Dr. Maria Grafström

Biography

Maria Grafström is an Associate Professor at Stockholm University, specializing in Management and Business Studies. Her research primarily focuses on the process of mediatisation within organizational life, exploring how media logic permeates and influences organizations. Grafström investigates the relationship between media organizations and contemporary management practices, specifically how media facilitates the creation and circulation of ideas that shape organizational agendas. Her work encompasses themes such as corporate responsibility and business ethics, along with studies of organizational development, corporate communication, and reputation management. She has also examined the role of media in urban planning and integrated science projects. Influenced by organizational institutional theory, her research explores developments and changes within organizational fields, the roles of various actors, such as institutional entrepreneurs, and the processes that create and spread institutional ideas and norms. Grafström's contributions integrate perspectives from both Scandinavian and North American traditions of organizational theory.

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