Organization theory and behaviour is the basic area of interest. The Ph.D. thesis was about organizational culture, and organizational culture is still central in the research. At the moment I am working with Organizational culture formation in small enterprises as part of the LOK programme. The research on the small enterprises has been focused on the Danish music industry, but certainly not limited to organizational culture. The research on the small enterprises in the music industry has made me interested in a number of topics: The balance between art and business, Innovation, Organizational fields (institutional theory), Organizing and sensemaking, Emotions and passion in organizations. The interest in these topics will be part of a new research project (CINEMA) on the Danish film industry.

Organisationer som kulturer. Samfundslitteratur, Ph.D.serie 7.92, København, 1992.

Leadership - a Symbol of Transformation?
Paper presented at the 11th International SCOS Conference "Organizations and Symbols of Transformation" at Collbato, Spain, June 28 - 30, 1993.

Creating New Mindscapes through Organizational Culture Research.
Southern Denmark Business School, Working Paper, 1993.

Vesa Suutari & Per Darmer
Comparing Role Expectations for the Leadership Behaviour of Managers in Finland and Denmark.
Proceedings of the University of Vaasa, Discussion Paper 162, 1993.

Per Darmer & Vesa Suutari
Implicit Management Theories - A Cross-cultural Comparison of Danish and Finnish Students.
Southern Denmark Business School, Working Paper, 1994.

The Business of Rock is Rolling - Organizing Rock Music.
Paper presented at the 12th International SCOS Conference "Organizing the Past". Calgary, Alberta, Canada, July 10 - 13, 1994.

La Fiesta de Toros - Bullfighting as a Symbolic Metaphor of Organization and Leadership.
Paper presented at "A Conference on Metaphors in Organisational Theory and Behaviour." The Management Centre King's College, University of London, 28 - 30 July, 1994.

Per Darmer & Per V. Freytag
Produktinnovation set i lyset af Grounded Theory. Artikel i HHSs jubilæumsskrift "Innovation i Økonomisk Perspektiv", Samfundslitteratur, 1994.

Kan involvering styres? - Et organisationskulturelt perspektiv.
Artikel i Bevort, Jensen & Prahl (red.): Engagement i arbejdet - Involvering i organisationer.
Handelshøjskolens Forlag, København, 1995.

Per Darmer & Per V. Freytag (red.):
Erhvervsøkonomisk undersøgelsesmetodik.
2. udgave, Samfundslitteratur, København, 1996.

The Process of Unifying Different Realities into a Socially Constructed Truth.
Paper presented at the EIASM conference "Organizing in a Multi-voiced World - Social Construction, Innovation, and Organizational Change", Leuven, Belgium, June 4 - 6, 1997.

Empty Space - Nothing with Multiple Meanings.
Paper presented at the 15th International SCOS Conference "The Empty Space", Warzaw, July 9-12, 1997.

Per Darmer & Per V. Freytag: How to Survive as the Small Fish in the Pond: The Case of the Danish Independent Labels. In Donckels & Miettinen: Entrepreneurship and SME Research: On its Way to the Next Millennium. Ahsgate, Aldershot, England, 1997, pp. 19-31.

Are the Independent Labels Really Independent ?
Paper presented at the 16th International SCOS Conference "Organisations and Symbols of Competition", Guarujá, Brazil, July 2nd - 5th, 1998.

The Indie Way. Paper presented at The Leisure, Labour, and Urban Life Conference, Leicester University, 29-31 March, 1999.

Torben Damgaard, Per V. Freytag & Per Darmer
Qualitative Methods in Business Studies. In Arch G. Woodside (ed.): Getting Better at Sensemaking, JAI Press Inc., Stamford, Connecticut, 2000, pp. 143 - 186.

HR i overflod - M nej tak. Om fraværet af HRM i musikbranchens små virksomheder. I Henrik Holt Larsen (red.): Menneskelige Ressourcer - Den mindre virksomheds konkurrencekraft. Nyt fra Samfundsvidenskaberne, København, 2000, s. 35-45.

The Subject(ivity) of Management. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 13: 4, 2000, pp. 334-351.

Per Darmer & Kim Wiencken:
Klimaundersøgelse: Et instrument til at skabe anvendelig viden.
I Sten Jönsson & Bøje Larsen (red): Teori & Praksis - Skandinaviske Perspektiver på Ledelse og Økonomistyring. Jurist- og Økonomforbundets Forlag, Randers, 2001, s. 407-429.

Is it here, there, everywhere ? - Organizational Culture Formation in Small Enterprises. LOK Working Paper, No. 4-2001.

The Roaring Silence - The Sound of Passion.
Paper presented at the 16th EGOS Colloquium, Barcelona, 4-6 July, 2002.

Discoursing Feelings.
Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Organizational Discourse: From Micro-Utterances to Macro-Inferences. London, July 24-26, 2002.

Passion I felt og forskning. I Kreiner & Scheuer (red.): Forskning i praksis. Nyt fra Samfundsvidenskaberne, Frederiksberg, 2002, s. 289-311.

Blending the Local and the Institutional - Caught in-between organizational fields. Paper presented at the 4th LOK Research Conference, Middelfart, December 1-2, 2003.

Jens Bøgetoft Christensen & Per Darmer: What is Organizational Culture Becoming. LOK Working Paper, No. 1 - 2004.

Læringskultur. I J. P. Ulhøj (red.): Viden om Ledelse. Børsens Forlag, København, 2004, s. 100-112.

Asmund W. Born & Per Darmer: Creating the Authentic Human and Organization - Human Resource Magican and Designer. Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on HRD Research and Practice Across Europe 2004. University of Limerick, Ireland, May 27th - 28th , 2004.

Music as an Integrated Part of Organizational Identity.
Paper presented at the 20th EGOS Colloquium. Sub-theme 19: Bridging Creativity and Management: Exploring Dynamic Relationships. Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 1-3, 2004.

Per Darmer (2006): Poetry as a Way to Inspire (the Management of) the Research Process. Management Decision, 44: 4, 2006, pp. 551 – 560.

Darmer, Grisoni, James & Rossi-Bochrara (2007): The Business Way and Away: a poetry play read individually and in symphony. Aesthesis International Journal of Art and Aesthesis in Management and Organizational Life. 1: 2, 2007, pp. 86 -91.

Jon Sundbo & Per Darmer (eds.) (2008): Creating Experiences in the Experience Economy. Elward Elgar,Cheltenham, UK.

Per Darmer (2008): Entrepreneurs in Music: the passion of experience creation. In Sundbo & Darmer (eds.): Creating Experiences in the Experience Economy. 2008, pp. 111 – 133.