Josef Pallas
Professor i företagsekonomi, särskilt organisation vid Företagsekonomiska institutionen; Professorer, lärare, forskare
- Telefon:
- 018-471 13 83
- E-post:
- Josef.Pallas@fek.uu.se
- Besöksadress:
- Ekonomikum
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, ingång C
751 20 UPPSALA - Postadress:
- Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA
- Akademiska meriter:
- ED, docent, Excellent lärare
Kort presentation
Josef Pallas, Phd, is professor at the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University.
Nyckelord
- governance
- public sector
- resilience
- media
- management
- prizes
- news production
- welfare
- collegiality
- organisationresearchgroup
Biografi
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
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)
Forskning
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
Articles in popular press
(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

Publikationer
Urval av publikationer
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Mediatization & Corporate Reputation
Ingår i The SAGE Encyclopedia of Corporate Reputation, Sage Publications, 2016
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Ingår i The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and Society, Sage Publications, 2015
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Ingår i Mediatization of Communication, Walter de Gruyter, 2014
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Creativity Caged in Translation: A Neo-Institutional Perspective on Crisis Communication
Ingår i Relaciones Internacionales, 2014
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Organizations and the Media: Organizing in a mediatized world
Routledge, 2014
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Strategic communication as institutional work
Ingår i The Routledge Handbook of Strategic Communication, Routledge, 2014
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Ingår i The Governance of Modern Universities, 2013
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Public Relations and Neo-institutional theory
Ingår i Public Relations Inquiry, s. 183-203, 2013
- DOI för Public Relations and Neo-institutional theory
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Public Relations and Neo-institutional theory
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2013
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Corporate Media Work and Micro-Dynamics of Mediatization
Ingår i European Journal of Communication, s. 420-435, 2013
- DOI för Corporate Media Work and Micro-Dynamics of Mediatization
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Corporate Media Work and Micro-Dynamics of Mediatization
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Beyond the news desk: the embeddedness of business news
Ingår i Media Culture and Society, s. 216-233, 2013
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Ingår i Global themes and local variations in organization and management, s. 295-308, Routledge, 2013
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Reputation and Legitimacy: Accreditation and Rankings to Assess Organizations
Ingår i Handbook of Communication and Corporate Reputation, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013
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Providing, promoting and co-opting: Corporate media work in a mediatized society
Ingår i Journal of Communication Management, s. 165-178, 2011
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Regler, normer och föreställningar.: Ett neoinstitutionellt perspektiv på strategisk kommunikation
Ingår i Strategisk kommunikation. Forskning och praktik, Liber, 2011
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Liber, 2010
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Ingår i Företag och medier, s. 6-24, Liber, 2010
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Ingår i Exploring the Worlds of Mercury and Minerva, s. 243-256, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2009
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Ekonominyhetens väg: Från kvartalsrapporter till ekonominyheter
2006
Senaste publikationer
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The diminishing spaces for collegial work
Ingår i Scandinavian Journal of Management, 2025
- DOI för The diminishing spaces for collegial work
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av The diminishing spaces for collegial work
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COVID-19 Stories from the Swedish Welfare State: The Pandemicracy
Bristol University Press, 2025
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An ecology of ideas permeating science, higher education, and society: Essays for Kerstin Sahlin
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2024
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Not So Logical, After All: Public Managers' Understandings of Media
Ingår i Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, s. 21-39, 2024
- DOI för Not So Logical, After All: Public Managers' Understandings of Media
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Not So Logical, After All: Public Managers' Understandings of Media
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Practicing Uncertainty as Resilience
Ingår i Filozofia (Bratislava), s. 1159-1173, 2024
- DOI för Practicing Uncertainty as Resilience
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Practicing Uncertainty as Resilience
Alla publikationer
Artiklar i tidskrift
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The diminishing spaces for collegial work
Ingår i Scandinavian Journal of Management, 2025
- DOI för The diminishing spaces for collegial work
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av The diminishing spaces for collegial work
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Not So Logical, After All: Public Managers' Understandings of Media
Ingår i Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, s. 21-39, 2024
- DOI för Not So Logical, After All: Public Managers' Understandings of Media
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Not So Logical, After All: Public Managers' Understandings of Media
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Practicing Uncertainty as Resilience
Ingår i Filozofia (Bratislava), s. 1159-1173, 2024
- DOI för Practicing Uncertainty as Resilience
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Practicing Uncertainty as Resilience
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Bureaucracy under pressure: New(s) management practices in central government agencies
Ingår i European Management Journal, s. 295-304, 2024
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Producing and sustaining field-configuring events: The role of prizes in a Swedish Book Fair
Ingår i Culture and Organization, s. 47-64, 2024
- DOI för Producing and sustaining field-configuring events: The role of prizes in a Swedish Book Fair
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Producing and sustaining field-configuring events: The role of prizes in a Swedish Book Fair
