Johan Gaddefors

Johan's career encompassed research, teaching, and administration. He coordinated the EIS research group, a team of approximately ten researchers and educators specializing in Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Sustainable Development.

Johan’s teaching spanned entrepreneurship, organization, leadership, marketing, and scientific methods. At times he participated in program development.

Johan participated in numerous research projects, including Rural Keys 1 & 2. His recent research explored the interaction between rural entrepreneurship and different contexts.

Johan served as a PhD supervisor for twelve doctoral students, acting as the primary supervisor for six.

Gaddefors, J., & Cunningham, J. (2024). Anatomy of a qualitative methods section: Embracing the researcher as an engaged author. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 36(5-6), 561-576.

Roos, A., & Gaddefors, J. (2024). In the wake of the ironworks-entrepreneurship and the spatial connections to empowerment and emancipation. The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 25(1), 21-31.

Jonsson, J., & Gaddefors, J. (2023). How online communities are important for rural entrepreneurial change–the library revolt. Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, 17(4), 815-833.

Melin, E., & Gaddefors, J. (2023). Agency in entrepreneurship: preparing entrepreneurship theory for another view of context. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 29(11), 184-205.

Jack, S., & Gaddefors, J. (2022). Special issue in memory of professor Alistair Anderson ‘Social Perspectives of Entrepreneuring’. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 34(7-8), 507-514.

Tunberg, M., & Gaddefors, J. (2022). Small firm growth: The unfolding of a trigger point. Journal of Enterprising Culture, 30(02), 161-184.

Astner, H., & Gaddefors, J. (2021). Identities at work in developing a new market. Journal of Research in Marketing and Entrepreneurship, 23(1), 1-23.

Gaddefors, J., Korsgaard, S., & Ingstrup, M. B. (2020). Regional development through entrepreneurial exaptation: Epistemological displacement, affordances, and collective agency in rural regions. Journal of Rural Studies, 74, 244-256.

Wilson, M., Rutashobya, L. K., Gaddefors, J., Melyoki, L. L., & Otto, O. (2020). The role of spatial context for women's engagement in rural entrepreneurship in Tanzania. Business management review, 23(2), 48-70.

Gaddefors, J., & Anderson, A. R. (2019). Romancing the rural: Reconceptualizing rural entrepreneurship as engagement with context (s). The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 20(3), 159-169.

Gaddefors, J. and Anderson, A. (2017). Entrepreneursheep and context: when entrepreneurship is greater than entrepreneurs, accepted for publication in International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, 23(3).

Berglund, K., Gaddefors, J. and Lindgren, M. (2016). Provoking identities: entrepreneurship and emerging identity positions in rural development, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 28(1-2), pp. 76-96.

Anderson, A.R. and Gaddefors, J. (2016). Entrepreneurship as a community phenomenon; reconnecting meanings and place. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 28(4), pp. 504-518.

Korsgaard, S., Ferguson, R. and Gaddefors, J. (2015). The best of both worlds: how rural entrepreneurs use placial embeddedness and strategic networks to create opportunities. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 27(9-10), pp. 574-598.

Gaddefors, J. and Cronsell, N. (2009). Returnees and local stakeholders co-producing the entrepreneurial region. European Planning Studies, 17(8), 1191-1203.

Gaddefors, J. (2007). Metaphor use in the entrepreneurial process. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, 13(3), pp. 173-193.

Gaddefors, J. (2005). Creating context – entrepreneurial opportunities in a consumer market setting. Journal of Enterprising Culture, 13(3), pp. 197-222.