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Employee Profile

Arne Carlsen

Professor - Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour

Biography

Arne Carlsen is Professor at the Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour at BI Norwegian Business School. Arne earned his PHD at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and was previously a Senior Scientist at SINTEF Technology and Society. He has initiated and managed a series of large applied research projects and interacted closely with over 50 organizations on matters of organizational change, innovation and knowledge creation, human growth and idea work.

Arne regularly publishes in top international outlets. His work has been accepted for publication in journals such as Organization Science, Human Relations, Organization Studies, Management Learning, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Positive Psychology, Journal of Business Ethics, Management and Organization Review and Journal of Management Inquiry.
Carlsen has co-chaired sub-themes and workshops at EGOS, APROS and AOM and has reviewer experience from most leading organization science journals. His has co-edited four books, including a book on Idea Work, co-edited with Stewart Clegg and Reidar Gjersvik, and Research Alive, co-edited with Jane Dutton.

Professor Carlsen currently serves at the Editorial Boards of Academy of Management Learning Education and Management Learning.

Research areas
Arne's research deals with issues of individual and collective human growth in organizations, in particular as it is manifest in processes of organizational change, identity formation and creativity.
Arne currently writes about agency, prosocial behavior, positive relationships, imagination, the ehtics of research and what makes projects inspiring. Long term research projects include questions of career pressure amongst young professionals and creativity in cinematic universes. Arne is an active participant in the tradition of Positive Organizational Scholarship where he is a member of the Research Advisory Board for the Center for Positive Organizations at the University of Michigan. Much of his work also reflects a broad interest in practice theory, narrative psychology, strands of linguistic philosophy and classical pragmatism.


Teaching areas

Change management
Managing for excellence
Sustainable business
Positive organizational scholarship
Idea work and organizational creativity
Research methods

Publications

Eikum, Rune Schanke & Carlsen, Arne (2024)

Becoming greener: Connecting events and mobilizing artifacts in individual sustainability journeys

British Academy of Management, 2024 Conference Proceedings (red.). BAM 2024 Conference Proceedings

Espedal, Gry & Carlsen, Arne (2024)

Value Inquiry and Constructing the Good in Organizations

Organization Studies, 45(8), s. 1075- 1223. Doi: 10.1177/01708406241253161

Research has taken important steps towards establishing values work in organizations as a performative phenomenon situated in practice. Yet, researchers have said little about the critical and creative nature of such work, including how it may build its agentic powers more so from what is ethically absent than from what is established. We approach this void by drawing from Dewey’s Pragmatism in a comparative analysis of how three value-laden issues tied to companionate love are handled in a faith-based hospital. We develop the notion of value inquiry, which we understand as a discovery-oriented and transformative constructing of the good that takes its originating creative desires from troublesome situations. Our findings suggest that ethically fruitful value inquiry involves opening such situations in a way that critically examines previous practice, enlists people in co-defining needs and engages them in sustained experimental action. By theorizing value inquiry, we relocate ethical agency as a responsive relational capacity emerging with coactive power in evolving situations. Such emergence highlights the relational processes of work on values in organizations. When inquiring together, people move beyond attending to the use of prescriptive value conceptions and into a creative mode of actively searching for and co-constructing the good.

Villanova, Ana Luisa; Pina e Cunha, Miguel & Carlsen, Arne (2023)

How Crisis May Generate and Sustain Creative Cycles: The Role of Problem Persistence

The Journal of creative behavior Doi: 10.1002/jocb.601

We performed an inductive study to advance theory on how a crisis can inspire individuals to be persistently creative in successive cycles. We draw from rich data of 17 volunteer projects in the Tech4Covid movement, a Portuguese organization of entrepreneurs who gathered online to develop digital solutions to help society during the COVID-19 pandemic. This empirical context is uniquely suited to study how interactions with intended beneficiaries during crises can encourage creators to initiate and continue creative work. Our results allowed us to extend the knowledge of crisis-induced creative processes in two ways. First, we noticed that throughout the creative process, creators might switch the primary focus of their work from outside beneficiaries to their own benefit. These changes can serve as a trigger to reinforce creators' motivations to continue their creative work beyond the first set of creative outputs. Second, we propose that the nature of the problem to be solved influences the continuity of creative processes: while momentary problems induced by the crisis may stimulate episodic ideas, their transitory nature may prevent creators from having time to fully develop their ideas further. Thus, it is primarily persistent problems that favor the progress of ideas in successive creative cycles.

Carlsen, Arne & Kvalnes, Øyvind (2023)

Home Alone and All Together: Lightness of agency in social inquiry

Organization Studies, 44(8), s. 1333- 1352. Doi: 10.1177/01708406231166806

Research has provided limited knowledge of how people in organizations experience growth of agency during circumstances that seem hopeless and stuck, and how such growth emerges. Drawing from the study of the turnaround processes at a nursing home and the Pragmatism of Dewey and Mead, we contribute with a theory of how agency is produced in social inquiry. We suggest that the puzzling accounts of lightness in the experiences of people at this nursing home help explain how a field of social inquiry may be charged with creative and agentic force. We show how agency emerged through a series of action sequences related to inviting people into inquiry through the opening of a troublesome situation, the resulting voicing of needs and ideas for improvement, as well as the subsequent experimenting and surfacing of tales of meaningful progress from such actions. Furthermore, our empirical observations suggest that the emergence of collective desire to meet the needs of the Generalized Other is a central, yet understated, part of agency produced through social inquiry. Lightness of agency may be accentuated, paradoxically, by the weight of a more generalized situation – in this case that of institutionalized care for elderly – that the local inquiry exemplifies and in which it resonates.

Lavine, Marc; Carlsen, Arne, Spreitzer, Gretchen, Peterson, Tim & Morgan Roberts, Laura (2021)

Interweaving positive and critical perspectives in management learning and teaching

Management Learning Doi: 10.1177/13505076211057650 - Full text in research archive

Management learning is increasingly and rightfully called upon to address societal challenges beyond narrow concerns of economic performance. Within that agenda, we describe the generative aims of a special issue devoted to interweaving positive and critical perspectives in management learning and teaching. The five articles that comprise the issue describe the prospects for such interplay across a range of empirical and theoretical contexts. Together, these contributions suggest a way forward for work that is at once critical, positive, and reflexive. We identify key themes for future directions: the generative potential of contrarian learning dynamics, an ethics-first focus on ecological and human well-being, and the prospects of scholarly practice for systemic activism.

