Professor in Entrepreneurship and Management in Helsinki and in charge of this main subject in Helsinki. He is too chairman of the graduate school GRAMIS (Graduate School of Management and Information Systems studies). During the last three years he has too been in chrage of the Tekes project "The Role of Boards and Management Teams".

Teaching covers strategy, leadership and management. A course in corporate governance focuses on the role of the board especially  in connrection with innovation and  strategy development  of large and small firms. Another course Academic Business Consulting has it focus on project management and management of a small upstarting company.

Martin Lindell's research interests covers innovations, leadership and leadership styles, strategic management and more lately corporate governance.

- Developing new products - an action, interaction and contextual approach. Scandinavian Management Journal, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 173-189, 1991.

- Management Behavior Dimensions and Development Orientation (together with Gunnar Rosenqvist)   Leadership Quarterly, Vol. 3, No 4 (Winter), 1992, pp. 355-377.
 
- The Nordic Management Style in a European Context (together with Jouko Arvonen).  International Studies of Management and Organization, Fall 1996, Vol. 26, No 3. pp. 73-93.

- Internationalization of small- and medium-sized technology-based firms: An exploratory study (together with Necmi Karagozoglu) in Journal of Small Business Management , Vol. 36, No. 1, January 1998, pp. 44-59.

- Environmental Management: Testing the Win-Win Model (together with Necmi Karagozoglu) in  Journal of Environmental Planning and Management., Vol. 43, issue 6 (2000) pp. 817-829.

- Corporate Environmental behaviour - a comparison between Nordic and US firms  (together with Necmi Karagozoglu)  Business Strategy and the Environment. , Vol. 10, 2001, pp. 38-52

- Electronic commerce strategy. Operations, and performance in small and medium-sized enterprises (together with Necmi Karagozoglu) in Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, Vol. 11   (2004), Number 3. pp. 290-301.

Bookchapters

- Acquisition and realization of vision - diversification through strategic bridging (together with Leif Melin), article published in Thomas, H., O'Neal, D.,  White, R. and Hurst, D. (1994): Building the strategically responsive organization, pp. 231-249. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.

- Culture and Leadership in Finland (together with Camilla Sigfrids) in Chhokar, J.S., Brodbeck, F.C., & House, R.J. (Eds.) (2007). Culture and leadership across the world:  The GLOBE book of in-depth studies of 25 societies, pp. 75-106. Mahwah , N.J. :  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. The book was winning the 2008 Ursula Gielen Global Psychological Book Award.