Bakgrund

Jag disputerade 2009 med doktorsavhandlingen On the Relationship between Sustainable Health and Quality Management - Leadership and organizational behaviours from Swedish organizations och 2014 blev jag docent.

Innan min akademiska karriär arbetade jag på en revisionsbyrå som revisorsassistent och som ekonom, teamledare och projektledare inom industrin.

Forskningsområden

I min forskning intresserar jag mig för hur ledare och organisationer kan arbeta för att skapa nöjda kunder, välmående medarbetare och lönsamhet d.v.s. vilka arbetssätt, beteenden och metoder som skapar detta. Fokus är på relationen mellan kvalitetsledning och hållbar hälsa. Andra områden som jag forskar på och intresserar mig för är Kvalitetskultur, Lean, processer, Styrkebaserat Ledarskap och Appreciative Inquiry.

Pågående forskning

Jag är sedan 2015 med i forskningsprojektet "Simply Lean" ett projekt finansierat av KK-stiftelsen för att undersöka hur kvaliteten kan förbättras i svenska företag genom att utveckla en intern coachingsmodell för att stödja värderingsbaserat ledarskap. Ett ledarskap som ska integrera värderingar, organisationskultur, kundbehov och en hållbar utveckling. Det treåriga projektet är ett forsknings- och utvecklingssamarbete mellan tre svenska tillverkande företag och Mittuniversitetet.

Ett annat projekt som jag är med i har som syfte att mäta och utveckla kvalitetskulturen på organisationsnivå. Det är ett samarbete mellan SIQ (Institutet för kvalitesutveckling) och forskningsnätverket SQMA (Swedish Quality Management Academy) samt sju organisationer från offentlig och privat sektor.

Undervisning

Jag undervisar i vårt magisterprogram Kvalitets- och ledarskapsutveckling där jag också handleder examensarbeten.

Övrigt

Jag är ordförande i rådet för undervisning på grund- och avancerad nivå (GRUR) inom fakulteten för naturvetenskap, teknik och medier (NMT) och ett av kontrastparen i Miun 2025.

Publikationer

Artiklar i tidskrifter
Doktorsavhandlingar, sammanläggningar
Kapitel i böcker, del av antologier
Konferensbidrag
Licentiatavhandlingar, sammanläggningar
Rapporter

Artiklar i tidskrifter

Ingelsson, P. & Bäckström, I. (2017). The need for a long-term mindset when measuring the effects of lean on health-related quality management values : A case study from the public sector. International Journal of Workplace Health Management, vol. 10: 3, ss. 249-264.  

Cronemyr, P. , Bäckström, I. & Rönnbäck, Å. (2017). Quality culture deployment : using behaviours to explain, diagnose and improve a quality culture. International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences,  

Åslund, A. & Bäckström, I. (2017). Management processes and management’s role in customer value creation. International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences, vol. 9: 2, ss. 148-164.  

Bäckström, I. , Ingelsson, P. & Johansson, C. (2016). How Communicative Leadership influences co-workers’ health : A Quality Management perspective. International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences, vol. 8: 2, ss. 143-158.    

Åslund, A. & Bäckström, I. (2016). Management and customer value creation – learning from successful societal entrepreneurs. International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences,

Bäckström, I. & Ingelsson, P. (2016). Measuring Appreciative Inquiry, Lean and Perceived Co-worker Health. Quality Innovation Prosperity, vol. 20: 2, ss. 105-118.    

Eriksson, M. , Bäckström, I. , Ingelsson, P. & Åslund, A. (2016). Measuring customer value in commercial experiences. Total quality management and business excellence (Online),  

Snyder, K. , Ingelsson, P. & Bäckström, I. (2016). Enhancing the study of Lean transformation through organizational culture analysis. International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences, vol. 8: 3, ss. 395-411.  

Åslund, A. & Bäckström, I. (2015). Creation of value to the society : a process map of the societal entrepreneurship area. Total Quality Management and Business Excellence, vol. 26: 4, ss. 385-399.  