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R., Pitsis, Tyrone S. & Mortensen, Tord Fagerheim (2020)

From ideas of power to the powering of ideas in organizations: Reflections from Follett and Foucault

European Management Journal, 38(6), s. 829- 835. Doi: 10.1016/j.emj.2020.03.006 - Full text in research archive

Research on organizational creativity tends to emphasize fairly static notions of coercive power as positional authority and control over scarce resources. The field remains largely silent about power as a positive and generative phenomenon that can produce creativity. We seek to break that silence by amplifying and integrating the work of Mary Parker Follett and Michel Foucault in concert with recent practice-based approaches to creativity. Power in organizational creativity, we suggest, should first of all be explored as processes of connection, abundance and collective agency. We show that whereas established ideas of positional power over is related to assumptions of linearity and singularity of creativity, ideas of power with and power to are associated with a more dynamic, relational and process-based perspective. The latter set of views implies more attention be paid to processes of interactional framing through which people jointly attend to situations, reach new integrations and produce new social realities.

Carlsen, Arne & Pitsis, Tyrone S. (2020)

We Are Projects: Narrative Capital and Meaning Making in Projects

Project Management Journal, 51(4), s. 357- 366. Doi: 10.1177/8756972820929479 - Full text in research archive

Research on projects has to a limited degree taken issue with how projects are chief producers of meaning at work. We develop the concept of narrative capital as a basic mechanism for how people can engender meaning in and through projects in organizations. Narrative capital is derived from experiences that people appropriate into their individual and collective life stories, retrospectively, as adding to a repertoire of accumulated learning and mastering, and prospectively, in terms of living with purpose and hope. We chart implications for meaning making in projects as expanding ownership, expanding connections of impact, and extending narrative possibility.

Harrison, Spencer; Carlsen, Arne & Škerlavaj, Miha (2019)

Marvel, la machine à succès: Comment les studios équilibrent continuité et renouvellement

Harvard Business Review France

Espedal, Gry & Carlsen, Arne (2019)

Don’t Pass Them By: Figuring the Sacred in Organizational Values Work

Journal of Business Ethics Doi: 10.1007/s10551-019-04266-w - Full text in research archive

How and why could some stories be construed as sacred in organizations, and what functions does the sacred have in organizational values work? Research has shown how values can be made formative of a range of organizational purposes and forms but has underscored their performative, situated, and agentic nature. We address that void by studying the sacred as a potentially salient yet under-researched realm of values work. Drawing on an ethnographic case study of a faith-based health care organization and the ethical philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, we describe how the sacred is figured in two sets of tales that were lived and told with surprising intensity and consistency: the parable of the Good Samaritan and the tale of the legacy bestowed by the organization’s founder. We theorize how this figuring of the sacred in story and in action recasts values work from a centralized and unitary process to a two-way learning dialectic between the ongoing creative imitation of action and narrative. Values in the shape of stories of the sacred do not achieve their meaning as unchangeable cores or sanctioned beliefs. Rather, they come to life in a process of ongoing moral inquiry that co-evolves with moral agencies. In the latter regard, the sacred primarily becomes manifest in everyday work in the form of questioning and creative acts of care. People become moral agents when they feel and respond to the sacred in the call of the other.

Harrison, Spencer; Carlsen, Arne & Škerlavaj, Miha (2019)

A máquina de sucessos de bilheteria da Marvel: Como o estúdio equilibra continuidade e renovação

Havard Business Review Brasil

Harrison, Spencer; Carlsen, Arne & Škerlavaj, Miha (2019)

Marvel’ın Kapalı Gişe Makinesi

Harvard Business Review Turkiye

Harrison, Spencer; Carlsen, Arne & Škerlavaj, Miha (2019)

마블의 블록버스터 머신 (Marvel's Blockbuster Machine)

Harvard Business Review Korea

Välikangas, Liisa & Carlsen, Arne (2019)

Spitting in the Salad: Minor Rebellion as Institutional Agency

Organization Studies Doi: 10.1177/0170840619831054 - Full text in research archive

How can a desire for rebellion drive institutional agency, and how is such desire produced? In this paper, we develop a theory of minor rebellion as a form of institutional agency. Drawing from the work of Deleuze and Guattari as well as from notions of social inquiry and the sociology of punk, we qualify and illustrate minor rebellion as a lived-in field of desire and engagement that involves deterritorializing of practice in the institutional field. Three sets of processes are involved: (i) minor world-making, through establishing the aesthetics and relations of an outsider social network within a major field, including the enactment of cultural frames of revolt and radicalism; (ii) minor creating, through constructing and experimenting with terms, concepts, and technology that somehow challenge hegemony from within; and (iii) minor inquiring, through problematizing social purposes and the related experiential surfacing of the desirable new. Minor rebellion suggests a new solution to the paradox of embedded agency by describing institutional agency as shuttling between political contest and open-ended social inquiry, involving anti-sentiments, but also being for something. The paper also contributes to recasting institutional agency as a process resulting from emergent collective action rather than preceding it. To illustrate our theorizing, we describe the emergence of Robin Hood Asset Management, a Finnish activist hedge fund. At the end of the paper we discuss how minor rebellion raises new questions about the multiplicities and eventness of desiring in institutional agency.

Harrison, Spencer; Carlsen, Arne & Škerlavaj, Miha (2019)

Marvel’s Blockbuster Machine: How the studio balances continuity and renewal

Harvard Business Review, July-August, s. 136- 145.

Sundet, Joanne & Carlsen, Arne (2019)

Sweet dreams (are made of this): Cultivating relational agency through high-quality connections in the workplace

Burke, Ronald J. & Richardsen, Astrid Marie (red.). Creating psychologically healthy workplaces

How can people in organizations be relational agents for creating better workplaces? We explore this question based on data from an educational program where executives experimented with a range of strategies for fostering high-quality connections at work. Beyond immediate rewards of being able to create more quality and energy in their relations, we unexpectedly noted the emergence of a more foundational capacity in some of the executives. We understand this as the growth of relational agency; a reflexive and purposive capacity to initiate and carry out actions for improving relationships in the workplace. Based on a sample of seven cases we describe how such agency may be manifest in three ways: (1) being able to turn around situations; (2) lifting individual others; and (3) building collective capacity for positively influencing work relations more broadly. Relational agency has both collective and individual elements. It is anchored in a self-understanding that points back at a repertoire of previous experiences, points forward to a sense of what is desirable and possible and unfolds as a creative capacity in the contingencies of the moment.

Coldevin, Grete Håkonsen; Carlsen, Arne, Clegg, Stewart, Pitsis, Tyrone S. & Antonacopoulou, Elena P. (2019)

Organizational creativity as idea work : Intertextual placing and legitimating imaginings in media development and oil exploration

Human Relations, 72(8), s. 1369- 1397. Doi: 10.1177/0018726718806349 - Full text in research archive

How do we understand the nature of organizational creativity when dealing with complex, composite ideas rather than singular ones? In response to this question, we problematize assumptions of the linearity of creative processes and the singularity of ideas in mainstream creativity theory. We draw on the work of Bakhtin and longitudinal research in two contrasting cases: developing hydrocarbon prospects and concepts for films and TV series. From these two cases, we highlight two forms of work on ideas: (i) intertextual placing, whereby focal ideas are constituted by being connected to other elements in a larger idea field; and (ii) legitimating imaginings, where ideas of what to do are linked to ideas of what is worth doing and becoming. This ongoing constitution and legitimating is not confined to particular stages but takes place in practices of generating, connecting, communicating, evaluating and reshaping ideas, which we call idea work. The article contributes to a better understanding of the processual character of creativity and the deeply intertextual nature of ideas, including the multiplicity of idea content and shifting parts–whole relationships. Idea work also serves to explore the neglected role of co-optative power in creativity

Rhodes, Carl & Carlsen, Arne (2018)

The teaching of the other: Ethical vulnerability and generous reciprocity in the research process.

Human Relations, 71(10), s. 1295- 1318. Doi: 10.1177/0018726717741530

How is it that researchers can engage with those they research ethically? In response to the challenge of this question, we articulate an ethics of research engagement based on vulnerability and generosity. This is explored with a special focus on the practicalities of organization studies research. Building on developments in reflexive methodology, we draw on Emmanuel Levinas’ relational ethics to consider how research can be approached as receiving a ‘teaching of the other’. Such teaching involves a radical openness to other people’s difference such that knowledge arises from being affected by those others rather than claiming to know them in any categorical sense. The possibility that emerges is that of a reflexively ethical position from which to conduct research premised on letting go of the egotistical comforts of one’s own epistemic authority. Self-reflexivity becomes rendered subservient to other-vulnerability in embodied research encounters that are open and generous. The promise for research is a deepening of our corporeal, affective and aesthetic engagement with others and an enlarged sense of the ethical meaning of research.

Dysvik, Anders; Carlsen, Arne & Škerlavaj, Miha (2017)

Rings of fire: Training for systems thinking and broadened impact

Brown, Kenneth G (red.). The Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Training and Employee Development

van Iterson, Ad; Clegg, Stewart R. & Carlsen, Arne (2017)

Ideas are feelings first: epiphanies in everyday workplace creativity

M@n@gement, 20(3), s. 221- 238. Doi: 10.3917/mana.203.0221 - Full text in research archive

This paper contributes to the literature on workplace creativity by combining insights on epiphanies with theory on the embodied and relational nature of understanding. We explore and develop the concept of epiphany, defined as a sudden and transient manifestation of insight. Primarily, we are interested in the implications of the concept’s artistic and philosophical origins for organizational creativity. We start from a consideration of the importance of epiphany in the literary works of Joyce, who underlined the crucial aspect of the conjunction of different human senses (seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching). Next, we draw up upon the theory of insights as embodied, experientially felt qualities, as described by Mark Johnson (2007) and predecessors in pragmatism. Using three sets of empirical snippets as aids to reasoning, we arrive at renewed understanding of epiphany as a phenomenon in creativity that is experientially multi-sensuous and collective rather than merely cognitive and individual. Epiphanies are typically manifest as a series of felt occurrences arising within collective practice, follow from a history of preparation, and do not solely involve breakthrough ideas but can also include feelings of doubt, movement, opening up or disconfirmation. Understanding epiphanies in this way extends research on organizational creativity as collective practice. The article suggests further attention be paid to the transient and noetic qualities of work on ideas in organizations, such as visual and material stimuli in sensorial preparations of creativity and the use of openness in marking felt insights.

Carlsen, Arne; Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Zhao, Weitao (2017)

Inviting Wonder in Organization: Tiger, Sandstone, Horror, Snowball

Management and Organization Review, 13(3), s. 675- 685. Doi: 10.1017/mor.2017.17 - Full text in research archive

Carlsen, Arne (2016)

Når det synger i livsnerven: Motivasjon i organisasjoner fra et narrativt perspektiv

Buch, Robert; Dysvik, Anders & Kuvaas, Bård (red.). Produktiv motivasjon i arbeidslivet

Škerlavaj, Miha; Dysvik, Anders, Černe, Matej & Carlsen, Arne (2016)

Succeeding with capitalizing on creativity: an integrative framework

Škerlavaj, Miha; Černe, Matej, Dysvik, Anders & Carlsen, Arne (red.). Capitalizing on creativity at work: Fostering the implementation of creative ideas in organizations

Carlsen, Arne & Välikangas, Liisa (2016)

Creativity that works: implementing discovery

Škerlavaj, Miha; Černe, Matej, Dysvik, Anders & Carlsen, Arne (red.). Capitalizing on creativity at work: Fostering the implementation of creative ideas in organizations

Černe, Matej; Carlsen, Arne, Škerlavaj, Miha & Dysvik, Anders (2016)

Capitalizing on creativity: on enablers and barriers

Škerlavaj, Miha; Černe, Matej, Dysvik, Anders & Carlsen, Arne (red.). Capitalizing on creativity at work: Fostering the implementation of creative ideas in organizations

Škerlavaj, Miha; Černe, Matej, Dysvik, Anders & Carlsen, Arne (2016)

Capitalizing on creativity at work: Fostering the implementation of creative ideas in organizations

Edward Elgar Publishing.

Carlsen, Arne (2016)

On the tacit side of organizational identity: Narrative unconscious and figured practice

Culture and Organization, 22(2), s. 107- 135. Doi: 10.1080/14759551.2013.875016

Aarrestad, Martine; Brøndbo, Marthe Turnes & Carlsen, Arne (2015)

When Stakes are High and Guards are Low: High-quality Connections in Knowledge Creation

Knowledge and Process Management, 22(2), s. 88- 98. Doi: 10.1002/kpm.1469

Carlsen, Arne & Sandelands, Lloyd (2015)

First passion: Wonder in organizational inquiry

Management Learning, 46(4), s. 373- 390. Doi: 10.1177/1350507614533756

Bjørkeng, Kjersti; Carlsen, Arne & Rhodes, Carl (2014)

Between the Saying and the Said: From Self-reflexivity to Other-vulnerability in The Research Process

Cooren, Francois; Vaara, Eero, Langley, Ann & Tsoukas, Haridimos (red.). Language and Communication at Work: Discourse, Narrativity, and Organizing (Perspectives on Process Organization Studies)

This chapter takes a process approach to language use, power relations, and the ethics of response in organizational research. The chapter starts with a discussion of reflexivity in research and show how it needs a radical contestation of the subjectivity–objectivity divide that is key to the process philosophy of pragmatism. A reflexive approach still harbors the danger of an excessive one-sidedness that fails to account for the alterity and reflexivity of the other and also continues to serve power asymmetries privileging the researcher. In response, and following in particular Lévinas, the chapter explores the possibilities that are open to researchers if they approach the research process from a position of other-vulnerability. The chapter uses two illustrative examples and discuss implications for research collaboration, conversations, and participation in theorizing.

