Pernilla Petrelius Karlberg is Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) since 2008. She has been at the Centre for Management and Organization since 2001. Her doctoral thesis concerns the social construction of top executives in large listed companies, it investigates the interaction between media logic and the rational of top executives. Furthermore, it elaborates on the consequences of this interaction considering the role and mission of the CEO.
Current projects involve the management and organization of mediated ideas and images among top executives, information departments, communication consultants and other actors in the medialization process. Empirical cases include both subjects of high media exposure as well as those operating in “the media shadow”.
Pernilla Petrelius Karlberg is teaching in the areas of leadership, management, media and communication.
Key words; leadership, managers, CEO, governance media, media logic, communication, legitimacy, rationality
Publications:
- Petrelius, Karlberg, P. (2008). VD under press - Om medialiseringen av näringslivets ledare, Forskning i fickformat, Stockholm: EFI och Öhrlings PricewaterhouseCoopers.
- Petrelius Karlberg, P. (2007). Den Medialiserade Direktören. Stockholm EFI.
- Petrelius Karlberg, P. (2006). In Search of Personality - The Mediatization of Top Executives and the Construction of Parallel Selves. Conference Paper presented at EGOS 2006 (Bergen, Norway).
- Kallifatides, M and Petrelius Karlberg, P (2004). Den Tafatte in ”Det Oavsedda Entreprenörskapet” D. Ericsson (red). Lund: Acdemia Alecta.
- Petrelius Karlberg, P (2003) Kvinnor i Koncernstyrelser. Stockholm: SNS och EFI Förlag.
- Sjöstrand, S-E och Petrelius P. (2002) Rekrytering av koncernstyrelser. Stockholm: SNS och EFI Förlag.
- Petrelius, P (2001). När Business blir Show Business. Avhandlingsplan framlagd vid sektionen för företagsledning och arbetslivsfrågor. 2001