Maria Blomgren
Professor at Department of Business Studies
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 13 92
- E-mail:
- Maria.Blomgren@fek.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, ingång C
751 20 UPPSALA - Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA
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- Academic merits:
- PhD, Docent
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Short presentation
Maria Blomgren (PhD) is a Professor at the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University.
Biography
My research can broadly be summarized in four areas: Control, monitoring and management; Professionals in institutional change; Strategic communication and Competition and organizational identity. I have a general interest in questions of control and organization, and have aimed at increasing our understanding of the fundamental changes in public sector organizations during the last decades. Various financial and managerial models and techniques – often referred to as New Public Management – have been introduced in areas that previously were controlled and organized in other ways. What kind of consequences this has had for organizations, professional groups and managers in the healthcare and school sectors, has been in focus of my research for many years. I have investigated such things as the ambition to make medical quality indicators open to the public; what changes in control and management has meant for the work and conditions of various professions; what kind of norms and ideals that have been promoted and challenged; and how this has formed and re-formed organizations in the fields of healthcare and education. My ambition has been to critically investigate, problematize and understand what a widespread adoption of new financial and management models and mindsets has meant in our time.
Publications
Recent publications
- An ecology of ideas permeating science, higher education, and society (2024)
- The Three Loci of Organizational Identity Work (2022)
- Att leda i en komplex organisation – Utmaningar och nya perspektiv för chefer i offentlig verksamhet (2019)
- Att styra professionella organisationer med konkurrens (2019)
- Institutional Maintenance Work as a Response to the Introduction of Inspections in Swedish Schools 2003-2008 (2019)
All publications
Articles
- The Three Loci of Organizational Identity Work (2022)
- Att leda i en komplex organisation – Utmaningar och nya perspektiv för chefer i offentlig verksamhet (2019)
- Att styra professionella organisationer med konkurrens (2019)
- Institutional Maintenance Work as a Response to the Introduction of Inspections in Swedish Schools 2003-2008 (2019)
- Rationalizing Science (2018)
- När sjukvård ska kommuniceras (2017)
- The Impact of Institutional Pluralism on Governmental Reforms in the Public Sector (2017)
- Being Special in an Ordinary Way: Swedish Hospitals’ Strategic Web Communication (2016)
- Coping with contraditions (2015)
- Öppna jämförelser inom hälso- och sjukvården (2011)
- Recension av Christensen, Tom (red.), Organization theory and the public sector : instrument, culture and myth, Routledge, London, 2007 (2008)
- Constructing a European healthcare market (2008)
- The drive for transparency (2007)
- Ordering a Profession: Swedish Nurses Encounter New Public Management Reforms (2003)
- Att leda vård och omsorgsarbete (2000)
Books
- An ecology of ideas permeating science, higher education, and society (2024)
- Att styra organisationer med konkurrens (2018)
- Mellan offentligt och privat (2009)
- Ledning på distans (2004)
- Pengarna eller livet? (1999)
Chapters
- Profession och politiska reformer (2015)
- Profession och politiska reformer (2015)
- Struggles behind the scenes (2014)
- Mellan offentligt och privat i hälso- och sjukvården (2009)
- Fallet Capio (2009)
- Lärarna och utbildningsinspektionen (2009)
- Mot en fragmenterad vård (2009)
- Fältet för strävan efter transparens (2006)
- Quest for transparency (2006)
- Att leda på distans i landstinget (2003)
- Omvårdnad och ekonomi: sjuksköterskeprofessionen i mötet med de nya styrmodellerna (1999)
- Resultatansvarets betydelse för sjuksköterskornas professionalisering (1999)
- To Care or Not to Care? Swedish Nurses Meet New Economic Models (1999)
Conferences
- Being special in an ordinary way (2013)
- Being special in an ordinary way - Swedish Hospitals' Strategic Web-Communication (2013)
- Professions and political reforms (2013)
- Coping with contradictions (2012)
- The Politics of Organizing in a Post-Bureaucratic Era (2010)
- Being special in an ordinary way: Swedish healthcare units' strategic web communication. (2009)
- Changing Institutional Conditions for Swedish Schools (2007)
- Quests for transparency (2006)
- Constructing a European health care market (2006)
- Constructing a European health care market (2006)
- Quests for transparency (2004)
- Ordering a Profession (2001)
- Leda landsting (2001)
- Ledning på distans (2001)
- Managing at a distance (2000)
- Swedish Nurses Encounter New Public Management Reforms (1999)
- Resultatansvar och sjuksköterskornas professionalisering: (1998)
- To Care or Not to Care? (1998)
- Meeting or Colliding? (1998)