Tor Hernes

Professor , Ph.D
Tor Hernes

Department of Organization

Kilen, Kilevej 14A, K4.44
2000 Frederiksberg

Tel.: +45 3815 2891
Cell phone: +45 2714 4137
Fax:+45 3815 2828
E-mail: th.ioa@cbs.dk

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My main research area at present is centred around process thinking, where my main source of inspiration is the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead. Whitehead has inspired writers of importance for organization studies, such as Bruno Latour and Niklas Luhmann. Process thinking holds great potential for understanding aspects of organization, such as complexity, contingency, stability and change. It provides ways of thinking about "how things become". I also think that phenomenology, combined with process thinking, may give some cues for advancing organization theory.

Primary research areas

Process thinking
Organization theory
Innovation processes
Leadership/management
Decision processes

Administrative functions

Associate dean for SOL (Master of Science programme in Strategy, Organization and Leadership)

Selected publications

Hernes, Tor (2004a) Studying multiple boundaries : A framework of analysis. Human Relations 57(1):9-29.

Hernes, Tor (2004b) The spatial construction of organization. Amsterdam: John Benjamin.

Hernes Tor and Tore Bakken (2003) “Implications of self-reference: Niklas Luhmann’s autopoiesis and organization studies.” Organization Studies 24(9) :1511-1536.

Hernes, Tor (2007) Understanding organization as process: Theory for a tangled world. London: Routledge.

Bakken, Tore and Tor Hernes (2006) Organizing is both verb and noun: Weick meets Whitehead. Organization Studies 27(11):1599-1616.

Hernes, Tor and Elke Weik (2007) Organization as process: Drawing a line between endogenous and exogenous views. Scandinavian Journal of Management: 23(3):251-264.

Bakken, Tore and Tor Hernes (2007) Autopoietic Organization Theory. In The SAGE Dictionary of Qualitative Management Research. London: Sage.

Garsten, Christina and Tor Hernes (2008) (Eds) Ethical dilemmas in management. London : Routledge

Hernes, Tor and Sally Maitlis (Eds.) (2010) (in press) Process, sensemaking and organizing (Perspectives on process organization studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Last updated by Dorrit Majlund 21/09/2010