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Under the Press(ure)?: The Role of Media in Organisation and Provision of Municipal Elderly Care
Ingår i Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, s. 67-88, 2022
- DOI för Under the Press(ure)?: The Role of Media in Organisation and Provision of Municipal Elderly Care
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Under the Press(ure)?: The Role of Media in Organisation and Provision of Municipal Elderly Care
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Mediespökets betydelse för styrning, organisering och ledning av äldreomsorgen
Ingår i Organisation & Samhälle, s. 34-39, 2021
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Under the influence of politics: Mediatization and political-administrative systems in Scandinavia
Ingår i Nordic Journal of Media Studies, s. 85-96, 2019
- DOI för Under the influence of politics: Mediatization and political-administrative systems in Scandinavia
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Under the influence of politics: Mediatization and political-administrative systems in Scandinavia
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Translated Inconsistency: Management Communication Under the Reign of Institutional Ambiguity
Ingår i Management Communication Quarterly, s. 473-478, 2017
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Diverging principles for strategic communication in government agencies
Ingår i International Journal of Strategic Communication, s. 153-164, 2016
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Typical tools for assessment of communicative performance
Ingår i Corporate Reputation Review, s. 47-58, 2016
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Ingår i International Journal of Strategic Communication, s. 149-152, 2016
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Translating institutional logic: When the media logic meets professions
Ingår i Organization Studies, s. 1661-1684, 2016
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Much ado about media: Public relations in public agencies in the wake of managerialism
Ingår i Journal of Public Relations Research, s. 600-606, 2016
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Organizations, Prizes and Media
Ingår i Journal of Organizational Change Management, s. 1066-1082, 2016
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Ingår i Public Administration, s. 1049-1067, 2015
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Creativity Caged in Translation: A Neo-Institutional Perspective on Crisis Communication
Ingår i Relaciones Internacionales, 2014
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The course of media literacy: or when is time to fire the PR-consultant
Ingår i Mercury Magazine, s. 60-63, 2014
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Public Relations and Neo-institutional theory
Ingår i Public Relations Inquiry, s. 183-203, 2013
- DOI för Public Relations and Neo-institutional theory
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Public Relations and Neo-institutional theory
-
Corporate Media Work and Micro-Dynamics of Mediatization
Ingår i European Journal of Communication, s. 420-435, 2013
- DOI för Corporate Media Work and Micro-Dynamics of Mediatization
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Corporate Media Work and Micro-Dynamics of Mediatization
-
Deceptions of consistency: challenges for public sector communication
Ingår i Mercury, s. 40-44, 2013
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Beyond the news desk: the embeddedness of business news
Ingår i Media Culture and Society, s. 216-233, 2013
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Providing, promoting and co-opting: Corporate media work in a mediatized society
Ingår i Journal of Communication Management, s. 165-178, 2011
Böcker
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COVID-19 Stories from the Swedish Welfare State: The Pandemicracy
Bristol University Press, 2025
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Bokförlaget Atlas, 2023
Doktorsavhandlingar, monografi
Kapitel i böcker, delar av antologi
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Becoming a symbol and losing control: The Gothenburg Book Fair and the alt-right debate
Ingår i Managing Cultural Festivals, s. 130-146, Routledge, 2022
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Pandemicracy and organizing in unsettling times
Ingår i Organizational Communication and Technology in the Time of Coronavirus, s. 21-47, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022
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Ideas of public relations in the light of Scandinavian institutionalism
Ingår i Handbook of Public Relations, s. 509-524, Mouton de Gruyter, 2021
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Intresseorganisationer, metaorganisationer och kommunikation: röster och arenor för policyformering
Ingår i Organisationer och kommunikation, s. 221-258, Studentlitteratur AB, 2021
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Ingår i Framtidens välfärd, s. 87-104, Studentlitteratur AB, 2021
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Public sector communication and mediatization
Ingår i Handbook of Public Sector Communication, s. 167-180, Wiley-Blackwell, 2020
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Ingår i Power, communication and politics in the Nordic countries, Nordicom, 2020
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Slutet på den osynliga vetenskapen?: Tio sätt att öka synligheten – eller låta bli
Ingår i Ledning och (sned-)styrning i högskolan, s. 243-268, Studentlitteratur AB, 2020
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Between Market and Culture: The Case of the Gothenburg Book Fair
Ingår i Museum Marketization, s. 61-77, Routledge, 2019
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Prizes and the organization of status
Ingår i Organization outside organization, s. 62-83, Cambridge University Press, 2019
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Between market and culture: The case of the Gothenburg Book Fair
Ingår i Museum marketization:, Routledge, 2019
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Svenska myndigheter i Almedalen 2005 – 2017
Ingår i Almedalen, SSE Institute for Research, 2018
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On Meyer: Public Relations in a Context of World Society, Soft Actors and Rationalized De-coupling
Ingår i Public Relations andSocial Theory, Routledge, 2018
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Resituating Corporate Governance
Ingår i Corporate Governance in Action, s. 1-24, Routledge, 2018
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Ingår i Corporate Governance in Action, s. 163-183, Routledge, 2018
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Ingår i Corporate Governance in Action, s. 185-198, Routledge, 2018
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A Field Approach to Corporate Governance
Ingår i Corporate Governance in Action, s. 25-41, Routledge, 2018
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styrning och frihet - en ohelig allians?
