Iva Josefsson

Senior lecturer

Department of Management School of Business and Economics

iva.josefsson@lnu.se

Teaching

I am currently teaching within the Leadership and Organizational Renewal platform with a focus on organization theory, human resource management, and organizational development. I am involved in the following courses:

2FE512 – Business Administration III - Organization (teacher)
2FE203 – Organizational Identity Making (course responsible)
2FE521 – Human Resource Management – Concepts, Trends, and Strategies (teacher)
2FE411 – Organizational Development (course responsible)

We are accredited

The School of Business and Economics at Linnaeus University is accredited by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, AACSB. Only 6 percent of the world’s leading business schools achieve this accreditation, making us one of a few schools that are trailblasers in teaching, research, and societal impact.

Publications

Article in journal (Refereed)

Josefsson, I., Blomberg, A. (2020). Turning to the dark side : Challenging the hegemonic positivity of the creativity discourse. Scandinavian Journal of Management. 36 (1).
Status: Published

Conference paper (Refereed)

Josefsson, I., Siegert, S. (2025). A duoethnographic exploration of (in)fertility treatments and the (un)reproductive body at work. Presented at the 14th International Critical Management Studies (ICMS), Manchester, UK, June 18-20, 2025.
Siegert, S., Josefsson, I. (2025). Becoming(ing) Pregnant at Work : A duoethnographic exploration of fertility treatments and the non-reproductive body at work. Presented at the 15th International Interdisciplinary Conference: Gender, Work and Organization: "World in Crisis and Future of Work: Gender, Work and Organization and Bodies on the Move", Nantes, France, July 21-23, 2025.
Siegert, S., Josefsson, I. (2025). A duoethnographic exploration of (in)fertility treatments and the (un)reproductive body at work. Presented at the 15th International Interdisciplinary Conference: Gender, Work and Organization: "World in Crisis and Future of Work: Gender, Work and Organization and Bodies on the Move", Nantes, France, July 21-23, 2025.
Josefsson, I., Blomberg, A. (2017). Turning to the dark side : Challenging the hegemonic positivity of the creativity discourse. Presented at European Group for Organizational Studies Pre- Colloquium Development Workshop: Writing Theory Papers for the Academy of Management Review (AMR) and Organization Studies, July 5, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Kostova, I. (2016). Creative subjectivity in the creative organization. 12th Organizational Discourse Conference, July 12-15, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Järvi, K., Kostova, I. (2016). Theorizing beyond the boundaries : Theory development processes in qualitative management and organization research. Fifth European Theory development Workshop, June 30-July 1, Helsinki, Finland.
Blomberg, A., Josefsson, I. (2015). Exploring the dark side of creativity in organizations. .
Josefsson, I. (2015). Constructing the creative : Discourses on creativity in organizations in the creative industries. 2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference on Research on Work, WORK2015 - New Meanings of Work, August 19-21, Turku, Finland.
Blomberg, A., Josefsson, I. (2015). A call for the critical examination of creativity. 2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference on Research on Work, WORK2015 - New Meanings of Work, August 19-21, Turku, Finland.
Josefsson, I., Järvi, K. (2015). Exploring identities and institutions as discursive interaction. 31st European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium, July 2-4, Athens, Greece.
Josefsson, I. (2014). Critically constructing creativity : A critical exploratory study of discourses of creativity and their relation to individuals’ identity constructions in organizations. Presented at Critical Management Studies PhD Conference, September 15-17, Leicester, United Kingdom.

Chapter in book (Refereed)

Josefsson, I. (2025). Odd body out : the female pregnant body in the male intellectual domain. Academic Misfits : Questioned Belongings in Higher Education. London, Routledge. 117-126.
Josefsson, I. (2020). Creating Creative Identities in Organizations. The Oxford Handbook of Identities in Organizations. Oxford University Press. 669-682.
Josefsson, I. (2019). Affectual Demands and the Creative Worker : Experiencing Selves and Emotions in the Creative Organisation. The New Normal of Working Lives : Critical Studies in Contemporary Work and Employment. Palgrave Macmillan. 201-217.
Kostova, I. (2017). Dilthey, Wilhelm. Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc..
Kostova, I. (2017). Social Constructionism. Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc..
Kostova, I. (2017). Thick Description. Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory. John Wiley & Sons.