Blar i forfatter "Solstad, Elsa"

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    • The art of untangling: High North SME board directors' challenges in understanding strategy, control, and service tasks 

      Fjellvær, Hilde; Olsen, Trude Høgvold; Solstad, Elsa (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Boards of directors represent an important, but understudied, resource for business development of High North SMEs. We studied board director perceptions of what constitutes the most important board tasks and which activities each major task actually involved. We followed a local board development project with participants from several industries and companies in Northern Norway over a two-year ...

    • Changes in the power balance of institutional logics: Middle managers' responses 

      Olsen, Trude Høgvold; Solstad, Elsa (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-12-26)
      The purpose of this paper is to explore how middle managers respond when an existing institutional logic is reinforced through radical organisational change. We analyse documents and interviews with middle managers in three public sector contexts (hospitals, upper secondary schools, municipal agencies) in which the power balance between the managerial and professional logics changed through mergers. ...

    • Den kyndige økonomisk/administrative fagutøverens helhetsforståelse 

      Solstad, Elsa; Olsen, Trude Høgvold (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      En kyndig fagutøver i økonomisk/administrative fag må evne å se sammenhenger og helhet mellom eget og andres fagfelt. Studieplanene er bygd opp for å ivareta bedriftsøkonomiske fag, samfunnsøkonomi, administrasjonsfag og metodefag. Det kan imidlertid synes som om spesialisering får større fokus i utdanningen, og at det i stor grad overlates til studenten å utvikle en helhetsforståelse for det ...

    • Entrepreneurship Education as a Strategy to Build Regional Sustainability 

      Hagebakken, Grete; Reimers, Christian S.; Solstad, Elsa (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-02-26)
      Entrepreneurship education (EE) is a means to create economic activity and is of importance in the development of rural regions. Entrepreneurship education is generally conducted by three different methods: (1) teaching students about entrepreneurial themes, (2) developing the capabilities of becoming a successful entrepreneur for enterprise and (3) developing capabilities through enterprise by which ...

    • From relationship orientation to task orientation: On the digitalization of clinical leaders 

      Pettersen, Inger Johanne; Solstad, Elsa (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-09)
      This paper studies how clinical leaders perceive their leadership tasks in the context of virtual interactions. We ask whether distant leadership involves a shift from relationship orientation to more task- and control-oriented leaders in hospital settings. We explore two cases involving 10 clinical leaders in a university hospital in Norway. The study indicates that the leaders were aware that lack ...

    • Helhetsperspektiv i økonomisk/administrative fag - ønske eller realitet? 

      Andreassen, Viggo; Olsen, Trude Høgvold; Solstad, Elsa (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Studenter i økonomisk/administrative fag tar eksamen i mange emner. Mange studenter opplever studiet som fragmentert fordi emnene har forskjellig fokus, innhold og arbeidsmetode. Praktiske problemstillinger lar seg imidlertid sjelden løse med innsikt fra bare ett av emnene som studentene tar eksamen i. For å kunne delta i faglige diskusjoner er det nødvendig både med kunnskap om enkeltemner og en ...

    • Hospitals as professional organizations and the perception of distances 

      Solstad, Elsa; Pettersen, Inger Johanne; Robbins, Geraldine (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-03-31)
      Management at a distance is increasingly employed to organize hospital resources, of which professionally skilled staff is the key component. Mergers often imply distant management. The study examines the internal management aspects for two hospitals in two consecutive mergers, 5 years apart. We focus on how geographical and cognitive distances are experienced by middle managers and their followers. ...

    • Institutional Work in a Palliative Unit: “There is Less Time for Patient Contact” 

      Mæhre, Kjersti Sunde; Solstad, Elsa (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-04)
      The encounter between divergent institutional logics may be challenging for nurses, since they must balance different expectations in their daily institutional work. These challenges increase when new reforms are introduced. Our research question is: How do actors linked to a palliative care unit experience the consequences of the Coordination reform in their daily performance of care work? Our ...

    • Kan vi lede via sosiale medier? Om fjernledelse og kommunikasjon 

      Pettersen, Inger Johanne; Solstad, Elsa (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-10-01)
      I denne artikkelen studerer vi hvordan bruk av indirekte kommunikasjonsformer (nettbaserte) utfordrer lederoppgavene i kunnskapsorganisasjoner. Mer konkret er vi opptatte av å studere om fjernledelse medfører en vridning fra relasjonsorientert ledelse til oppgaveorientert ledelse, det vil si styring. Vår problemstilling er: Hvordan brukes sosiale medier ved fjernledelse? Utgangspunktet er to ...

    • Kommunale websider som informasjonskanal i lokal iverksetting av en nasjonal reform 

      Olsen, Trude Høgvold; Solstad, Elsa (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2013)

    • The meaning of institutional logics for performance assessment in boards of municipal companies 

      Olsen, Trude Høgvold; Solstad, Elsa; Torsteinsen, Harald (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-07-11)
      Municipal companies are hybrid organizations hosting multiple institutional logics operating at the interface between the public and private sector. The authors present a new analytical framework inspired by the institutional logics perspective, which can improve our understanding of how performance assessment in municipal corporate boards develops as they navigate between the interests of the owner, ...

    • Middle managers' roles after a hospital merger 

      Solstad, Elsa; Petterson, Inger Johanne (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-12-09)
      <i>Purpose</i> - Mergers are important and challenging elements in hospital reforms. The authors study the social aspects of management and the roles of middle managers in the aftermath of a hospital merger. Especially, the purpose of this paper is to investigate how professional staff and middle managers perceive their relationships with top managers several years after the merger.<p><p> <i> ...

    • Success or failure? Making sense of outcomes in a public sector change project 

      Hagebakken, Grete; Olsen, Trude Høgvold; Solstad, Elsa (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-22)
      The most common method of assessing outcomes of change projects is to compare the final outcomes with predefined goals and conclude that the project has been a success, or more commonly, a failure. We question whether such simple conclusions pay due respect to complex processes. In this paper, we apply a sensemaking perspective to explore how and when outcomes of change projects are assessed. We ...