243-255

12. Nilsson, F., Rapp, B., (1999), Implementing business unit strategies - The role of management control systems. Scandinavian Journal of Management, No 1 1999, pp 65-88.

13. Olhager, J., Rapp B., (1998) On the design of computer aided manufacturing planning and control systems. Submitted

14. Pranevicius, H., Rapp B., Eds. (1998), Organisational Structures, Management, Simulation of Business Sectors and Systems, Kaunas University of Technology Press 1998

15. Rapp, B., Crawford, C., Sparrmo, T. (1998) Att lyckas med grupprogram. - De kritiska framgångsfaktorerna, Ekonomi och Styrning, nr 3

16. Rapp, B., (1999) Principal-Agent and Transaction Cost Theories in Business Modelling in Editors Nilsson, A. G., Tolis, C., Nellborn, C., Perspectives on Business Modelling - Understanding and Changing Organisations, Springer förlag

17. Rapp, B., Rapp, B.,(1999) Flexibla organisationslösningar, Om flexibla arbetsformer och flexibla kontor. KFB, Teledok, 2001.

18. Rapp B., Savén B., Villegas J., (2000) Simulation Supported Industrial Training - Introduction of the SSIT method for organisational learning. Submitted.

19. Rapp, B., Björkegren, C., (1998), Arbete på distans och lärande. KFB-rapport 1998:26

20. Editor for CONSA (Competence Network for Simulation Applications) research report series.
Report No. 1 (1999), ‘Simulation applications and Education in the Baltic Area’.
Report No. 2 (1999), ‘Simulation Applications in the Areas of Transportation and Logistics’

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Last modified on December 18, 2002 by Jo Skåmedal

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