Stefan Arora-Jonsson

Professor Professor in Business with a specialisation in Organisation 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

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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
organisationresearchgroup

Biography

Stefan Arora-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 Arora-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

All publications

Articles in journal

Articles, review/survey

Undeserved Loss: The Spread of Legitimacy Loss to Innocent Organizations in Response to Reported Corporate Deviance

Jonsson, Stefan; Greve, Henrich R.; Fujiwara-Greve, Takako

Part of Administrative Science Quarterly, p. 195-228, 2009
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Normative Barriers to Imitation: Social Complexity of Core Competences in a Mutual Fund Industry

Jonsson, Stefan; Regner, Patrick

Part of Strategic Management Journal, p. 517-536, 2009
- DOI for Normative Barriers to Imitation: Social Complexity of Core Competences in a Mutual Fund Industry

Books

Att styra organisationer med konkurrens

Arora-Jonsson, Stefan; Blomgren, Maria; Forssell, Anders; Waks, Caroline

Studentlitteratur AB, 2018

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