PhD defence: Marie Mathiesen

In order to obtain the PhD degree, Marie Mathiesen has submitted her thesis entitled:

MAKING STRATEGY WORK

- An Organizational Ethnography

The PhD thesis is an ethnographic exploration of strategy work in practice. The case for the thesis is strategy work in the Stakeholder Department of the multinational biotech corporation Bioforte (pseudonym). The analysis explores the dual aspects of the title as “making strategy-work”—the specific doings of crafting strategy; and “making Strategy work”—finding ways for strategy, as a concept, to function in the context of an organization. Building on the double entendre of the title, the guiding research question for this exploration is quite simply: What does strategy work do?

Supervisor: 
Associate Professor Anne Reff Pedersen
Department of Organization
Copenhagen Business School

Co-supervisor: 
Professor Christopher Grey
School of Management
Royal Holloway University of London

Assessment Committee: 
Professor Martin Kornberger (Chair)
Department of Organization
Copenhagen Business School

Professor Silvia Gherardi
Research Unit on Communication, Organizational Learning and Aesthetics University of Trento

Professor Saku Mantere
Department of Management and Organization                              

Hanken School of Economics

Reception
The Doctoral School of Organisation and Management Studies will host a reception, which will take place immediately after the defence at Department of Organization, Kilen, 4. floor.