I am a professor of strategic communication and have a Ph.D. in media and communication studies from Lund University in Sweden.

My research interests are primarily in strategic communication (which is also termed communication management and corporate communication). I have mainly focused on organizational communication (or internal communication) and the mutually dependent relationship between organizational communication and public relations. More specifically, I have written texts concerning fields such as communication in change processes, strategic listening, crisis communication, ICT (intranet) and organizational learning, organizational identity, and image.

In 2002, I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology, Media and Communication Studies at Lund University. My doctoral dissertation aims to study if and how intranets are interpreted and used as mediums for communication and learning. Thus, I studied organizational learning and ICT, or another term, knowledge management, from a communicative perspective. The theoretical points of departure in the dissertation are Karl E. Weick’s theory of organizing, Lev Vygotsky’s social-cultural perspective on learning, and Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger’s theory on communities of practices.

Organizational communication, crisis communication, change communication, and strategic communication.