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Elena Raviola
Professor
The Design UnitAbout Elena Raviola
Since 2018, I work as Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Professor in Design Management and I lead the research centre Business and Design Lab, a long-term collaboration between the Academy of Art and Design and the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg. My main research interest lies in understanding the role of technology and other material artifacts in organizing and managing professional work, especially in cultural and creative fields. I am more specifically interested in how professional norms, rules, structures and ideas are enacted, changed and maintained, in practice and how technology intervenes in these professional practices, transforming over time what is considered professional. Theoretically, I have mainly worked between institutional theory and actor-network theory.
My main field of investigation has been news production. I have conducted a number of ethnographic studies in Italy, France and Sweden in established and new news organizations, all struggling with the establishment and development of so-called digital journalism. Most recently, I have been following two relatively new trends in journalism, namely entrepreneurial journalism and robotjournalism. Both enabled by digital technologies, they have been different responses to the so-much-debated crisis of journalism and news organizations.
I am also interested in the meeting between the arts and business both in academic and industrial practices. I have done research on artistic interventions, that is the use of art in business and other organizations. I have a deep interest for developing qualitative studies and academic writing and in particular by looking at art practices, such as choreography.
I have studied and worked internationally in different countries. I have been visiting researcher at Stanford, Bocconi University and Sciences Po. I have also worked at Jönköping International Business School and Copenhagen Business School before coming to the School of Business, Economics and Law in Gothenburg.
Research areas
- Materiality and organizing, technology and professional work, creative work, managing professional work, institutional work, news production, qualitative methods
Teaching areas
- Design in organizational contexts, Organization Theory, Ethnography, Qualitative Methods.
Selected publications
Palmer, H., Polk, M. and Raviola, E. (2025) The situatednessof dilemmas in boundary spaces: uncovering paradoxical conditions for increasingeffectiveness through transdisciplinary research approaches, Global Social Challenges Journal,4: 20–45.
Gasparin, M., Hjorth, D., & Raviola, E. (2025). Crafting Traditions and Speculative Imaginaries.Organization Studies, 46(4), 604-611.
Raviola, E. and Gasparin, M. (2024). With Latour in our hands: Discovering the politics oforganizing and the aesthetic matter of things. Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management. Special issue in memory of Bruno Latour. Edited by Czarniawska, Cochoy and Corvellec.
Sabelfeld, Lana, Dumay, John, Jönsson, Sten, Corvellec, Hervé, Catasús, Bino, Solli, Rolf;Eriksson-Zetterquist, Ulla, Raviola, Elena, Quattrone, Paolo, Guthrie, James (in press). BarbaraCzarniawska (1948-2024): Reflections in Memory of Her Work and Life. Accounting, Auditing, Accountability Journal.
Cnosse, B., Crovini, C., Elias, S.R.S.T.A., Müller-Christensen, B. and Raviola E. (2024).Celebrating the 40th anniversary of SJM while looking ahead: Reflections from five womenAssociate Editors on their role and future directions for the journal". Scandinavian Journal of Management.
Raviola, E. (2024) In Memory of Barbara Czarniawska. Scandinavian Journal of Management.
Raviola, E., Gasparin M. and Hansson, H. (2024) Commoning through institutional aesthetics:Crafting frames, boundaries and reflections in practice. Ephemera: Theory & politics inorganization, 23(3), 251-277.
Pallas, J., Grünberg, J., Edlund, P., & Raviola, E. (2024). Producing and sustaining fieldconfiguringevents: the role of prizes in a Swedish Book Fair. Culture and Organization, 1-18.
Barbara, C., Raviola, E., da Silveira, R. A., & Tarim, E. (2023). Organising OutsideOrganizations–Part II. puntOorg International Journal, 8(2), 134-135.
Eneman, M., Ljungberg, J., Raviola, E., & Rolandsson, B. (2022) The sensitive nature of facialrecognition: Tensions between the Swedish police and regulatory authorities. Information Polity,1-14.
Raviola, E. (2022) Organizing Independence: Negotiations between Journalism and Business Management in News Organizations. Edward Elgar.
Pierazzini, M. E., Bertelli, L., & Raviola, E. (2021). Working with words: Italian feminism and organization studies. Gender, Work & Organization.
Langley, A., Lindberg, K., Mørk, B. E., Nicolini, D., Raviola, E., & Walter, L. (2019). Boundary work among groups, occupations, and organizations: From cartography to process. Academy of Management Annals, 13(2), 704-736.
