Alexandre Sukhov

Research interests: Innovation, Idea Management, Sustainability, and Research Methods

Undergraduate level

• Industrial Marketing (IEGA05)

Graduate level

• Innovation management (IEAD03)
• Idea Management in the Front End of Innovation (IEAD06)
• Idea Management for Professionals (FEAD82)
• Industrial Management - Degree Project (IEAE02)

Doctoral level

• Fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) (6FEK004)
• Innovation Management Research (6FEK005)

Employment history

• Senior Lecturer in Business Administration, KBS/KAU, 2021 - present
• Lecturer in Operations Management, KBS/KAU, 2020-2021
• PhD student in Business Administration, KBS/KAU, 2014-2020
• Research assistant, Institute for Management of Innovation and Technology (IMIT)/KAU, 2014

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration, 2020
• Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and Management, 2013

Honors and awards 

• 2023 Literati award for Outstanding Paper
• 2022 Albert L. Page award for Outstanding Professional Contributions
• Top downloaded open access article 2019-2021 "Assessing travel satisfaction in public transport: A configurational approach" published in Transportation Research Part D
• Top downloaded article 2019-2021 "How experts screen ideas: the complex interplay of intuition, analysis, and sensemaking" published in Journal of Product Innovation Management
• 2020 Wallander-scholarship, issued by Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation and the Tore Browaldh Foundation, to young outstanding doctors who recently have defended their dissertations
• 2020 IMIT-foundation scholarship  to promising researchers in the field of Management of Innovation and Technology
• Top downloaded article 2017-2018 "The role of perceived comprehension in idea evaluation" published in Creativity and Innovation Management journal
• 2017 Semifinalist in Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge, issied by Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) and the Atlantic Council
• 2017 Winner of Cyber Challenge 9/12 Sweden, issued by The Swedish Defence University's Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies & the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) 
• 2016 Nokia Award for paper with the best Technological Implications for "The What, Who, When, Where and How of Idea Assessment"

Language

• English, Russian, Swedish

Abubakar, A. M., Turunç, Ö., Soliman, M., & Sukhov, A. (2025). Exploring the role of information systems-induced depletion, boreout syndrome, social media use on quiet quitting among digital cohorts. International Journal of Information Management, 84, 102911. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.102911

Sukhov, A., Sihvonen, A., Huck, J., Olsson, L. E., & Netz, J. (2025). How to Manage Generative Idea Screening. Research-Technology Management, 68(1), 35-45. https://doi.org/10.1080/08956308.2024.2419253

Abadzhiev, A., Sukhov, A., & Johnson, M. (2024). Business model innovation for reducing uncertainty in sustainability transitions: A case study of the wood construction industry. Creativity and Innovation Management, 33(4), 818-838. https://doi.org/10.1111/caim.12622

Sukhov, A., Friman, M., & Olsson, L. E. (2023). Unlocking potential: An integrated approach using PLS-SEM, NCA, and fsQCA for informed decision making. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 74, 103424. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2023.103424

Boudier, J., Sukhov, A., Netz, J., Le Masson, P., & Weil, B. (2023). Idea evaluation as a design process: understanding how experts develop ideas and manage fixations. Design Science, 9, e9. https://doi.org/10.1017/dsj.2023.7

Abadzhiev, A., Sukhov, A., Sihvonen, A., & Johnson, M. (2022). Managing the complexity of green innovation. European Journal of Innovation Management, 25(6), 850-866. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJIM-02-2022-0098

Sukhov, A., Olsson, L. E., & Friman, M. (2022). Necessary and sufficient conditions for attractive public Transport: Combined use of PLS-SEM and NCA. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 158, 239-250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2022.03.012

Sukhov, A., Lättman, K., Olsson, L. E., Friman, M., & Fujii, S. (2021). Assessing travel satisfaction in public transport: A configurational approach. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 93, 102732. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2021.102732

Sukhov, A., Sihvonen, A., Netz, J., Magnusson, P., & Olsson, L. E. (2021). How experts screen ideas: The complex interplay of intuition, analysis and sensemaking. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 38(2), 248-270.  https://doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12559