Lise Justesen

Lise Justesen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School. She holds a PhD from CBS and a Master's in Philosophy from the University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on digitalization, invisible work, and the interplay between accounting and organizing, grounded in Actor-Network Theory and qualitative methods.

• Co-author of Digitalization and Invisible Work (2025), a critical examination of unforeseen consequences of AI implementation in public sector organizations
• Supervisor for PhD candidates across CBS departments and the Vienna University of Economics
• Collaborator with Ursula Plesner on Visibility Management and Digitalization in Public Sector projects

Their work reveals recurring themes: digitalization's hidden labor demands, algorithmic accountability challenges, and managerial adaptation to AI systems. They analyze these through ethnographic studies of public sector transformations and critical assessments of predictive algorithms in governance.

Justesen's scientific contributions examine how digital systems create new accountability frameworks and redefine professional roles. Their research demonstrates that digitalization produces unanticipated labor patterns, reconfigures human-machine relationships, and generates complex valuation practices in organizational contexts.