Haldor Byrkjeflot

Dr.Polit. 1999

Project manager

Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies
Department of Administration and Organization Theory, University of Bergen
Board member Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research - SCANCOR

Research experience: 
Management and leadership, technology and human resources in service organizations. Comparative research in management, knowledge and authority. Health politics, management and organization in health care

1. Partner in EU- program KnowAndPol
    
2. Project manager for LIHCOM - ”Legitimacy, identity, hierarchy: Strategic communication in the hospital sector”
    
3. Project manager of Egos 2006 and Network for Organizational Research in Norway (NEON)
    
4. Project manager of the research group "Autonomy, Transparency and Management; reform dynamics in healthcare" and the Polis research network  
    
5. Initiator and participant of the EU project "Creation of European Management Practices" 1999-2001.
   
   
6. Project manager in the “Industrial management and social development in the Nordic Countries 1996-1999”, and National coordinator of “The rise of the Nordic Business Press” 2000-2005, funded by the Nordic Council for Social Research 
   
   
7. Leader of the National project group for a research program directed by CERI/OECD-: "New Technologies and Human Resources in the Service Sector" (1989-1990). 

Selected publications: 

• 1991: Technological Change and Human Resources in the Norwegian Service Sector TMVs skriftsserie 2 
• 1996. "The logic of employment systems" in Baron, James, David Grusky, Donald Treiman (1996): Social Differentiation and Stratification. Boulder, CO: Westview Press p. 11 – 37 (with Neil Fligstein)
• 1997: Fra Styring til Ledelse (From government to management) editor Bergen: Fagbokforlaget. 
• 1998. “Management as a system of Knowledge and Authority” in Alvarez, Jose L. (red.) The Production and Diffusion of Business Knowledge in Europe. London: Macmillan (pp. 58-80). 
• 1999 "Modernisering og ledelse - om samfunnsmessige betingelser for demokratisk lederskap", avhandling for dr.polit.-graden. LOS- senter Rapport 9905. (Modernization and management, Ph.d. dissertation in Administration and Organization Theory) 
• “The Nordic Model of Democracy and Management” in Byrkjeflot H., Myklebust S., Myrvang C. and Sejersted, F. (eds). The Democratic Challenge to Capitalism. Management and Democracy in the Nordic Countries Bergen: Fagbokforlaget/ Copenhagen Business School Press 2001
• 2000. Byrkjeflot, Haldor: ”Fortolkningen av Webers byråkratiske idealtype i organisasjonsteorien”, i Nordiske Organisasjonsstudier 2000 2(2):5-28 
• 2001. Byrkjeflot, Haldor: What kind of knowledge society? The prospects for democratic governance of knowledge
• 2001. Byrkjeflot, Haldor: E-learning alliances. The new partnerships in business education
• 2001. Byrkjeflot, Haldor: Management Education and Selection of top Managers in Europe and the United States
• 2002. Changing knowledge regimes: universities in a new research environment, in Higher Education 44:519-532, 2002 (with Ivar Bleiklie)
• 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. ”Ledelse på norsk - motstridende tradisjoner og idealer” i Skogstad, Anders & Ståle Einarsen. 2002. Ledelse på Godt og Vondt. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget.
• 2003: ”To MBA or not to MBA. A dilemma accentuated by the recent boom in European business education” in Amdam,R.P, Larsen, E. & Kvålshaugen, R. (Eds.) Inside the Business School. Liber/Abstrakt.
• 2003: Vitalitet gjennom frivillighet. Helse- og samfunnsmessige effekter av prosjekter finansiert fra Helse og Rehabilitering. (med Oddvar Skjæveland og Frode Thuen)
• 2003: ”Nordic Management: from Functional Socialism to Shareholder Value”, in Czarniawska, Barbara and Guje Sevón (eds). The Northern Lights: Organization theory in Scandinavia. LiberAbstrakt. 
• 2004: Byrkjeflot, Haldor og Simon Neby (2004) «The Decentralized Path Challenged? Nordic Health Care Reforms in Comparison». Bergen, Rokkansenteret. Working paper 2-2004. Pdf »
• 2005: Byrkjeflot, Haldor og Simon Neby "Norge i Norden: Fra etternøler til pioner i reformeringen av sykehussektoren?; i Opedal, Ståle og Inger Stigen (red.) Helse-Norge i støpeskjeen - søkelys på sykehusreformen. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget
• 2005: Byrkjeflot, Haldor og Tore Grønlie "Det regionale helseforetaket - mellom velferdslokalisme og sentralstatlig styring"; i Opedal, Ståle og Inger Stigen (red.) Helse-Norge i støpeskjeen - søkelys på sykehusreformen. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget
• 2005: Ledelse og organisering i helsevesenet; endring og kontinuitet i Nordiske Organisasjonsstudier NR 2/2005 Tema: "Ledelse og organisering i helsevesenet"; Haldor Byrkjeflot og Peter Kragh Jespersen
• 2005: Byrkjeflot, Haldor. "The rise of a Healthcare state? Recent Healthcare Reforms in Norway." Bergen, Rokkansenteret. Working paper 15- 2005.
• 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
• 2007:Byrkjeflot, Haldor and Svein Ivar Angell. 2007. Dressing up hospitals as enterprises? The expansion and managerialization of communication in Norwegian Hospitals, in Kjær, P. & Slaatta, T., Mediating Business, The expansion of business journalism Copenhagen Business School Press
  
  2008: Haldor Byrkjeflot og Svein Ivar Angell: Forvaltning i foretaksklær. Omdømmehåndtering i norske sykehus etter sykehusreformen. Nordiske Organisasjonsstudier, 3/2008, s. 71-92.
  
  2008: Haldor Byrkjeflot og Simon Neby: The End of the Decentralized Model of Healthcare Governance? Comparing Developments in the Scandinavian Hospital Sectors. Journal of Health Organization and Management. 22/4, s. 331-349.
  
  2008: Haldor Byrkjeflot:  Ledelse i politisk styrte virksomheter, forskningsstatus og problemstillinger. Rapport til Kommunenes Sentralforbund April 2008.
  
   

   

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