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Emma Bäckman

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Work at IfU, previous experience and academic profile

Emma has been a doctoral researcher in the Department of Strategy and Innovation since November 2025. Prior to joining WU, she accumulated ten years of professional experience in strategy, change management, and project management across a range of industries in Sweden and Austria. She has five years of experience in market research industry, during which she developed skills in quantitative methods and practical application of research insights.

She holds a B.Sc. in Business & Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics and an M.Sc. in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability from the Blekinge Institute of Technology.

Research interest

Emma’s research interest focuses on the role of organizational design and managerial practice in enabling strategic sustainability transitions. She is interested in how organizations integrate sustainability into decision-making, with particular attention to the development of management control systems to foster organizational systems-thinking capabilities and leverage opportunities in double-materiality context.