Carlsen, Arne; Rudningen, Gudrun Larsgard & Mortensen, Tord Fagerheim (2014)

Playing the cards: Using collaborative artefacts with thin categories to make research co-generative

Journal of Management Inquiry, 23(3), s. 294- 313. Doi: 10.1177/1056492613511152

Sandelands, Lloyd & Carlsen, Arne (2013)

The romance of wonder in organization studies

Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion, 10(4), s. 358- 379. Doi: 10.1080/14766086.2013.801024

Lloyd, Sandelands & Carlsen, Arne (2013)

Wonder divine. At end but ever new

Theology and Science, 11(3), s. 304- 316. Doi: 10.1080/14746700.2013.809953

The wonderful human has been turned into un-wonderful matter and movement. We seek to recover wonder about the human by examining moments of its recognition, kindling, and suppression. First recognized in Greek philosophy and celebrated in the medieval scholasticism that saw the human in the total reality of divine creation, wonder is diminished today because it has been robbed of transcendence by a scientism that mistakes facts for truth and good and by a postmodernism that denies ultimate meaning. We close on the hopeful note that a diminished wonder cannot last because the divine mystery of human being abides.

Rudningen, Gudrun Larsgard; Carlsen, Arne, Clegg, Stuart & Gjersvik, Reidar (2012)

Punk. Bare gjør det - sjøl!

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (red.). Idea work. Om profesjonell kreativitet

Rudningen, Gudrun Larsgard; Carlsen, Arne, Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (2012)

Punk production. Just do it - yourself!

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (red.). Idea work. Lessons of the extraordinary in everyday creativity

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (2012)

Skapende motstand. Hvordan begrensninger, tvil og kritikk kan inspirere dine beste ideer

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (red.). Idea work. Om profesjonell kreativitet

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (2012)

Generative resistance. How constraints and opposition can inspire your best ideas

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (red.). Idea work. Lessons of the extraordinary in everyday creativity

Carlsen, Arne; Hagen, Aina Landsverk, Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (2012)

Frigjørende latter. Hvordan leken energi og humor åpner opp folk, situasjoner og ideer

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (red.). Idea work. Om profesjonell kreativitet

Carlsen, Arne; Hagen, Aina Landsverk, Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (2012)

Liberating laughter. How playfull energy and humor opens up situations, people and ideas

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (red.). Idea work. Lessons of the extraordinary in everyday creativity

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (2012)

Prototyping. Hvordan Magnus lærte å slå de store fete kattene, og hvorfor han frykter å bli en selv

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (red.). Idea work. Om profesjonell kreativitet

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (2012)

Double rapid prototyping. How Magnus learned to beat the big fat cats, and why he fears becoming one

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (red.). Idea work. Lessons of the extraordinary in everyday creativity

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R., Mortensen, Tord Fagerheim & Gjersvik, Reidar (2012)

Gjøre det fysisk. Hva er det med skisser, og hvorfor er pin-ups noe du bare må ha i idéarbeid?

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (red.). Idea work. Om profesjonell kreativitet

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R., Mortensen, Tord Fagerheim & Gjersvik, Reidar (2012)

Getting physical. What is it with those sketches, and why are pin-ups must-haves in idea work?

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (red.). Idea work. Lessons of the extraordinary in everyday creativity

Carlsen, Arne; Gjersvik, Reidar & Clegg, Stewart R. (2012)

Veivising. Hvordan verdifulle ideer kommer fra å skjære seg inn i fjellet, feire sine "dusters"og cheerleading

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (red.). Idea work. Om profesjonell kreativitet

Carlsen, Arne; Gjersvik, Reidar & Clegg, Stewart R. (2012)

Daring to imagine. How great ideas result from cutting into the rock, celebrating your dusters, and cheerleading

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (red.). Idea work. Lessons of the extraordinary in everyday creativity

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R., Gjersvik, Reidar & Mortensen, Tord Fagerheim (2012)

Drama. Hva står på spill?

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (red.). Idea work. Om profesjonell kreativitet

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R., Gjersvik, Reidar & Mortensen, Tord Fagerheim (2012)

Activating drama. What's at stake?

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (red.). Idea work. Lessons of the extraordinary in everyday creativity

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (2012)

Undring. Hvorfor brennende spørsmål om en dipmeterlogg, omsorg for klienten og dveling ved minnesmerket for 9/11 har den samme kilden

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (red.). Idea work. Om profesjonell kreativitet

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (2012)

Craving wonder. Why burning questions of a dipmeter log, caring for the client and dwelling on the 9/11 memorial ground have the same origin

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (red.). Idea work. Lessons of the extraordinary in everyday creativity

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R., Gjersvik, Reidar & Mortensen, Tord Fagerheim (2012)

Zoome ut. Hvordan det store bildet former dine ideer

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (red.). Idea work. Om profesjonell kreativitet

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R., Gjersvik, Reidar & Mortensen, Tord Fagerheim (2012)

Zooming out. Why seeing the big picture matters to your ideas

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (red.). Idea work. Lessons of the extraordinary in everyday creativity

Mortensen, Tord Fagerheim; Carlsen, Arne, Bygdås, Arne Lindseth, Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (2012)

Prepping. Hvorfor alle organisasjoner burde ha en onkel Sam

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (red.). Idea work. Om profesjonell kreativitet

Mortensen, Tord Fagerheim; Carlsen, Arne, Bygdås, Arne Lindseth, Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (2012)

Prepping. Why every organization should have an Uncle Sam

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (red.). Idea work. Lessons of the extraordinary in everyday creativity

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (2012)

Introduksjon. Hvorfor snakke om idéarbeid, og hva betyr det?

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (red.). Idea work. Om profesjonell kreativitet

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (2012)

Introduction. Why talk about idea work, and what does it matter?

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (red.). Idea work. Lessons of the extraordinary in everyday creativity

Carlsen, Arne & Sandelands, Lloyd (2012)

Living ideas at work

Pitsis, Tyrone S.; Simpson, Ace & Dehlin, Erlend (red.). Handbook of Organizational and Managerial Innovation

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (2012)

Idea work. Om profesjonell kreativitet

Cappelen Damm Akademisk.

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Gjersvik, Reidar (2012)

Idea work. Lessons of the extraordinary in everyday creativity

Cappelen Damm Akademisk.

Carlsen, Arne & Dutton, Jane E. (2011)

Seeing, feeling, daring, interrelating and playing: Exploring themes in generative moments

Carlsen, Arne & Dutton, Jane E. (red.). Research Alive: Exploring Generative Moments in Doing Qualitative Research

Carlsen, Arne (2011)

Doubting Thomas - seeds of wonder

Carlsen, Arne & Dutton, Jane E. (red.). Research Alive: Exploring Generative Moments in Doing Qualitative Research

Carlsen, Arne & Dutton, Jane E. (2011)

Come Alive!

