Tobias Malm is a senior lecturer in organization and leadership, coordinator for the KLOK programme, and coordinator for Pedagogik as a stand-alone course at basic level. Tobias mainly teaches within learning, organization and group theory and is affiliated to the research group Organizational pedagogy. The research interest revolves around identity, learning, small group organizing and music life. Tobias' doctoral dissertation within Education is titled The art of keeping together. On learning and organizing in rock bands (2020). The aim of current research is, in part, theory development within the field of organizational learning.

Keywords

organizational life, informal learning, identity, organizing, small groups, team, entrepreneurship, creativity, music and cultural life, work/leisure, adult learning

Publications

Malm, T. (2026). Organisation och kontext [Organization and context]. In T. Malm, A. Schoug, A. & S. Andersson (Eds.), Organisationspedagogik – Teorier, begrepp och forskningsexempel [Organizational Pedagogy – Theories, concepts and research examples] (pp. 173–196). Studentlitteratur.

Malm, T., & Schoug, A. (2026). Organisering och organisationspedagogik [Organizing and Organizational pedagogy]. In T. Malm, A. Schoug, A. & S. Andersson (Eds.), Organisationspedagogik – Teorier, begrepp och forskningsexempel [Organizational Pedagogy – Theories, concepts and research examples] (pp. 125–148). Studentlitteratur.

Malm, T., & Thunborg, C. (2026). Identitetsdilemman som villkor för lärande [Identity dilemmas as conditions for learning]. In T. Malm, A. Schoug, A. & S. Andersson (Eds.), Organisationspedagogik – Teorier, begrepp och forskningsexempel [Organizational Pedagogy – Theories, concepts and research examples] (pp. 99–124). Studentlitteratur.

Malm, T., Schoug, A., & Andersson, S. (Eds.). (2026). Organisationspedagogik – Teorier, begrepp och forskningsexempel [Organizational Pedagogy – Theories, concepts and research examples]. Studentlitteratur.

Malm, T. (2024). Scenen, repan eller konsten? Rockbands mångfald av drivkrafter [The scene, the rehearsal room or the art? Rock bands' multiple driving forces]. In T. Florén & J.-O. Gullö (Eds.), Musik – musikproduktion – musikbransch. Tretton samtida berättelser [Music – Music production – Music industry. Thirteen contemporary stories] (pp. 83–96). Dalarna University.

Malm, T., & Nørholm Lundin, A. (2024). Robbed or Released by the Pandemic? The Dynamics of Integrating and Situating Musician Identity Learning. Vocations and Learning. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12186-024-09346-1.

Malm, T. (2022). Learning to Become a Band, Learning Popular Music. In B. Powell & G. D. Smith (Eds.), Places and Purposes of Popular Music Education (pp. 85–89). Intellect Books Ltd.

Malm, T. (2022). Rockbands utmaningar och lärprocesser [Rock bands' challenges and learning processes]. I K. Asp & S. Leijonhufvud (Eds.), Rimdrottningar, folkmusiker och rockband. Om deltagandets och lärandets villkor i musiklivet [Rhyme queens, folk musicians and rock bands. On the conditions for participation and learning within music life] (pp. 71–96). Gidlunds förlag.

Malm, T. (2020). The ambivalence of becoming a small business: Learning processes within an aspiring rock band. Popular Music, 39(3–4), 585–599. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143020000471.

Malm, T., & Schoug, A. (2020). Studieförbundens populärmusikverksamhet – En plantskola för vad? [Popular music within popular education – A Nursery for what?] In N. Hill & A. Schoug (Eds.), Lärande i civilsamhället [Learning in the civil society] (pp. 81–120). Trinambai.

Malm, T. (2020). Learning to develop as a rock band: The contradiction between creativity and entrepreneurship. Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, 25, 100379. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2020.100379.

Malm, T. (2020). Konsten att hålla ihop. Om lärande och organisering i rockband (doktorsavhandling) [The art of keeping together. On learning and organizing in rock bands, doctoral dissertation]. Stockholms universitet. http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1426069/FULLTEXT01.pdf.

Malm, T. (2019). Från album till låtar: tio år med Spotify [From albums to songs: Ten years with Spotify]. In C. Ovesson (Ed.), Starka tillsammans. Tjugoen nulägesbilder av civilsamhället [Strong together. Twenty-one images of present civil society] (pp. 199–208). Trinambai.

Malm, T. (2018). Recognizing the practitioner-self: Lessons from studying rock bands at-home. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 7(2), 135–146. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-11-2017-0060.

Malm, T., & Thunborg, C. (2018). Från källarband till småföretag – kreativitet och entreprenörskap i popband [From garage band to small business – Creativity and entrepreneurship in a rock band]. In O. Granberg & J. Ohlsson (Eds.), Den lärande organisationen 2.0 [The Learning Organization 2.0] (pp. 99–127). Studentlitteratur.

Malm, T. (2017). Becoming a rock band: The challenges of group identity. Journal of Popular Music Education, 1(2), 165–182. https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme.1.2.165_1.