Ingår i Det ostyrda universitetet?, s. 9-37, Makadam Förlag, 2017
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Ingår i Det ostyrda universitetet?, s. 299-326, Makadam Förlag, 2017
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Public sector communication and media visibility and mediatization
Ingår i Handbook of Public Sector Communication, Wiley-Blackwell, 2017
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Ingår i Dynamics of mediatization, Wiley-Blackwell, 2017
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Mediatization & Corporate Reputation
Ingår i The SAGE Encyclopedia of Corporate Reputation, Sage Publications, 2016
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Ingår i Handbook of Public Relations Theory and Methods, Wiley-Blackwell, 2016
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Divided we stand: Akademiska ledares idéer om vad vi har universitet till
Ingår i Det styrda universitet., Santérus Förlag, 2016
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Accreditations & Certifications
Ingår i The SAGE Encyclopedia of Corporate Reputation, Sage Publications, 2016
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Ingår i The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and Society, Sage Publications, 2015
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Public Relations and Neo-institutional theory
Ingår i Strategic Communication, Routledge, 2015
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Ingår i Mediatization of Communication, Walter de Gruyter, 2014
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Strategic communication as institutional work
Ingår i The Routledge Handbook of Strategic Communication, Routledge, 2014
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Media and Organizations: Images, Practices and Organizing
Ingår i Organizations and the Media, s. 1-14, Routledge, 2014
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Media Enactments: Where to Look for Inspiration in Mediatization Studies
Ingår i Organizations and the Media, Routledge, 2014
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Ingår i Global themes and local variations in organization and management, s. 295-308, Routledge, 2013
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Reputation and Legitimacy: Accreditation and Rankings to Assess Organizations
Ingår i Handbook of Communication and Corporate Reputation, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013
-
Regler, normer och föreställningar.: Ett neoinstitutionellt perspektiv på strategisk kommunikation
Ingår i Strategisk kommunikation. Forskning och praktik, Liber, 2011
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Ingår i Företag och medier, s. 6-24, Liber, 2010
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Ingår i Företag och medier, s. 209-228, Liber, 2010
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Utanför nyhetsdesken: om nyhetsproduktion som interaktivt kretslopp
Ingår i Företag och medier, s. 41-57, Liber, 2010
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Ingår i Exploring the Worlds of Mercury and Minerva, s. 243-256, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2009
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The Negotiation of Business News
Ingår i Mediating Business, s. 217-233, Copenhagen Business School Press, 2007
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Ingår i Mediating Business, Copenhagen Business School Press, 2007
Konferensbidrag
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2016
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Media at the center: Public relations in public administrations in the wake of managerialism
2015
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2015
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2015
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Translating media(tization) into organizational contexts.
2015
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Responses to mediatization: A case of Swedish governmental agency
Ingår i Reconceptualizing Contemporary Public Services Organizations, s. 1-32, 2014
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Ingår i INCONSISTENCIES AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION, s. 1-17, 2014
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Ingår i Rethinking the Mediatization of Politics, s. 1-32, 2014
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Corporate Media Work and Lobbying
Ingår i The 4th Govemark network workshop, 2013
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Creativity Caged in Translation: A Neo-Institutional Perspective on Crisis Communication
2013
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Typical tools for assessment of communicative performance
Ingår i Public Sector Responses To Global Crisis, 2013
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Ingår i The Governance of Modern Universities, 2013
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Corporate Media Work and Lobbying
2013
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2012
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The Negotiation of Corporate News: A Study of Source-Media Interaction
2006
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2004
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Talking Organizations: A Narrative Analysis of Corporate Press Releases - an Institutional View
2004
Rapporter
Samlingsverk (redaktörskap)
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An ecology of ideas permeating science, higher education, and society: Essays for Kerstin Sahlin
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2024
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Det ostyrda universitetet?: Perspektiv på styrning, autonomi och reform av svenska lärosäten
Makadam Förlag, 2017
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Organizations and the Media: Organizing in a mediatized world
Routledge, 2014
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Liber, 2010
Övriga
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James Suzman: Arbete - En historik över vad vi gör med vår tid
Ingår i Organisation & Samhälle, 2022
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Ingår i puntOorg International Journal, 2022