In order to obtain the PhD degree  
Morten Krogh Petersen 

has submitted his PhD thesis

‘Good’ Outcomes –
Handling Multiplicity in Government Communication

The thesis examines how Danish government organizations produce and assess communicative solutions in practice, and argues that government communication may be understood as a case of multiplicity. Empirically, the thesis draws upon ethnographic fieldwork conducted at five govern­ment organizations.

In the practices of producing and assessing communicative solutions it is uncertain what consti­tutes a ‘good’ outcome of government communication. This uncertainty is grasped by drawing upon analytical resources from the field of multiplicity-oriented ANT analyses, especially sociolo­gist John Law’s notion of ‘modes of ordering’.

The thesis shows how the different ordering attempts described by the modes of ordering coexist and interfere, and it suggests the notions of ‘sequencing’ and ‘singularizing’ for understanding how the multiplicity of government communication is handled in the production and assessment of communicative solutions.

Time and place
Friday 17 June, 2011
15:00 - 17:00

Copenhagen Business School
Porcelænshaven 26
2000 Frederiksberg

Room PH408

Reception
After the defense OMS PhD School will host a small reception at ICM, first floor, PH 18A

Dissertation
The dissertation will be available at Openarchive@cbs .

Arranged by
Department of Intercultural Communication and Management

Supervisors
Associate Professor Karl-Heinz Pogner
Copenhagen Business School

Associate Professor Tine Damsholt
University of Copenhagen

Assessment Committee
Professor Dan Kärreman (chair)
Copenhagen Business School

Professor Steve Woolgar
Saïd Business School, Oxford University

Senior Lecturer Anni Dugdale
University of Canberra, Australia