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Employee Profile

Anne Welle-Strand

Professor emerita - Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour

Biography

Anne Welle-Strand is Professor in the Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour at BI Norwegian Business School. She holds a PhD degree from the University of Stockholm (1996) and an Advanced Degree in Education from the University of Oslo (1993).

Since 2007 Welle-Strand holds an endowed professorship in Development Studies and Microfinance and was Director of the former Center for Development Studies and Microfinance (MICRO) at BI. Previous positions include research positions at the University of Oslo and visiting scholarships at Stanford University, Xiamen University, Hong Kong University, Western Cape University, and Zimbabwe University. She was also an educational advisor for the UNESCO/NORAD on behalf of the Norwegian National Commission.

Research areas
Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction
Evaluation
Project Management
Education and Development, Education Management, Educational Leadership, School Management;
Comparative and International Education, Higher Education, Education Policies

Teaching areas
Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction
Education Management
Project Management.

Publications

Welle-Strand, Anne & Vlaicu, Monica (2013)

Business and State Balancing International Development Agendas - The Case of Norwegian CSR

Journal of Politics and Law, 6(3), s. 103- 117. Doi: 10.5539/jpl.v6n3p103

Welle-Strand, Anne; Vlaicu, Monica & Tjeldvoll, Arild (2013)

Vietnam - A New Economic Dragon in Southeast Asia?

Journal of Developing Societies, 29(2), s. 155- 187. Doi: 10.1177/0169796X13479705

Welle-Strand, Anne; Ball, Graeme, Hval, Mariann Viksaas & Vlaicu, Monica (2012)

Electrifying solutions: Can power sector aid boost economic growth and development?

Energy for Sustainable Development, 16(1), s. 26- 34. Doi: 10.1016/j.esd.2011.11.001

Welle-Strand, Anne; Chen, Pei-Fen & Ball, Graeme (2011)

The Taiwanese Economic "Miracle": Continuing?

East Asia, 28, s. 329- 350. Doi: 10.1007/s12140-011-9151-2

Welle-Strand, Anne; Kjøllesdal, Kristian & Sitter, Nick (2010)

Assessing Microfinance: The Bosnia and Herzegovina Case

Managing Global Transitions, 8(2), s. 145- 166.

Kjøllesdal, Kristian & Welle-Strand, Anne (2010)

Foreign Aid Strategies: China Taking Over?

Asian Social Science, 6(10), s. 3- 13.

Tjeldvoll, Arild & Welle-Strand, Anne (2009)

A Report on the HEAD-Ache in Norway

European Education : Issues and Studies, 41(3), s. 60- 73.

Welle-Strand, Anne & Molden, Lars (2007)

Mikrofinans med makroutfordringer

Magma forskning og viten, 10(4), s. 30- 35.

Welle-Strand, Anne & Tjeldvoll, Arild (2006)

School Management Training in the Education Value Chain: Framework for a comparison of school leader training in five countries

We.liu Lin, Profesionalization of the Principalship: International and Taiwanese perspectives

Tiplic, Dijana & Welle-Strand, Anne (2006)

Bosnia-Herzegovina's Higher Education System: Issues of Governance and Quality

European Education : Issues and Studies, 38(1), s. 16- 30.

Bento, Fabio; Welle-Strand, Anne & Tjeldvoll, Arild (2005)

The complex relations between university, society and state: The Ethiopian Predicament in Establishing a Service University.

Journal of Higher Education in Africa, 3(1), s. 51- 75.

Welle-Strand, Anne & Tjeldvoll, Arild (2005)

School Management Training in the Education Value Chain: framework for a comparison of school leader training in five countries

Wen-liu Lin (ed), Professionalization of the Principalship: International and Taiwanese perspectives

Welle-Strand, Anne; Tjeldvoll, Arild & Bento, F. (2005)

The Complex Relations between University, Society and State: The Ethiopian Predicament in Establishing a Service Unviersity

Journal of Higher Education in Africa, 3(1)

Thune, Taran & Welle-Strand, Anne (2005)

ICT for and in internationalization processes: A business school case study

Higher Education, 50, s. 593- 611.

Tjeldvoll, Arild; Wales, Christopher & Welle-Strand, Anne (2005)

School Leadership Training under Globalisation: Comparisons of the UK, the US and Norway

Managing Global Transitions, 3(1), s. 23- 50.

Welle-Strand, Anne (2003)

Norwegian Development Aid to Education. How is Evaluation Used to Improve?

?, 16(11), s. 72- 84.

Welle-Strand, Anne & Tjeldvoll, Arild (2003)

Creativity, Curricula and Paradigms

Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 47, s. 359- 372.

Welle-Strand, Anne & Thune, Taran (2003)

E-learning policies, practices and challenges in two Norwegian organizations

Evaluation and Program Planning, 26, s. 185- 192.

Welle-Strand, Anne & Tjeldvoll, Arild (2002)

The Norwegian unified school – A paradise lost

?, 17(6)

Thune, Taran & Welle-Strand, Anne (2002)

Reorganising resources for independent learning

The New Review of Libraries and Lifelong Learning, 2, s. 135- 151.

