Associate Professor of Management
E-mail: kristina.tamm-hallstrom@score.su.se
Telephone: +46 8 674 74 03
Kristina Tamm Hallström is Associate Professor in Management at Stockholm School of Economics and researcher at Score. She is interested in organized attempts to rationalize formal organizations, and the organization of organizations, and poses questions such as: How, where and why are rationalization and re-rationalization processes initiated? Who are involved in such decision making? How are such decisions justified and what are their implications for legitimacy, authority, power and responsibility? What characterizes resistance to rationalization and how is it justified?
Tamm Hallström explores these questions empirically through historical as well as contemporary studies, in the context of decided orders where standards (e.g. ISO 9001, ISO 14001, FSC, KRAV) – often in combination with monitoring in terms of testing, certification and accreditation – play a central role. Her research contributes to ongoing theoretical developments within organization theory on partial organization, hyper-organization, meta-organization and macro-organization.
Learn more:
- The (im)possible independence – the auditing practice of accreditation
- Who is watching the watchdog? The organization of independence in the audit society
- Trust for sale. Legitimizing strategies on the Swedish certification market 1970–2020: before and after the EU’s New Approach
- The Politics of Testing
