Monika Wallmon
Senior Lecturer
About the researcher
Monika Wallmon is Senior Lecturer in Business Administration and holds a PhD from Uppsala University. Her research focuses on organising, governance, and responsibility in contemporary working life, with particular attention to how different forms of governance shape legitimacy, judgement, and scope for action. She is affiliated with the research area Sustainable Organisation and Management.
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Academic Appointments
Since 2014, Monika Wallmon has been a Senior Lecturer in Business Administration at the University of Gävle. Prior to this, she was a Lecturer in Business Administration at Uppsala University from 2005 to 2014 and held academic teaching positions at Mid Sweden University from 2003 to 2005.
Degrees
She received her PhD in Business Administration from Uppsala University in 2014 with the dissertation A Manifesto for Anarchist Entrepreneurship: Provocative Demands for Change and the Entrepreneur. The dissertation challenges established understandings of entrepreneurship by relating them to organising and social change, a line of inquiry that continues to inform her research on governance, responsibility, and legitimacy in organisations. Her principal supervisor was Ivo Zander, Lars Ekstrand served as co-supervisor, and Pierre Guillet de Monthoux was the opponent at the public defence.
Monika Wallmon teaches leadership and organisation at bachelor's and master's level. Her teaching includes management, organisational behaviour, research methods, critical perspectives on leadership and organisation, and thesis supervision.
Monika Wallmon studies how organisations come to treat certain ways of working, changing, and assuming responsibility as self-evident. Taking a critical perspective on organising, she examines how governance, evaluation, and normative ideals shape responsibility, legitimacy, and scope for action in organisations.
Her research analyses how ideas of entrepreneurship, development, responsibility, and sustainability become established as reasonable, necessary, and desirable, and what happens when such ideals are put into practice. A recurring theme is how governance arrangements may support change and coordination, but may also constrain judgement, displace responsibility, and make established arrangements difficult to question.
Empirically, her work is based primarily on studies of welfare organisations, municipal services, business-support contexts, and digital platforms, where questions of work, responsibility, control, and change become particularly visible.
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