Interrogé par l’auteur de ce chapitre sur ses apports au management public, Nils Brunsson répond qu’il ne se voit pas comme un auteur en management public, mais comme un théoricien des organisations, la notion d’organisation permettant précisément de dépasser l’opposition, qui n’existe pas vraiment pour lui, entre management privé et management public.Quand on analyse l’abondante production intellectuelle de Nils Brunsson, trois thèmes ayant donné naissance chacun à un livre fondat...

Originally published in 1993. Organizations have become larger, more professionalized, more differentiated, and wealthier. At the same time, they are often subject to large-scale changes: either as a result of mergers and acquisitions, or simply in response to changed market conditions or new technologies. In this climate the people who run organizations frequently find themselves acting as "reformers". The central concern of this study is to analyze the reforming process within organizati...

Organizing and Reorganizing Markets brings organization theory to the study of markets. The difference between markets and organizations is often exaggerated. Organizing exists in addition to other processes and phenomena that form markets: the mutual adaption among sellers and buyers as described in mainstream economics, and the institutions described in institutional economics and economic sociology. Market organization can be analysed with the same type of theories used for ana...

Decision-making is an activity in which everyone is engaged on a more or less daily basis. In this book, Karin Brunsson and Nils Brunsson explore the intricacies of decision-making for individuals and organizations. When, how and why do they make decisions?The authors identify four distinct ways of reasoning that decision-makers use. The consequences of decisions vary: some promote action, others impede it, and some produce more responsibility than others. With in-depth discussions...

Le devenir des organisations ne dépend pas de ce qu’elles pensent, mais de ce qu’elles font. Les préserver de ce qui peut empêcher l’action est donc vital. La contribution de Nils Brunsson au management des organisations peut s’interpréter comme un ensemble de variations autour de ce thème qui constitue donc le fil directeur du présent texte. La première variation traite de la norme de rationalité. La doxa en fait une référence obligée, mais parce qu’il mine tout à la fois les att...

The book explores how various social settings are partially organized even when they do not form part of a formal organization. It also shows how even formal organizations may be only partially organized. Professors Göran Ahrne and Nils Brunsson first established the concept of partial organization in 2011 and in doing so opened up a ground-breaking new field of organizational analysis. An academic community has since developed around the concept, and Ahrne and Brunsson have edited this co...

Meta-organizations – organizations with other organizations as members – are everywhere. They exert significant influence over markets, public policies and their own members.In this insightful book, the authors argue that the contemporary world cannot be fully understood without understanding how meta-organizations function. They explain why meta-organizations are established, what they do and how they achieve their societal impact. Chapters describe and analyse meta-organizations ...

One of the predominant trends of modern society is the pervasive presence of competition. No longer just a function of economic markets or democratic systems, competition has become a favoured tool for governing people and organizations, from the provision of schooling and elder care to the way we consume popular culture. Yet social scientists have played a surprisingly modest role in analysing its implications, as the discussion of competition has largely been confined to its narrow econo...