The target field of MPP is management of all types of organisations. We focus on management as a sociality-creating phenomenon rather than management from an economic and efficiency-oriented point of view. Hence, we see management as something that creates norms, rules, terminologies, organisations, groups, regions etc.

The department has the following objectives:

MPP (LPF) conducts internationally oriented critically-constructive management research, educates students to become reflective practicians and makes a responsible and visible contribution to society by creating knowledge that makes a difference.

Management plays a central and significant role in modern society. At MPP we see management as a sociality-creating and transforming phenomenon. Our management research must be constructive in order to make it useful, but it must also be critical in order to create a distance to and added value for other organisations - whether private, public, political or voluntary.

MPP’s disciplinary diversity is maintained through the development of distinct fields of research that are connected to each of the different

But the Department is also held together by a number of themes that cut across disciplinary boundaries. These themes determine a contemporary and timely agenda and the disciplinary environments contribute differently with different perspectives on recurrent research themes. The Department should, by this means, be able to deliver a broader articulation and understanding of these themes than a more rigorously bounded environment would. The dominant management-related research themes at MPP have in recent years been stipulated as: time, space, technology and normativity.

Centres:
A number of centres operate under the auspices of MPP. The organisational structure of the centres is a means, by which a new focus area can be emphasised:

Centre for Art and Leadership

  Centre for School Leadership