Thune, Taran & Welle-Strand, Anne (2002)

The Ambiguous Quality Agenda in Norwegian Higher Education Policies

?, 34(2), s. 74- 92.

Welle-Strand, Anne (2002)

Continuing Higher Education in the Service University

?, 34(1), s. 70- 87.

Thune, Taran & Welle-Strand, Anne (2001)

Reorganising resources for independent learning: libraries becoming Learning Resource Centres

The New Review of Libraries and Lifelong Learning, 2

Welle-Strand, Anne; Tjeldvoll, Arild & Thune, Taran (2001)

Current main issues of Norwegian Education Debate

Issues and Problems of Contemporary European Education/E. Beauchamp (ed.)

Welle-Strand, Anne & Gottschalk, Petter (2001)

Service and quality of higher education in Norway

Læring gjennom økonomi, system og prosjekt : festskrift til Erling S.Andersen/ Welle-Strand, A. og Gottschalk, P. (red)

Gottschalk, Petter; Solli-Sæther, Hans & Welle-Strand, Anne (2001)

Integration between business planning and information systems planning : an analysis of the role of IS/IT in three different configurations

Læring gjennom økonomi, system og prosjekt : festskrift til Erling S.Andersen

Welle-Strand, Anne (2000)

Utdanningsledelse i en e-læringstid

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Welle-Strand, Anne (2000)

Evaluation as Organizational Learning in Norwegian Development Aid

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Welle-Strand, Anne (2000)

Knowledge Production, Service and Quality. Higher Education Tensions in Norway

Quality in Higher Education, 6(3)

Welle-Strand, Anne (1999)

The Quality of Knowledge Production in Higher Education -The Norwegian Scene

Higher Education at the Crossroads – Tradition or Transformation

Welle-Strand, Anne (2014)

Bistandens blå kameler og hvite elefanter

NRK Ytring [Kronikk]

Vi fortsetter å gi milliarder til bistand, uten å kontrollere resultatene. Når skal regjeringen slutte å svelge kameler og begynne å se på bistandens resultater?

Welle-Strand, Anne (2013)

Egeninteresser ødelegger bistanden

Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.) [Kronikk]

Welle-Strand, Anne (2013)

Den gode viljen

NRK [TV]

Welle-Strand, Anne (2013)

Den gode viljen. 5:5

NRK [TV]

Norsk dokumentarserie. I 2013 øker det norske bistandsbudsjettet med 2,4 milliarder kroner. I løpet av de siste åtte årene er bistandsbudsjettet doblet. I 60 år har norsk bistand feilet, lagt om kursen, feilet igjen og lagt om kursen igjen. Er det på tide å gi seg?

Welle-Strand, Anne & Toje, Asle (2009)

Kan vi vente 30 år på Norad?

Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.) [Kronikk]

Welle-Strand, Anne & Toje, Asle (2009)

Mugabes rike onkel

Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.) [Kronikk]

Welle-Strand, Anne & Toje, Asle (2008)

Synsing som forskning

Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.) [Kronikk]

Welle-Strand, Anne (2007)

Telenors uhjelp i Bangladesh

Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.) [Kronikk]

Welle-Strand, Anne (2007)

Business er god bistand

Dagbladet [Kronikk]

Welle-Strand, Anne (2006)

Blåruss og bistand

Dagbladet [Kronikk]

Welle-Strand, Anne & Molden, Lars (2006)

Fredsprisen krever ny kompetanse

Bistandsaktuelt [Kronikk]

Welle-Strand, Anne (2000)

Zimbabwes politiske ulykke og norsk bistand

Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.) [Kronikk]

Welle-Strand, Anne; Svedberg, Gunnar, Schmidt-Sørensen, Jan Beyer, Wood, Geoffrey & Bang-Jensen, Sidsel Gro (2014)

Copenhagen Business School - Institutional Accrediation

[Report]. The Danish Accreditation Institution.

Welle-Strand, Anne; Saljø, Roger, Christensen, Kirsti Koch & Langset, Anders Kvernmo (2014)

Evaluering av system for kvalitetssikring av utdanningen ved Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus

[Report]. NOKUT.

Welle-Strand, Anne (2013)

Fra bistand til næringspolitikk

[Popular scientific article]. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.)

Salvesen, Helge; Haraldseid, Gunn, Rovio-Johansson, Airi, Welle-Strand, Anne & Aasprong, Marius Lervåg (2011)

NOKUTs tilsynsrapporter: Evaluering av system for kvalitetssikring av utdanning ved Universitetet i Agder

[Report]. NOKUT Nasjonalt organ for kvalitet i utdanningen.

Salvesen, Helge; Haraldseid, Gunn, Rovio-Johanson, Airi, Welle-Strand, Anne & Aasprong, Marius Lervåg (2011)

Evaluering av system for kvalitetssikring av utdanningen ved Universitetet i Agder Rapport fra sakkyndig komité

[Report]. Høgskulen på Vestlandet.

Welle-Strand, Anne & Toje, Asle (2009)

"Creating Value(s)? Norwegian Hydropower and Aquaculture in Chile

[Report]. Handelshøyskolen BI.

