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Department of Organization
- Centre for Public Organization, Value and Innovation (POVI)

My research focuses on exploring two major research themes: A major theme is work relationships within and between organizations, particularly everyday conflict between different professional groups. I have a particular interest in how meaning and action interact in processes of conflict handling in surface and subsurface domains of working life when people meet in social interaction.
Another major theme concerns emotionality in organisations where I use primarily ethnographic research designs to observe and inquire beyond the surface of organisations and individual experiences of organising. My work looks at a wide range of settings including health care, correctional institutions, nonprofit organisations, retail, and financial institutions. In a new research project, I explore the organizing of police encounters with victims of crime.
Study Director of the BSc and MSc programmes in Business Administration and Psychology
Master thesis supervision
PhD supervision
Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen, Barbara Gray & Anne Petersen (2020 online first). Unconscious processes of organizing: Intergroup conflict in mental health care. Journal of Management Studies special issue: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Publication of Karl Weick’s The Social Psychology of Organizing.
Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen & Didde Maria Humle (2020 online first). Dynamics of overt and covert conflict in organizations: The power of organizational identity. Group and Organization Management.
Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen & Randi Wåhlin (2020). Dominant, hidden and forbidden sense-making: the politics of ideology and emotions in diversity management. Organization, Vol. 27(4): 557-577.
Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen & Stewart Clegg (2019). Conceptions of conflict in organizational conflict research: towards critical reflexivity, Journal of Management Inquiry, Vol. 28(2): 166-179.
In: Journal of Organizational Ethnography, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2021, 6 p., p. 1-6
In: Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 33, No. 7, 2020, p. 1401-1415
In: Organization, Vol. 27, No. 4, 7.2020, p. 557-577
In: Group & Organization Management, Vol. 45, No. 6, 12.2020, p. 768–807
In: Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 57, No. 7, 11.2020, p. 1355-1383
In: The Routledge Companion to Anthropology and Business. ed. /Raza Mir; Anne-Laure Fayard. New York : Routledge 2020, p. 295-315 (Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Marketing)
In: Journal of Management Inquiry, Vol. 28, No. 2, 4.2019, p. 166-179
In: Managing and Organizations: An Introduction to Theory and Practice. . ed. /Stewart R. Clegg; Martin Kornberger; Tyrone S. Pitsis; Matt Mount. London : SAGE Publications 2019, p. 221-252
Paper presented at 13th Organization Studies Workshop , 2018
Paper presented at The 34th EGOS Colloquium 2018, 2018
In: Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, Vol. 11, No. 3, 8.2018, p. 185-203
Paper presented at 35th International Labour Process Conference, 2017
Paper presented at 34th International Labour Process Conference, 2016
In: Doing Organizational Ethnography. ed. /Anne Reff Pedersen; Didde Maria Humle. New York : Routledge 2016, p. 17-39 (Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society, No. 38)
In: Managing & Organizations: An Introduction to Theory and Practice. . ed. /Stewart Clegg; Martin Kornberger; Tyrone Pitsis. London : SAGE Publications 2016, p. 237-258
Paper presented at 34th International Labour Process Conference, 2016
In: Tidsskrift for Arbejdsliv, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2016, p. 9-27
In: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. ed. /James D. Wright. Vol. 2, Amsterdam : Elsevier 2015, p. 639–643
In: Tidsskrift for Arbejdsliv, Vol. 16, No. 2, 6.2014, p. 82-98
In: Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2013, p. 33-49
In: Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 5, 2013, p. 923-941
In: Danish Medical Bulletin (Online), Vol. 60, No. 9, 2013
In: Ugeskrift for Laeger, Vol. 175, No. 40, 30.9.2013, p. 2342
In: Journal of Conflictology, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2012, p. 7-17
Paper presented at The Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2012, 2012
Vol. 43.2012, Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School [Phd] 2012, 243 p. (PhD series, No. 43.2012)
In: Politiken, 6.2.2021, p. 1-2
In: Fængselsfuntionæren, Vol. 1, 2018, p. 20-21
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