Stefan Arora-Jonsson
Professor at Department of Business Studies; Professors, teachers, researchers
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 39 59
- E-mail:
- stefan.jonsson@fek.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, ingång C
751 20 UPPSALA - Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA
- Academic merits:
- PhD, Docent
- CV:
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Short presentation
Stefan Arora-Jonsson (published as Stefan Jonsson) studies the organization of society. Examples of questions include the organization of competition, how competition influences the organization of schools, identity competition among political parties , and if corporate scandals can contaminate innocent organizations.
See also interview (in Swedish): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2uG5_whsEA
Keywords
- konkurrens
- offentlig sektor
- organisation
- skolan
Biography
Stefan Jonsson received his PhD from the Stockholm School of Economics in 2003, and served as the coucellor of science and technology at the Embassy of Sweden in New Delhi, India, from 2007 to 2010. Since 2011, Stefan is professor at the department of business studies at Uppsala university.
Stefan was, during the period 2012-2017, a member of the Young Swedish Academy (http://www.sverigesungaakademi.se/236_en.html)
A complete list of publications is found at http://scholar.google.se/citations?user=Qigi9OYAAAAJ&hl=sv
Research
Stefan Jonsson researches issues of competition and organization. Previous research has dealt with the role of informal norms in the formation of financial markets, and how bad reputation can spread to the innocent organizations. Currently, his research is focused on the effects of competition in organizations, especially in the Swedish school system.
Media
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Publications
Recent publications
- Beyond the silver bullet (2024)
- Teaching schools to compete (2024)
- Losing Their Religion (2024)
- The Construction of Competition in Public Research Funding Systems (2023)
- Storföretagens tysta motstånd mot förändring (2023)
All publications
Articles
- Beyond the silver bullet (2024)
- Teaching schools to compete (2024)
- Losing Their Religion (2024)
- Storföretagens tysta motstånd mot förändring (2023)
- The Three Loci of Organizational Identity Work (2022)
- Slander, Shouts, and Silence (2022)
- Where Does Competition Come From? (2020)
- Explaining the homogeneous diffusion of COVID-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions across heterogeneous countries (2020)
- Organizing a Competitive Logic in the Swedish School Market (2019)
- Konkurrens som organisation (2019)
- Asymmetry of Customer Loss and Recovery under Endogenous Partnerships (2016)
- The Travails of Identity Change: Competitor Claims and Distinctiveness of British Political Parties, 1970-1992 (2016)
- Ubiquity and Legitimacy (2011)
- The Limits of Media Effects (2011)
- Lika barn syndar mest (2009)
- Refraining from Imitation (2009)
- Undeserved Loss (2009)
- Normative Barriers to Imitation (2009)
Books
- Competition (2021)
- Att styra organisationer med konkurrens (2018)
- Organizations and the Media (2014)
Chapters
- The Construction of Competition in Public Research Funding Systems (2023)
- The Origins of Competition (2021)
- A new understanding of competition (2021)
- Competition unbundled (2021)
- Convincing others that they are competing (2021)
- Governance Relations (2018)
- Conclusions (2018)
- A Field Approach to Corporate Governance (2018)
- Resituating Corporate Governance (2018)
- The Meaning Of Economic Democracy (2017)
- Isomorphism, diffusion and decoupling (2017)
- Fleeting Fleet Street (2014)
- Media and Organizations (2014)
- Isomorphism, Diffusion and Decoupling (2008)
Conferences
- Language Use to Foster the Acceptance of Organizational Identity Change (2023)
- Singulare Tantum (2023)