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Ewa Wikström
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Department of Business AdministrationAbout Ewa Wikström
Ewa Wikström, Professor in Health Governance. Her research focuses on governance, leadership, collaboration, teams, communication, projects and change management in health care as well as the public and private sectors. She has also conducted studies on organisational capability with a focus on age, competence and work environment in workplaces in both the public and private sectors.
In 2015, Ewa Wikström became Professor in organization and management. She has also been Deputy Dean for educational Issues at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg. In 2012-2015, she was professor in Public Health Management at the Nordic School of Public Health (NHV). In 2012-2018, she was a member of the Faculty Board at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg. She is part of the steering group for CERA (Center for Research and Education on Risk Use, Addiction and Addiction) and the steering group for AgeCap (Center for Ageing and Health). She has participated in assessment groups at Vinnova and has been a project manager (PI) for several research projects funded by Swedish research councils, such as Forte. For many years, Ewa has had assignments within academia and society about sustainable leadership, change management and work environment.
Current research projects
- Designed living environment - architecture, form, design, art and cultural heritage in a public space. 2020-2024 (FORMAS)
- The workplace as an arena for alcohol prevention. 2021-2022 (Systembolaget alcohol research council)
- NADAL: National network for research on alcohol and drug prevention in working life. 2021-2024 (FORTE)
- StratSam: Strategic collaboration for new work practices within the work environment in the public sector. 2018-2021 (AFA) Project manager (PI) Ewa Wikström
- Organisational capability for delayed retirement. 2017-2020 (FORTE) Project manager (PI) Ewa Wikström.
- FHV NySam: Developing new forms of collaboration between managers, FHV and HR, 2013-2016 (AFA) Project manager (PI) Ewa Wikström
Research areas
- Age and Competence Diversity, Health Governance, Health Management, Health Care Organisation, Leadership, Project Management
- Communication, Collaboration, Change management, Implementation, Complex interventions, Work environment
Teaching areas
- Leadership, Communication, Collaboration, Change management, Project Management, Implementation, Age Management
- Health Governance, Health Management, Health Care Organisation
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Adjustmentalisation – digitalisation as transformation process and the interplay between a digital logic and diverse primary care logics in
Sweden
Karl Maack, Nanna Gillberg, Ewa Wikström
Journal of Health Organization and Management - 2025 -
An economic evaluation of a hospital-wide bundle intervention to reduce hospital-acquired infections and bladder distension among hip fracture patients in
Sweden
Sneha Abdul Jabbar, Maria Frödin, Ewa Wikström, Brigid M. Gillespie, Hanna Gyllensten, Annette Erichsen Andersson
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control - 2025 -
Determinants of alcohol preventive actions by managers: a cross-sectional study among Swedish
managers
Kristina Berglund, Monica Bertilsson, Ulric Hermansson, Morten Sager, Ewa Wikström, Gunnel Hensing
International Journal of Workplace Health Management - 2025 -
Managers’ experiences in leading healthcare workers in hospital departments during a pandemic: a qualitative
study
Linda Ahlstrom, Nanna Gillberg, Ewa Wikström, Helle Wijk, Ingibjörg H Jonsdottir, Alessio Degl’Innocenti, Sara L. Fallman
BMC Health Services Research - 2025 -
Enabling ‘Programmatic Formalizations’? How Local Actors in the Public Sector Address ‘Wicked Problems’ Through External
Initiatives
Christian Gadolin, Mikael Cäker, Ewa Wikström
Presented at the 28th Nordic Workshop on Management Control (NWES), Gothenburg, February 6-7, 2025. - 2025 -
Managers’ experiences in leading healthcare workers in hospital departments during a pandemic: a qualitative
study
Linda Åhlström, Nanna Gillberg, Ewa Wikström, Helle Wijk, Ingibjörg H Jonsdottir, Alessio Degl'Innocenti, Sara L. Fallman
BMC Health Services Research - 2025 -
Harmonising artistic designs with private and collective notions of home: a focus group study of older persons’ experiences of art in residential care specialised in dementia
care
Synneve Dahlin-Ivanoff, Ewa Wikström, Maja Gunn, Qarin Lood
BMC Geriatrics - 2025 -
Decent work over the course of a
life
