News archive for Department of Administration and Organization Theory

Jamil and Askvik edits Special Issue (19.07.2016)

Ishtiaq Jamil and Steinar Askvik are editors of a special issue of International Journal of Public Administration. The issue called "Institutional trust in developing and transitional countries" has a focus on trust in public institutions, and the issue shows the various conditions for trust in public institutions in a selection of developing and transitioning countries.

Speach-acting and social innovation (07.07.2016)

Thorvald Gran and Nadia von Jacobi has published an article in The European Journal of Social Science. The article is called "How and when does speech-acting generate social innovations", and it critically evaluates the constitutive power of language in matters of social innovation and organization in a "speech-act" theoretical framework.