ebioa

Department of Organization

  • Center for Organizational Research on Impact (CORI)
Eva
Boxenbaum
Professor


Room: KIL/14.A-4.97
E-mail: eb.ioa@cbs.dk
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Presentation

Eva Boxenbaum conducts research on how organizational actors shape the spread and institutionalization of new management ideas and practices. Her research focuses on cognitive, material and visual dimensions of these processes, as well as their intended and unintended consequences at the field level. She directs Center for Organizational Research on Impact (CORI) and leads the collective research project TITAN: Turning Theory into Action, which is funded by the Velux Foundation. Read about Eva's engagement with broader Danish society through her book on ildsjæle and the civic engagement project Tekstil i Tingbjerg.

Her work has been published in journals such as Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management AnnalsJournal of Management StudiesOrganization StudiesCalifornia Management ReviewStrategic Organization, and Research in the Sociology of Organizations. In recognition of her impactful qualitative and conceptual research, she received the prestigious 2021 EliteForsk Award as well as the 2019 DSEB Research Award.

She is Associate Editor for Organization Theory, a pluralist theory journal published by SAGE and associated with EGOS, the largest European community of organizational scholars. In 2022-2023, Eva Boxenbaum was Division Chair for the Organization and Management Theory (OMT) Division of the Academy of Management. OMT has around 4000 scholarly members around the world and is recognized internationally as an Excellent Science community within the field of Management.

Eva Boxenbaum is the programme director of Master of Management Development (MMD), an executive part-time degree at CBS.

She is also a member of the Board of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and of the board of Copenhagen Business School.

Research VIDEO: What does it take for societal transformation to succeed?

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Primary research areas

Institutional Innovation

Multimodal research methods

Organizational change
 

Administrative tasks

Director of Center for Organizational Research on Impact (CORI)

Programme director of Master of Management Development (MMD)

VIP representative on the CBS Board of Directors

Curriculum Vitae
Links
Link to this homepage
www.cbs.dk/en/staff/ebioa
Selected publications

Colombero, S., & Boxenbaum, E. 2019. Authentication as institutional maintenance work. Journal of Management Studies, 56(2): 408-440.

Cartel, M., Boxenbaum, E. & Aggeri, F. 2019. Just for fun! How experimental spaces stimulate innovation in institutionalized fields. Organization Studies, 40(1): 65-92.

Meyer, R. E., Jancsary, D., Höllerer, M., & Boxenbaum, E. 2018. The role of verbal and visual text in the process of institutionalization. Academy of Management Review, 43(3): 1-27.

Boxenbaum, E., & Rouleau, L. 2011. New knowledge products as bricolage: Metaphors and scripts in organizational theory. Academy of Management Review, 36(2): 272-296.

Battilana, J., Leca, B., & Boxenbaum, E. 2009. How actors change institutions: Toward a theory of institutional entrepreneurship. Academy of Management Annals, 3 (1): 65-107. (Fast Breaking Paper, Science Watch, Aug. 2011, Thomson Reuters.) Academy of Management Annals Decade Award 2019.  
 

Publications sorted by:
2024
Joep Cornelissen; Markus A. Höllerer; Eva Boxenbaum; Samer Faraj; Joel Gehman / Large Language Models and the Future of Organization Theory
In: Organization Theory, Vol. 5, No. 1, 26.3.2024
Journal article > peer review
2023
Sophie Marie Cappelen; Eva Boxenbaum / Identities in Flex : How Management Consultants Construct Their Identity in and as Part of Processes of Translation.
Paper presented at 39th EGOS Colloquium 2023, 2023
Paper > peer review
Lærke Højgaard Christiansen; Eva Boxenbaum / Organizational Identity Work for Optimal Distinction
In: Proceedings of the Eighty-third Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. ed. /Sonia Taneja. Briarcliff Manor, NY : Academy of Management 2023, 1 p., p. 2052 (Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings)
Conference abstract in proceedings > peer review
2022
Juliane Reinecke; Eva Boxenbaum; Joel Gehman / Impactful Theory : Pathways to Mattering.
In: Organization Theory, Vol. 3, No. 4, 2022, 20 p., p. 1-20
Editorial > peer review
Mélodie Cartel; Eva Boxenbaum; Sylvain Colombero / Place and Status Recategorization
In: Proceedings of the Eighty-second Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management . ed. /Sonja Taneja. Briarcliff Manor, NY : Academy of Management 2022, 1 p., p. 907 (Academy of Management Proceedings)
Conference abstract in proceedings > peer review
Sophie Marie Cappelen; Eva Boxenbaum / Talk Normal! : How Management Consultants Translate Academic Knowledge into Practical Advice.
Paper presented at 38th EGOS Colloquium 2022, 2022
Paper > peer review
2021
Silviya Svejenova; Eva Boxenbaum; Renate Meyer / Turning Public Libraries into Collaborative Spaces : The Role of Multimodal Imaginaries.
In: Collaborative Spaces at Work: Innovation, Creativity and Relations. . ed. /Fabrizio Montanari; Elisa Mattarelli; Anna Chiara Scapolan. Abingdon : Routledge 2021, p. 197-216 (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies)
Book chapter > peer review
2020
Eva Boxenbaum / Book Review: Les Équilibristes
In: Organization Studies, Vol. 41, No. 8, 8.2020, p. 1201-1204
Book review > peer review
Eva Boxenbaum; Susse Georg / The Role of Standards and Exemplars in Consolidating Labels for Sustainable Construction
In: Labelling the Economy: Qualities and Values in Contemporary Markets . . ed. /Brice Laurent; Alexandre Macmillan. Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan 2020, p. 125-150
Book chapter > peer review
2019
Sylvain Colombero; Eva Boxenbaum / Authentication as Institutional Maintenance Work
In: Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 56, No. 2, 3.2019, p. 408-440
Journal article > peer review
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Research Projects
Outside activities
2023
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art - Board Member
Six meetings (9:00-13:00) per year + strategy seminar
 
2022
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art - Board Member
Six meetings (9:00-13:00) per year + strategy seminar

2021
Aalto University, Finland, www.aalto.fi
Evaluation of professor candidacy (one time event)
 
Dansk Oplysningsforbund www.danskoplysning.dk/
Keynote at DOF Annual Assembly (one time event)
 
2020
Rotterdam School of Management
Research Evaluation Committee
 
Individual citizen
Academic evaluation
 
2019
Individual citizen
Academic evaluation
 
2018
No outside activities to report