Sören Kock is a Professor of Management and organisation. Currently he is also the Dean of International Relations, and Rector’s representative in Vaasa. Furthermore, he is the Head of the Department of Management and Organisation at Hanken School of Economics in Finland. He has also been the Dean of Executive Education and Dean for the campus in Vaasa.
His main research interests have for many years focused on research using the industrial network approach. For almost thirty years ago Sören together with Professor Maria Bengtsson started to combine cooperation research with competition research and the outcome was coopetition. The research area of coopetition has been growing internationally as companies are focusing on core competencies and need to attain external resources through cooperation with different kind of competitors.
Other research interests are international entrepreneurship based on the network approach, and lately a combination of coopetition and strategy-as-practice. His research has been published in, among other scientific journals, Industrial Marketing Management, Internationals Small Business Journal, International Business Research, The Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, European Journal of Marketing, and Competitiveness Review.
