Works
- The Reforming Organization, Routledge, London (subtitle in the Routledge Library Editions reissue: Making Sense of Administrative Change; Swedish predecessor: Makten att reformera, Carlsson, Stockholm, 1990, with Olsen and others), 1993
- Constructing organizations: the example of public sector reform, Organization Studies 21(4), 721 to 746, 2000
- Meta-organizations, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2008
In Organizational Structures
Known for
Scandinavian institutionalism
Ideas
Meta-organization (with Ahrne). With Ahrne, argued that organizations whose members are organizations differ from organizations of individuals. Caveat: Conceptual.
Constructing organizations (with Sahlin-Andersson). Read public-sector reform as turning agents and arenas into more complete organizations by installing identity, hierarchy, and rationality. Caveat: An interpretive argument.
Reform as routine (with Olsen). Studied reform, defined as deliberately changing an organization's structure, through case studies in several sectors. Caveat: Known only from the publisher's description and the table of contents.
In this section, “read” means read by the Organizational Structures series: where a line says a work, or part of one, was not read, the series did not read it.