Signe Vikkelsø

Associate professor , Ph.D.
Signe Vikkelsø

Department of Organization

Kilen, Kilevej 14A, 4.43
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Denmark

Tel.: +45 3815 2827
Cell phone: +45 6067 9166
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E-mail: ssv.ioa@cbs.dk

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Affiliated with Center for Health Management

Signe Vikkelsø is Associate Professor at Department of Organization, CBS. Her research focuses upon the relationship between organization, technology and intervention.

Drawing upon empirical examples from healthcare and group analysis, her publications address, for example, how technologies change tasks, ambitions and boundaries in organizations; how technology is mobilized in order to realize political, professional and administrative visions; and how analytical and intervention methods contributes to the production of humans and organizations as distinct entities.

Currently, she works on an analysis of "the lost notion of 'task' in organization theory" as part of the collaborative research project "What Makes Organization?" funded by the Velux Foundation. The project investigates the historical and current ability of organization theory as a conceptual universe and set of analytical methods to create "the organization" and "the organizational" as concrete, tangible entities that can be managed and problematised. Here is the project's webpage .

Primary research areas

History of organization theory
Change processes
Intervention techniques
Work organisation
Information technology
Healthcare

Administrative functions

Coordinator of the PhD Program in Organizational and Management Analyses (OMS) for IOA

Administrative functions

Member of Academic Council

Selected publications

Holten Møller, N.L. & Vikkelsø, S. (2012). The clinical work of secretaries: exploring the intersection of administrative and clinical work in the diagnosing process . COOP 2012 Conference Proceedings.

Du Gay, P. & Vikkelsø, S. (2012). Reflections: on the lost specification of 'change'. Journal of Change Management. Available as first-online.

Vikkelsø, S. (2012). The fragility of a robust therapeutic technique: the case of Bion's experience group. Theory & Psychology, 22(2), April 2012, pp.213-233.

Derksen,M., Vikkelsø, S. & Beaulieau, A. (2012). Social technologies: cross-disciplinary reflections on technologies in and from the social sciences.Theory & Psychology, 22(2), April 2012, pp.139-147.

Vikkelsø, S. (2010). Mobilizing information infrastructure, shaping patient-centred care, International Journal of Public Sector Management, 23(4), pp. 340-352.

Kjær. P & Vikkelsø, S. (eds.) (2008). Redrawing boundaries within healthcare, Special issue of Journal of Health Organization and Management, 22(4).

Vikkelsø, S. (2007). Description as intervention: engagement and resistance in actor-network analyses, Science as Culture, 16(3), pp.297-309.

Vikkelsø, S. (2007). In between curing and counting: performative effects of experiments with healthcare information infrastructure, Financial Accountability & Management, 23(3), pp.269-288.

Winthereik, B. & S. Vikkelsø (2005). ICT and integrated care: some dilemmas of standardising inter-organisational communication, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 14(1), pp.43-67.

Vikkelsø, S. (2005). Subtle reorganization of work, attention and risks: electronic patient records and organizational consequences , Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, 17(1), pp. 3-30.

Svenningsen, S. (2003). The Electronic Patient Record and Medical Practice - Reorganization of Roles, Responsibilities and Risks . PhD Series 10.2003, PhD dissertation, Copenhagen Business School.

Last updated by Sige Vikkelsø 06/05/2012