Josef Pallas

Professor Professor in Business Studies with a specialisation in Organisation at Department of Business Studies; Professors, teachers, researchers

Telephone:: +46 18 471 13 83
E-mail:: Josef.Pallas@fek.uu.se
Visiting address:: Ekonomikum
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, ingång C
751 20 UPPSALA
Postal address:: Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA

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Josef Pallas, Phd, is professor at the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University.

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Biography

Current Employment

Professor

2017 - Uppsala University, Department of Business Studies

Guest professor

2024 - Univeristy of Borås, Faculty of Textiles, Engineering and Business (including The Swedish School of Textiles) - Department of Business Administration and Textile Management

2019 - Charles University, Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism, Faculty of Social Sciences

Associate Professor

2013-2016 Uppsala University, Department of Business Studies

Senior Lecture

2008-2012 Uppsala University

Department of Informatics and Media

PhD program

2003 – 2007 Uppsala University, Department of Business Studies

Thesis defended December 2007

Title of the thesis Talking Organizations: Corporate Media Work and Negotiations of Local Practice

Supervisors prof. Kerstin Sahlin, Jaan Grünberg and Anders Forssell

(ekonomimagister)

1996 – 2000 Lund University, Department of Business Studies

Thesis defended May 2000

Teacher training courses

2012 Uppsala University

Doctoral Supervision I

2009 EDAMBA, Grenoble Ècole de Management

3rd EDAMBA Winter Academy on Doctoral Supervision and the New Global Research System

2006 Uppsala University

Pedagogy for University Teachers I

Parental leave

20080630 – 20090930 100%

20100701 – 20110630 40%

Visiting positions

2020 – current Member of the Scientific Council at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University

2019 - current Visiting scholar - Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (formally from February 2020)

2019-2020 Guest Professor - Stockholm Center of Organizational Research, Stockholm (September 2019 – March 2020)

2015 Guest Professor – University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada (July 2015 - December 2015)

2006 Guest Researcher – Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (July 2006 - February 2007)

Research

Alongside my work on the mediatization of public sector organizations, I have, in recent years, become involved in studies on control and governance of organizations within the welfare sector and within the field of higher education and research. In these studies, we seek to explore how new governance models (e.g., reforms, regulations, management ideas) enter Swedish welfare providers and universities and how these models affect the way in which these types of organizations are organized, structured, and managed. Here, I am particularly interested in the way public sector organizations increasingly come to be transformed into real organizations, i.e., being constructed and communicated as complete organizations with unique identities, clear formal structures, and the capacity for rational decision-making.

Yet another area of my research focuses on the creation and proliferation of different forms of public appraisals (such as prizes, rankings, and awards) as an expression of the medially embedded structuration of the institutional contexts in which the activities of contemporary organizations are placed, constructed, organized, and performed.

A more recent focus of my work is on stimulating interest in management knowledge generated locally within and between public sector organizations to question and denaturalize the superiority of popular management wisdom and practices in private, public, and third sector organizations.

Ongoing research projects

2024-2027

Welfare Professions and Work-Related Wellbeing in the Wake of System Crisis.

Jan Wallander’s & Tom Hedelius’ foundation

2023-2029

Welfare markets in Sweden: what are the implications for social equity?

Swedish Research Council

2022-2025

Beyond the Nobels: Prizes as Organization in and of Academia

Jan Wallander’s & Tom Hedelius’ foundation

2021-2024

Virtues and challenges of collegiality – lessons from law & architecture firms.

Jan Wallander’s & Tom Hedelius’ foundation

Media

(E13) Pallas, J. (2024) Är en gåva verkligen gratis? Svenska Dagbladet, 2024-07-28

(E12) Hansen, J. & Pallas, J. (2024) Medlemmars engagemang livsviktigt för SULF. Universitetsläraren. 2024-01-18.

(E11) Pellin, L. & Pallas, J. (2024) Personalen visade vägen under covid – låt dem bestämma i nästa kris. Altinget. 2024-02-15

(E10) Arora-Jonasson, S. Engwall, L. Pallas, J. & Wedlin, L. (2023) ”All viktig forskning passar inte i löpsedelsformatet”. Dagens Nyheter. 2023-08-29

(E10) Pallas, J. (2023) Lärosäten ser fackliga frågor som gnäll. Universitetsläraren. 2023-03-24

(E9) Pallas, J (2021) ”Vi behöver mer tilltro till professionell yrkeskunskap”. Dagens Arena 2021-05-28.

(E8) Lövgren, D. & Pallas, J. (2019) ”Omotiverat att alltid hylla näringslivets ideal”. Svenska Dagbladet. 2019-01-06

(E7) Pallas, J. (2016) ”Crazy is the new black”, Organisation och Samhälle. Föreningen Företagsekonomi i Sverige. Gothenburg: GRI.

(E6) Pallas, J. & Fredriksson, M. (2014) ”Släpp fram intern kritik”, Uppsala Nya Tidning. 2014-12-11

(E5) Pallas, J. (2014) ”The course of media literacy – or when is time to fire the PR-consultant”. Mercury (6) Department of Business Studies. Uppsala: Uppsala University.

(E4) Pallas, J. (2013) “Deceptions of consistency - challenges for public sector communication.” Mercury (5) Department of Business Studies. Uppsala: Uppsala University.

(E3) Pallas, J. (2013) Media and Mercury (5) Department of Business Studies. Uppsala: Uppsala University.

(E2) Pallas. J. & Fredriksson, M. (2014) “Rop på samverkan kan leda till korruption”. Svenska Dagbladet. 2014-01-06

(E1) Pallas, J. & Fredriksson, M. (2013) “Myndigheter polerar fasaden”. Svenska Dagbladet. 2013-05-16