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Michael Pedersen

Michael Pedersen
Adjunkt , cand.merc.(fil.), PhD
Michael Pedersen

Institut for Ledelse, Politik og Filosofi

Porcelænshaven 18B
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Tlf.: +45 3815 2656
Mobiltelefon: +45 2271 4448
Fax:+45 3815 3635
E-mail: mip.lpf@cbs.dk



Link til denne hjemmeside: www.cbs.dk/staff/m_pedersen


My research interest at the moment revolves around the relationship between strategic human resource management and self-management. In particular I am interested in what I labeled strategic self-management. Self-management in strategic when it focus on why the activities you do as a self-managing employee is of value for the organization.  This implies a form of (self-)management that does not start and ends with the individual but instead focus on the interest of the collective. Strategic self-management is an explicit critique of the form of self-management that believes employees should base their choices and priorities on who there are as an authentic person and what they would like to become. In strategic self-management the basic principle is not know thyself but know your business. Knowing your business involves an insight into how your self-managing activities create value for organizations various stake-holders. What strategic self-management demands of employees and managers is the topic of my book with Anders Raastrup Kristensen ‘Strategisk selvledelse – ledelse mellem frihed og forretning. (Gyldendal Business 2013)’.  The book is a systematic reading of the empirical data collected in the research project Management of self-management   http://www.cbs.dk/Forskning/Institutter-centre/Projekter/Ledelse-af-selvledelse
Another topic in my research is the management of break downs and the management through break downs.  In particular I have focus on how the recognition of mental, physical and productivity break downs among self-managing employees is organized by certain forms of assemblages of knowledge and material practices e.g. how the knowledge tradition of coping informs how we understand a break down and its potential causes. But also how these break downs themselves organized what we understand as the substance, role and value-creation of management. Key publications about this research has been presented in my thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7745 and in publications in ephemera, Culture and Organization and Research in the Sociology of Organizations
My key theoretical framing for understanding self-management, strategic human resource management and break downs is a mixture between philosophy and management studies. Primarily the work of Gilles Deleuze, Hannah Arendt, Michael Foucault, Slavoj Zizek, Richard Sennett, Peter Drucker, Dave Ulrich, and  Anthony Hesketh plays an important role in framing my research. 

Primære forskningsområder

  • Strategic Human Resource Management and Self-management
  • The management of break downs and the management through break downs
  • Relationship between contemporary philosophy and management


Udvalgte publikationer

  • Kristensen, A.R. & Pedersen, M. (2012) Strategisk selvledelse – ledelse mellem frihed og forretning. Gyldendal Business.
  • Muhr, S.L., Pedersen, M., & Alvesson, M. (2012) Work-load, passion, and fun: Three discourse about the trade-off between self-exploitation and self-exploration in high performance cultures. Forthcoming Research on the Sociology of Organizations.
  • Hjorth, T.L. Gudmand-Hoyer, M, Bramming, P. & Pedersen, M: (2011): Governing work through self-management, ephemera 11 (2) pp 97-104
  • Pedersen, M. (2011) ’A career is nothing without a personal life’: on the social machine in the call for authentic employees, ephemera 11(1) 63-77 
  • Pedersen, M. & Muhr, S.L. (2010) ‘Faking it on Facebook’. Facebook and Philosophy, Open court books. pp 265-275
  • Pedersen, M. (2009): Tune in, break down and reboot: On the production of the stress-fit self-managing employee. Ph.d. Thesis. Copenhagen Business School p. 272
  • Pedersen, M. (2008): Tune in, break down and reboot – new machines for coping with the stress of commitment. Culture and Organization, 14 (2), pp. 171-185
Samlet publikationsliste (pdf)



Sidst opdateret af Anje Schmidt 30.04.2012