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Alice Wickström serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Management Studies at Aalto University, where she conducts interdisciplinary research at the intersection of organization studies, gender theory, and digital labor. Her work critically examines contemporary workplace transformations through feminist and psychoanalytic lenses, with particular focus on power dynamics in algorithmic management systems and digital consumer culture.
Wickström's research program investigates how digitalization reshapes organizational subjectivity, examining phenomena like reactive consumer anxiety, spatial reconfigurations in startup ecosystems, and the material manifestations of gendered inequality. She employs innovative methodologies including diffractive reading and affect theory to analyze countercultural collectives, algorithmic erasure practices, and embodied organizing processes. Her theoretical contributions extend to posthuman perspectives on the Anthropocene's impact on organizational thought and alternative conceptualizations of strength in leadership contexts.
Analysis of her 2023-2025 publications reveals three dominant research trajectories: (1) critical examinations of digital labor platforms and algorithmic management; (2) explorations of gendered materiality and embodied workplace practices; and (3) theoretical interventions addressing the Anthropocene, pandemics, and posthuman challenges to organizational theory. Her work consistently demonstrates international collaboration patterns, particularly with Nordic and Anglo-American scholars, while maintaining strong connections to critical management traditions through publications in Gender, Work & Organization and Organization Studies.