Bäckström, I. & Ingelsson, P. (2015). Is there a relationship between Lean Leaders and healthy co-workers?. Quality Innovation Prosperity, vol. 19: 2, ss. 123-136.    

Ingelsson, P. , Löfstedt, U. , Bäckström, I. & Öberg, L. (2015). Taking a Holistic Perspective on Technical Communication and Lean. Quality Innovation Prosperity, vol. 19: 2, ss. 103-122.    

Bäckström, I. , Lagrosen, Y. & Eriksson, L. (2014). Change of the quality management culture through health-promotion activities?. Total quality management and business excellence (Online), vol. 25: 11-12, ss. 1236-1246.  

Bäckström, I. , Ingelsson, P. & Johansson, C. (2014). Health Related Quality Management Values and Key Principles of Communicative Leadership - Are They the Same?. Quality Innovation Prosperity, vol. 18: 1, ss. 59-72.    

Lagrosen, Y. , Bäckström, I. & Wiklund, H. (2012). Approach for measuring health-related quality management. The TQM Journal, vol. 24: 1, ss. 59-71.  

Åslund, A. & Bäckström, I. (2012). A process towards societal value within a community-based regional development project. Quality Innovation Prosperity, vol. 16: 2, ss. 71-83.    

Bäckström, I. , Eriksson, L. & Lagrosen, Y. (2012). A health-related quality management approach to evaluating health promotion activities. International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences, vol. 4: 1, ss. 76-85.    

Bäckström, I. , Ingelsson, P. & Wiklund, H. (2011). Learning from others to adapt Quality Management to the future. Total Quality Management and Business Excellence, vol. 22: 2, ss. 187-196.  

Lagrosen, Y. , Bäckström, I. & Lagrosen, S. (2010). The relationship between quality management and employee health - : exploring the underlying dimensions. International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management, vol. 5: 2, ss. 109-123.  

Larsson, J. , Bäckström, I. & Wiklund, H. (2009). Leadership and organizational behaviour : Similarities between three award-winning organizations. International Journal of Management Practice, vol. 3: 4, ss. 327-345.  

Bäckström, I. , Larsson, J. & Wiklund, H. (2009). Are healthy and successful organizations working accordingly to Quality Management?. International journal of workplace health management, vol. 2: 3, ss. 245-257.  

Lagrosen, Y. , Bäckström, I. & Lagrosen, S. (2007). Quality management and health : a double connection. International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, vol. 24: 1, ss. 49-61.  

Harnesk, R. , Schön, K. & Bäckström, I. (2005). How successful Swedish organisations achieve sustaniable health. International Journal of Management Practice, vol. 1: 3, ss. 233-250.  

Doktorsavhandlingar, sammanläggningar

Bäckström, I. (2009). On the Relationship between Sustainable Health and Quality Management : Leadership and organizational behaviours from Swedish organizations. Diss. (Sammanläggning) Sundsvall : Mid Sweden University, 2009 (Mid Sweden University doctoral thesis : 71)  

Kapitel i böcker, del av antologier

Bäckström, I. & Sjöstedt-Landén, A. (2017). Bortom New Public Management? Berättelser om arbetssituationen i akademin. I Mitt, ditt och vårt universitet: Att förstå något gemensamt. Sundsvall/Östersund : Mittuniversitetet. S. 59-72.

Bäckström, I. & Åslund, A. (2014). Framgångsrikt ledarskap inom samhällsentreprenöriell verksamhet. I Samhällsentreprenörskap – samverkande för lokal utveckling. Sundsvall : Mittuniversitetet (Social Science Reports from Mid Sweden University). S. 195-209.  

Lagrosen, Y. , Lagrosen, S. & Bäckström, I. (2006). Kvalitetsutveckling i vården. I HEL : Hälso- och sjukvårdens ekonomi och logistik. Göteborg : Sahlgrenska akademin vid Göteborgs universitet. S. 112-121.

Konferensbidrag

Ingelsson, P. & Bäckström, I. (2016). Monitoring co-worker health and Lean culture development. I Proceedings of the 19th QMOD Conference, 2016.

