About
I am a professor of 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 build 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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Scientific publications
Wæraas, Arild
; Sirris, Stephen; Hellevik, Øystein
(2024).
The Added Value of Civil Society Organizations in the Provision of Welfare State Services.
VOLUNTAS - International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-024-00639-6
Dahle, Dag Yngve;
Wæraas, Arild
(2023).
Ticket to rate: antecedents to turnover intention among teachers.
International Journal of Leadership in Education.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13603124.2023.2218107
Wæraas, Arild
; Nielsen, Jeppe Agger
(2023).
Translating management ideas: Imitation modes and translation outcomes.
Scandinavian Journal of Management.
Vol. 39.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scaman.2023.101262
Wæraas, Arild
; Sataøen, Hogne Lerøy
(2023).
Different strokes for different folks? The translation of public values into official meanings.
International Review of Administrative Sciences.
https://doi.org/10.1177/00208523231155756
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
. p. 1-12.
Palgrave Macmillan.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90769-3_1
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
. p. 153-170.
Palgrave Macmillan.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90769-3_9
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. p. 79-115.
Springer Nature.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70505-3_6
Wæraas, Arild
(2020).
Organizational Identity and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Legitimation.
Rendtorff, Jacob Dahl (Ed.).
Handbook of Business Legitimacy. Responsibility, Ethics and Society. p. 1059-1078.
Springer.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14622-1_78
Wæraas, Arild (2020). Public Sector Communication and Organizational Legitimacy. Luoma-aho, Vilma; Canel, Maria José (Ed.). Wiley Handbook of Public Sector Communication. p. 45-58. Wiley-Blackwell.
