Haldor Byrkjeflot
Haldor Byrkjeflot (http://www.polis.no/People/haldor.html)
Researcher, Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies, Bergen
Affiliated with Department of Administration and Organization Theory, University of Bergen
Areas of interest
Management and organization; comparative and historical perspectives
Knowledge and politics in health care
Bureaucracy and public management
Research projects
Autonomy, Transparency, Management – the dynamics of reform in health care
www.polis.no
Legitimacy, identity, hierarchy: Strategic communication in the hospital sector
The role of knowledge in the construction and regulation of health and education policy in Europe
http://www.knowandpol.eu/index.php?id=17
Activities
Board member Nordic Network for Public-Private relationships
Board member Nordic Network for Health Management,
Advisory Board Center for Health Management, Copenhagen Business School
and Network for Organization studies in Norway (http://www.neonnet.no/index.html)
Chair of organizing committee for EGOS conference in Bergen 2006
Member of advisory board Tidsskrift for Samfunnsforskning
Publications:
2007: Dressing up the hospitals as enterprises? The expansion and managerialization of communication in Norwegian Hospitals”, in Kjær, P. & Slaatta, T., The Media-Embedded Firm, Copenhagen University Press (with Svein Ivar Angell)
2006: Byrkjeflot, Haldor. ”The Nordic Model of Economic Development and Management”, in John B. Kidd and Frank-Jürgen Richter (eds.) Development Models, Globalization and Economies A Search for the Holy Grail. Palgrave Macmillan
2003: ”Nordic Management: from Functional Socialism to Shareholder Value”, in Czarniawska, Barbara and Guje Sevón (eds). The Northern Lights: Organization theory in Scandinavia. LiberAbstrakt.
2002: "Management models and technical education systems: Germany and the United States 1870-1930", in Engwall,L. and Sahlin-Anderson K. (eds.) The Expansion of Management Knowledge: Carriers, Ideas and Sources. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
2002: Changing knowledge regimes: universities in a new research environment, in Higher Education 44:519-532, 2002 (with Ivar Bleiklie)
2001: The Democratic Challenge to Capitalism. Management and Democracy in the Nordic Countries Bergen: Fagbokforlaget/Copenhagen Business School Press 2001 (ed.)