Carlsen, Arne & Dutton, Jane E. (red.). Research Alive: Exploring Generative Moments in Doing Qualitative Research

Carlsen, Arne & Dutton, Jane E. (2011)

Research alive. The call for generativity

Carlsen, Arne & Dutton, Jane E. (red.). Research Alive: Exploring Generative Moments in Doing Qualitative Research

Carlsen, Arne; Mortensen, Tord Fagerheim & Hagen, Aina Landsverk (2011)

Imagining hope in organizations. From individual goal attainment to horizons of relational possibility

Cameron, Kim S. & Spreitzer, Gretchen M. (red.). The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship

Carlsen, Arne & Dutton, Jane E. (2011)

Research Alive: Exploring Generative Moments in Doing Qualitative Research

Copenhagen Business School Press.

Carlsen, Arne & Pitsis, Tyrone S. (2009)

Experiencing hope in organizational lives

Morgan Roberts, Laura & Dutton, Jane E. (red.). Exploring positive identities and organizations. Building a theoretical and research foundation

Carlsen, Arne (2009)

After James on identity

Adler, Paul (red.). The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies

Carlsen, Arne & Pitsis, Tyrone S. (2009)

Projects for life. Building narrative capital for positive organizational change

Clegg, Stewart R. & Cooper, Cary L (red.). The Sage Handbook of Organizational Behavior, Vol 2: Macro Approaches

Bjørkeng, Kjersti & Carlsen, Arne (2008)

Managing knowledge

Clegg, Stewart R. & Kornberger, Martin (red.). Managing and Organizations: An Introduction to Theory and Practice

Carlsen, Arne; Mortensen, Tord & Gjersvik, Reidar (2008)

Exploring exploration creativity

Clegg, Stewart R. & Kornberger, Martin (red.). Managing and Organizations: An Introduction to Theory and Practice

Carlsen, Arne (2008)

Positive dramas. Enacting self-adventures in organizations

Journal of Positive Psychology, 3(1), s. 55- 75.

Klev, Roger & Carlsen, Arne (2008)

Enkel kompleksitet? Dilemma-fortellinger som stabiliserende grenseobjekt i kunnskapsintensivt arbeid

Sørensen, Knut Holtan; Gansmo, Helen Jøsok, Lagesen, Vivian Anette & Amdahl, Eva (red.). Faglighet og tverrfaglighet i den nye kunnskapsøkonomien

Carlsen, Arne & Mantere, Saku (2007)

Pragmatism

Bailey, James R. & Clegg, Stewart R. (red.). International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies

Carlsen, Arne (2006)

Organizational becoming as dialogic imagination of practice: The case of the indomitable gauls

Organization science, 17(1), s. 132- 149.

Carlsen, Arne (2006)

Ambivalent laughter. On the seriousness of authoring identities in organizations

APROS, APROS (red.). APROS 11: Asia-Pacific Researchers in Organisation Studies 11th International Colloquium

Carlsen, Arne (2005)

Only when I laugh? Notes on the becoming interview

Teachers and Teaching: theory and practice, 11(3), s. 239- 255.

Carlsen, Arne; Klev, Roger & Von Krogh, Georg (2004)

Living knowledge: Foundations and framework

Carlsen, Arne; Klev, Roger & Von Krogh, Georg (red.). Living Knowledge. The dynamics of profession service work

Carlsen, Arne (2004)

Doing knowledge dramas: the Battle, the Mission, the Mystery, the Deep Play and the Carnival

Carlsen, Arne; Klev, Roger & Von Krogh, Georg (red.). Living Knowledge. The dynamics of profession service work

Carlsen, Arne; Klev, Roger & Von Krogh, Georg (2004)

Living knowledge. The dynamics of professional service work

Macmillan Publishers Ltd..

Carlsen, Arne; Klev, Roger & Von Krogh, Georg (2004)

Living Knowledge. The dynamics of profession service work

palgrave macmillan.

Håkonsen, Grete & Carlsen, Arne (2003)

Communities and activity systems in knowledge-intensive firms

Junghagen, Sven & Linderoth, Henrik C. J. (red.). Intelligent Management in the Knowledge Economy

This chapter tries to improve our understanding of so-called knowledge-intensive firms. We base our discussion on three blocks fo theory; literature on 'knowledge-intensive work', the concept of 'commnuities of practice' (CoPs) and what is frequently referred to as 'activity systems' within activity theory. Our case is a diversified engineering consluting firm, ICG, within which we have analyzed four communities of workers. We discuss how five identifyable work practices span organizational boundaries, and how workers belonging to specific CoPs may participate in many such practices. This leads us to a closer look at practices organized as 'project types', which we equate with activity systems. Two such activity systems are contrasted, exemplifyinghow knowledge is mobilised in different contexts.

Wenstøp, Fred; Carlsen, Arne, Bergland, Olvar, Magnus, Per & Clímaco, J. (1997)

Valuation of Public Goods with Expert Panels

Multicriteria Analysis

Carlsen, Arne (1994)

Utvikling og strategivalg i Comrod. Fra jordbruksredskaper til fiskestenger til fiberkompositter

Praktisk økonomi og ledelse, 10(3), s. 117- 122.

Strand, Jon; Carlsen, Arne & Wenstøp, Fred (1993)

Implicit Environmental Costs in Hydroelectric Development: An Analysis of the Norwegian Master Plan for Water Resources

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 25(03), s. 201- 2011. Doi: 10.1006/jeem.1993.1043

The ranking of hydropower projects under the Norwegian Master Plan for Water Resources is used to derive implicit government preferences for a number of environmental attributes described by ordinal scores for each project. We apply ordinal logistic regression to the ranks using the scores of the attributes as explanatory variables. As expected, we find that higher negative scores are generally associated with greater implicit willingness to pay to avoid the environmental damage tied to the attribute, caused by hydropower development. We derive total (ordinary economic and implicit environmental) costs for each project and find that environmental costs per capacity unit generally are lower than economic costs for projects ranked for early exploitation and higher for projects ranked for later development. Our derived implicit long-run marginal cost curve for Norwegian hydropower development is generally upward sloping, but not uniformly so.

