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Ann Westenholz

Ann Westenholz
Professor , Mag.scient. soc & Dr.merc.
Ann Westenholz

Institut for Organisation

Kilen, Kilevej 14A, 4.81
2000 Frederiksberg
Tlf.: +45 3815 2802
Fax:+45 3815 2828
E-mail: aw.ioa@cbs.dk



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Ann Westenholz is professor of Management and Strategy at the Department of Organization and Industrial Sociology, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Her long standing research interest is in workplace democracy and she has, in the last 30 years, been involved in research concerning semiautonomous working groups, workers' representative on boards of directors, worker-managed and worker-owned firms. She is currently investigating management and organizations in Chinese companies settled in Denmark.

Primære forskningsområder

  • Participative Management, Strategy and Change
  • Neo-institutional organizational theory and sensemaking
  • Commercial Open Source Software Communities
  • Temporary and Scattered Workpractice
  • Chinese companies settled in Denmark


Administrative funktioner

  • Bibliografisk faggruppe for Sociologi
 
Tidligere administrative funktioner
  • Medlem og næstformand i Statens Samfundsvidenskabelige Forskningsråd, Forskningsstyrelsen
  • Medlem af Forskeruddannelsesudvalget, Forskningsstyrelsen
  • Member of the Board of Representatives/The Danish Board of Technology
  • Leder af Doctoral School of Organization and Management Studies (OMS) at CBS
  • Leder af PhD program of Organizational Analyses (POA) at CBS
  • Medlem af konsortium, fakultetsråd, studienævn, diverse udvalg, institutrådsformand på CBS
  • Medlem af evalueringskomite ved NOKUT (Nationalt Organ for Kvalitet i Uddannelserne i Norge) til evaluering af ny forskerskole i ´Organisation og Ledelse´ på BI, Oslo


Udvalgte publikationer

  • Westenholz, Ann (Ed.) 2012 (forthcoming) The Janus Face of Commercial Open Source Software Communities - An investigation into institutional (non)work by interacting institutional actors. Copenhagen Business School Press.
  • Westenholz, Ann. 2012. Is the Scandinavian way of organizing challenged by the growing Chinese economy? Economic and Industrial Democracy. (Online published April 19)
  • Westenholz, Ann. 2009. Institutional entrepreneurs transgressing ideological/material practices in two mature organizational fields. In: Renate Meyer, Kerstin Sahlin, Marc Ventresca, Peter Walgenbach (eds.) Ideology and Organizational Institutionalism. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Emerald Group Publ. (Chap. 9).
  • Westenholz, Ann. 2006. Working Conditions of Temporarily Company-Afffiliated IT Workers. New Technology, Work and Employment, 21:1:29-42.
  • Westenholz, Ann. 2006. Employee Participation in the Managing of Working Life - a historical analysis focusing on Danish and Scandinavian conditions. International Review of Sociology, 16:1:79-100.
  • Westenholz, Ann. 2006. Identity Work and Meaning Arena - beyond actor/structure and micro/macro destinations in an empirical analysis of IT Workers. American Behavior Scientist, 49:7:1015-1029.
  • Westenholz, Ann. Identity, Times and Work. Time & Society, 15:1:33-56.
  • Jensen, Torben Elgaard and Ann Westenholz (eds.). 2004. Identity in the Age of the New Economy - Life in Temporary and Scattered Work Practice. Edward Elgard.
  • Westenholz, Ann. 2004. Emerging Identities beyond Organizational Boundaries. In: Jensen, Torben Elgaard and Ann Westenholz (eds.): Identity in the Age of the New Economy - Life in Temporary and Scattered Work Practice. Edward Elgard.
  • Metz, David og Ann Westenholz. 2004. Identity Creation in Temporary and Scattered Work Practice - in a Relational Perspective. In: Koot, W., P. Leisink and P. Verweel: Shifting Alliances and Passing Partnerships. Edward Elgar.
  • Westenholz, Ann. 2003. Organizational Citizens - unionized wage earners, participative management and beyond. In: Czarniawska, B. and G. Sevón: The Northern Lights: Organization Theory in Scandinavia. Liber Abstract.
  • Christensen, Søren og Ann Westenholz. 2001. Institutionalisering af medarbejdervalgte i danske virksomhedsbestyrelser og den sociale konstruktion af bestyrelsen som praktisk strategisk aktør. Dansk Sociologi. 12. årg. nr. 1. Ss. 7-27.
  • Metz, David og Ann Westenholz. 2000. Identitetsdannelse i midlertidige og spredte arbejdsfælleskaber - belyst ved et relationelt perspektiv. Tidskrift for Arbejdsliv. 2. årg. nr. 4. Ss. 61-74.
  • Christensen, Søren og Ann Westenholz. 2000. Towards a Relational Paradigm in Organizational Decision Making: American Behavioral Scientist. Vol. 43, no 8. Pp 1301-1315.
  • Christensen, Søren and Ann Westenholz. 1999. Medarbejdervalgte i danske virksomheder - fra lønarbejder til borger i virksomhedssamfundet. (Employee Representatives in Danish Companies - From Wage Earners to Citizens in the Corporate Society.) København: Handelshøjskolens Forlag.
  • Christensen, Søren and Ann Westenholz. 1999. Boards of Directors as Strategists in an Enacted World - The Danish Case. Journal of Management and Governance. Vol. 3, issue 3. Pp. 261-286.
  • Christensen, Søren and Ann Westenholz. 1997. The Social/Behavioral Construction of Employees as Strategic Company Actors on Boards of Directors. American Behavioral Scientist. Vol 40, no 4, February. Pp. 490-501.
  • Borum, Finn and Ann Westenholz. 1995. An Organization's Incorporation of Institutional Models: Actors and Institutional Ambiguity. Organizational Field Multiplicity and the Role of Actors. In: Scott, W. Richard and S. Christensen (eds.) The Institutional Construction of Organizations. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. Pp. 113-131.
  • Westenholz, Ann. 1994. Modeller af arbejdspladsdemokratiet efter 2. verdenskrig. Fra et logik- til et paradoksperspektiv med fokus på det organisatoriske niveau. Doktorafhandling. Københaven: Handelshøjskolen i København.
  • Westenholz, Ann. 1993. Paradoxical Change of Frames of Reference. Organization Studies. Vol 14, no 1. Pp. 37-58.
  • Westenholz, Ann and Lars Lindkvist. 1991. Employee Owned Companies in the Nordic Countries. In: Russel, R. and V. Rus (eds.) International Handbook of Participation in Organization. Pp. 323-343.
  • Westenholz, Ann and Lars Lindkvist (eds). 1988. Medarbetarägda företag i Norden. Historisk parantes eller framtida möjlighet? Nordisk Ministerråd. NU: 1.
  • Ingerslev, Poul et al (eds.). 1984. Medarbejderejede virksomheder. Det kan lade sig gøre. København: Chr. Ejlers Forlag.


Sidst opdateret af Ann Westenholz 08.05.2012