Department of Business Humanities and Law

lobhl

Department of Business Humanities and Law

  • Entrepreneurship, Ethics & Leadership Unit
Lena
Olaison
Associate professor
,
PhD


Room: POR/18.B-3.132
Tel:
+4538153635
, Mobile:
45 4185 3635
E-mail: lo.bhl@cbs.dk
Lena Olaison
Presentation

Lena Olaison is currently employed as a 20% associate professor at BHL.

Lena's research has a focus on entrepreneurship, organization and sustainability. It advances contextual and processual approaches to entrepreneurship, organization and sustainability through qualitative methods of inquiry.

Further research interests include organisational philosophy, sustainability, failure, post-growth, alternative organizing, gender, intersectionality and policy. Recent research includes how corporations navigate politically contested issues in their communication and reporting. This research underscores the need to forge a closer integration of entrepreneurship and corporations with societal issues, recognizing the importance of contributing to broader social concerns.

Primary research areas
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Sustainability and Entrepreneurship
  • Critical entrepreneurship education
  • Organisational Philosophy
  • Qualitative methodology
Administrative tasks
  • Academic line coordinator, MSc Organizational Innovation and Entrepreneurship, until 2024
  • Vice Head of Department (2020-2024)
Curriculum Vitae
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Social media
Links

Ephemera: Theory & Politics in organizations

Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism

Research as a Second Language

External homepage

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Courses
  • Business: Concepts and Prototypes, at the MSocSc Organizational Innovation and Entrepreneurship
  • Master thesis supervision
Publications sorted by:
2024
Christian Garmann Johnsen; Ulf Larsson-Olaison; Lena Olaison; Florian Weber / Navigating Populism : A Study of How German and Swedish Corporations Articulate the Refugee Situation in 2015–2016.
In: Business & Society, Vol. 63, No. 2, 2.2024, p. 341-372
Journal article > peer review
2023
Sverre Spoelstra; Martin Parker; Simon Lilley; Lena Olaison / Reopening the Field : Reading/Writing Robert Cooper Today.
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 23, No. 3, 2023, 20 p., p. 1-20
Editorial > peer review
2022
Peter Fleming; Lena Olaison; Mie Plotnikof; Justine Grønbæk Pors; Alison Pullen / Crawling from the Wreckage
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 22, No. 3, 2022, 20 p., p. 1-20
Editorial
2021
Irina Papazu; Lena Olaison / Laterale sammenligninger som eklektisk analysestrategi
In: Eklektiske analysestrategier. ed. /Emil Husted; Justine Grønbæk Pors . Frederiksberg : Samfundslitteratur 2021, p. 223-246
Book chapter > peer review
Birke Otto; Christian Garmann Johnsen; Emil Husted; Justine Grønbæk Pors; Jette Sandager; Lena Olaison; / Pasts, Presents and Futures of Critical Publishing
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 21, No. 4, 2021, 21 p., p. 1-21
Editorial > peer review
Christian Garmann Johnsen; Lena Olaison; Bent Meier Sørensen / Water in the Desert : Ephemera as an Arendtian Oasis.
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 21, No. 4, 12.2021, p. 277-288
Journal article > peer review
2019
Justine Grønbæk Pors; Lena Olaison; Birke Otto / Ghostly Matters in Organizing
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 19, No. 1, 2019, 29 p., p. 1-29
Editorial
2018
Christian Garmann Johnsen; Lena Olaison; Bent Meier Sørensen / Conceptual Activism : Entrepreneurship Education as a Philosophical Project.
In: Revitalizing Entrepreneurship Education: Adopting a Critical Approach in the Classroom. . ed. /Karin Berglund; Karen Verduyn. Abingdon : Routledge 2018, p. 119-136 (Routledge Rethinking Entrepreneurship Research)
Book chapter > peer review
Christian Garmann Johnsen; Lena Olaison; Justine Grønbæk Pors / Landscapes of Political Action
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2018, 10 p., p. 417-426
Editorial > peer review
Christian Garmann Johnsen; Lena Olaison; Bent Meier Sørensen / Put Your Style at Stake : A New Use of Sustainable Entrepreneurship.
In: Organization Studies, Vol. 39, No. 2-3, 2018, p. 397–415
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Research Projects
Outside activities
  • Administration, accounting, advisory role, family firm, 2019-
  • PhD supervision, Linnaeus University, 2020-