Nils Brunsson’s research while affiliated with Stockholm School of Economics and other places

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Publications (3)

Constructing Organizations: The Example of Public Sector Reform
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July 2000

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2,356 Reads

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936 Citations

Organization Studies

Nils Brunsson

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Organizations are socially constructed phenomena. A crucial task for organizational research is to analyze how and why people construct organizations rather than other social forms. In this paper, it is argued that recent public-sector reforms can be interpreted as attempts at constructing organizations. Public-sector entities that could formerly be described as agents or arenas have been transformed into 'more complete' organizations by installing or reinforcing local identity, hierarchy and rationality. This interpretation helps to explain important aspects of the reform process.

The standardization of organizational forms as a cropping-up process

September 1997

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9 Reads

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21 Citations

Scandinavian Journal of Management

Nils Brunsson

This article looks at the way homogeneity and heterogeneity arise in the forms adopted by organizations. It is argued that under modern conditions a traditional diffusion model is not always very useful in helping us to understand such processes. As an alternative a "cropping-up" model of standardization is presented. This model is particularly apt for explaining the following types of situation: when a certain form appears simultaneously in organizations which have no contact with one another or a common transmitter; when knowledge of possible organizational forms is not a scarce resource: when common forms are invented locally in many organizations rather than resulting from the imitation of others; and when the organizations which adopt similar forms do not seem to share any other fundamental common attribute. The model is based on empirical studies of organizational reforms.

Citations (3)

... De invoering van COSO ERM en ISO 31000 in de publieke sector komt zo tegemoet aan eisen van externe en interne belanghebbenden, zoals de overheid, professionele organisaties en het brede publiek. Deze invoering is vaak afhankelijk van experts, zoals consultants en andere organisaties die al werken met één van de raamwerken voor risicobeheersing (Palermo, 2014 Ondanks dat er wel veel is gezegd over accounting in zorginstellingen (zie bijvoorbeeld: Ballantine, Brignall & Modell, 1998;Jacobs, 1998;Brunsson, Lapsley & Miller, 1998) staat de kennis over het beheersen van bedrijfsvoeringsrisico's in de zorg nog in de kinderschoenen. Dit artikel gaat in op een onderzoek gedaan naar risicobeheersing in een centrum voor langdurige zorg aan senioren. ...

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De overdracht van risico's in de zorg: Risicobeheersing in een instelling voor langdurige ouderenzorg
Constructing Health Care Accountants: melding calculation and care
  • Citing Article

  • March 1998

Management Accounting Research

Nils Brunsson

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... Finally, our findings will be discussed in relation to previous research, and the aim of the article. Brunsson and Sahlin-Andersson (2000) argue that various governments with different ideologies in many OECD countries have introduced and implemented many public service reforms in haste and with little or no resistance. In these reforms, chief executives are regarded as managers rather than civil servants. ...

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Reform dynamiReform Dynamics and the Professionalisation of Principals in Sweden and Finland. A Study of Articles in Union Journals Since the 1990’scs and the professionalization of principals in the North of Europe since the 1990’s.
Constructing Organizations: The Example of Public Sector Reform
  • Citing Article

  • July 2000

Organization Studies

Nils Brunsson

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... In some cases, such as the one of Bo Hallberg (Bredbacka, 1993), CM appears to have been developed independently of existing knowledge. Brunsson (1997) referred to this as "cropping up": in organizations where similar problems are experienced, similar solutions may be created. Given the normally substantial costs of developing ideas into workable solutions, cropping up might be regarded as considerably less efficient than simply benefiting from others' hard-won experiences. ...

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Cellular manufacturing at Scania-Vabis; continuity and discontinuity in management thought
The standardization of organizational forms as a cropping-up process
  • Citing Article

  • September 1997

Scandinavian Journal of Management

Nils Brunsson