Bringing Technology and Meaning into Institutional Work: Making News at an Italian Business NewspaperRaviola, Elena, Norbäck, MariaOrganization Studies, 34:8, s. 1171-1194, 2013
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Preface
Barbara Czarniawska, Josef Pallas, Elena Raviola
COVID-19 Stories from the Swedish Welfare State: The Pandemicracy - 2025 -
COVID-19 STORIES FROM THE SWEDISH WELFARE STATE: THE
PANDEMICRACY
Barbara Czarniawska, Josef Pallas, Elena Raviola
2025 -
The situatedness of dilemmas in boundary spaces: uncovering paradoxical conditions for increasing
effectiveness through transdisciplinary research
approaches
Henrietta Palmer, Merritt Polk, Elena Raviola
Global Social Challenges Journal - 2025 -
Crafting Traditions and Speculative
Imaginaries
Marta Gasparin, Daniel Hjorth, Elena Raviola
ORGANIZATION STUDIES - 2025 -
Barbara Czarniawska (1948–2024): reflections in memory of her work and
life
Lana Sabelfeld, John Dumay, Sten Jönsson, Hervé Corvellec, Bino Catasús, Rolf Solli, Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist, Elena Raviola, Paolo Quattrone, James Guthrie
Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal - 2025 -
Crafting theories-in-use: Performing contemporary ideas of
craft
Ulises Navarro Aguiar, Elena Raviola, Helena Hansson
40th European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium (EGOS), July 4-6, 2024, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy - 2024 -
The juggling craft maker: The role of materiality and place in identity work in a Swedish craft
ecosystem.
Helena Hansson, Elena Raviola, Ulises Navarro Aguiar
40th European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium (EGOS), July 4-6, 2024, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy - 2024 -
Reflections from five associate editors on their role in the journal and on its future
directions
Boukje Cnossen, Chiara Crovini, Sara R.S.T.A. Elias, Barbara Müller-Christensen, Elena Raviola
Scandinavian Journal of Management - 2024 -
With Latour in our hands: discovering the politics of organizing and the aesthetic matter of
things
Elena Raviola, Marta Gasparin
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN ORGANIZATIONS AND MANAGEMENT - 2024 -
2023-2026. Hephaestus. A horizon Europe project. Research project on the future of craft
https://hephaestuscraft.eu/
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The situatedness of dilemmas in boundary spaces:
uncovering paradoxical conditions for increasing
effectiveness through
transdisciplinary
Henrietta Palmer, Merritt Polk, Elena Raviola
Global Social Challenges Journal - 2024 -
Cultural incubators and the organizing of a field for sustainable creative
work
Hanna Borgblad, Maria Norbäck, Elena Raviola
Sustainable HRM and Working-Life Practices Conference 2024 - 2024 -
Arts and the economy: envisioning futures and experimenting
presents
Hanna Borgblad, Erik Gustafsson, Elena Raviola
Towards a Sustainable World - Academic Insights and Perspectives - 2024 -
Organising outside organisations - Part
I
Barbara Czarniawska, Gianluca Miscione, Elena Raviola, Rafael Aldicapani Da Silveira, Emre Tarim
puntOorg - 2023 -
The CERAMIC Project: Designing for, with and by
Youth
Helena Hansson, Elena Raviola
Conference: Sustainable Built Environment and Urban Transition, Linnaéus University, Växjö - 2023 -
Commoning through institutional aesthetics: Crafting frames, boundaries and reflections in
practice
Elena Raviola, Marta Gasparin, Helena Hansson
Ephemera : Theory and Politics in Organization - 2023 -
Producing and sustaining field-configuring events: the role of prizes in a Swedish Book
Fair
J. Pallas, J. Gruenberg, P. Edlund, Elena Raviola
Culture and Organization - 2023 -
Organising outside organisations – Part
II
Barbara Czarniawska, Elena Raviola, Rafael Alcadipani da Silveira, Emre Tarim
PuntOorg - 2023 -
Dystopian imaginaries of surveillance - from fiction to contemporary surveillance
society
Marie Eneman, Jan Ljungberg, Elena Raviola, Bertil Rolandsson
17th Organization Studies Workshop on “Utopias and dystopias: Organization studies in a brave new world?” Athens, Greece. - 2023 -
Organizing Independence: Negotiations between Journalism and Management in News
Organizations
Elena Raviola
2022 -
Pandemicracy and organizing in unsettling
times
Barbara Czarniawska, Elena Raviola, Josef Pallas
Organizational communication and technology in time of coronavirus - 2022 -
Becoming a Symbol and Losing Control : The Gothenburg Book Fair and the Alt-right
Debate
Elena Raviola, Josef Pallas
Managing Cultural Festivals : Tradition and Innovation in Europe / Elisa Salvador and Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen (eds.) - 2022 -
The Sensitive Nature of Facial Recognition – tensions between the Swedish police and regulatory
authorities
Marie Eneman, Jan Ljungberg, Elena Raviola, Bertil Rolandsson
Information Polity - 2022 -
Moving from void to voice: Developing a conversation tool to increase reflexivity in participatory design
projects
Helena Hansson, Evance Odhiambo, Lisbeth Svengren Holm, Elena Raviola, Mirek Dymitrow, George Wagah
H. Hansson (2021): Designing Together: A Frugal Design Approach. Exploring Participatory Design in a Global North-South Cooperation Context - 2021 -
AI och professionella fält: Juridik, hälsosjukvård och
journalistik
Kajsa Lindberg, Elena Raviola
Gregor Noll (ed.) AI, digitalisering och rätten: en lärobok. - 2021 -
Working with words: Italian feminism and organization
studies
M. E. Pierazzini, L. Bertelli, Elena Raviola
Gender Work and Organization - 2021 -
New Media and Strategy Research: Towards a Relational Agency
Approach
I. T. Gulbrandsen, U. Plesner, Elena Raviola
International Journal of Management Reviews - 2020 -
Artificial Intelligence and Creative Work: Practice and Judgement, Organizing and
Structuring.
