Johan Berglund

Johan Berglund serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management and Organization at the Stockholm School of Economics (HHS), specializing in interpretive and critical perspectives on organizational knowledge construction. His work examines how power dynamics shape professional identities and managerial discourses within institutional contexts.

His educational background includes:

• PhD in Business Administration from Stockholm School of Economics (1991-2002)
• Bachelor of Business Administration from Linköping University (1986-1990)
• High School Diploma in Business Administration from Farsta Gymnasium (1983-1985)

Berglund's research centers on the interplay between knowledge validation and power structures in professional settings. Key projects include analyzing HR managers' legitimacy struggles (dissertation: 'The Recurrent Sense of Inadequacy'), investigating teacher identity conflicts in Swedish school reform initiatives, deconstructing management knowledge reproduction in MBA programs, and exploring virtual leadership dynamics in Massively Multiplayer Online Games. His theoretical framework integrates interpretive sociology of knowledge with critical theory, consistently highlighting how epistemic authority reinforces social hierarchies. Current work examines the evolving role and challenges of business schools in contemporary society.

With extensive pedagogical experience across all academic levels, Berglund teaches management, organization theory, HRM, qualitative methods, and philosophy of science in both English and Swedish. He has designed curricula for undergraduate, graduate, MBA, executive, and PhD programs within SSE and for external public/private sector organizations, employing diverse instructional methodologies while examining the pedagogical transmission of organizational knowledge.