Current positions:
Professor at department of Sociology and Human Geography at University of Oslo
Bakground:
Adjunct professor at Department of Management, Philosophy and Politics at Copenhagen Business School
Academic director UiO:Nordic, strategic research initiative at University of Oslo 2015- 2019
Chair of board of ReNEW 2017-2018, Board member SCANCOR 2008-2016
Senior Researcher and director of Research at Stein Rokkan Center of mulitidisciplinary Research as well as the Norwegian Center of Leadership, Organization, Governance
Dr.Polit/Phd and Postdoctor at University of Bergen
Graduate studies at University of Caifornia, Berkeley
Has been visiting scholar at University of Berkeley, Stanford and Harvard as well as Freie Universität, Berlin, Max Planck institit, Cologne and CBS, Copenhagen
Presentation:
Haldor Byrkjeflot is professor in Sociology at department of Sociology and Human Geography at University of Oslo and associated with the Center for Civil Center studies at Copenhagen Business School. From 2015 to 2019 Byrkjeflot was academic director of one of the three major strategic priority areas at University of Oslo; UiO Nordic and also from 2018 to 2019 chair of the board of ReNEW, a strategic research cooperation among Nordic universities doing research on the Nordic models. Currently he is exploring issues related to historical-comparative research, organization theory, associational governance, and the making and circulation of ideas across societies. His publications cover a broad specter of social scientific problems such as logics of employment systems, the globalization of the MBA, knowledge regimes, comparative healthcare and public sector reforms as well as management systems and bureaucracy. Among his publications are: Bureaucracy and Society in Transition: Comparative Perspectives (edited volume) “Paradoxes of reputation management in public organizations”, “The decentralized path challenged? Nordic healthcare reforms in comparison”, “Nordic management: from functional socialism to shareholder value” as well as: The Democratic Challenge to Capitalism. Management and Democracy in the Nordic Countries (edited volume)
Interests
Nordic and other models, Historical-comparative studies, Organization theory, leadership, democracy and politics, health politics and health management
Teaching
SOS2603, OLA4001, SOS2200. SOS4200