Elena Raviola
About Elena Raviola
ON LEAVE - Works at Academy of Design and Crafts.
My main research interest lies in understanding the role of technology and other material artifacts in organizing professional work. 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 at the moment leading a project where we take a multi-actor perspective on news production and try to investigate how different news producers (like newspapers, news agencies, companies, public organizations, PR agencies, communication agencies, event organizers, etc.) altogether contribute to the emergence and development of news in the public debate.
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
- Organizing technology, managing professional work, institutional work, news production, qualitative methods
Teaching areas
- Organization theory, Strategy, Qualitative Methods, Media management
Selected publications
Stabilizing Movements: How Television Professionals Use Other People's Voices to Cope with New Professional Practices During Times of Change
Norbäck, Maria, Helin, Jenny, Raviola, Elena
Journal of Change Management, 14:4, s. 434-452, 2014
Bringing Technology and Meaning into Institutional Work: Making News at an Italian Business Newspaper
Raviola, Elena, Norbäck, Maria
Organization Studies, 34:8, s. 1171-1194, 2013
The logic of practice in the practice of logics: practicing journalism and its relationship with business in times of technological changes
, Raviola, Elena, Dubini, Paola
Journal of Cultural Economy, 9(2): 197-213, 2016
Fostering creativity through artistic interventions: Two stories of failed attempts to commodify creativity
Raviola, Elena, Schnugg, Claudia
Artistic Interventions in Organizations: Research, theory and practice, Routledge, 2015
Liberal Arts in Business and Business in Liberal Arts: The View from Bocconi
Dubini, Paola, Raviola, Elena
Routledge Companion to the Humanities and Social Sciences in Management Education, Routledge, 2016
We have never been pure: negotiations between journalism and business in newspaper organizations
Raviola, Elena
: Pallas, Josef; Strannegård, Lars & Jonsson, Stefan (red.) Organizations and the media. Organizing in a medialized world, Abingdon, Oxton : Routledge, s. 96-115, 2014
Paper Meets Web. How the Institutions of News Production Works On Paper and Online
Raviola, Elena
Skrivande om skrivande
Borgström, Benedikte, Helin, Jenny, Norbäck, Maria, Raviola, Elena
Exploring multiple framings: Journalism and Management in Newspaper Organizations
Raviola, Elena
Information, Communication and Society, 2012
Balancing Tensions During Re-Organization: Duality Management in a Newspaper Company
Achtenhagen, Leona, Raviola, Elena
International Journal of Media Management, Spring 2009, 11:1, s. 32-41, 2009
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Artificial Intelligence and Creative Work: Practice and Judgement, Organizing and
Structuring.
Elena Raviola
Challenging Organizations and Society - 2020-01-01 -
New Media and Strategy Research: Towards a Relational Agency
Approach
I. T. Gulbrandsen, U. Plesner, Elena Raviola
International Journal of Management Reviews - 2020-01-01 -
Arts, Politics and Social Movements: In the Fields and in the
Streets.
Elena Raviola, Elen Riot, Claudia Schnugg
- 2019-01-01 -
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.) - 2019-01-01 -
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 - 2019-01-01 -
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 - 2019-01-01 -
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 - 2019-01-01 -
Meetings between frames: Negotiating worth between journalism and
management
Elena Raviola
European Management Journal - 2017-01-01 -
Performing boundary work: The emergence of a new practice in a hybrid operating
room
Kajsa Lindberg, Lars Walter, Elena Raviola
Social Science & Medicine - 2017-01-01 -
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 - 2016-01-01 -
Arts and Business: Building a Common Ground for Understanding Society. Routledge Research in Creative and Cultural Industries
Management
Elena Raviola, Peter Zackariasson
- 2016-01-01 -
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 - 2016-01-01 -
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 - 2016-01-01 -
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 - 2015-01-01 -
Skrivande om
skrivande
Benedikte Borgström, Jenny Helin, Maria Norbäck, Elena Raviola
- 2015-01-01 -
KOREOGRAFI OCH SKRIVANDE: INSPIRATION FÖR EN UTFORSKANDE PROCESS. En dialog mellan Cecilia Roos och Elena
Raviola.
