Susanne Holmström
Susanne Holmström (born 1947) is a Danish sociologist, best known for her writings on organizational legitimacy based on the systems theory of Niklas Luhmann.
For her dissertation Perspectives & Paradigms: An Intersubjective and a Social Systemic Public Relations Paradigm she was awarded the 1998 EUPRERA award for best European dissertation in public relations. In 2004 she became a full Ph.D. for her thesis The Sensitive Organisation of the Reflective Society.
She has formerly been a board member of EUPRERA and of the steering group of LOKE, a Nordic network for research within organisational legitimisation and communication.[1] She is best known for having developed the so-called reflective business paradigm (Holmström 2004).
In recent years she has been an external lecturer at Roskilde University and in 2011 was appointed Honorary Professor.[2]
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- Holmström, Susanne (2004), "The reflective paradigm of public relations", in Betteke van Ruler & Dejan Vercic, Public Relations and Communication Management in Europe (1st ed.), Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter