Professor Brege聽has a research interest mainly focused upon the areas of business-to-business marketing and business development, including topics such as relationship marketing, value added strategies, industrial services, outsourcing and functional sales. Other research interests include supplier strategies in the automotive industry, supply chain strategies, public purchasing and SME-strategies.
He is currently the director of the Centre for Strategy and Business Development and is also deeply involved in the research of the Lean Wood Engineering (a national competence platform) and CAM (Center for Applied Management for small and medium sized companies). He is the course responsible for two courses in strategy and industrial marketing.
Professor Brege is the author of some ten books and externally published reports and some 50 articles in refereed journals and books. He also works as a consultant in strategy and marketing and is at the moment an external member of five company boards, among them as a chairman of Almi F枚retagspartner 脰stg枚tland.
Academic leadership
Professor Brege has been the main supervisor of 9 PhDs and 14 licentiates (5 of them continuing to PhD). He has on numerous occasions acted as an opponent, as a member of grading committees, as a member of evaluation groups for academic positions and research financing, and also as a reviewer for academic journals.
Academic career
1994- 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 Professor of Industrial Marketing at Link枚ping University, Sweden
聽2003- 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 Head of the division of Industrial Marketing (and Industrial Economics),聽at Link枚ping University, Sweden
1996-2002 聽 聽Head of the division of Industrial Economics,聽at Link枚ping University, Sweden
1995-2000 聽 聽Program director for the International Graduate School of Management and Industrial Engineering (IMIE),聽at Link枚ping University, Sweden
1990-1993 聽 聽Head of the department of Management and Economics,聽at Link枚ping University, Sweden
1987-1993 聽 聽Senior lecturer in Industrial Marketing,聽at Link枚ping University, Sweden
1984-1990 聽 聽Deputy head of the department of Management and Economics
1987 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽Associate professor of Industrial Marketing
1979 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽PhD in Industrial marketing
1975-1986 聽 聽Lecturer and research assistant in Industrial Marketing
1974 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽BSc majoring in Business Administration and Mathematics