Mats Carlbäck
Mats Carlbäck has a long practical experience from the hospitality industry, in Sweden and on the international arena, both as entrepreneur and from various management positions. This has led to an extensive network in the industry, on a local, national and international level.
Related to his ongoing PhD-studies, the network has expanded to include the academic world, foremost Gothenburg Business School, RHS at Örebro University and Penn State University, USA.
Mats’ research is based on relevant questions from the practitioners and the aim is primarily to find new applicable solutions/models/methods/ for an industry in great need of new thinking and increased professionalism. Also important for Mats’ work is to connect academia with the industry in order to ensure the results from the research is filtered down to the people who would use it – the practitioners and at the same time identify relevant questions and put this forward to the research community. An important part of this is teaching/instructing, which gives an opportunity to spread the information about interesting research and useful results, as well as gathering feedback from the future industry leaders. At present Mats teaches management accounting, business development and strategic management at RHS at Örebro University and also takes on several training courses for hotels and restaurants.
In order to further facilitate the spreading of research Mats’ contributes in various blogs in Sweden and with columns and editorial work in leading magazines and papers. Sprung from the past experience as entrepreneur is the focus on SMS’s and how this part of the industry could be developed and more professional.
