Jakob Westergren

Keywords

• organizational identity
• organization
• upper secondary school
• competition
• commodification

Biography

I am a PhD student of organization studies at the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University. Prior to commencing my PhD I undertook studies at Lund University, Malmö University, Kristianstad University (Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration), California Lutheran University, Uppsala University (Master's Degree in International Business), and University of Melbourne.

During the autumn semester 2024 I was an academic visitor at Aalto University School of Business in Espoo, Finland. I was hosted by Professor Nina Granqvist.

My research interests revolve around singularization, ignorance, commodification, and competition in the context of Swedish upper secondary schools. I am supervised by Professor Stefan Arora-Jonsson, Professor Maria Blomgren, and Professor Henrik Dellestrand. The research is funded by the Swedish Research School of Management and IT (MIT).

Other academic activities and initiatives:

• Reviewer for the OMT and CMS divisions at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston.
• Recipient of the best reviewer award at the MIT Spring Conference 2021 at Linnaeus University, Kalmar.
• Recipient of a Tom Hedelius travel grant, Handelsbanken, in 2023.
• Recipient of a travel grant from Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse in 2024
• Presenter at the 2023 Quality in Education conference at Stockholm School of Economics.
• Initiator of higher seminars at Uppsala University on the topics of "Wonderless research" (presented by Peter Svensson from Lund University) and "Night(work) and organizations" (presented by Monika Müller from Lund University)
• Participant in the 2023 EGOS pre-colloquium PhD workshop in Cagliari (Italy); the 2023 Ontology, Action, and Worldmaking Art workshop in Gattières (France) run by the SSE Art Initiative; the 2024 NOOS seminar at the Department of Political Science, Lund university; and the 11th Austrian Early Scholars Workshop at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business.
• Attended the 20th SCANCOR PhD workshop on institutional analysis hosted by University of Hamburg and University of Mannheim.