Elena Raviola, Cecilia Roos
Skrivande om skrivande - 2015-01-01 -
Introduktion
Benedikte Borgström, Jenny Helin, Maria Norbäck, Elena Raviola
Skrivande om skrivande - 2015-01-01 -
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 - 2014-01-01 -
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 - 2014-01-01 -
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 - 2013-01-01 -
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
- 2013-01-01 -
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 - 2013-01-01 -
Bringing Technology and Meaning into Institutional Work: Making News at an Italian Business
Newspaper
Elena Raviola, Maria Norbäck
Organization Studies - 2013-01-01 -
EXPLORING ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMINGS: Journalism and business management in newspaper
organizations
Elena Raviola
Information Communication and Society - 2012-01-01 -
Choreography, or the writing of movement. An open letter to organization
scholars
Elena Raviola
EURAM 2012, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Track: Artistic Practices and Management Models - 2012-01-01 -
The logic of practice in the practice of logics. An ethnographic study in a newspaper
newsroom
Elena Raviola, Paola Dubini
Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2012, Boston, USA. Division: Organization and Management Theory. - 2012-01-01 -
Institutions as ‘permanent’ solutions to ‘permanent’ problems – The power of defining problems and their
solutions
Elena Raviola, Maria Norbäck
EGOS 2012, Helsinki, Finland - 2012-01-01 -
Newsroom Meets Community in Journalism: An Account of Institutional Innovation in a French News
Site
Pablo Boczkowski, Elena Raviola
Organization Studies Winter Conference 2012, Steamboat Springs, Colorado February 2012 - 2012-01-01 -
Exploring multiple framings: Journalism and Management in Newspaper
Organizations.
Elena Raviola
Information, Communication and Society - 2012-01-01 -
Producing new audiences, disrupting old models. How new audience measurements change business models in
publishing
Maria Norbäck, Elena Raviola
DeFilippi, Robert and Wikström, Patrik (eds) Business Innovation and Disruption in Publishing, Vol.1. - 2012-01-01 -
Bringing materiality in institutional theory. An ethnographic study of a
newspaper
Maria Norbäck, Elena Raviola
International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, Corfù, Greece June 2011/Track: Materiality - 2011-01-01 -
Exploring professionalism at work in a time of institutional
change
Elena Raviola
Academy of Management Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas August 2011/Division: Critical Management Studies. - 2011-01-01 -
Here is the solution: where is the problem? Bringing agencement into institutional
theory
Maria Norbäck, Elena Raviola
EGOS Colloquium 2011, Gothenburg, Sweden July 2011/Track: Institutions, Technology, Meanings - 2011-01-01 -
Perchè tutto rimanga com’è bisogna che tutto
cambi
Paola Dubini, Elena Raviola
Vittorio Spinazzola (ed) Tirature10. Il Saggiatore e Fondazione Arnoldo e Alberto Mondadori. Spring 2010 - 2010-01-01 -
Paper Meets Web. How the Institutions of News Production Works On Paper and
Online
Elena Raviola
- 2010-01-01 -
How institutions work. Public interest and newspapers. An ethnographic
study
Elena Raviola
LAEMOS 2010 Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina. - 2010-01-01 -
The soft sides of organizing integration between old and new
media.
