Associate professor
, PhD
Dorthe Pedersen
Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy
Porcelænshaven 18AB
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Tel.: +45 3815 2187
Cell phone: +45 2192 9413
Fax:+45 3815 3635
E-mail:
dp.lpf@cbs.dk
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Affiliated with
Forum for Public Management and Governance, CBS
Research and publications focus on analyses of public sector policy, new steering technologies and their constitutive effects on management and leadership in public welfare organisations. Other areas are labour market relations and pay determination in public sector, organized interests and politics, and post graduate teaching and learning. Research approach is various institutional and discourse theories aiming to understand new political formations and historical-institutional contexts as well as practices of public sector management and governance. Current projects are on reform, steering, organising and managing in educational organisations.
Primary research areas
- Political science
- Public management and leadership
- Public sector policies
- Governance and education
- Labour market relations and policies
- Public sector employment relations
- HRM policies and technologies
Administrative functions
- Academic director, Master of Public Administration, MPA, CBS
- Academic director, Personal leadership development program, Master of Public Governance, MPG
Selected publications
Dorthe Pedersen & Marie Ryberg: Ledelse og organisering I gymnasiet og VUC, forskningsrapport på baggrund af vidensnetværk, Center for skoleledelse, Institut for Ledelse, Politik og Filosofi, CBS, februar 2012.
Dorthe Pedersen & Camilla Sløk: “The hybrid Head-teacher: The need of hybrids as deparadoxicification machines in times of retrenchment and reform”,
Paper for 6th
ECPR General Conference, Panel 613: The Bureaucracy and the retrenchment of the welfare state,
University of Iceland, Reykjavik
, August. 2011.
Dorthe Pedersen & Camilla Sløk: ”Reformpres og genopfindelse af gymnasieskolen – ledelse på potentialer i et postbureaukratisk styringsregime” i Juelskjær M, H. Knudsen, J. Grønbæk Pors og D. Staunæs (red): Ledelse uddannelsesinstitutioner. At lede det potentielle, København: Samfundslitteratur, 2011.
Dorthe Pedersen & J.C. Ry Nielsen: ”Deltagerorienteret lederuddannelse” i Helth, P. (red): Ledelse og Læring i Praksis. København: Samfundslitteratur, 2011.
Dorthe Pedersen & K. Jacobsen: Kampen om den danske model. Da Sosu´erne rystede det etablerede system. København: Informations Forlag, 2010.
Dorthe Pedersen: ”Reformer og ledelse” i Ledelse, København: Undervisningsministeriet, 2010.
Dorthe Pedersen & Camilla Sløk: “Leadership in the micro-politics of public sector reform. Lessons form the reform of Danish gymnasium schools”, Paper for the 13. th. IRSPM conference, Copenhagen, April 2009”
Dorthe Pedersen: “Den danske model i opbrud? Udfordringer for den faglige organisation mod år 2025”, Folkeskolen, Jubilæumsskrift, 2008. (www.folkeskolen.dk)
Dorthe Pedersen & Jean Hartley: ”The Changing context of public leadership and management: Implications for roles and dynamics” in International Journal of Public Sector Management, vol. 21, spec. issue 4, pp. 327-339, Emerald Group Publishing, 2008.
Dorthe Pedersen: ”Når Ledelsespositionen er til forhandling. Det dynamiske ledelsesrum og myten om den suveræne leder” i Erik Elgaard Sørensen m.fl. (red.): Ledelse og læring – i organisationer, Hans Reitzels Forlag, 2008.
Dorthe Pedersen: “Re-regulation and Self-Governance in the Managerial State – the historical formation of public governance, Working paper, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, CBS 2008 (EGOS paper)
Dorthe Pedersen: ”Management focus in multi- and cross-disciplinary teaching and learning? Linking theoretical perspectives and linking theory and practice”, Paper for discussion at the International workshop for post-graduate Public Sector Programmes, November, 2008, University of Limmerick, Ireland.
Dorthe Pedersen, Carsten Greve & Holger Højlund (red): Genopfindelsen af den offentlige sektor. Ledelsesudfordringer i reformernes tidsalder. Børsens Forlag, 2008.
Last updated by Anje Schmidt 01/03/2012