PhD defence: Rex Degnegaard

In order to obtain the PhD degree Rex Degnegaard, Doctoral School of Organisation and Management Studies, has submitted his thesis entitled:

‘Strategic Change Management

- Change Management Challenges in the Danish Police Reform’

This PhD thesis is the result of a longitudinal study on change processes in the Danish Police Reform. The thesis focuses on unforeseen consequences of the Danish police reform in regards to change management and organizational implications. The study rests on a multi-sited methodology comprising an array of research methods.

The findings in the study point to the complex processes of change at many different levels of the police. Furthermore the study emphasizes the need for elevating managerial efforts in vast organizational transformation to a strategic level. The study shows how this is particularly relevant in reorganizing heavily institutionalized professional organizations and stresses how a strategic change management perspective must necessarily include the external level, the managerial level, and the operational level.

The study contributes primarily to the literature on change management, neo-institutionalism, and to the scarce yet emerging theoretical strands of police management. The defence is of relevance to academics and professionals with an interest in change management, public reforms, police management, and strategic leadership.

Supervisor:

Professor Mette Mønsted

Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, CBS

Assessment Committee:

Professor Flemming Poulfelt (chair)

Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, CBS

Professor Raymond Gordon

Bond University

Associate Professor Dorthe Staunæs

Danish School of Education

The PhD thesis is available here:

http://openarchive.cbs.dk/cbsweb/handle/10398/8008

Reception:

After the defense OMS Doctoral School will host a reception on the ground floor (between A and B)