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Nils Gustav Magnus Brunsson Professor, City of Stockholm Chair in Public Management, Stockholm School of Economics. Professor and specialized in organizations. He holds the City of Stockholm Chair in Management at the Stockholm School of Economics since 1986. He has published more than 20 books and numerous articles on organizations. His research includes studies of decision-making, administrative reforms and standardization. He is now working with issues of rule-setting and regulation.

Education Theoretical philosophy, Gothenburg University Economics and Management, Gothenburg School of Economics

Academic Degrees M Sc (Ekonom examen), Gothenburg School of Economics, 1969 Ekon Dr, Gothenburg University, 1976 Docent, Gothenburg University, 1979 Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, 1990 -

Academic Positions Research assistant, Gothenburg School of Economics 1969 -1976 Assistant professor, Gothenburg University, 1976 -1979 Assistant professor, Uppsala University, 1979 -1980 Associate professor, Stockholm School of Economics, 1980 -1986 Head of Department of Public management, Stockholm School of Economics, 1982 - Professor, City of Stockholm Chair in Public Management, Stockholm School of Economics, 1986 - Chairman of the Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (Score) 1992 - Professor, European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM), 1997 -

Academic Commissions Board member of the Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (1988-97) Board member of the Research Committee 17 of the International Sociological Association (1988-95) Research fellow at the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (1989-1993) Board member of the Advisory Board of Carnegie Bosch Institute for Applied Studies in International Management (1990-93) Member of the Research Council of the National Agency for Education (1992-1994) Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ministry of Justice(1992 - 2000) Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Swedish Competition Authority (1993 - 2002)

Editorial Member of Scandinavian Journal of Management Accounting, Management & Information Technologies Accounting, Organizations and Society (-03) Financial Accountability & Management Organizational Learning Nordiske Organisasjonstudier

Guest scholar (from 2001 only) CNSR Centre de la Sociologie des Organisations, Paris, Oct 2001 - Jan 2002 Scancor, Stanford University, Oct 2004 - Jan 2005 Scancor, Stanford University Nov 2005 - Jan 2006 Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin, Oct - Nov 2006. Niklas Luhmann’s Gast Professur, Universität Bielefeld, April - June, 2007.

Prizes and awards Prize for best researcher in management 1987. (Swedish Association of Graduates in Business Administration and Economics).

The Dafolo Prize 1987

Teacher of the year, 1996. (Students’ Association of the Stockholm School of Economics).

The Swedish Research Council’s six year grant to excellent scholars, 2005.

Lectures (selection) Högtidsföreläsning vid Handelshögskolans promotion 1997.

The P D Leake Lectures in Accounting at London School of Economics and Oxford University, March 1999.

Copenhagen Business School, May 2005.

New Institutionalism in Organization Studies: The contributions of Nils Brunsson, 4 Lectures arranged by CIDE, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México, D.F., Mexico, November 2006.

Gothenburg lectures in Wisdom in the knowledge society, Göteborg, January 2007.

The Niklas Luhmann Lecture 2007, Universität Bielefeld, Germany, May 2007.


His publications include:

  • Meta-organizations,with Göran Ahrne 2008
  • The Consequences of Decision-Making, 2007
  • Mechanisms of Hope: Maintaining the Dream of the Rational Organization, 2006
  • A World of Standards, with Bengt Jacobsson, 2002
  • Organizing Organizations,with James G. March and Johan P. Olsen, 1998
  • The Reforming Organization, with Johan P. Olsen, 1993
  • The Organization of Hypocrisy: Talk, Decisions and Actions in Organizations, 1991
  • The Irrational Organization: Irrationality as a Basis for Organizational, 1985
  • Propensity to change: an empirical study of decisions on reorientations, 1976







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