Bäckström, I. , Rönnbäck, Å. & Cronemyr, P. (2016). What values are included in Quality Culture? – A theoretical and practical collaboration. I Building a Culture for Quality, Innovation and Sustainability.

Bäckström, I. , Ingelsson, P. , Snyder, K. , Hedlund, C. & Lilja, J. (2016). Collection of baseline data – expanding the scope. I EurOMA 2016 - Interactions.

Snyder, K. , Hedlund, C. , Ingelsson, P. & Bäckström, I. (2016). Storytelling as a co-creative process to build cultures of quality, innovation and sustainability. Paper presented at the 19th QMOD conference; International Conference on Quality and Service Sciences (ICQSS 2016), 21-23 September 2016, Rome

Snyder, K. , Ingelsson, P. & Bäckström, I. (2016). Helping leaders develop value-based leadership. I EurOMA Conference Proceedings : Interactions.

Cronemyr, P. , Bäckström, I. & Rönnbäck, Å. (2016). A Tool For Measuring Quality Culture. I 19th QMOD Proceedings: International Conference on Quality and Service Sciences : Building a Culture for Quality, Innovation and Sustainability.

Hedlund, C. , Lilja, J. , Ingelsson, P. , Bäckström, I. & Snyder, K. (2016). Research On Toyota Kata? Proposing A Future Research Agenda For The Emerging Practice. I EurOMA Conference Proceedings : Interactions 2016.

Ingelsson, P. , Bäckström, I. , Snyder, K. , Hedlund, C. & Lilja, J. (2016). Using the employee satisfaction survey as a tool for building organizational culture. I EurOMA Conference Proceedings : Interactions, 2016.

Lilja, J. , Bäckström, I. , Forsgren, O. , Ingelsson, P. , Noaksson, E. , Nätterlund, K. , Richardsson, D. & Åslund, A. (2016). Insights from Sustainable Cleveland 2019: An Initiative Driving Sustainable Regional Development by Large Scale Summits, Collective Visioning, and lots of Creativity, Culture, and Appreciation. I Valuing and Evaluating Creativity for Sustainable Regional Development. Östersund : . S. 255--258.  

Snyder, K. , Ingelsson, P. & Bäckström, I. (2015). Conceptualizing a research framework to study systemic Lean transformation : A Critical Review. I 18th QMOD-ICQSS.

Bäckström, I. & Ingelsson, P. (2015). Exploring the relationship between Appreciative Inquiry, Lean and perceived co-worker health. I Creating a Sustaniable future through Quality : on Quality and Service Sciences ICQSS 2015, October 12-14. Lund :

Åslund, A. & Bäckström, I. (2014). Factors and leadership behaviours in successful societal entrepreneurships that contribute to customer value. I 17th QMOD-ICQSS Conference on Quality and Service Science in Prague, Czech Republic : Entering the Experience Economy –from product quality to experience quality. Prague :

Bäckström, I. & Ingelsson, P. (2014). Do Lean Leaders get healthy co-workers?. I 17th QMOD-ICQSS Conference, Prague, Czech Republic : Entering the Experience Economy – from product quality to experience quality. Lund :

Löfstedt, U. , Ingelsson, P. , Bäckström, I. & Öberg, L. (2014). Can Lean improve the status of Technical Communication? : Taking a system perspective. I 17th QMOD-ICQSS Conference, Prague, Czech Republic : Entering the Experience Economy – from product quality to experience quality. Lund :

Bäckström, I. , Ingelsson, P. & Johansson, C. (2013). Health Related Quality Management values and Key principles of Communicative Leadership - are they the same?. I 16th QMOD conference on Quality and Service Sciences ICQSS,4-6 September 2013, Portoroz, Slovenia : From LearnAbility and InnovAbility to SustainAbility.. S. 164--177.  

Bäckström, I. , Ingelsson, P. & Wiklund, H. (2012). Measuring the Starting Points for a Lean Journey. I 15 th QMOD conference : From LearnAbility and InnovAbility to SustainAbility. Poznan : (QMOD). S. 146--156.  