Kvalnes, Øyvind & Carlsen, Arne (2023)

Skapende motstand

Ytringsklima (podkast) [Internett]

Carlsen, Arne & McQuaid, Michelle (2020)

4 Skills To Improve Your Relationships At Work – Podcast With Arne Carlsen

https://www.michellemcquaid.com/ [Internett]

Carlsen, Arne & Sharma, Garima (2018)

Inside the Methods Section: Four Co-creation Processes.

https://nbs.net/ Network for Business Sustainability [Internett]

Carlsen, Arne & Sharma, Garima (2018)

How to be Vulnerable: Arne Carlsen on Relational Reflexivity in Research

Network for business sustainability, https://nbs.net/ [Internett]

Weinreb, Gali & Carlsen, Arne (2015)

Hva undrer du deg over?

Globes [Avis]

Pileberg, Silje & Carlsen, Arne (2015)

Dei gode ideane

Forskerforum [Tidsskrift]

Carlsen, Arne (2013)

Jakter på idéresept

Dagens Næringsliv [Avis]

Carlsen, Arne (2013)

Kreativitet som lagsport

VG Helg [Avis]

Carlsen, Arne (2013)

Ledelse av idéarbeid

Ukeavisen Ledelse [Avis]

Carlsen, Arne (2013)

Profesjonell kreativitet

NRK P1, Kveldsåpent [Radio]

Carlsen, Arne (2013)

Kreativitet i arbeidslivet

NRK P2, Ekko [Radio]

Gjesdal, Trine; Carlsen, Arne & Landsverk Hagen, Aina (2010)

Fandenivoldsk idéarbeid

Forskning og utvikling, bilag til Dagens Næringsliv [Avis]

Stoltenberg, Kristin; Carlsen, Arne & Mortensen, Tord Fagerheim (2010)

Seriøs kreativitet

Aftenpostens A-Magasin [Avis]

Artikkelen var hovedoppslag i A-Magasinet og fortalte om forskningsprosjektet Idea Work, sett fra journalistens deltakelse på workshop med oljeletere i Statoil

Carlsen, Arne; Škerlavaj, Miha & Dysvik, Anders (1)

Virtual special issue: Good organization in Management Learning

Management Learning [Kronikk]

Kvalnes, Øyvind & Carlsen, Arne (1)

Godt jobba!

Dagens næringsliv [Kronikk]

Eikum, Rune Schanke & Carlsen, Arne (2024)

Unleashing the potential of regenerative leadership: A practice approach

[Academic lecture]. British Academy of Management Conference.

Eikum, Rune Schanke & Carlsen, Arne (2024)

Becoming greener - Connecting events and mobilizing artifacts in individual sustainability journeys

[Academic lecture]. British Academyy of Management Conference.

Carlsen, Arne (2024)

Hope and leadership in organizations. The case for sustainability

[Academic lecture]. Disag seminar series.

Carlsen, Arne; Dutton, Jane E. & Godwin, Lindsey (2024)

Coming alive as researchers: A generative conversation with Drs Arne Carlsen and Jane Dutton.

[Article in business/trade/industry journal]. International Journal of Appreciative Inquiry, 26(1), s. 15- 23. Doi: 10.12781/978-1-907549-58-8-3

Harrison, Spencer; Carlsen, Arne & Skerlavaj, Miha (2023)

Creativity and the compositional paradox. A typology of creative output

[Academic lecture]. Disag seminar series.

Harrison, Spencer; Carlsen, Arne & Skerlavaj, Miha (2023)

Creativity and the compositional paradox. A review and research agenda.

[Academic lecture]. Academy of Management conference 2023.

Carlsen, Arne; Dutton, Jane E. & Maitlis, Sally (2023)

Teaching relationally: Building community and connection in our classrooms. Professional development workshop

[Academic lecture]. Academy of Management conference 2023.

This PDW on Teaching Relationally is designed as an immersive experience in creating and implementing classroom practices with an ethic of care. Drawing from a variety of relational theories, we invite participants to experience and learn small moves to engage each other in and beyond the classroom in ways that foster flourishing and growth, while also acknowledging the deeper social and systemic roots of interactions in class. We welcome six skilled teacher-researchers who will demonstrate a variety of ways to incorporate relational practices in our teaching in order to build a relationship-centric classroom. At the same time, the PDW is designed as an immersive experience that illustrates how a relationship-centric gathering looks and feels. Our aim is to inspire experimentation and optimism about how small changes in our teaching practices can seed connections that enliven classroom learning and deliver positive outcomes for all. By making these practices visible, demonstrable, and discussable, as well as embodily experienced, we seek to strengthen our community of practice and expand our imagination of how to teach relationally. Our aim is for attendees to leave feeling more connected, cared for and inspired themselves, and thereby enabled to experiment and institutionalize efforts to create their own relationship-centric classroom.

Harrison, Spencer; Carlsen, Arne & Carlsen, Arne (2022)

Creativity as composition: a framework and research agenda

[Academic lecture]. CRIB: Creativity and Innovation Brownbag.

Gilson, Lucy; Litchfield, Robert C., Ramakrishnan, Poornika Anantha, Calton, Michelle, Carlsen, Arne, Harrison, Spencer, Krause, Verena, Lee, Yuna, Mannucci, Pier Vittorio, Mueller, Jennifer, Orazi, Davide, Simmons, Matthias, Skerlavaj, Miha & Yin, Yidan (2022)

Recognizing and extending creativity

[Academic lecture]. Creating a better world together : 82nd Annual meeting of the Academy of Management.

Carlsen, Arne; Nerstad, Christina G. L. & Dysvik, Anders (2022)

Radical career transitions revisited: From self-achievement to desires of the other

[Academic lecture]. 13th International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, Theme: Organizing on the Precipice: Process Studies in Extreme Contexts.

Carlsen, Arne (2021)

Adderley Positive Research Incubator, Seed Generator

[Academic lecture]. Seed generator at Adderley Positive Research Incubator, University of Michigan.

Carlsen, Arne (2021)

What were you thinking? Developing Cognitive Sensibilities for Inductive Coding

[Academic lecture]. Academy of Management Professional Development Workshop: What were you thinking? Developing Cognitive Sensibilities for Inductive Coding.

Sundet, Joanne & Carlsen, Arne (2021)

Venturing mutuality. Growing relational agency in connection

[Academic lecture]. 12th International Process Symposium.

Carlsen, Arne (2021)

What is agency in organizations for? From instrumentality to prosocial and pro-environmental engagement

[Academic lecture]. University of Technology Sydney, Management Department Research Seminar Series.

Dutton, Jane E.; Carlsen, Arne, Maitlis, Sally & Workman, Kristina (2020)

Tilling the Soil for Human Connection

[Popular scientific article]. High quality connections; www.hqconnections.com

Dutton, Jane E.; Carlsen, Arne & Maitlis, Sally (2020)

Seeding High Quality Connections in the Classroom

[Popular scientific article]. High quality connections; www.hqconnections.com

Jane, Dutton; Carlsen, Arne & Maitlis, Sally (2020)

I See You: The Power and Limits to Noticing Others

[Popular scientific article]. High Quality Connections; www.highqconnections.com

Dutton, Jane E.; Maitlis, Sally & Carlsen, Arne (2020)

Zooming in on celebrations

[Popular scientific article]. High Quality Connections; www.highqconnections.com

Harrison, Spencer; Carlsen, Arne & Škerlavaj, Miha (2020)

How do critics construct creative products? : location, breaches, and meaning in Hollywood franchises

[Academic lecture]. The 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management.

