About
PhD Topic: Digital transformation in (as) practice
PhD Supervisors: Dr Lucia Garcia-Lorenzo and Professor Martin Bauer
Karin Ahlbäck is a scholar-practitioner conducting part-time PhD research in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science while simultaneously engaged in advancing the digital services transformation of a global engineering company. She is interested in how strategy and organisational change are realised in practice, and her PhD explores how digital transformation unfolds ‘on the ground’ in an incumbent organisation. Karin uses practice-based approaches and qualitative ethnographic methods in her research.
Karin’s background is in management consulting with focus on organisational transformations and agile organisation design. She holds a MSc in Organisational and Social Psychology from LSE, and a MSc (Technology) from Aalto University in Finland.
Awards: Academy of Management, 2025 Best Paper Based on A Dissertation, Organizational Development and Change Division
Expertise: Organisational change, digital transformation, practice-based research