Elena Raviola
International Conference on the Business of Emerging Media in East Asia, Beijing, China. - 2010-01-01 -
Public interest and interests of the publics. Transforming newspaper
organizations
Elena Raviola
EURAM 2010, Rome, Italy. - 2010-01-01 -
How institutions work. An ethnographic study in a
newspaper
Elena Raviola
EGOS 2010, Lisbon, Portugal. - 2010-01-01 -
Strategic Change as development of an ideological illusion. Online-offline integration in a newspaper
organization
Elena Raviola
Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2010, Montréal, Canada. - 2010-01-01 -
How institutions work. An ethnographic study of a technological change in a newspaper
organization
Elena Raviola
Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2010, Montréal, Canada. - 2010-01-01 -
Work in News Organizations: Application of Business and Economic
Approaches
Elena Raviola, Benjamin J. Hartmann
Journal of Media Business Studies, Spring 2009, Special Issue: Change in News Organizations and News Work - 2009-01-01 -
The Devil's Bridge: (dis)integration between online and offline news
production
Elena Raviola
SCOS 09 (Standing Conference for Organization Symbolism), Copenhagen, Denmark July 2009 - 2009-01-01 -
Organizing technological change without changing technologies. Schizofrenia and hysteria in
newswork
Elena Raviola
Critical Management Studies Conference, Warwick, UK July 2009 - 2009-01-01 -
As if the Big Other was not disintegrating: As if Newspapers were not
dying
Elena Raviola
Critical Management Studies Conference, Warwick, UK July 2009 - 2009-01-01 -
Just a matter of technological change? Journalism vs
business
Elena Raviola
The Future of Journalism Conference, Cardiff, UK September 2009/Panel discussant about the relationship between business and journalism in times technological change. - 2009-01-01 -
La capacità di tenuta dei
libri
Paola Dubini, Elena Raviola
Vittorio Spinazzola (ed) Tirature09. Milano-Napoli due capitali mancate. Il Saggiatore e Fondazione Arnoldo e Alberto Mondadori. Spring 2009. - 2009-01-01 -
Balancing Tensions During Re-Organization: Duality Management in a Newspaper
Company
Leona Achtenhagen, Elena Raviola
International Journal of Media Management, Spring 2009 - 2009-01-01 -
Integration of the news and the news of integration: An organization structure perspective on Current Changes in
Newspapers
Peter Gade, Elena Raviola
Journal of Media Business Studies, Spring 2009, Special Issue: Change in News Organizations and News Work - 2009-01-01 -
Presentation: Just a matter of technologies? A study of
newswork.
Elena Raviola
STS möte, Göteborgs University, Göteborg November 2008 - 2008-01-01 -
Editori e lettori: sintonia o
fraintendimento?
Paola Dubini, Elena Raviola
Vittorio Spinazzola (ed) Tirature 08. L’immaginario a fumetti. Il Saggiatore e Fondazione Arnoldo e Alberto Mondadori. Spring 2008 - 2008-01-01 -
Never say never. Incumbents and newcomers in the presence of architectural
innovation
Paola Dubini, Elena Raviola
Journal of Media Business Studies, Spring 2008, Special Issue: Growth and Development of New and Young Media Firms - 2008-01-01 -
Surfing the product life cycle: patterns of visible titles in the movie
industry
Paola Dubini, Elena Raviola
AIMAC 2007, Valencia, Spain July 2007 - 2007-01-01 -
Innovative companies and inter-organizational field
evolution
Paola Dubini, Elena Raviola
In Leona Achtenhagen (ed) Organizing Media: Mastering the Challenges of Organizational Change, JIBS Research Report Series No. 2007-1 - 2007-01-01 -
Organizing internal tensions: The duality management of media
companies.
Leona Achtenhagen, Elena Raviola
Leona Achtenhagen (ed) Organizing Media: Mastering the Challenges of Organizational Change, JIBS Research Report Series No. 2007-1, - 2007-01-01 -
The neglected side of Media Convergence. The role of local
entrepreneurs
Elena Raviola
Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Bloomington, IN June 2006 - 2006-01-01 -
Special art exhibitions
management
Monica Masucci, Elena Raviola
AIMAC 2005, Montrèal, Canada July 2005 - 2005-01-01 -
Content industries in a converging competitive
space
Paola Dubini, Elena Raviola
EURAM 2005, Munich, Germany May 2005 - 2005-01-01