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 earlier 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
- skolan
- organisation
- offentlig sektor
- konkurrens
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.

Publications
Recent publications
Beyond the silver bullet: unveiling multiple pathways to school turnaround
Part of School Effectiveness and School Improvement, p. 214-249, 2024
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Teaching schools to compete: the case of Swedish upper secondary education
Part of Socio-Economic Review, p. 1451-1476, 2024
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Losing Their Religion: Organizational Identity Hybridization of British Political Parties 1950–2015
Part of Journal of Management, 2024
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The Construction of Competition in Public Research Funding Systems
Part of Handbook of Public Funding of Research, p. 172-184, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023
Storföretagens tysta motstånd mot förändring
Part of Organisation & Samhälle, 2023
All publications
Articles in journal
Beyond the silver bullet: unveiling multiple pathways to school turnaround
Part of School Effectiveness and School Improvement, p. 214-249, 2024
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Teaching schools to compete: the case of Swedish upper secondary education
Part of Socio-Economic Review, p. 1451-1476, 2024
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Losing Their Religion: Organizational Identity Hybridization of British Political Parties 1950–2015
Part of Journal of Management, 2024
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Storföretagens tysta motstånd mot förändring
Part of Organisation & Samhälle, 2023
Slander, Shouts, and Silence: Incumbent Resistance to Disruptive Logics
Part of Organization Theory, p. 1-21, 2022
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The Three Loci of Organizational Identity Work: Prospective, Current and Former Members
Part of Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, 2022
Where Does Competition Come From?: The role of organization
Part of Organization Theory, p. 1-24, 2020
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Part of Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, p. 21201-21208, 2020
- DOI for Explaining the homogeneous diffusion of COVID-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions across heterogeneous countries
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Part of Organisation & Samhälle, p. 22-28, 2019
Organizing a Competitive Logic in the Swedish School Market
Part of Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019
Asymmetry of Customer Loss and Recovery under Endogenous Partnerships: Theory and Evidence
Part of International Economic Review, p. 3-30, 2016
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Part of Organization science (Providence, R.I.), p. 106-122, 2016
The Limits of Media Effects: Field Positions and Cultural Change in a Mutual Fund Market
Part of Organization science (Providence, R.I.), p. 464-481, 2011
Ubiquity and Legitimacy: Disentangling Diffusion and Institutionalization
Part of Sociological theory, p. 27-53, 2011
Refraining from Imitation: Professional Resistance and Limited Diffusion in a Financial Market
Part of Organization science (Providence, R.I.), p. 172-186, 2009
Lika barn syndar mest: företagsskandaler i media och dess effekter
Part of Tvärsnitt, 2009
Articles, review/survey
Part of Administrative Science Quarterly, p. 195-228, 2009
Normative Barriers to Imitation: Social Complexity of Core Competences in a Mutual Fund Industry
Part of Strategic Management Journal, p. 517-536, 2009
Books
Att styra organisationer med konkurrens
Studentlitteratur AB, 2018
Chapters in book
The Construction of Competition in Public Research Funding Systems
Part of Handbook of Public Funding of Research, p. 172-184, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023
A new understanding of competition
Part of Competition, p. 1-25, Oxford University Press, 2021
Competition unbundled: taking stock and looking forward
Part of Competition, p. 221-236, Oxford University Press, 2021
Convincing others that they are competing: the case of schools
Part of Competition, p. 77-92, Oxford University Press, 2021
The Origins of Competition: institution and organization
Part of Competition, p. 61-76, Oxford University Press, 2021
Resituating Corporate Governance
Part of Corporate Governance in Action, p. 1-24, Routledge, 2018
Part of Corporate Governance in Action, p. 163-183, Routledge, 2018
A Field Approach to Corporate Governance
Part of Corporate Governance in Action, p. 25-41, Routledge, 2018
Part of Corporate Governance in Action, p. 185-198, Routledge, 2018
Isomorphism, diffusion and decoupling: Concept evolution and theoretical challenges.
Part of The SAGE handbook of organizational institutionalism, p. 77-102, Sage Publications, 2017
The Meaning Of Economic Democracy: Institutional Logics, Parabiosis, And The Construction Of Frames
Part of How Institutions Matter!, p. 71-99, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2017
Media and Organizations: Images, Practices and Organizing
Part of Organizations and the Media, p. 1-14, Routledge, 2014
Part of Organizations and the Media, Routledge, 2014
Isomorphism, Diffusion and Decoupling
Part of The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism, p. 78-98, SAGE Publications, 2008
Collections (editor)
Conference papers
Singulare Tantum: Product Valorization in the Emergence of Oppositional Identities
Part of Academy of Management Proceedings, 2023
Language Use to Foster the Acceptance of Organizational Identity Change
Part of Academy of Management Proceedings, 2023
Manuscripts (preprints)
Reports
2021