Susanne Holmström
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Susanne Holmström is a Danish
Denmark
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 sociologist, best known for her writings on organizational legitimacy based on the systems theory
Systems theory
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 of Niklas Luhmann
Niklas Luhmann
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.

For her dissertation Perspectives & Paradigms: An Intersubjective and a Social Systemic Public Relations Paradigm she was awarded the 1998 EUPRERA award for best Europe
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an dissertation in public relations
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. In 2004 she became a full Ph.D.
Ph.D.
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 for her thesis
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 The Sensitive Organisation of the Reflective Society.

She is currently a board member of EUPRERA and of the steering group of LOKE, a Nordic
Nordic countries
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 network for research within organisational legitimisation and communication. http://www.ruc.dk/pr/LOKE. 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
Roskilde University
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