Dr Marjana Johansson

  • Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour (Management)

telephone: 0141 330 7527
email: Marjana.Johansson@glasgow.ac.uk

Adam Smith Business School, Room 229, 2 Discovery Place, Glasgow, G11 6EY

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603

Biography

Marjana joined the Adam Smith Business School as a Senior Lecturer in January 2018. Before that she worked in the business school at the University of Essex. She has also taught at Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki and at Stockholm School of Economics, where she did her PhD. Prior to doing her PhD, Marjana worked in Adult Education, in the small business sector, and as a management training consultant. 

Research interests

Marjana is a member of the School's Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour research cluster.

Areas of expertise:

  • Gender and diversity in organisations
  • Multilingualism in organisations
  • Academic work and careers
  • Organising cultural production with a focus on festivals

Publications

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Number of items: 30.

2025

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 and Śliwa, Martyna (2025) The role and effects of nonnative accents in Anglophone organisations. In: Wilmot, Natalie and Gaibrois, Claudine (eds.) Routledge Companion to Cross-Cultural Management [2nd Ed.]. Routledge. (Accepted for Publication)

Parsley, Samantha and Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2025) A slog, a push, and a labour of love: how women electronic music artists navigate gendered in/visibility in a creative industry through ‘ameliorative work’. Organization, (Accepted for Publication)

Williams, Kristin S., Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603, Persson, Sara and Slater, Ruth (2025) Intimate encounters: explorations in co-writing, collective autoethnography, poetics and fictional writings. Culture and Organization, (doi: 10.1080/14759551.2024.2439704) (Early Online Publication)

2024

Smolović-Jones, Nela, Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603, Pullen, Alison and Giritli-Nygren, Katarina (2024) Feminism and social movements: notes on hope and despair. Gender, Work and Organization, 31(3), pp. 954-960. (doi: 10.1111/gwao.13121)

2023

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2023) Class and gender. In: Helms Mills, J., Mills, A.J., Williams, K.S. and Bendl, R. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Gender and Management. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham. (Accepted for Publication)

Greedharry, Mrinalini, Limki, Rashné, Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603, Johnson, Jennifer L. and Ahonen, Pasi (2023) Race difference and power: Recursions of coloniality in work and organization. Gender, Work and Organization, 30(2), pp. 457-468. (doi: 10.1111/gwao.12902)

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 and Barner-Rasmussen, Wilhelm (2023) Organizing through and by multilingualism: writing languages into the study and practices of organizations. In: Lecomte, Philippe, Vigier, Mary, Gaibrois, Claudine and Beeler, Betty (eds.) Understanding the Dynamics of Language and Multilingualism in Professional Contexts. Edward Elgar, pp. 125-140. ISBN 9781789906783 (doi: 10.4337/9781789906783.00019)

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 and Śliwa, Martyna (2023) Recognition theory: a new lens for investigating language differences in multilingual organisations. In: Lecomte, Philippe, Vigier, Mary, Gaibrois, Claudine and Beeler, Betty (eds.) Understanding the Dynamics of Language and Multilingualism in Professional Contexts. Edward Elgar, pp. 13-29. ISBN 9781789906783 (doi: 10.4337/9781789906783.00009)

2022

Piekkari, Rebecca, Gaibrois, Claudine and Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2022) A review of language-sensitive research in international business: a multi-paradigmatic reading. Journal of Comparative International Management, 25(1), pp. 144-174. (doi: 10.55482/jcim.2022.32906)

2021

Adamson, Maria and Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2021) Writing class in and out: constructions of class in elite businesswomen's autobiographies. Sociology, 55(3), pp. 487-504. (doi: 10.1177/0038038520962393)

2020

Śliwa, Martyna and Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2020) The influence of language on self-initiated expatriate experience. In: Andresen, Maike, Brewester, Chris and Suutari, Vesa (eds.) Self-initiated Expatriates in Context: Recognizing Space, Time and Institutions. Routledge: London, pp. 72-87. ISBN 9780367371036

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2020) The ladder of opportunity and other myths of meritocracy debunked. Organization, 27(4), pp. 634-636. (doi: 10.1177/1350508418784394)[Book Review]

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 and Jones, Sally (2020) Writing past and present classed and gendered selves. In: Pullen, Alison, Helin, Jenny and Harding, Nancy (eds.) Writing Differently. Series: Dialogues in critical management studies, vol. 4. Emerald: Bingley, West Yorkshire, pp. 131-144. ISBN 9781838673383

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2020) City festivals and festival cities. In: Knowles, R. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals. Series: Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 54-69. ISBN 9781108425483 (doi: 10.1017/9781108348447.004)

2019

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 and Jones, Sally (2019) Interlopers in class: A duoethnography of working-class women academics. Gender, Work and Organization, 26(11), pp. 1527-1545. (doi: 10.1111/gwao.12398)

2018

Yates, Sarah, Riach, Kathleen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 and Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2018) Stress at work, gendered dys-appearance and the broken body in policing. Gender, Work and Organization, 25(1), pp. 91-105. (doi: 10.1111/gwao.12179)

2017

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2017) Performing diversity at festivals. In: Making Sense of Arts Management: Research, Cases and Practices. Sibelius Academy: Helsinki, pp. 92-98. ISBN 9789523290853

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 and Toraldo, Maria Laura (2017) ‘From mosh pit to posh pit’: Festival imagery in the context of the boutique festival. Culture and Organization, 23(3), pp. 220-237. (doi: 10.1080/14759551.2015.1032287)

2016

Adamson, Maria and Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2016) Compositions of professionalism in counselling work: An embodied and embedded intersectionality framework. Human Relations, 69(12), pp. 2201-2223. (doi: 10.1177/0018726716639118)

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 and Śliwa, Martyna (2016) ‘It is English and there is no alternative’: intersectionality, language and social/organizational differentiation of Polish migrants in the UK. Gender, Work and Organization, 23(3), pp. 296-309. (doi: 10.1111/gwao.12049)

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2016) ”Vi syns, vi märks, vi tar plats”: om hur festivaler skapar rum (a spatial perspective on festivals). In: Silvanto, Satu (ed.) Festivaalien Suomi (Festivals in Finland). Cupore: Helsinki, pp. 44-48.

Luonila, Mervi, Suomi, Kati and Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2016) Creating a stir: the role of word of mouth in reputation management in the context of festivals. Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, 16(4), pp. 461-483. (doi: 10.1080/15022250.2015.1113646)

2015

Śliwa, Martyna and Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2015) Playing in the academic field: Non-native English-speaking academics in UK business schools. Culture and Organization, 21(1), pp. 78-95. (doi: 10.1080/14759551.2013.828725)

2014

Śliwa, Martyna and Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2014) How non-native English-speaking staff are evaluated in linguistically diverse organizations: A sociolinguistic perspective. Journal of International Business Studies, 45(9), pp. 1133-1151. (doi: 10.1057/jibs.2014.21)

Śliwa, Martyna and Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2014) The discourse of meritocracy contested/reproduced: Foreign women academics in UK business schools. Organization, 21(6), pp. 821-843. (doi: 10.1177/1350508413486850)

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 and Śliwa, Martyna (2014) Gender, foreignness and academia: an intersectional analysis of the experiences of foreign women academics in UK business schools. Gender, Work and Organization, 21(1), pp. 18-36. (doi: 10.1111/gwao.12009)

2012

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2012) Place branding and the imaginary: the politics of re-imagining a garden city. Urban Studies, 49(16), pp. 3611-3626. (doi: 10.1177/0042098012446991)

2011

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 and Kociatkiewicz, Jerzy (2011) City festivals: creativity and control in staged urban experiences. European Urban and Regional Studies, 18(4), pp. 392-405. (doi: 10.1177/0969776411407810)

2009

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 and Naslund, Lovisa (2009) Welcome to Paradise. Customer experience design and emotional labour on a cruise ship. International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion, 3(1), p. 40. (doi: 10.1504/IJWOE.2009.025397)

2007

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 and Näslund, Lovisa (2007) Artisans of the spectacle: entrepreneurship in the event industry. In: Hjorth, Daniel and Kostera, Monika (eds.) Entrepreneurship and the Experience Economy. CBS Press: Copenhagen, pp. 155-178. ISBN 9788763002059

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Number of items: 30.

