Yunchen Sun
Researcher at Department of Business Studies; Professors, teachers, researchers
- E-mail:
- yunchen.sun@fek.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, ingång C
751 20 UPPSALA - Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA
- Academic merits:
- PhD
Short presentation
Yunchen is an artistic researcher in organizational studies, with a focus on how ways of working take shape and evolve through design. Their work examines the dynamics of organizational routines across diverse contexts—including manual labor, knowledge work, and creative practice. Bridging organizational theory and the performing arts, Yunchen uses methods from dance and theatre to explore how design decisions and the implementation of intelligent automation transform everyday work.
Keywords
- organizational routines
- organisationresearchgroup
Media
The way
An audiovisual representation of Yunchen's PhD research on routine change, with an autobiographical lens to explore how everyday routines evolved alongside Yunchen's PhD process.

Publications
Recent publications
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Part of Strategic Organization, 2025
- DOI for Performing While Transforming: Andrew H. Van de Ven's Enduring Contributions to Management Scholarship
- Download full text (pdf) of Performing While Transforming: Andrew H. Van de Ven's Enduring Contributions to Management Scholarship
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Tensions in Digital Transformation: How Prototype Work Links the Temporary and the Permanent
Part of Project Management Journal, p. 358-374, 2025
- DOI for Tensions in Digital Transformation: How Prototype Work Links the Temporary and the Permanent
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Designing Routines for Industrial Digitalization
2022
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Becoming a better version: The propensity of routines at work
2022
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Routine design: Understanding intentional routine change under digital transformation
2021
All publications
Articles in journal
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Part of Strategic Organization, 2025
- DOI for Performing While Transforming: Andrew H. Van de Ven's Enduring Contributions to Management Scholarship
- Download full text (pdf) of Performing While Transforming: Andrew H. Van de Ven's Enduring Contributions to Management Scholarship
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Tensions in Digital Transformation: How Prototype Work Links the Temporary and the Permanent
Part of Project Management Journal, p. 358-374, 2025
- DOI for Tensions in Digital Transformation: How Prototype Work Links the Temporary and the Permanent
- Download full text (pdf) of Tensions in Digital Transformation: How Prototype Work Links the Temporary and the Permanent
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Digitala projekt — Utveckling av rutiner och digital teknik för smart industri
Part of Management of Innovation and Technology, p. 5-7, 2020