He obtained his BS in Business Administration in 1970 at the Uppsala University, where in 1975 he also obtained his PhD in Business Administration[4] with the thesis, entitled "Studies in Industrial Purchasing with special reference to Determinants of Communication Patterns.
"[5] In 1970 Håkansson started his academic career at the Department of Business Studies of the University of Uppsala as Lecturer, and got promoted Associate Professor in 1976.
[6] In 1994 Håkansson is elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences,[4] and in 2010 he received the Herbert Simon Award.
It exists as an ‘organization’ in terms of a certain logic affecting the ordering of activities, resources and actors.
[8]Business networks evolve over time, according to Håkansson and Ford (2002): The history of a business network is the process through which time and money have been devoted to build, adapt, develop, understand, relate and combine different human and physical resources together.