Christian Kowalkowski is Assistant Professor of Marketing. He obtained his PhD in 2008 from the Institute of Technology at Linköping University in Sweden and he was appointed as docent in Industrial Marketing in 2011.
Christian Kowalkowski
Hanken School of Economics
Teaching
Marketing courses at intermediate, advanced, and PhD level.
Research Interest
My current research is concerned with service infusion in manufacturing firms, dynamics of value propositions, service innovation, and value-creation strategies.
Selected publications
- Kindström, Daniel, Christian Kowalkowski, Christian, and Erik Sandberg, “Enabling service innovation - a dynamic capabilities approach”, Journal of Business Research, in press.
- Kowalkowski, Christian, Daniel Kindström, Thomas G. Brashear, Staffan Brege, and Sergio Biggemann (2012), “Service infusion as agile incrementalism in action”, Journal of Business Research, Vol. 65, Issue 6, pp. 765–772.
- Gebauer, Heiko and Christian Kowalkowski (2012), “Customer-focused and service-focused orientation in organizational structures”, Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, Vol. 27, Issue 7 (in press).
- Kowalkowski, Christian (2011), “Dynamics of value propositions: insights from service-dominant logic”, European Journal of Marketing, Vol. 45, Issue 1/2, pp. 277-94.
- Kowalkowski, Christian (2011), "The service function as a holistic management concept", Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, Vol. 26, Issue 7, pp. 484-492.
- Brashear, Thomas G., Christian Kowalkowski, João Gustavo da Silva Freire Ritter, Renato Zancan Marchetti, and Paulo Henrique Prado (2011), “Information search in complex industrial buying: empirical evidence from Brazil”, Industrial Marketing Management, Vol. 40, Issue 1, pp. 17-27.
- Kowalkowski, Christian, Daniel Kindström, and Lars Witell (2011), "Internalisation or externalisation? Examining organisational arrangements for industrial services", Managing Service Quality, Vol. 21, Issue 4, pp. 373-391.
- Nordin, Fredrik, Daniel Kindström, Christian Kowalkowski, and Jakob Rehme (2011), "The risks of providing services: differential risk effects of the service-development strategies of customisation, bundling, and range", Journal of Service Management, Vol. 22, Issue 3, pp. 390-408.
- Kowalkowski, Christian, Daniel Kindström, and Per-Olof Brehmer (2011), “Managing industrial service offerings in global business markets”, Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, Vol. 26, Issue 3, pp. 181-192.
Highly Commended Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2012. - Kowalkowski, Christian (2010), "What does a service-dominant logic really mean for manufacturing firms?", CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology, Vol. 3, Issue 4, pp. 285-292.
- Nordin, Fredrik and Christian Kowalkowski (2010), "Solutions offerings: a critical review and reconceptualisation", Journal of Service Management, Vol. 21, Issue 4, pp. 441-459.
- Kindström, Daniel and Christian Kowalkowski (2009), “Development of industrial service offerings – a process framework”, Journal of Service Management, Vol. 20, Issue 2, pp. 156-172.
- Kowalkowski, Christian, Per-Olof Brehmer, and Daniel Kindström (2009), “Managing industrial service offerings: requirements on content and processes”, International Journal of Services Technology and Management, Vol. 11, Issue 1, pp. 42-63.
- Kowalkowski, Christian and Per-Olof Brehmer (2008), “Technology as a driver for changing customer-provider interfaces: evidence from industrial service production”, Management Research News, Vol. 31, Issue 10, pp. 746-757.
- Kowalkowski, Christian (2008), “Service productivity gains through information and communication technology applications: a service marketing approach”, International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies, Vol. 2, Issue 1, pp. 4-22.
