Emma Stendahl

Emma has taught at several higher education institutions in Sweden and Ireland, working with undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students across a range of disciplines. Her teaching spans organisation and management studies, international business, global strategy, entrepreneurship, and qualitative research methods.

Emma’s research examines how diverse actors across institutional, professional, cultural, and political contexts collaborate and contest one another in processes of organisational and societal change and value creation. Her research interests converge around three broad and interconnected domains: strategy and value creation in multinational enterprises (MNEs), entrepreneurship, and societal and institutional change.

She has worked closely with organisations and communities, as well as patient entrepreneurs and multinational corporations, in Europe and the United States, conducting qualitative case studies and research projects. Emma has published her work in leading journals such as Organizational Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of International Business Studies, and Journal of World Business, among others, and has presented her research at international conferences.

Peer-Reviewed articles

1. Vidolov, S., Geiger, S., & Stendahl, E. (2023). Affective Resonance and Durability in Political Organizing: The case of patients who hack.Organization Studies, 44(9) 1413–1438. (ABS 4*, FT50). (Selected List of Publications)
2. Geiger, S., & Stendahl, E. (2023). Breaching, Bridging, and Bonding: Interweaving Pathways of Social‐Symbolic Work in a Flanked Healthcare Movement.Journal of Management Studies, doi:10.1111/joms.12979. (ABS 4).(Selected List of Publications)
3. Rubyutsa, J. M., Achtenhagen, L., Stendahl, E., & Musekura, C. (2023). Advancing Rural Entrepreneurship in Rwanda Through Informal Training–Insights From Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed.Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy, 25151274231204342. (Selected List of Publications)
4. Stendahl, E., Tippmann, E., & Yakhlef, A. (2022). Practice Creation in Multinational Corporations: Improvisation and the emergence of lateral knowledge.Journal of World Business, 57(3), 101287. (ABS 4). (Selected List of Publications)
5. Lucivero, F., Marelli, L., Hangel, N., Zimmermann, B., Prainsack, B., Galasso, I., Horn, R., Kieslich, K., n Lanzing, M., Lievevrouw, E., Ongolly, F., Samuel, G., Sharon, T., Siffels, L., Stendahl, E., & Van Hoyweghen, I. (2022) Normative positions towards COVID-19 contact-tracing apps: findings from a large-scale qualitative study in nine European countries, Critical Public Health, 32:1, 5-18, DOI: 10.1080/09581596.2021.1925634. (Selected List of Publications)
6. Johnson, S. B., Lucivero, F., Zimmermann, B. M., Stendahl, E., Samuel, G., Phillips, A., & Hangel, N. (2022). Ethical Reasoning During a Pandemic: Results of a Five Country European Study. AJOB Empirical Bioethics, 1-12. (Selected List of Publications)
7. Zimmermann et al., (2022). Democratic research: Setting up a research commons for a qualitative, comparative, longitudinal interview study during the COVID-19 pandemic. SMM- Qualitative Research in Health.
8. Stendahl, E., Schriber, S., & Tippmann, E. (2021). Control changes in multinational corporations: Adjusting control approaches in practice.Journal of International Business Studies, 52, 409-431. (ABS 4*, FT50). (Selected List of Publications)
9. Stendahl, E., & Yakhlef, A, Löwstedt, J. (2019). Artifacts as Control-with-Abilities in HQ-Subsidiary Relations: The Case of a New Platform. InAcademy of Management Proceedings, 2019(1). (Selected List of Publications)

Book Chapters

10. Stendahl, E., & Tippmann, E. “International Control Mechanisms” in Asmussen, C., Minbaeva, D., & Hashai, N (2024). Encyclopedia of International Strategic Management. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Conference Papers

