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At the 11th IRNOP conference, organized by BI School of Business in Oslo, Norway, 17-19 June 2014, the paper ”Towards process studies of project leadership” was presented. In the paper, Lucia Crevani, Monica Lindgren and Johann Packendorff claim the need for process ontologies in the study of project leadership work and show how such studies can be made.

Monica Lindgren will represent the Scandinavian Journal of Management at the Meet the Editors session at the EGOS 2013 Colloquium in Montréal, Canada, in July 4th. Along with editors from Academy of Management Review, Human Relations and Strategic Organization, she will advise junior scholars on how to improve their publishing strategies and skills.

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, will host the 7th Making
Projects Critical 23-24 January 2014. MPC workshops have been arranged since
2003 by Svetlana Cicmil (University of the West of England), Damian Hodgson
(Manchester Business School) and Monica Lindgren and Johann Packendorff
(KTH Royal Institute of Technology) – gathering an international network of researchers interested in critical perspectives on project management. Read the Call for Papers!

Johann Packendorff  has been awarded a research grant of 2,5 MSEK for the project ”Leadership cultures and organisational change: Leadership practices and work environment in profession-based organisations”. Change processes in health care organizations will be studied from a perspective on leadership as a relational and culturally constructed phenomenon. The project will run 2013-2015.

Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat, the leading francophone entrepreneurship journal, has published a special issue (Vol 10, No 2, 2011) focused on the intersection between project studies and entrepreneurship research. Monica Lindgren and Johann Packendorff contributed with the article ”On the temporary organizing of entrepreneurial processes: Applying a project metaphor to the study of entrepreneurship”. Read more…

Johann Packendorff and Annika Skoglund have acted as scientific advisors to an inquiry on entrepreneurship support structures in the Stockholm region. The final report ”Heroiska män och pålästa kvinnor: En förstudie av det företagsfrämjande systemet i Stockholms län” is now published and can be downloaded from this page (in Swedish).

The article ”Quadruple Helix as a way to bridge the gender gap in entrepreneurship: The case of an innovation system project in the Baltic Sea region” by Malin Lindberg, Monica Lindgren and Johann Packendorff is now published in the Journal of the Knowledge Economy as an Online First article. Read more…

The Critical Management Studies (CMS) and Management Education and Development (MED) divisions of the Academy of Management will sponsor a showcase symposion on ”Critical Approaches to Leadership Learning and Development” at the Annual Meeting in Boston, 4-7 August 2012. The symposion is organised by Jackie Ford and Ann Cunliffe, and include the invited speakers Lucia Crevani, Monica Lindgren, Johann Packendorff, Nancy Harding and Joe Raelin. Read more…

From the onset of 2012, Monica Lindgren serves as Associate Editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Management. Founded in 1985, the journal has developed into a well respected outlet for management research across the globe. Since 2009, it is listed in the Web of Science and the Social Sciences Citation Index.

As a part of a general inquiry into how to improve the support for entrepreneurs in the Stockholm region, Johann Packendorff has received a grant to be scientific advisor. Together with Annika Skoglund from KTH, he will assist the inquiry in providing scientific guidance and theoretical input.