Articles

Parsley, Samantha and Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2025) A slog, a push, and a labour of love: how women electronic music artists navigate gendered in/visibility in a creative industry through ‘ameliorative work’. Organization, (Accepted for Publication)

Williams, Kristin S., Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603, Persson, Sara and Slater, Ruth (2025) Intimate encounters: explorations in co-writing, collective autoethnography, poetics and fictional writings. Culture and Organization, (doi: 10.1080/14759551.2024.2439704) (Early Online Publication)

Smolović-Jones, Nela, Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603, Pullen, Alison and Giritli-Nygren, Katarina (2024) Feminism and social movements: notes on hope and despair. Gender, Work and Organization, 31(3), pp. 954-960. (doi: 10.1111/gwao.13121)

Greedharry, Mrinalini, Limki, Rashné, Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603, Johnson, Jennifer L. and Ahonen, Pasi (2023) Race difference and power: Recursions of coloniality in work and organization. Gender, Work and Organization, 30(2), pp. 457-468. (doi: 10.1111/gwao.12902)

Piekkari, Rebecca, Gaibrois, Claudine and Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2022) A review of language-sensitive research in international business: a multi-paradigmatic reading. Journal of Comparative International Management, 25(1), pp. 144-174. (doi: 10.55482/jcim.2022.32906)

Adamson, Maria and Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2021) Writing class in and out: constructions of class in elite businesswomen's autobiographies. Sociology, 55(3), pp. 487-504. (doi: 10.1177/0038038520962393)

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 and Jones, Sally (2019) Interlopers in class: A duoethnography of working-class women academics. Gender, Work and Organization, 26(11), pp. 1527-1545. (doi: 10.1111/gwao.12398)

Yates, Sarah, Riach, Kathleen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 and Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2018) Stress at work, gendered dys-appearance and the broken body in policing. Gender, Work and Organization, 25(1), pp. 91-105. (doi: 10.1111/gwao.12179)

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 and Toraldo, Maria Laura (2017) ‘From mosh pit to posh pit’: Festival imagery in the context of the boutique festival. Culture and Organization, 23(3), pp. 220-237. (doi: 10.1080/14759551.2015.1032287)

Adamson, Maria and Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2016) Compositions of professionalism in counselling work: An embodied and embedded intersectionality framework. Human Relations, 69(12), pp. 2201-2223. (doi: 10.1177/0018726716639118)

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 and Śliwa, Martyna (2016) ‘It is English and there is no alternative’: intersectionality, language and social/organizational differentiation of Polish migrants in the UK. Gender, Work and Organization, 23(3), pp. 296-309. (doi: 10.1111/gwao.12049)

Luonila, Mervi, Suomi, Kati and Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2016) Creating a stir: the role of word of mouth in reputation management in the context of festivals. Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, 16(4), pp. 461-483. (doi: 10.1080/15022250.2015.1113646)

Śliwa, Martyna and Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2015) Playing in the academic field: Non-native English-speaking academics in UK business schools. Culture and Organization, 21(1), pp. 78-95. (doi: 10.1080/14759551.2013.828725)

Śliwa, Martyna and Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2014) How non-native English-speaking staff are evaluated in linguistically diverse organizations: A sociolinguistic perspective. Journal of International Business Studies, 45(9), pp. 1133-1151. (doi: 10.1057/jibs.2014.21)

Śliwa, Martyna and Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2014) The discourse of meritocracy contested/reproduced: Foreign women academics in UK business schools. Organization, 21(6), pp. 821-843. (doi: 10.1177/1350508413486850)

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 and Śliwa, Martyna (2014) Gender, foreignness and academia: an intersectional analysis of the experiences of foreign women academics in UK business schools. Gender, Work and Organization, 21(1), pp. 18-36. (doi: 10.1111/gwao.12009)

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2012) Place branding and the imaginary: the politics of re-imagining a garden city. Urban Studies, 49(16), pp. 3611-3626. (doi: 10.1177/0042098012446991)

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 and Kociatkiewicz, Jerzy (2011) City festivals: creativity and control in staged urban experiences. European Urban and Regional Studies, 18(4), pp. 392-405. (doi: 10.1177/0969776411407810)

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 and Naslund, Lovisa (2009) Welcome to Paradise. Customer experience design and emotional labour on a cruise ship. International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion, 3(1), p. 40. (doi: 10.1504/IJWOE.2009.025397)

Book Sections

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 and Śliwa, Martyna (2025) The role and effects of nonnative accents in Anglophone organisations. In: Wilmot, Natalie and Gaibrois, Claudine (eds.) Routledge Companion to Cross-Cultural Management [2nd Ed.]. Routledge. (Accepted for Publication)