Åslund, A. & Bäckström, I. (2012). A process towards societal value within a community-based regional development project. I Proceedings of the 15th QMOD-ICQSS conference. Poznan, Poland :  

Bäckström, I. , Eriksson, L. & Lagrosen, Y. (2011). A health-related Quality Management approach to evaluating health promotion activities.. I QMOD Conference on Quality and Service Sciences 2011 : From LearnAbility & InnovAbility to SustainAbility. San Sebastian : . S. 188--197.  

Åslund, A. , Bäckström, I. & Wiklund, H. (2011). Soci(et)al entrepreneurship from a Quality Management perspective. I ICSB world conference : Back to the future, Changes in perspectives of global entrepreneurship and innovation. Stockholm :  

Åslund, A. , Bäckström, I. & Richardsson, D. (2011). Managing by Appreciative Leadership to create efficient organizations and healthy co-workers. Paper presented at the ICQSS 2011, 14th OMOD International Conference on Quality and Service Sciences, August, 2011, San Sebastian.  

Bäckström, I. & Lagrosen, Y. (2010). Are successful organizations working in a way that provides co-workers with what they need to be healthy?. I 14th QMOD conference on Quality and Service Sciences ICQSS 2011, Cottbus, Germany, August 29 - 31 2010.

Ingelsson, P. , Bäckström, I. & WIklund, H. (2010). Measuring the soft sides of TQM and Lean. I 13th QMOD Conference, 31 Aug – 1 Sept 2010 Cottbus, Germany.

Bäckström, I. & Lagrosen, Y. (2007). Developing a measurement system for health-related quality management.. I .

Bäckström, I. , Ingelsson, P. & Wiklund, H. (2007). Learning from chaos : a necessity for adapting quality management to the future?. Paper presented at the 10th QMOD International Conference, Quality Management & Organizational Development, June, 2007, Helsingborg.

Bäckström, I. , Larsson, J. & Wiklund, H. (2005). Management methodologies for sustaniable health : A case study at three Swedish organisations. I Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Quality Management for Organisational and Regional Development : QMOD 2005 : QMOD 2005 Palermo, Italy 29.06.2005 - 01.07.2005. Luleå : . S. 703--712.

Lagrosen, Y. & Bäckström, I. (2005). Values of TQM and employee health: an exploration and comparison of two manufacturing departments. I Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Quality Management for Organisational and Regional Development : QMOD 2005 : QMOD 2005 Palermo, Italy 29.06.2005 - 01.07.2005. Luleå : . S. 371--378.

Edenhagen, G. , Bäckström, I. , Schön, L. & Wiklund, H. (2004). Improving continuing engineering education through institutional co-operation : a swedish case study. I Proceedings of the 9th World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education – Tokyo May 15–20, 2004 : 9th IACEE World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education.. S. 195--200.

Licentiatavhandlingar, sammanläggningar

Bäckström, I. (2006). Quality Management for Sustainable Health : Methodologies, Values and Practices taken from Swedish Organizations. Lic.-avh. (Sammanläggning) Luleå : Universitetstryckeriet, 2006 (LTU-LIC : 2006:49)

Rapporter

Ahlin, K. , Bäckström, I. , Ingelsson, P. , Löfstedt, U. , Mårtensson, A. , Åslund, A. & Öberg, L. (2014). Projekt Kundanpassad teknikinformation – KATI : Slutrapport – med fokus på förslag på arbetssätt och metoder.  

Bäckström, I. , Ingelsson, P. , Löfstedt, U. , Mårtensson, A. & Öberg, L. (2014). Projekt Kundanpassad teknikinformation – KATI : Kvalitetsarbete inom teknikinformation – Goda exempel och utvecklingsbehov.  

Bäckström, I. , Ingelsson, P. & Wreder, Å. (2005). Achieving Sustaniable Health Among Co-workers : A case study at FöreningsSparbanken. Luleå : Luleå University of Technology (Research Report 2005:1)

Bäckström, I. , Harnesk, R. & Schön, K. (2004). Empiriskt underlag till forskningsrapporten "hur framgångsrika organisationer uppnår hållbar hälsa". Luleå : Luleå Tekniska Universitet (Research Report 2004:4)