Publications
My research explores how identity, stories, and resilience are shaped within organisations. At its core is the question: How do people develop, negotiate, and express their identities while pursuing meaningful and influential work within organizations that threaten or devalue who they are? Here you can find a selection of my published work, including journal articles, book chapters, and books.
2026
Meaningful Work and the Voices of Others in Frontline Occupations
Humle, D. M., & Frandsen, S. (2026). Meaningful Work and the Voices of Others in Frontline Occupations. Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies.
Read more →2025
Working with pride in the shadow of shame: Emotional dissonance and identity work during a corporate scandal
Frandsen, S., Grant, J., & Kärreman, D. (2025). Working with pride in the shadow of shame: Emotional dissonance and identity work during a corporate scandal. Human Relations, 78(1), 3-31.
Read more →2025
Sustainability ideals are often crushed by corporate demands. Here’s how businesses can let them flourish
Frandsen, S., Enrico, F., & Morsing, M. (2025). Sustainability ideals are often crushed by corporate demands. Here’s how businesses can let them flourish. The Conversation.
Read more →2024
Formal Ethics, Content Ethics and Relational Ethics: Three Approaches to Constructing Ethical Sales Cultures and Identities in Retail Banking
Svane, M. S., & Frandsen, S. (2024). Formal Ethics, Content Ethics and Relational Ethics: Three Approaches to Constructing Ethical Sales Cultures and Identities in Retail Banking: MS Svane and S. Frandsen. Journal of Business Ethics, 189(2), 269-286.
Read more →2024
Coaching
Frandsen, S. (2024). Coaching. In Hallonsten, O., Jonsson, A., Rennstam, J., & Sörgärde, N. (2024). Metaphors we supervise by. Studentlitteratur AB.
Request a copy →2024
Who is responsible—and for what? An antenarrative perspective on organizational members’ crisis sensemaking of responsibility during a corporate scandal
Frandsen, S., Svane, M., & Maria Humle, D. (2024). Who is responsible—and for what? An antenarrative perspective on organizational members’ crisis sensemaking of responsibility during a corporate scandal. Human Relations, 77(11), 1565-1595.
Read more →2023
Saving the World? How CSR Practitioners Live Their Calling by Constructing Different Types of Purpose in Three Occupational Stages
Fontana, E., Frandsen, S., & Morsing, M. (2023). Saving the World? How CSR Practitioners Live Their Calling by Constructing Different Types of Purpose in Three Occupational Stages: E. Fontana et al. Journal of Business Ethics, 185(4), 741-766.
Read more →2021
Behind the stigma shield: frontline employees’ emotional response to organizational event stigma at work and at home
Frandsen, S., & Morsing, M. (2021). Behind the stigma shield: frontline employees’ emotional response to organizational event stigma at work and at home. Journal of Management Studies.
Read more →2021
Processes of non-identification: Business school brands and academic faculty
Frandsen, S., & Huzzard, T. (2021). Processes of non-identification: Business school brands and academic faculty. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 37(3), 101157.
Read more →2020
Organizational resistance and autoethnography
Frandsen, S. & Pelly, D. M. (2020). ”Organizational resistance and autoethnography”. In Herrmann, A. F. (Ed.). The Routledge International Handbook of Organizational Autoethnography. London: Routledge, 252-268.
Read more →2020
Counter-narratives as analytical strategies
Muller, M., & Frandsen, S. (2020). Counter-narratives as analytical strategies: Methodological implications. In Lueg, K., & Lundholt, M. W. (Eds.). Routledge Handbook of Counter-Narratives. London: Routledge, 110-121.
Read more →2020
Identity, Image and Brand
Kärreman, D. & Frandsen, S. (2020). “Identity, Image and Brand”. In Brown, A. Oxford Handbook of Individual Identities in Organizations. Oxford University Press.
Read more →2018
Faculty responses to business school branding: a discursive approach
Frandsen, S., Gotsi, M., Johnston, A., Whittle, A., Frenkel, S., & Spicer, A. (2018). Faculty responses to business school branding: a discursive approach. European Journal of Marketing, 52(5/6), 1128-1153.
Read more →2017
The silver bullet of branding
Frandsen, S. (2017). The silver bullet of branding: Fantasies and practices of organizational identity work in organizational identity change processes. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 33(4), 222-234.
Read more →2017
Organizational image
Frandsen, S. (2017). ”Organizational image” in Scott, C. R. & L. K. Lewis. The International Encyclopedia of Organizational Communication. Wiley-Blackwell.
Read more →2016
Counter-Narratives and Organization
Frandsen, S., Lundholt, M. & Kuhn, T. (eds.) (2016). Counter-Narratives and Organization. Routledge.
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Introduction (Counter-Narratives and Organization)
Frandsen, S., Lundholt, M. & Kuhn, T. (2016). ”Introduction”. In Counter-Narratives and Organization. Routledge, 1-14.
Read more →2016
Organizational identity negotiations through dominant and counter-narratives
Humle, D. & Frandsen, S. (2016). ”Organizational identity negotiations through dominant and counter-narratives”. In Counter-Narratives and Organization. Routledge, 105-128.
Read more →2016
Examining branding in organizations by using critical organizational ethnography
Frandsen, S. (2016). ”Examining branding in organizations by using critical organizational ethnography” in Reff-Pedersen, A. & Humle, D. M. (eds.), Doing Organizational Ethnography. Routledge, 56-78. Comments by Dan Kärreman.
Read more →2015
Portraits of Call Centre Employees: Understanding control and identity work
Frandsen, S. (2015). Portraits of Call Centre Employees: Understanding control and identity work. Tamara, 13(3), 162-176.
Read more →2015
Doing ethnography in a paranoid organization: an autoethnographic account
Frandsen, S. (2015). Doing ethnography in a paranoid organization: an autoethnographic account. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 4(2), 162-176.
Read more →2014
Corporate Branding og Identitet
Frandsen, S. & Kjærgaard, A. (2014). “Corporate Branding og Identitet” in Vikkelsø, S. & Kjær, P. (eds.), Klassisk og Moderne Organisationsteori, Hans Reitzels Forlag, 641-663.
Request a copy →2013
Productive Loose Coupling towards Internal Legitimacy
Frandsen, S., Morsing, M. & Vallentin, S. (2013). Productive Loose Coupling towards Internal Legitimacy. Journal of Management Development, 32(3), 236-246.
Read more →2012
Organizational Image, Identification, and Cynical Distance: Prestigious Professionals in a Low-Prestige Organization
Frandsen, S. (2012). Organizational Image, Identification, and Cynical Distance: Prestigious Professionals in a Low-Prestige Organization. Management Communication Quarterly, 26(3), 351-376.
Request a copy →2011
Organisationer som fortællefabrikker
Frandsen, S., Humle, D. & Mathiesen, M. (2011). “Organisationer som fortællefabrikker” in Frankel, C. & Schmidt, K. (eds.), Organisationsanalyse, Samfundslitteratur, 125-146.
Request a copy →2009
Udfordringer når CSR anvendes som employer branding strategi
Frandsen, S. & Morsing, M. (2009). “Udfordringer når CSR anvendes som employer branding strategi” in Engelund, H. (ed.), Employer Branding som faglig disciplin, Samfundslitteratur, 255-270.
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