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2023) Class and gender. In: Helms Mills, J., Mills, A.J., Williams, K.S. and Bendl, R. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Gender and Management. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham. (Accepted for Publication)

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 and Barner-Rasmussen, Wilhelm (2023) Organizing through and by multilingualism: writing languages into the study and practices of organizations. In: Lecomte, Philippe, Vigier, Mary, Gaibrois, Claudine and Beeler, Betty (eds.) Understanding the Dynamics of Language and Multilingualism in Professional Contexts. Edward Elgar, pp. 125-140. ISBN 9781789906783 (doi: 10.4337/9781789906783.00019)

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 and Śliwa, Martyna (2023) Recognition theory: a new lens for investigating language differences in multilingual organisations. In: Lecomte, Philippe, Vigier, Mary, Gaibrois, Claudine and Beeler, Betty (eds.) Understanding the Dynamics of Language and Multilingualism in Professional Contexts. Edward Elgar, pp. 13-29. ISBN 9781789906783 (doi: 10.4337/9781789906783.00009)

Śliwa, Martyna and Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2020) The influence of language on self-initiated expatriate experience. In: Andresen, Maike, Brewester, Chris and Suutari, Vesa (eds.) Self-initiated Expatriates in Context: Recognizing Space, Time and Institutions. Routledge: London, pp. 72-87. ISBN 9780367371036

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 and Jones, Sally (2020) Writing past and present classed and gendered selves. In: Pullen, Alison, Helin, Jenny and Harding, Nancy (eds.) Writing Differently. Series: Dialogues in critical management studies, vol. 4. Emerald: Bingley, West Yorkshire, pp. 131-144. ISBN 9781838673383

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2020) City festivals and festival cities. In: Knowles, R. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals. Series: Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 54-69. ISBN 9781108425483 (doi: 10.1017/9781108348447.004)

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2017) Performing diversity at festivals. In: Making Sense of Arts Management: Research, Cases and Practices. Sibelius Academy: Helsinki, pp. 92-98. ISBN 9789523290853

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2016) ”Vi syns, vi märks, vi tar plats”: om hur festivaler skapar rum (a spatial perspective on festivals). In: Silvanto, Satu (ed.) Festivaalien Suomi (Festivals in Finland). Cupore: Helsinki, pp. 44-48.

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 and Näslund, Lovisa (2007) Artisans of the spectacle: entrepreneurship in the event industry. In: Hjorth, Daniel and Kostera, Monika (eds.) Entrepreneurship and the Experience Economy. CBS Press: Copenhagen, pp. 155-178. ISBN 9788763002059

Book Reviews

Johansson, Marjana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2020) The ladder of opportunity and other myths of meritocracy debunked. Organization, 27(4), pp. 634-636. (doi: 10.1177/1350508418784394)[Book Review]

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Grants

  • 2013: The Swedish Cultural Foundation, £9,348
  • 2011: The Work Foundation, £21,000 (co-investigator) 
  • 2009: The Swedish Cultural Foundation, £10,455

Supervision

Marjana welcomes qualitative proposals related to the following broad topics and approaches:

  • Gender and diversity
  • Women’s careers
  • Spatial perspectives on organisations
  • Work in the creative industries
  • Ethnographic and visual methods

 

 

  • Gilchrist, Brian
    Wellbeing and the Post Pandemic Employment Relationship
  • Ogoms, Michael
    Neurodiversity as a Strategic Advantage for Organizations with the increase in Soft Skills and Proper Accommodations
  • Otepbergen, Aigerim
    Employee performance in operations management in higher education: case of Kazakhstan

Completed supervision

Civil Society Organizations and Food Poverty: A Case Study of the London Borough of Islington.

Death, dying and ‘difficult marketing’: An ethnographic study of marketing at an English hospice.

'Dashed hopes and bruised egos’: Professional identity in investment banking in the context of the 2008 financial crisis.

Exploring the lived dimension of organisational space: An ethnographic study of an English cathedral.

Exploring the lived experience of stress amongst female police managers.

Teaching

  • MGT1022 Organisational Behaviour
  • MGT5054 Managing Diversity in Organisations
  • MGT5348 Managing Diversity
  • MGT5230 Management in the Creative Industries

Additional information

Fellow of HEA