Elena Raviola
Challenging Organizations and Society - 2020 -
Arts, Politics and Social Movements: In the Fields and in the
Streets.
Elena Raviola, Elen Riot, Claudia Schnugg
2019 -
Projects as containers of future hopes and dreams. Organizing innovation projects in the newspaper
field
Elena Raviola, Maria Norbäck, Rolf Lundin
Media management and digital transformation. Arne L. Bygdås, Stewart Clegg and Aina Landsverk Hagen (red.) - 2019 -
Just like any other business or a special case? Framing excess in a Swedish newspaper
group
Elena Raviola
Overwhelmed by Overflows? (eds) Barbara Czarniawska and Orvar Löfgren - 2019 -
Between market and culture: The case of the Gothenburg Book
Fair
Elena Raviola, Josef Pallas, Jaan Grunberg, Claes Thorén
Museum Marketization : Cultural Institutions in the Neoliberal Era. Edited By Karin M. Ekström - 2019 -
Boundary work among groups, occupations, and organizations: From cartography to
process
Ann Langley, Kajsa Lindberg, Bjørn Erik Mørk, Davide Nicolini, Elena Raviola, Lars Walter
Academy of Management Annals - 2019 -
Meetings between frames: Negotiating worth between journalism and
management
Elena Raviola
European Management Journal - 2017 -
Performing boundary work: The emergence of a new practice in a hybrid operating
room
Kajsa Lindberg, Lars Walter, Elena Raviola
Social Science & Medicine - 2017 -
Digital technologies and a changing profession New management devices, practices and power relations in news
work
U. Plesner, Elena Raviola
Journal of Organizational Change Management - 2016 -
Arts and Business: Building a Common Ground for Understanding Society. Routledge Research in Creative and Cultural Industries
Management
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Liberal Arts in Business and Business in Liberal Arts: The View from
Bocconi
Paola Dubini, Elena Raviola
Routledge Companion to the Humanities and Social Sciences in Management Education - 2016 -
The logic of practice in the practice of logics: practicing journalism and its relationship with business in times of technological
changes
Elena Raviola, P. Dubini
Journal of Cultural Economy - 2016 -
Fostering creativity through artistic interventions: Two stories of failed attempts to commodify
creativity
Elena Raviola, Claudia Schnugg
Artistic Interventions in Organizations: Research, theory and practice - 2015 -
Skrivande om
skrivande
Benedikte Borgström, Jenny Helin, Maria Norbäck, Elena Raviola
2015 -
KOREOGRAFI OCH SKRIVANDE: INSPIRATION FÖR EN UTFORSKANDE PROCESS. En dialog mellan Cecilia Roos och Elena
Raviola.
Elena Raviola, Cecilia Roos
Skrivande om skrivande - 2015 -
Introduktion
Benedikte Borgström, Jenny Helin, Maria Norbäck, Elena Raviola
Skrivande om skrivande - 2015 -
Stabilizing Movements: How Television Professionals Use Other People's Voices to Cope with New Professional Practices During Times of
Change
Maria Norbäck, Jenny Helin, Elena Raviola
Journal of Change Management - 2014 -
We have never been pure: negotiations between journalism and business in newspaper
organizations
Elena Raviola
: Pallas, Josef; Strannegård, Lars & Jonsson, Stefan (red.) Organizations and the media. Organizing in a medialized world - 2014 -
An old solution and recycled problems: Doing institutional work on Swedish public service
television
Maria Norbäck, Elena Raviola
29 th EGOS Colloquium Bridging Continents, Cultures & Worldviews July 4–6, 2013 Montréal, Canada - 2013 -
Exploring the Performativity Turn in Management
Studies
Andreas Diedrich, Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist, Lena Ewertsson, Johan Hagberg, Anette Hallin, Fredrik Lavén, Kajsa Lindberg, Elena Raviola, Egle Rindzeviciute, Lars Walter
2013 -
Be creative like artists, you tedious
businesspeople!
Elena Raviola, Claudia Schnugg
22nd Nordic Academy of Management Conference : held at University of Iceland, Reykjavík, 21-23 August, 2013 - 2013 -
Bringing Technology and Meaning into Institutional Work: Making News at an Italian Business
Newspaper
Elena Raviola, Maria Norbäck
Organization Studies - 2013 -
EXPLORING ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMINGS: Journalism and business management in newspaper
organizations
Elena Raviola
Information Communication and Society - 2012
More publications
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