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Maria Grafström is an Associate Professor at Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University, and a researcher at the Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (Score). Her work examines the mediatisation of organisational life, focusing on how media logic permeates corporate communication, urban planning, and public sector governance.
- Key Research Areas: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), organizational institutional theory, knowledge collaboration between academia and society, media's role in shaping institutional norms, and strategic communication in megaprojects like the New Karolinska University Hospital.
- Theoretical Focus: Explores institutional logics, social categorization, and the impact of media on organizational fields, drawing from Scandinavian and North American traditions.
Recent Publications highlight trends in media-driven governance, including the role of newsworthiness in public sector communication, science-art collaborations, and epistemic uncertainty in transdisciplinary research.
She collaborates with scholars at Stockholm University, Stockholm School of Economics, and Region Västra Götaland, with empirical studies spanning Swedish municipalities, nonprofit organizations, and healthcare megaprojects. Her innovative work integrates fiction into organizational theory and analyzes the politics of knowledge production in mediatized environments.
