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Marie Bengtsson is an Associate Professor at Linköping University with a focus on interdisciplinary contexts in design and engineering organization. Her research interests are primarily aimed at understanding how organizations make design choices under various circumstances, especially those that require foresight into future trends and innovations. She investigates the methods and tools that organizations utilize to develop insights into novel ideas worth exploring. One of her key research areas is the examination of organizational routines and the human variation involved in managing operational predictability and repetition. Her empirical studies include the expansion and scalability of chain organizations within the fast fashion industry and the organizational changes prompted by the introduction of roadmapping and agile methodologies. Furthermore, her research extends to the aerospace industry, exploring transitions from physical to digital prototyping in jetfighter development, with a focus on both greenfield and brownfield development processes. In addition to her research, Bengtsson teaches courses in Business Administration and Design Product Development at the master's level and supervises research projects. She values challenged-based collaboration with industry while ensuring a solid theoretical foundation in her teaching.
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