Current scholars- Stanford

Marouane Bousfiha

Marouane Bousfiha is a doctoral student at the division of Entrepreneurship and Strategy. He has a background in Telecommunication Engineering and a Master’s degree in Management and Economics of Innovation from Chalmers University of Technology. He is involved in a project that helps research groups identify scalable business models based on their research findings as part of EuroLab-4-HPC, an EU funded research center of excellence in High Performance Computing Systems. Marouane’s research centers on academic entrepreneurship and the commercialisation of research results via venture creation.

Tom Christensen

Tom Christensen works generally in the area of central public governance and reform based on a diversity of organization theory perspectives. His works covers a lot of ground, from studies of reputation management in the public sector, via studies of accountability, public security management, police reforms, higher education reforms, welfare state reform, etc., to a set of emerging studies of reforms in several sectors in China, including structural development reforms, emergency management reforms, health and social policy reforms, etc.

Ulf Ericsson

Ulf Ericsson currently works as an associate professor in Working Life Science at Kristianstad University, Sweden. In his research, he primarily focus on how work is being interpreted, negotiated and constructed in various contexts, and how these processes relate to the individual’s ability to perform and to develop sustainable work life strategies, mainly regarding health. In his research he addresses questions of how we can organize and manage more sustainable workplaces; how we better can understand aspects of work-life integration; how the emotional and cognitive stages mobilization-performance-recovery interact and influence the individual at work and at home.

Alison E. Holm

Alison’s research interests lie in the fields of international business and organization studies, with a focus on responses by multinational firms to stakeholder multiplicity.

Johan Klaassen

Johan is a doctoral candidate in the Management section at Stockholm Business School and part of the Swedish national research school in Management and IT. His research interest is work and technology in educational organizations, focusing on the processes by which the daily work in schools change or persist with technological developments and digitalization attempts. He is also involved in a national commissioned education program for school principals (Rektorsprogrammet) as well as a larger research project about school leadership.

Maria Krysfeldt Rasmussen

About my PhD- research: Through a critical ethnography carried out as an inside researcher, I study the intra- organizational effects of a performed leadership philosophy. This is done in a Danish sports and fashion apparel company with primary focus on organizational culture and leadership practices

My main academic interests: Qualitative methods, Critical Management Studies, Leadership Studies, Organizational Culture, Leadership Studies, Social Psychology. 

Michael Meyer

Michael is a Professor of Nonprofit Management at WU Vienna. His current research focuses on managerialism in nonprofit organizations, nonprofit governance, civic participation (volunteering, giving), social innovation and social entrepreneurship. His teaching and training activities also embraces leadership, organizational behavior, and team management.

Kalliopi Platanou

Kalliopi is a Ph.D. candidate in International Business at Aalto University School of Business. Her doctoral dissertation focuses on identifying how professional fields are constructed in social media platforms and the field dynamics that take place in such domains. Theoretically, she draws on institutional theory paying attention to the digital landscape in which professional and organization action occurs. In practice, she applies topic-modeling and social network analysis to examine how the Human Resource Management (HRM) field is formed on Twitter. 

Ingvild Reymert

Barbara Sporn

Barbara Sporn is Professor and Director of the Institute of Higher Education Management at WU Vienna. Her research and administrative experience (as Vice-Rector at WU Vienna for 13 years) include leadership and organization in higher education, university adaptation and change, international and comparative higher education, the globalization of higher education systems, and the public mission of colleges and universities. She teaches in the areas of organization, strategy and planning in expert organization at the bachelor and master level.