Robin Jonsson, Ewa Wikström, Anindo Bhattarcharjee
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group - 2025 -
Doing Retirement: An Emerging Framework for Multidisciplinary Research to Increase
Capability
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Organizational learning programs to fulfilling basic needs at work: significance for work attractiveness and turnover in strained
sectors
Lotta Dellve, Robin Jonsson, Rebecka Arman, Nanna Gillberg, Ewa Wikström
THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION - 2025 -
Behavioural intentions towards use of digital video consultations in primary care: a survey study on physicians’, nurses’ and psychologists’ perceptions in Swedish primary
care
Karl Maack, Fredric Karlsson, Nanna Gillberg, Ewa Wikström, Miriam Pikkemaat, Veronica Milos Nymberg
BMJ Open - 2024 -
A new normal in primary care: the rapid normalization of a major eHealth program in public health
centers
Karl Maack, Nanna Gillberg, Ewa Wikström
BMC Health Services Research - 2024 -
Art and design workshops at a residential care facility – social care professionals’ experiences of co-creation and participation in designing the physical
environment
Ewa Wikström, Synneve Dahlin-Ivanoff, Maja Gunn, Qarin Lood
BMC Health Services Research - 2024 -
Images of the life metaphor in organizational
studies
Rebecka Arman, Ewa Wikström
Handbook of Metaphor in Organization Studies - 2024 -
Untangling the perception of value in value-based healthcare –an interview
study
Axel Wolf, Annette Erichsen Andersson, Ewa Wikström, Fredrik Bååthe
Leadership in Health Services - 2024 -
Reducing sickness absence among public-sector healthcare employees: the difference-making roles of managerial and employee
participation
Magnus Åkerström, Jonathan Severin, E. J. Miech, Ewa Wikström, M. Roczniewska
International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health - 2024 -
Resilience Capability and Capacity in Unexpected Crises: Experiences and Lessons Learned in a Healthcare Organisation during the COVID-19
Pandemic
Nanna Gillberg, Linda Åhlström, Annette Erichsen Andersson, Sara L. Fallman, Alessio Degl'Innocenti, Ingibjörg H Jonsdottir, Helle Wijk, Ewa Wikström
Journal of Nursing Management - 2023 -
Mentoring programmes – building capacity for learning and retaining workers in the
workplace
Ewa Wikström, Rebecka Arman, Lotta Dellve, Nanna Gillberg
Journal of Workplace Learning - 2023 -
Interactive Interventions can Improve Hand Hygiene and Aseptic Techniques During Perioperative Care – Experience From the “Safe Hands”
Project
Maria Frödin, Cecilia Rogmark, Bengt Nellgård, Brigid Gilliespie, Ewa Wikström, Annette Erichsen Andersson
Journal of Perianesthesia Nursing - 2023 -
Samverkan i
team
Ewa Wikström
Samverkan i vården – från system till praktik - 2023 -
A co-created nurse-driven catheterisation protocol can reduce bladder distension in acute hip fracture patients - results from a longitudinal observational
study
Maria Frödin, Bengt Nellgård, Cecilia Rogmark, Brigid M Gilespie, Ewa Wikström, Annette Erichsen Andersson
BMC Nursing - 2022 -
Reduction of early surgical site and other care related infections in 3553 hip fracture patients: lessons learned from the 5-year Safe Hands
project
Annette Erichsen Andersson, Brigid M. Gillespie, Magnus Karlsson, Henrik Malchau, Bengt Nellgård, Ewa Wikström, Cecilia Rogmark, Jonatan Tillander
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control - 2022 -
Effectiveness of implementing a preventive urinary catheter care bundle in hip fracture
patients
Maria Frödin, Linda Åhlström, B. M. Gillespie, Cecilia Rogmark, Bengt Nellgård, Ewa Wikström, Annette Erichsen Andersson
Journal of Infection Prevention - 2022 -
‘We don't talk about age’: A study of human resources retirement
narratives
Rebecka Arman, Roland Kadefors, Ewa Wikström
Ageing & Society - 2022 -
Mentoring next generation as scaffolding for sustainable developments: Engagement in meaningful work, learning and intentions of prolonged
working-life
Lotta Dellve, Rebecka Arman, Nanna Gillberg, Ewa Wikström
OLKC - Organisational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities - 2022 -
Prolonged or preserved working life? Intra-organisational institutions embedded in human resource
routines
Roy Liff, Ewa Wikström
Ageing and Society - 2022 -
Organisational Capability for Delayed
Retirement
Ewa Wikström, Karin Allard, Rebecka Arman, Roy Liff, Daniel Seldén, Roland Kadefors
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Capability in Age and Ageing. Red: Hanna Falk Erhag, Ulrika Lagerlöf Nilsson, Therese Rydberg Sterner, Ingmar Skoog - 2022 -