Carlsen, Arne (2019)

Publishing in Management Learning. Meet the Editors Session.

[Academic lecture]. EURAM Conference 2019.

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R., Pitsis, Tyrone S. & Mortensen, Tord (2019)

From ideas of power to the powering of ideas in organizations.

[Academic lecture]. EURAM (European Academy of Management) conference.

Dutton, Jane E.; Carlsen, Arne & Maitlis, Sally (2019)

Teaching an elective on positive relationships at work.

[Academic lecture]. 9th biannual POS research conference. Ann Arbor, June 5-6..

Sundet, Joanne & Carlsen, Arne (2019)

Daringly caring: The risky business of high-quality connecting at Work.

[Academic lecture]. 9th biannual POS research conference. Ann Arbor, June 5-6..

Sundet, Joanne & Carlsen, Arne (2018)

Designing for high-quality connections: Learning from experiential interventions

[Academic lecture]. British Academy of Management.

Kvalnes, Øyvind; Carlsen, Arne, Škerlavaj, Miha & Hanstveit, Erlend (2018)

Player Perspectives on Prosociality in Norwegian Football

[Academic lecture]. European Academy of Management.

Carlsen, Arne (2018)

Growing Givers at Work: A Systems Approach to Prosocial Agency.

[Academic lecture]. Research seminar.

Carlsen, Arne (2018)

Carlsen, A. (2018). Princes or dustbins: Building relational agency from teaching POS. In M. Lavine (organizer). Using Positive Organizational Scholarship to Innovate and Enliven OB and Management Teaching (OB/MED/ODC). Professional Development Workshop at the Academy of Management Meeting

[Academic lecture]. Academy of Management.

Carlsen, Arne & Rhodes, Carl (2018)

Teaching of the other: Practice and pathways towards a vulnerable knowing. In G. Sharma (organizer): Collaborative Research With Practitioners: Research Journeys & Methodological Innovations (RM/SAP). Presenter symposium at Academy of Management Conference

[Academic lecture]. Academy of Management.

Carlsen, Arne; Dysvik, Anders, Škerlavaj, Miha & Kvalnes, Øyvind (2018)

Growing Givers at Work: A Systems Approach to Prosocial Agency

[Academic lecture]. Academy of Management Meeting 2018.

Harrison, Spencer; Carlsen, Arne & Škerlavaj, Miha (2018)

Weaving Tapestries, Building Towers: Repeat Creativity in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe

[Academic lecture]. Academy of Management Meeting 2018.

Dysvik, Anders; Carlsen, Arne & Škerlavaj, Miha (2018)

Good relations are golden

[Popular scientific article]. BI Business Review

Carlsen, Arne; Dysvik, Anders & Škerlavaj, Miha (2017)

Growing Givers at Work: A Systems Approach to Prosocial Agency

[Academic lecture]. POS Research Incubator.

Carlsen, Arne & Välikangas, Liisa (2017)

Spitting in the salad. Minor rebellion as institutional agency

[Academic lecture]. 9th International Process Symposium.

Dysvik, Anders; Carlsen, Arne & Škerlavaj, Miha (2016)

Gull i gode relasjoner

[Popular scientific article]. BI Leadership Magazine, s. 6- 7.

Dutton, Jane E. & Carlsen, Arne (2016)

Being Generative: Teaching about Relationships and Teaching Relationship Courses

[Academic lecture]. Academy of Management 2016.

Carlsen, Arne & Rhodes, Carl (2016)

Transgressing the researcher/practitioner distinction: On other-vulnerability and triadic relationships. In G. Sharma, T. Bensal and S. Bertels (organizers): Presenter Symposium (RM/BPS/MOT): Bridging the Research-Practice Gap: Moving Beyond Why to How.

[Academic lecture]. Academy of Management 2016.

Dysvik, Anders; Carlsen, Arne & Škerlavaj, Miha (2016)

Gull i gode relasjoner

[Popular scientific article]. BI Business Review

Dysvik, Anders; Carlsen, Arne & Škerlavaj, Miha (2016)

Gull i gode relasjoner

[Popular scientific article]. Kapital, 2016(15)

Espedal, Gry & Carlsen, Arne (2016)

Don't pass them by. Figuring the sacred in institutional value work.

[Academic lecture]. 11th Organization Studies Summer Workshop: Spirituality, Symbolism and Storytelling.

Carlsen, Arne (2015)

Dynamics of idea work – A practice approach to creativity in projects and everyday work. In Panel symposium: The Dynamics of Practice: Practising Strategizing and Project Managing

[Academic lecture]. Academy of Management Annual Meeting.

Kvalnes, Øyvind & Carlsen, Arne (2015)

"What's a good life for you here?": Leadership as moral inquiry

[Academic lecture]. International Leadership Association's 17th Annual Global Conference.

Välikangas, Liisa & Carlsen, Arne (2015)

Real play: Innovation as imagining in four acts

[Academic lecture]. 10 th Organization Studies Summer Workshop and Special Issue Organizational Creativity, Play and Entrepreneurship.

Carlsen, Arne & Kvalnes, Øyvind (2015)

Lightness of radical change: On the positive transformation of a nursing home

[Academic lecture]. Academy of Management Annual Meeting.

Carlsen, Arne & Mantere, Saku (2015)

Virtues of micromanagement. How leaders grow through discipline

[Academic lecture]. Seventh International Symposium on Process Organization Studies.

Carlsen, Arne & Välikangas, Liisa (2014)

Purposive imagination: Knowledge vectors, threshold experiences and strategic experimentation in growth of new business

[Academic lecture]. Strategic Management Society (SMS) 34th Annual International Conference.

Carlsen, Arne (2013)

Skap drama på jobben (gjestekommentar)

[Popular scientific article]. Kapital, s. 115- 115.

Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R. & Naar, Liisa (2013)

Why "idea work"? Recovering imagination asintertextual, affective, material and controversial

[Academic lecture]. APROS 2013.

Carlsen, Arne (2012)

From prepping and prototyping to wonder and punk: What does extraordinary idea work look like?

[Academic lecture]. Strategy Research Colloquium.

Bjørkeng, Kjersti; Carlsen, Arne & Rhodes, Carl (2012)

Inter-viewing. From self-reflexivity to Other-vulnerability and joint wonder

[Academic lecture]. 4th International Process Symposium.

