Mats Williander

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 976 citations indexed

About

Mats Williander is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Marketing and Management of Technology and Innovation. According to data from OpenAlex, Mats Williander has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 976 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Strategy and Management, 6 papers in Marketing and 5 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation. Recurrent topics in Mats Williander's work include Sustainable Supply Chain Management (6 papers), Environmental Sustainability in Business (5 papers) and Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (3 papers). Mats Williander is often cited by papers focused on Sustainable Supply Chain Management (6 papers), Environmental Sustainability in Business (5 papers) and Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (3 papers). Mats Williander collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Norway. Mats Williander's co-authors include Marcus Linder, James E. Anderson, Sofia Börjesson, Maria Grahn, Timothy J. Wallington, Alexander Styhre, Sherry A. Mueller, Christian Azar, Steven Sarasini and Robert Boyer and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Resources Conservation and Recycling and Business Strategy and the Environment.

In The Last Decade

Mats Williander

18 papers receiving 904 citations

Hit Papers

Circular Business Model Innovation: Inherent Uncertainties 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Circular Business Model Innovation: Inherent Uncertainties
    2015 668 citations Marcus Linder, Mats Williander Business Strategy and the Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mats Williander Sweden 11 716 484 225 181 92 18 976
Tatiana Reyes France 15 640 0.9× 385 0.8× 217 1.0× 97 0.5× 106 1.2× 30 948
Janaina Mascarenhas Brazil 19 843 1.2× 479 1.0× 316 1.4× 151 0.8× 167 1.8× 54 1.3k
Brian Baldassarre Netherlands 12 877 1.2× 566 1.2× 296 1.3× 196 1.1× 111 1.2× 20 1.3k
Jan Konietzko Netherlands 12 738 1.0× 490 1.0× 213 0.9× 230 1.3× 73 0.8× 15 978
Nina Tura Finland 9 649 0.9× 555 1.1× 157 0.7× 168 0.9× 109 1.2× 19 1.0k
Adriana Hofmann Trevisan Brazil 11 524 0.7× 286 0.6× 209 0.9× 112 0.6× 79 0.9× 21 739
Vasileios Rizos Belgium 9 957 1.3× 593 1.2× 286 1.3× 242 1.3× 215 2.3× 20 1.2k
Mariale Moreno United Kingdom 13 951 1.3× 534 1.1× 412 1.8× 130 0.7× 196 2.1× 24 1.2k
Carl Dalhammar Sweden 20 766 1.1× 466 1.0× 175 0.8× 103 0.6× 353 3.8× 59 1.2k
Sofia Ritzén Sweden 14 551 0.8× 360 0.7× 151 0.7× 107 0.6× 112 1.2× 55 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Mats Williander

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mats Williander

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Mats Williander. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Mats Williander. The network helps show where Mats Williander may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mats Williander

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mats Williander. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mats Williander based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Mats Williander. Mats Williander is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Boyer, Robert, Mats Williander, Thomas Nyström, et al.. (2021). Three‐dimensional product circularity. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 25(4). 824–833. 32 indexed citations
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Boyer, Robert, et al.. (2021). Market Endurance: A cost-accounting based metric for measuring value retention for the Circular Economy. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 179. 106117–106117. 10 indexed citations
3.
Smith, Alistair M. S., et al.. (2017). Decarbonising the Swedish road transport sector. International Journal of Energy Production and Management. 2(3). 251–262. 1 indexed citations
4.
Sarasini, Steven, et al.. (2016). Mobility as a service - MAAS: describing the framework. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 29 indexed citations
5.
Linder, Marcus & Mats Williander. (2015). Circular Business Model Innovation: Inherent Uncertainties. Business Strategy and the Environment. 26(2). 182–196. 668 indexed citations breakdown →
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Diener, Derek, Mats Williander, & Anne‐Marie Tillman. (2015). Product-Service-Systems for Heavy-Duty Vehicles – An Accessible Solution to Material Efficiency Improvements?. Procedia CIRP. 30. 269–274. 5 indexed citations
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Nyström, Thomas & Mats Williander. (2013). THE BUSINESS MODEL, THE SILENT RULER OF DESIGN LOGIC. Chalmers Publication Library (Chalmers University of Technology). 4. 1 indexed citations
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Williander, Mats, et al.. (2013). New business models for electric cars. 1–11. 7 indexed citations
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Nilsson, Maria, Mats Williander, & Cristofer Englund. (2012). Commercialisation of Intelligent Transportation Systems: The Case of Cooperative Systems. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences. 48. 722–732. 2 indexed citations
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Wallington, Timothy J., Maria Grahn, James E. Anderson, et al.. (2010). Low-CO2 Electricity and Hydrogen: A Help or Hindrance for Electric and Hydrogen Vehicles?. Environmental Science & Technology. 44(7). 2702–2708. 10 indexed citations
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Grahn, Maria, Christian Azar, Mats Williander, et al.. (2009). Fuel and Vehicle Technology Choices for Passenger Vehicles in Achieving Stringent CO2 Targets: Connections between Transportation and Other Energy Sectors. Environmental Science & Technology. 43(9). 3365–3371. 66 indexed citations
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Grahn, Maria, James E. Anderson, Timothy J. Wallington, & Mats Williander. (2009). The role of ICEVs, HEVs, PHEVs, BEVs and FCVs in achieving stringent CO2 targets: results from global energy systems modeling. World Electric Vehicle Journal. 3(3). 519–530. 5 indexed citations
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Williander, Mats & Alexander Styhre. (2006). Going Green from the Inside: Insider Action Research at the Volvo Car Corporation. Systemic Practice and Action Research. 19(3). 239–252. 19 indexed citations
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Williander, Mats. (2006). Absorptive capacity and interpretation system's impact when ‘going green’: an empirical study of ford, volvo cars and toyota. Business Strategy and the Environment. 16(3). 202–213. 46 indexed citations
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Williander, Mats. (2006). Fading eco‐benign networks. European Journal of Innovation Management. 9(1). 92–107. 11 indexed citations
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Börjesson, Sofia, et al.. (2005). Innovative scanning experiences from an idea generation project at Volvo Cars. Technovation. 26(7). 775–783. 43 indexed citations
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Styhre, Alexander, et al.. (2005). The unintended consequences of management by objectives: the volume growth target at Volvo Cars. Leadership & Organization Development Journal. 26(7). 529–541. 11 indexed citations
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López-Mesa, Belinda, Graham Thompson, & Mats Williander. (2002). Managing uncertainty in the design and development process by appropriate methods selection. 829–836. 10 indexed citations

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