About
I am an associate professor in public policy and administration at Oslomet Business School. I have a PhD in political science from the University of Tromsø (2004).
My research interests relate to organizational studies in general, with public organizations as the main empirical area of investigation. My research is about understanding how public organizations relate to their environment and respond to different forms of pressure. The data comes from hospitals, independent state agencies and regulatory bodies, universities, but also to some extent from the private and non-profit sector.
The issues I am concerned with are about how reputations are managed and how organizations go about building themselves up as strong brands; how organizational identity and values are expressed and change over time, as well as how management concepts are diffused and translated. Theoretically speaking, I build largely on new institutional theory, especially the Scandinavian institutional school.
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Publications and research
Scientific publications
Wæraas, Arild; Nielsen, Jeppe Agger (2023). Translating management ideas: Imitation modes and translation outcomes. Scandinavian Journal of Management . Vol. 39.
Wæraas, Arild; Sataøen, Hogne Lerøy (2023). Different strokes for different folks? The translation of public values into official meanings. International Review of Administrative Sciences .
Espedal, Gry; Løvaas, Beate Jelstad; Sirris, Stephen; Wæraas, Arild
(2022).
Researching Values in Organisations and Leadership.
Espedal, Gry; Løvaas, Beate Jelstad; Sirris, Stephen; Wæraas, Arild (Ed.).
Researching Values. Methodological Approaches for Understanding Values Work in Organizations and Leadership. Chapter 1. p. 1-12.
Palgrave Macmillan.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2992142
Wæraas, Arild
(2022).
Thematic analysis: Making values emerge from texts.
Espedal, Gry; Løvaas, Beate Jelstad; Sirris, Stephen; Wæraas, Arild (Ed.).
Researching Values. Methodological Approaches for Understanding Values Work in Organizations and Leadership. Chapter 9. p. 153-170.
Palgrave Macmillan.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2991374
Espedal, Gry; Løvaas, Beate Jelstad; Sirris, Stephen; Wæraas, Arild
(2022).
Researching Values. Methodological Approaches for Understanding Values Work in Organizations and Leadership.
ISBN: 978-3-030-90769-3.
284 p.
Palgrave Macmillan.
https://www.springerprofessional.de/en/researching...
Rudolf, Wawrzyniec; Wæraas, Arild (2021). Municipal Branding and Social Media: Comparing Poland, Norway, and Ukraine. Zavattaro, Staci (Ed.). Public Branding and Marketing. A Global Viewpoint. Chapter. p. 79-115. Springer Nature.
Dahle, Dag Yngve; Wæraas, Arild (2020). Silence from the brands: message control, brand ambassadorship, and the public interest. International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior . Vol. 23.
Wæraas, Arild (2020). Understanding change in circulating constructs: collective learning, translation and adaptation. Learning Organization .
Wæraas, Arild
(2020).
They Put Themselves Out There: A Longitudinal Study of Organizational Expressiveness.
Corporate Reputation Review
.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2831875
Wæraas, Arild (2020). Organizational Identity and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Legitimation. Rendtorff, Jacob Dahl (Ed.). Handbook of Business Legitimacy. Responsibility, Ethics and Society. Organizational Identity, HRM, Employee Motivation, and Business Legitimacy. p. 1059-1078. Springer.
