enmioa

Department of Organization

  • People and Organizing (PnO)
Elisabeth Naima
Mikkelsen
Associate professor
,
Ph.d


Room: KIL/14.A-3.56
Tel:
+4538152826
E-mail: enm.ioa@cbs.dk
Presentation

My primary research interests center on the psychological dimensions of work relationships among professionals.
My research delves into the hidden dynamics of conflict in organizations, where I employ qualitative methods such as ethnography and in-depth interviews to generate nuanced, context-sensitive analyses. I have made significant contributions to advancing our understanding of the unspoken and unconscious mechanisms that underpin organizational conflict.
Another major theme in my research explores the role of emotions in organizations, challenging traditional notions that confine emotions to internal, individual experiences. Drawing on rich empirical case studies of prisons, health care, and law enforcement, my work highlights the profound influence of emotions on professional collaboration and organizational performance. My most significant contribution lies in shifting the understanding of emotions beyond an individual-centric framework to reveal their power as an organizing force.
In addition to my engagement in these research areas, I maintain an active interest in the role of gradeless learning in the academic development of university students.
I was a SCANCOR Visiting Scholar at Harvard University from 2023 to 2024.
I currently serve as Study Director for the MSc program in Business Administration and Psychology.

Primary research areas
  • Work relationships and hidden conflict in organizations
  • Emotions in organizations
  • Organizational sensemaking and narrative theory
  • Systems psychodynamic and the sociology of emotions
  • Qualitative methodology, etnography
Administrative tasks

Study Director for the MSc program in Business Administration and Psychology
Member of the Study Board for the executive program of Master of Management Development (MMD)
Coordinator of the People and Organizing (PnO) Research Group

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Supervision

Master Thesis Supervision: 
Thesis supervisor at the MSc in Business Administration and Psychology (PSYK)

PhD Supervision:

  • Linda Nørgaard Madsen (Department of Organization, CBS) (2023-)
  • Marie Arnbak-Hartzberg (Department of Organization, CBS) (completed in 2025)
  • Tobias Berggren Jensen (Department of Organization, CBS) (completed in 2023)

PhD Assesment Committees:

  • Elisabet Skov Nielsen, Department of Organization, CBS (grad. 2025), Chair of committee
  • Carlos Eduardo De Lima, Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo, da Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), Brazil (grad. 2024), Member of committee
  • Katharina Christiane Jeschke, Department of Organization, CBS (grad. 2022), Chair of committee
  • Jakob Rømer Barfodm, Department of Organization, CBS (grad. 2021), Chair of committee
  • Christian Dyrlund Wålin-Jacobsen, the National Research Centre for the Working Environment and the Department of Organization, CBS (grad. 2019), Chair of committee

Assistant Professor Supervision: 
Supervisor in the Higher Education Teaching Excellence Programme (HETEP)

Other teaching activities

Master thesis Module, MSc in Business Administration and Psychology (PSYK)
Master thesis Module, MSc in Human Resource Management (HRM)
Leadership and organizing, Executive Master in Management Development (MMD)
Co-management, Executive Master in Public Governance (MPG)

Selected publications

Annemette Kjærgaard, Julie Buhl-Wiggers & Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen (2024): Does Gradeless Learning Affect Students’ Academic Performance? A Study of Effects Over Time. Studies in Higher Education, 49(2): 336-350.

Annemette Kjærgaard, Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen & Julie Buhl-Wiggers (2023): The Gradeless Paradox: Emancipatory Promises but Ambivalent Effects of Gradeless Learning in Business Education. Management Learning, 54(4): 556-575.

Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen (2022): Looking over your shoulder: Embodied responses to contamination in the emotional dirty work of prison officers. Human Relations, 75(9): 1770-1797.

Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen (2022): Organizational perspectives on boring prison work: Between emancipation and paranoia. Organization, 29(5): 816-838. 

Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen, Barbara Gray & Anne Petersen (2020). Unconscious processes of organizing: Intergroup conflict in mental health care. Journal of Management Studies, 57(7): 1355-1383. 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). Dynamics of overt and covert conflict in organizations: The power of organizational identity. Group and Organization Management, 45(6): 768–807. 
The paper was awarded Best Qualitative Paper in 2020 by Group and Organization Management.

Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen & Randi Wåhlin (2020). Dominant, hidden and forbidden sensemaking: the politics of ideology and emotions in diversity management. Organization, 27(4): 557-577.

Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen & Stewart Clegg (2019). Conceptions of conflict in organizational conflict research: towards critical reflexivity, Journal of Management Inquiry, 28(2): 166-179.

Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen (2013): An analysis of the social meanings of conflict in nonprofit organizations, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 42(5): 33-49.
 

Publications sorted by:
2024
Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen; Linda Nørgaard Madsen / Disciplining Empathy in Frontline Encounters : Learning to Handle Emotion Norms in Practice.
Paper presented at The 27th Nordic Academy of Management (NFF) Conference 2024, 2024
Paper > peer review
Annemette Kjærgaard; Julie Buhl-Wiggers; Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen / Does Gradeless Learning Affect Students’ Academic Performance? : A Study of Effects Over Time.
In: Studies in Higher Education, Vol. 49, No. 2, 2.2024, p. 336-350
Journal article > peer review
Tobias Berggren Jensen; Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen / Positive, Challenging, or Impossible Self-managing Organizations? : Exploring Radical Decentralization at an Addiction Rehabilitation Center.
In: Journal of Organization Design, Vol. 13, No. 4, 12.2024, p. 147-162
Journal article > peer review
Linda Nørgaard Madsen; Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen / Tilblivelse og konsekvenser af politiets tro på partnervoldsmyter
In: Partnervold og partnerdrab: Samfundets blinde vinkel. . ed. /Trine Baumbach; Linda Kjær Minke; Tine Søberg. København : Djøf Forlag 2024, p. 485-505
Book chapter > peer review
Linda Nørgaard Madsen; Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen / Unpacking Police Endorsement of Myths Surrounding Intimate Partner Violence Against Women : Formation and Implications.
In: Violence Against Women, Vol. 30, No. 8, 6.2024, p. 1959-1983
Journal article > peer review
2023
Marie Arnbak-Hartzberg; Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen; Tanja Kirkegaard / Organizing for the ‘Good Atmosphere’ : Collegial Emotional Work for Collective Coping in High-performance Environments.
Paper presented at 39th EGOS Colloquium 2023, 2023
Paper > peer review
Christian Dyrlund Wåhlin-Jacobsen; Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen / Seeing Blindness : A Combined Psychodynamic and Interactional Approach to the Study of Ignoring.
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 23, No. 1, 4.2023, p. 201-215
Journal article > peer review
Annemette Kjærgaard; Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen; Julie Buhl-Wiggers / The Gradeless Paradox : Emancipatory Promises but Ambivalent Effects of Gradeless Learning in Business and Management Education.
In: Management Learning, Vol. 54, No. 4, 9.2023, p. 556-575
Journal article > peer review
2022
Annemette Kjærgaard; Julie Buhl-Wiggers; Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen / Gradeless Learning in Higher Education : Implications for Student Learning and Well-being.
Abstract from EARLI SIG 1 & 4 Joint Conference 2022, 2022
Conference abstract for conference > peer review
Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen / Looking over Your Shoulder : Embodied Responses to Contamination in the Emotional Dirty Work of Prison Officers.
In: Human Relations, Vol. 75, No. 9, 9.2022, p. 1770-1797
Journal article > peer review
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Research Projects
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2024
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2023
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January - February 2022
EVA
Consultancy (10 hours)
 
December 2021 - Januar 2022
EVA Evalueringsinstitut (10 hours)
Consultancy

2021
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2020
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2019
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2018
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