Jakob Westergren
Associated Researcher at Department of Business Studies; Guests and others
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 17 39
- E-mail:
- jakob.westergren@fek.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, ingång C
751 20 UPPSALA - Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA
- CV:
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Short presentation
Jakob Westergren is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Communication at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is also affiliated with the Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University where he obtained his PhD in business studies (organization theory) in 2025. His PhD thesis addressed how schools enact competition. Jakob is interested in research pertaining to organizational sociology, educational institutions, and legitimacy.
Keywords
- education
- institutions
- legitimacy
- organizational sociology

Publications
Recent publications
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Between Equality and Competition: The Organisational Consequences of Imagined Competition
Part of Journal of Organizational Sociology, 2026
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Insidious rhetoric or impotent ramble?: Disentangling discursive legitimation by an interest group
2025
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Navigating the creation of educational offers: insights from Swedish upper secondary schools
Part of International Journal of Educational Management, p. 1610-1625, 2025
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Part of Journal of Organizational Sociology, p. 267-299, 2025
- DOI for Guaranteeing Desirable Futures: What Schools Offer to Prospective Students When in Mutual Competition
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All publications
Articles in journal
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Between Equality and Competition: The Organisational Consequences of Imagined Competition
Part of Journal of Organizational Sociology, 2026
- DOI for Between Equality and Competition: The Organisational Consequences of Imagined Competition
- Download full text (pdf) of Between Equality and Competition: The Organisational Consequences of Imagined Competition
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Navigating the creation of educational offers: insights from Swedish upper secondary schools
Part of International Journal of Educational Management, p. 1610-1625, 2025
- DOI for Navigating the creation of educational offers: insights from Swedish upper secondary schools
- Download full text (pdf) of Navigating the creation of educational offers: insights from Swedish upper secondary schools
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Part of Journal of Organizational Sociology, p. 267-299, 2025
- DOI for Guaranteeing Desirable Futures: What Schools Offer to Prospective Students When in Mutual Competition
- Download full text (pdf) of Guaranteeing Desirable Futures: What Schools Offer to Prospective Students When in Mutual Competition