Welle-Strand, Anne; Dehli, Pernille, Kimmestad, Erik & Torp, Christen (2009)

Private actors in the aid landscape - Mapping an Emerging Segment in Norwegian Development Aid

[Report]. Handelshøyskolen BI.

Welle-Strand, Anne (2007)

Sterk start for MICRO

[Article in business/trade/industry journal]. BI Magasinet

Tjeldvoll, A.; Nagy, Peter & Welle-Strand, Anne (2006)

Balkan Higher Education: Challenged to Change.

[Report]. BI Norwegian School of Management, CEM Centre for Education Management Research.

Tjeldvoll, Arild; Welle-Strand, Anne & Stretton, Jenny (2005)

Xiamen International School: Ambition excellence. A HEAD Project Pilot Study.

[Report]. BI Norwegian School of Management.

Tjeldvoll, Arild; Welle-Strand, Anne & Cuckovic, B. (2005)

Higher Education in the Balkans. Approaching Bologna and the Service University. Studies in Education Management Research, nr 10

[Report]. Norwegian School of Management, CEM Centre for Education Management Research.

Tjeldvoll, Arild; Welle-Strand, Anne & Cuckovic, B. (2005)

One Bosnia-Herzegovina Higher Education System - Mission Impossible? Four case studies from the BOSHMAN Project.

[Report]. BI Norwegian School of Management, Centre for Education Management Research (CEM).

Wales, Christopher & Welle-Strand, Anne (2005)

School Management Training. Country Report: Norway. HEAD Country Report 2005

[Report]. BI Norwegian School of Management.

Hatteland, Carl Johan; Hodzic, D. & Welle-Strand, Anne (2004)

Re-embedding interfaces between industry and university in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Tjeldvoll, Arild & Zhou, Fangrong (red.). University Development and Globalisation. Academic Report Series Department of Teacher Education, NTNU

Welle-Strand, Anne (2003)

The Power of Ignorance. Norwegian Development Aid to Education

Rasmussen, P. (red.). Education Policy and the Global Social Order

Welle-Strand, Anne; Paulsen, Jan Merok & Kobbenes, Haakon (2003)

Skoleledelse i Norge: En kartlegging av forskning og utdanning i perioden 1998-2003. Studies in Education Management Research, Vol. 4

[Report]. Handelshøyskolen BI.

Tjeldvoll, Arild; Welle-Strand, Anne & Bento, F. (2003)

Overview of Institutions and Programmes. School Manager Training in Finland, France, United Kingdom and The United States. Studies in Education Management Research, Vol. 3

[Report]. BI Norwegian School of Management.

Tjeldvoll, Arild; Welle-Strand, Anne & Wales, Christopher (2003)

Annotated bibliography: School Manager Training in Finland, France, United Kingdom and The United States. Studies in Education Management Research, Vol. 2

[Report]. BI Norwegian School of Management.

Thune, Taran & Welle-Strand, Anne (2003)

Worldwide Virtual Ed? An empirical study of ICTs for and in internationalization processes at a business school.

[Report]. BI Norwegian School of Management.

Hatteland, Carl Johan; Hodžic, D. & Welle-Strand, Anne (2003)

Re-embedding interfaces between industry and university: From ‘head to head’ to ‘finger to finger’ - Framing the state and transition of technical and organisational interfaces between a BiH welding research unit and its users

[Academic lecture]. UNIQUAL conference.

Thune, Taran & Welle-Strand, Anne (2003)

Worldwide Virtual Ed.? An empirical study of ICT for and in internationalization processes in a business school

[Report]. Handelshøyskolen BI.

Tjeldvoll, Arild & Welle-Strand, Anne (2002)

Globalisation and service university research in Africa

[Report]. Addis Ababa University Institute of Educational Research..

Welle-Strand, Anne & Tjeldvoll, Arild (2002)

ICT, Learning & Value Creation - Strategies Missing?

[Report]. Handelshøyskolen BI.

Welle-Strand, Anne & Gottschalk, Petter (2001)

Læring gjennom økonomi, system og prosjekt : festskrift til Erling S.Andersen Project Management and Information Technology

[Scientific book]. NKI publishing.

Welle-Strand, Anne (2001)

Education and political instability. Zimbabwe at the turn of the Century

[Academic lecture]. conference of Nordic Network of International and Comparative Education (NICE).

Thune, Taran & Welle-Strand, Anne (2000)

Infrastruktur for læring. Bibliotek og læringsressurssentre i høyere utdanning

[Report]. Handelshøyskolen BI.

Academic Degrees
Year Academic Department Degree
1996 Stockholm University Ph.D.
1993 University of Oslo Master Cand. Polit.
Work Experience
Year Employer Job Title
2007 - Present Centre for Development Studies and Microfinance (MICRO) Director
2004 - Present BI Norwegian Business School Professor
2002 - Present Centre for Education Management research (CEM) Director
1998 - 2004 BI Norwegian School of Management Associate Professor
1997 - 1998 University of Oslo Researcher
1993 - 1994 UNESCO Consultant