11. Schwartz, B. & Stendahl, E. Silencing the Horse: Stakeholder Logics, Affected Ignorance, and the Horse Welfare Debate in Equestrian Sport. Accepted to European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), Bergamo, July 2026
12. Schwartz, B. & Stendahl, E. Organizing Change in Equestrian Sport. Exploring Stakeholder Engagement. EquineCultures in Transition 2025, Manchester, 3-5 June 2025.
13. Netz, J. & Stendahl, E. Developing Meta-Orchestration through Breakdowns: Evidence from a Firefighting Innovation Network. Strategic Management Society (SMS), Istanbul, 19-22 October 2024.
14. Netz, J. & Stendahl, E. Developing Meta-Orchestration through Breakdowns: Evidence from a Firefighting Innovation Network. International Symposiumon Process Organization Studies (PROS), Paphos, 24-27 June 2024.
15. Netz, J. & Stendahl, E. Developing Meta-Orchestration through Breakdowns: Evidence from a Firefighting Innovation Network. European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), Cagliari, 4-6 July 2023.
16. Netz, J. & Stendahl, E. Developing Meta-Orchestration through Breakdowns: Evidence from a Firefighting Innovation Network. European Academy of Management (EURAM), Dublin 14-16 June 2023.
17. Vidolov, S., Stendahl, E., & Geiger, S. Emergent Leadership in Online Communities: An Interactive Process of Co-influencing. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Copenhagen, 9-14 December 2022.
18. Vidolov, S., Stendahl, E., & Geiger, S. Hybridity and Fluidity of Crowd Organizing in Biomedicine. Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference, Virtual, 18-21 August 2020.
19. Stendahl, E., & Geiger, S. Collective does not need to be all that Cohesive: Collective Institutional Entrepreneurship and Radical Flank Effects. Academy of Management (AOM), Virtual, 7-11 August 2020.
20. Stendahl, E., Vidolov, S., Geiger, S. Contests and Collaborations: Hashtags Activism and Connective Innovation. International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, Rhodes, 24- 27 June 2020. Conference cancelled.
21. Geiger, S., Galasso, I., Stendahl, E., Nicola, S. Innovating Together for Better Markets: STS for Participatory and Inclusive Healthcare. Society for the Social Studies of Science, New Orleans, 4-7 September 2019.
22. Stendahl, E., Löwstedt, J., Yakhlef, A. Artefacts as control-with-abilities in HQ-subsidiary relations: The case of a new platform. Academy of Management (AOM), Boston, 9-13 August 2019.
23. Stendahl, E., Yakhlef, A., & Tippmann, E. A Fused Perspective on Management Innovation in the MNC. Academy of International Business (AIB), Dubai, July 2017.
24. Stendahl, E., Yakhlef, A., & Tippmann, E. Management Practice Innovation within International Business Studies: A translation approach. Strategic Management Society (SMS) special conference, Hong Kong, December 2016.
25. Stendahl, E., & Löwstedt, J. New Governing Practices at Headquarters - The mediating role of technology in performance management systems. Strategic Management Society (SMS) Conference, Berlin, September 2016.
26. Stendahl, E., & Löwstedt, J. Governing Headquarters-Subsidiary Relationships through the use of managerial technologies. Organization, Artefacts and Practices (OAP) conference, Sydney, December 2015.
27. Stendahl, E., & Schriber, S. Managing Coordination in MNC Strategic Renewal. Nordic Academy of Management (NFF), Copenhagen, August 2015.
28. Stendahl, E., & Yakhlef, A. Managing Subsidiaries: The Circuit of Policy Practices. Strategic Management Society (SMS) Special Conference, St Gallen, May 2015.
29. Stendahl, E., & Yakhlef, A. The Role of Consultants in Organizations. European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), Montreal, July 2013.

Educational Publications

30. Brunninge, O., Melander, A., & Stendahl, E. (2025). Will It Fly? Opportunities and Challenges of Establishing an Air Cargo Business in Africa. Exploring Strategy: Pearson.
31. Brunninge, O., Melander, A., & Stendahl, E. (2024). RwandAir: Gaining a competitive edge? The Case Centre.