Carlsen, Arne & Lloyd, Sandelands (2010)

Flying with the birds. The gift of wonder and the aesthetics of ideas. Paper presented at the Critical Management Studies workshop on Theology and Organization. Academy of Management Meetings, Montreal

[Academic lecture]. Academy of Management Conference.

Carlsen, Arne & Mortensen, Tord Fagerheim (2010)

From dusters to play openers. Ideas of hope. In K. Krauss and C. Wu (organizers), ‘The will and the way: New insights into the workings of hope in Organizations’. Symposia (OB/MOC) at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Montreal

[Academic lecture]. Academy of Management Conference.

Carlsen, Arne & Jane, Dutton (2010)

Unleashing Generativity: Moments of Aliveness, Inspiration and Imagination in Qualitative Research

[Academic lecture]. Academy of Management.

Carlsen, Arne (2005)

Ambivalent laughter. On the seriousness of authoring identities in organisations

[Academic lecture]. APROS 11.

Bjørkeng, Kjersti & Carlsen, Arne (2005)

Six directors in search of a story. Learning from learning histories in a communication agency

[Academic lecture]. APROS 11.

Carlsen, Arne; Gjersvik, Reidar, Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild & Mortensen, Tord (2005)

Archetypes of activity sysems in professional service work

[Academic lecture]. 21st EGOS conference.

Carlsen, Arne (2005)

Service partnerships reconsidered. What are the alternatives to opportunism?

[Academic lecture]. Nordic Service Conference.

Carlsen, Arne (2005)

Levende kunnskap. Grenseobjekter, aktivitetssystemer og drama i kunnskapsarbeid

[Academic lecture]. Mastergradskurs i Human Resource Management.

Carlsen, Arne (2005)

Becoming, authoring, dramatizing: The importance of key gerunds in organizational change processes, with examples

[Academic lecture]. Prøveforelesning.

Carlsen, Arne (2004)

Tegn på god praksis. Om å blåse liv i utviklingsarbeid

[Popular scientific article]. Bedre Skole, 4(3), s. 57- 61.

Carlsen, Arne (2004)

På vei mot et utviklingsperspektiv for identitet: Hva betyr det for praktisk arbeid i organisasjoner

[Academic lecture]. Fagseminar i prosjektet Kunne Balanse.

Carlsen, Arne (2002)

Acts of Becoming. Identity Work as Playful Knowing and Enactment of Drama

[Academic lecture]. EGOS Conference; European Group for Organizational Studies.

This paper deals with identity work in two professional service firms. It focuses on how identity work underpins competitive advantage, create forward-looking perspective and enlist organisational members in an emotional engagement in the future. The main finding of the case studies is that there are two play modes of particular interest to identity work in organisations; playful knowing and enactment of drama. Playful knowing is conceived as a continuous display of expertise in the form of individual and collective styles. It entails total involvement, creation of new meaning by specialised knowledge and high significance in terms of continuous social affirmation. Enactment of dramas is found to take place in projects and at organisational level. The underlying motivation here is life enrichment through exposure to repeated adventures and maintenance of hope about desirable futures. Meet the Knights of Verbatim and the Indomitable Gauls of Calculus.

Carlsen, Arne & Håkonsen, Grete (2002)

The Dialogic Imagination of Practice. On Formation of Collective Meaning in Organizations

[Academic lecture]. 3rd European Conference on Organizational Knowledge, Learning and Capabilities.

This paper explores organizational becoming as a process of dialogic imagination of practice. Experiences from the organic growth process of a professional service firm form the basis for re-conceptualizing becoming as a duality between practice and meaning, fueled by a set of acts. We focus on boundary objects representing those acts and the reflexive field they constitute. Two successful projects stand out as having decisive influence in the becoming of our case firm. They seem particularly valuable as learning experiences because of four qualities: (1) grounding in core practice, (2) authorization by lead users, (3) resonance in identity, and (4) generation of new ideas. We argue that it is useful to think of these qualities as dialogic relations constituting strong fields of collective meaning. Patterns of management style and the introduction of a metaphor of the indomitable Gauls seem to possess similar qualities. Expressions of experiences enter a field of signifiers, a field whose collectivity is made of intersubjective and intertextual relations. This field stretches backwards and forward in time and may at any moment, by certain types of acts, reconfigure.

Carlsen, Arne (2001)

Når vi forfatter fremtiden. Fortellingens rolle i strategisk endring

[Mangler etternavn], [Mangler fornavn] (red.). Hatling, M. (red.) Fortellingens Fortrylling, Fortuna Forlag

Carlsen, Steinar; Johnsen, Svein G., Jørgensen, Håvard D., Coll, Gunnar J., Mæhle, Asbjørn, Carlsen, Arne & Hatling, Morten (1999)

Knowledge Reactivation Mediated through Knowledge Carriers

[Academic lecture]. MICT'99 - Management of Information and Communication Technology.

A framework is presented for understanding the relationship between organisational know-ledge and organisational behaviour, linking knowledge representation, activation, action and effect. Electronic knowledge carriers are understood as knowledge representations capable of mediating organisational knowledge flows. Such flows can be planned, recurrent and formalised for distribution of routines and best practices. Equally important are emergent knowledge flows during work performance, supporting knowledge creation in workgroups. Knowledge reuse is seen as understanding, appropriation, adaptation and re-activation of knowledge carrier elements. Knowledge harvesting returns new and modified elements to involved carriers, giving a knowledge learning cycle including reuse and harvesting as mutually dependent activities understood in relation to each other. Knowledge workers interact with knowledge carriers and each other during work performance. We exemplify assimilation and re-activation of knowledge mediated through such carriers with different interaction and re-activation characteristics. We are particularly concerned with emergent knowledge flows. Examples cover social knowledge re-activation for sharing programmer�s experience-notes, automated re-activation for active process support at the enterprise level, and finally, interactive re-activation for workgroup process support.

Academic Degrees
Year Academic Department Degree
2005 Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Ph.D.
1988 Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Master of Science
Work Experience
Year Employer Job Title
2015 - Present Management Learning, Sage Associate Editor
2014 - Present BI Norwegian Business School Professor
2012 - 2014 BI Norwegian Business School Associate Professor
2009 - 2011 Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture Post Doc (50%)
1999 - 2011 SINTEF Technology and Society Senior Scientist
1997 - 2011 SINTEF Indistrial Management Senior Scientist
2007 - 2008 NTNU, Center for studies of Radical Organizational Change (CROC) Senior Researcher (25%)
1998 - 1999 ViewTech US Market Representative
1997 - 1998 SRI International, Business Intelligence Centre Research Fellow
1992 - 1997 SINTEF Industrial Development Head of section
1989 - 1992 SINTEF Industrial Development Research Scientist