Morten Knudsen's research interests are concentrated on organization processes and transformation in the Scandinavian welfare state with specific focus on the health care system. Departing from the classical sociological question of the possibility of social order he studies the various ways in which public organizations emerge. Currently, he is interested in standards, indicators and similar organizational techniques. Central questions are: how do these techniques construct the organizations, the employees, and the patients in new ways? Furthermore, he is interested in how (and with which constitutive effects) public organizations are constructed and how they attempt to stabilize themselves by means of selfdescriptions.
Theoretically he draws on systems theory, Foucault-related traditions, classical sociologists like Marx, Simmel, Durkheim, and Weber, critical theory etc.

Program Director of Master of Health Management.

Course coodinator of Accounting and performance measurement, SOL.

Expansive or Limitative Strategy? – A Case Study of Organizational Responses to New Public Health (with Annegrete Juul Nielsen & Katrine Finke). In Journal of Health Organization and Management, Vol.22, Number 2, 2008

Den multikoblede offentlige sektor (with Holger Højlund) in Pedersen, Dorthe; Carsten Greve & Holger Højlund (red.)(2008): Genopfindelsen af den offentlige sektor. Børsens forlag, pp. 257-278

Structural Couplings Between Organizations and Function Systems – Looking at Standards in Health Care. In Cybernetics and Human Knowing, Volume 14, number 2-3, 2007, pp. 111-131

Autolysis Within Organizations -A Case Study. In Soziale Systeme 12, heft 1, 2006, pp. 79-99

Displacing the Paradox of Decision Making -The Management of contingency in the modernization of a Danish county. In David Seidl and Kai Helge Becker (Ed.)(2005): Niklas Luhmann and Organization Studies. Liber and CBS press, pp. 107-126