Fading away at work: "I could have left without saying anything" - performing talent management in a multinational
organization
Nanna Gillberg, Ewa Wikström
Journal of Organizational Effectiveness-People and Performance - 2021 -
Process Facilitators Shifting between the Support and Expert Roles in a Complex Work Environment Intervention in the Swedish Healthcare
Sector
Ewa Wikström, Jacob Severin, Ingibjörg H Jonsdottir, Magnus Åkerström
Journal of Health Organization and Management - 2021 -
Rumours and gossip demand continuous action by managers in daily working
life
Roy Liff, Ewa Wikström
Culture and Organization - 2021 -
Lower-status experts' influence on health-care managers'
decision-making
Roy Liff, Ewa Wikström
Journal of Health Organization and Management - 2021 -
The capability of organizations to manage delayed
retirement
Roland Kadefors, Ewa Wikström, Rebecka Arman
Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance - 2020 -
An interactional perspective on age management for prolonged working
life
Roy Liff, Ewa Wikström
Nordisk välfärdsforskning = Nordic welfare research - 2020 -
Factors that may promote the learning of person-centred care: an ethnographic study of an implementation programme for healthcare professionals in a medical emergency ward in
Sweden
Liselott (Lisen) Dellenborg, Ewa Wikström, Annette Erichsen Andersson
Advances in Health Sciences Education - 2019 -
The Safe Hands Study: Implementing aseptic techniques in the operating room: Facilitating mechanisms for contextual negotiation and collective
action
Ewa Wikström, Liselott (Lisen) Dellenborg, Lars Wallin, B M Gillespie, Annette Erichsen Andersson
American Journal of Infection Control - 2019 -
Chefens betydelse för ett längre
arbetsliv
Ewa Wikström, Roy Liff
2019 -
Iterative co-creation for improved hand hygiene and aseptic techniques in the operating room: experiences from the safe hands
study
Annette Erichsen Andersson, Maria Frödin, Liselott (Lisen) Dellenborg, Lars Wallin, Jesper Hök, Brigid M. Gillespie, Ewa Wikström
BMC Health Services Research - 2018 -
Knowledge retention and age management – senior employees’ experiences in a Swedish multinational
company
Ewa Wikström, Ellinor Eriksson, Lejla Karamehmedovic, Roy Liff
Journal of Knowledge Management - 2018 -
Should we retire later? A study of society and organizational level
narratives
Rebecka Arman, Ewa Wikström, Roland Kadefors
7th International Conference on Rhetoric and Narratives in Management Research (RNMR), March 2018, Barcelona - 2018 -
Att räkna eller räknas: öppen, tillits- och värdebaserad styrning på strategiska och operativa
nivåer
Lotta Dellve, Ewa Wikström
Att leda i en komplex organisation : utmaningar och nya perspektiv för chefer i offentlig verksamhet / Anna Cregård, Erik Berntson & Stefan Tengblad (red.). - 2018 -
Kommunikation för att hantera komplexitet i
chefsarbete
Ewa Wikström, Lotta Dellve
Att leda i en komplex organisation : utmaningar och nya perspektiv för chefer i offentlig verksamhet / Anna Cregård, Erik Berntson & Stefan Tengblad (red.). - 2018 -
Abstract book. 11th NOVO symposium. Measures to meet Nordic challenges for sustainable health care organizations. Gothenburg, November 9 - 10,
2017
Lotta Dellve, Ewa Wikström, Lisa Björk, Maria Wolmesjö, Sara Larsson Fallman
11th NOVO symposium - 2017 -
Experiences from implementing valuebased healthcare at a Swedish University Hospital – a longitudinal interview
study
Kerstin Nilsson, Fredrik Bååthe, Annette Erichsen Andersson, Ewa Wikström, Mette Sandoff
BMC Health Services Research - 2017 -
Attending Weak Signals: The Prevention of Work-related
Illnesses
Roy Liff, Ann-Charlotte Eriksson, Ewa Wikström
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies - 2017 -
Expertgruppers samarbete med
linjechefer
Roy Liff, Ewa Wikström
ISM rapport nr 19: Hälsofrämjande och förebyggande arbetsmiljöinsatser genom nya samarbetsformer - 2017 -
Att arbeta med prevention och hälsopromotion genom
samarbete
Roy Liff, Ewa Wikström
ISM rapport 19: Hälsofrämjande och förebyggande arbetsmiljöinsatser genom nya samarbetsformer - 2017 -
Övergripande slutsatser och
rekommendationer
Roy Liff, Ewa Wikström
ISM rapport 19: Hälsofrämjande och förebyggande arbetsmiljöinsatser genom nya samarbetsformer - 2017 -
Fånga upp svaga
signaler
Roy Liff, Ewa Wikström, Ann-Charlotte Eriksson
ISM rapport 19: Hälsofrämjande och förebyggande arbetsmiljöinsatser genom nya samarbetsformer - 2017 -
Introduktion
Roy Liff, Ewa Wikström
ISM-rapport 19: Hälsofrämjande och förebyggande arbetsmiljöinsatser genom nya samarbetsformer - 2017 -
Hälsofrämjande och förebyggande arbetsmiljöinsatser genom nya
samarbetsformer
Roy Liff, Ewa Wikström
2017
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