Lene Pettersen

MY RESEARCH INTERESTS:

I am in my final year as a PhD Candidate and plan to hand in my thesis before Christmas 2013. My PhD candidatship at BI is a part of the research project NETworked POWER, which examines the potential social software has for innovation. My doctoral project tries to reveal sucess criterias for social intranets (Enterprise 2.0) to increase cross-divitional collaboration, knowledge sharing and imporve internal communication, coordination and collaboration - elements that are predicted to be main factors in the new social economy. I am in particular interested in how organizations' design must adjust and take new models into use to fit the social technology, and how social networking and employees working practices interplay with their use of the social internal platform.  My research case is a company operating in the intercept between ICT and business located in 23 countries, and my research design consists of the following;

• Ethnographic fieldworks run with a year interval (2011 and 2012) in Norway and Morocco with participatory observations, including conversations with key managers within the firm.
• Qualitative interviews of 27 employees/participants together with co-researcher Marika Lüders from Sintef, in four countries (UK, Norway, Denmark and Morocco) and at six entities
• Social network analysis of the participant’s close off-line collaboration patterns (off-line, outside the tool)
• Close analysis of the 27 participant’s user tendencies (on-line, within the tool)
• Close analysis of selected content and patterns of collaboration within the tool (The social networking functionality and the group functionality in particular, and in terms of participators sharing/reading/social working/co-working patterns)
• Close analysis of the 27 participant’s on-line, off-work networks in LinkedIn and Facebook

 Keywords: social software (media), collaboration, social networking, knowledge workers, social capital, organization design, knowledge, strategy, social network analysis, networked organizations, Enterprise 2.0.

My supervisor is Amir Sasson and co-supervisor Espen Andersen, both from the Department of Strategy and Logistics.

More information about the NETworked POWER project as such please see: http://networkedpower.origo.no/

LECTURING IN:

COMPLETED PHD COURSES:

Innovations and Transformations, (elective course, 3 ECT) at TIK (Center for Technology, Innovation and Culture) at UiO, autumn 2010

Organizational Communication - A Network Approach (elective course, 2 ECT), by ASB Centre for Corporate Communication and the Danish National Research School for Media, Communication and Journalism, autumn 2010

Research Design and Methodology (common course, 12 ECT) at BI Norwegian  Business School, autumn 2010

Contemporary Research in Organizational Behavior (specialisation course at dept. Leadership and Organization taken as a elective course, 6 ECT) at BI Norwegian  Business School, spring 2011

Qualitative Methodology - Data and Analysis (common course, 6 ECT), at BI Norwegian  Business School, spring 2011

Introductory Social Network Analysis (e lective course, 5 ECT), Arhus School of Business, autumn 2011

Strategy 1 (specialisation course, 6 EC T), at BI Norwegian  Business School, autumn 2011 

Strategy 2 (specialisation course, 6 ECT), at BI Norwegian  Business School, spring 2012 

Strategy 3 (specialisation course, 6 ECT), at BI Norwegian  Business School, autumn 2012  

Final doctoral courses:

Quant itative Re search Methods: Multivariate Statistics, at BI Norwegian  Business School (common course, 6 ECT), spring 2013 

Theories of Organizing, at Århus University, Denmark (elective course, 6ECT)

PUBLICATIONS:

Pettersen, L. (2013) . Den Sosiale 2.0 Organisasjonen. Bokkapittel i kommende fagboken Kommunikasjon for ledere og organisasjoner, redaktører Peggy S. Brønn og Jan Ketil Arnulf, utgiver Fagbokforlaget.