Rate My Professor Thomas Hoholm

Thomas Hoholm serves as Provost for Academic Resources and Professor at BI Norwegian Business School. In this leadership role, he is responsible for managing and developing a world-class faculty, ensuring a balanced composition and distribution of academic staff that reflects the school's strategic priorities, and overseeing BI's nine academic departments in close collaboration with department heads. Previously, he held the position of Professor of Innovation and Head of the Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at BI. Hoholm has been employed at BI since 2003, advancing through key academic roles including PhD Fellow (2003-2007), Lecturer (2007-2009), Postdoctor (2010-2012), and continuing positions through 2024. Additional appointments include Senior Researcher at Akershus University Hospital (2013-2016), Visiting Scholar at Lancaster University Management School (2006), and Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley (2011-2012). His academic background comprises a Ph.D. from BI Norwegian Business School (2009), an M.A. from Lancaster University Management School (2002), and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Oslo (2001).

Hoholm's research centers on managing and organizing innovation, learning, and knowledge in and across organizations, with empirical studies in the food industry—particularly agri- and aquaculture—and healthcare technologies and practices. He examines how organizational and market practices and processes are shaped through complex interplay of human, technological, economic, and cultural elements. His scholarly interests span organization studies, innovation studies, science and technology studies, practice-based studies of organizations and markets, industrial networks, and organizational learning. Hoholm has made significant contributions through authorship and editing, including the books "The Contrary Forces of Innovation: An Ethnography of Innovation in the Food Industry" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and "Controversies in Healthcare Innovation: Service, Technology and Organization" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, co-edited with Antonella La Rocca and Margunn Aanestad). Key recent publications feature "Future-making power: a study of competing imagined futures in healthcare" (British Journal of Management, 2024, with Tonje Hungnes and Stewart Clegg), "Collaborative Social Innovation in Shared Spaces: A Multiple Case Study from the Perspective of Religious Organizations" (Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion, 2025, with Eirik Aadland Tappel and Beate Jelstad Løvaas), "Customer search strategies of entrepreneurial telehealth firms - how effective is effectuation?" (International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research, 2024, with Susanna Pinnock and Natasha Evers), and "Creating and maintaining momentum–relational work in public-private innovation partnerships" (Public Management Review, 2023, with Majbritt R. Evald, Tuija Mainela, and Hannu Torvinen). He teaches courses in organization, innovation management, entrepreneurship, and strategy, and is affiliated with BI's Centre for Health Care Management.