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Johan Packendorff is a Professor of Industrial Economics and Management at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. His research focuses on the consequences of project-based work formats and leadership processes in organizational contexts. He examines how projectification impacts managers, employees, and institutional cultures across sectors including academia, healthcare, and public administration.
Key research areas include project management's societal implications, gender dynamics in academic and professional environments, and leadership cultures in evolving organizational structures. Current projects investigate results-based governance in academia and healthcare system reforms.
Publications from 2022–2025 reveal a focus on themes such as projectified selves, neoliberal academic cultures, homosocial networks, and distributed leadership. His work critiques instrumental rationality in academia and explores tensions between meritocracy and gender equality.
Packendorff contributes to academic discourse through editorial roles in journals like Project Management Journal. His interdisciplinary approach integrates organizational theory, gender studies, and critical management perspectives to address contemporary challenges in project-based work environments.
