Center for Public Organization, Value and Innovation (POVI)
Activities and News
POVI 2021 - Spring ONLINE seminars
POVI Seminars 2021 - Spring
Every Tuesday from 12-12.40 at Teams. POVI Social – Virtual drop-in meeting
As Covid-19 is taking a toll on us all, we decided to hold a weekly virtual drop-in meeting where we can be social and update each other on matters large and small. There is no formal agenda, nor any requirements for attendance. Just drop in every Tuesday for an informal chat with your POVI-colleagues about how you are feeling and what has been on your mind lately.
March 22, 2021 at 12-13.30: Virtual Keynote speak with Renate Meyer. In this seminar, Professor Renate Meyer, who is Editor in Chief of Organization Studies, will share her thoughts on public sector articles in the journal such as what are the current agendas, missing debates, and possible contributions. There will also be plenty of room for questions regarding review and publishing processes.
April 8, 2021 at 12.13.30 Virtual Short presentations of POVI members ideas, projects and work (without papers): Post doc. Frank Meier Invisible project leadership work in digital transformation: A CCO approach. PhD Alexandrina Schmidt: ”The Dark side of Digitalization”. This PhD investigates how digitalization of job centers influences disadvantaged citizens. PhD. Ditte Thøgersen: Feedback is requested on a Call for abstracts for a book proposal about Public innovation management. The draft for the call will be sent out a week prior to the meeting and subesquently distributed through our network.
April 23, 2021 at 14-15.30 Virtual Keynote speak with Erin Metz McDonnell(https://erinmetzmcdonnell.weebly.com/). Patchwork Leviathan: How Organizational and Cognitive Insights Help Explain High-Performing Niches in Low-Income States
In states where corruption or ineffectiveness are expected of civil servants, how do some niches within the state emerge as distinctly more effective and public-oriented than the rest?
May 11, 2021 at 12-13.30: Virtual Roundtable and Paper presentations: PhD. Ditte Thøgersen: Windows of Translation - The asynchronous translation of an organizational mission, Post doc. Vibeke Kristine Scheller: Meeting cancer on home ground: Boundary work in at-home cancer trajectories
June 16, 2021 at 12-13.30: Live at CBS Book discussion: Public Innovation Management in a Danish context. Ditte Thøgersen & Anne Reff Pedersen. In this seminar authors will present their abstracts for the book chapters and we will discuss the shared narrative of the anthology. Finally, we will agree on a template for the structure of the chapters.
POVI 2020 - Fall/Winter ONLINE seminars
POVI Seminars 2020 - Fall/Winter
October 20, 2020 at 12-1 pm. What are we doing in POVI in our current research: The two presenters are: Paul Du Gay & Carsten Greve, IOA/CBS.
November 17, 2020 at 12-1.30 pm. POVI paper presentations: Lene Tolstrup Christensen, IOA/CBS & Giuseppe Grossi, Professor in Public Management and Accounting. Paper: A New Model of Corporatization. The institutionalization of the State Guarantee Model into the Danish transport infrastructure governance.
November 24, 2020 at 11-12.20 pm. Fall guest lecture, Professor Stephen Osborne, University of Edinburgh. Title: A Public Service Logic and The Creation of Public Value. Moderator: Ditte Thøgersen.
December 1, 2020 at 12-2 pm. Not the Christmas special, but the “Covid-19 special”: Discussion of public management and organizing in the context of COVID 19 and how to collect data in times with COVID19: Presenters of cases: Ann Fugl-Meyer, Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen and Kristine Zink Pedersen.
January 20, 2021 at 12-1.30 pm. What are we doing in POVI in our current research: The four presenters are: Camilla Sløk, Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen, Karen Boll, Vibeke Kirstine Scheller, IOA/CBS.
February 3, 2021 at 12- 2 pm. POVI paper presentations: 2 papers: Morten Knudsen: The dynamics of Ignorance & Pedro Monteiro: The concept of bureaucracy. IOA/CBS.
POVI 2020 - Spring seminars
POVI Seminars 2020 - Spring
January 20, 2020 at 1-4 pm.: Paper seminar on 'Policy and Program Implementation’. With Professor Jodi Sandfort, University of Minnesota, Associate Professor Martin Bæk Carstensen, IOA/CBS, and Associate Professor Susanne Boch Waldorff, IOA/CBS.
February 6, 2020 at 12-2 pm.: Paper seminar with Professor Steven Brown, Nottingham Trent University: Travelling memories: experiencing time in secure psychiatric care & Associate Professor Attila Bruni University of Trento: Flirting with objects and technologies, performing organization: STS and studies of organizational practice
February 21, 2020 at 2-3 pm: Paper Presentation by PhD fellow Robin Anderson Malmros, Gothenborg University: Managing Grand Challenges - How Scandinavian Municipalities Prevent Radicalization to Extremism.
March 12, 2020 at 12-1:30 pm: Seminar and book presentation with Professor Alasdair Roberts, University of Massachusetts Amherst: Strategies of Governing.
April 22, 2020 at 12-1:30 pm: Paper presentation with Professor Renate Meyer, CBS and Vienna University: Inequality, political opportunity structures, and the challenges of robust action: An analysis of city resilience strategies.
May 19, 2020 at 12-1:30 pm: Paper presentation with Associate Professor Karen Boll, IOA/CBS and discussion: The promissory economy of internal control.
June 24, 2020 at 12-6 pm: Young scholar paper seminar.
POVI 2019 - Fall Seminars
August 21, 2019, Paper presentation: “Occupying Policy Vacuums: The European Commission on Demographic Change” by Professor Leonard Seabrooke & Professor Eleni Tsingou, CBS and PhD Fellow Johann Ole Willers, NUPI & CBS
September 25, 2019, Paper presentation: “Standardizing professional discretion: The displacement of case-based rationality in front-line encounters.” by Associate Professor Kirstine Zinck Pedersen, CBS and Assistant Professor Anja Pors, University College Copenhagen
October 9, 2019, Paper presentation: “Meaningful work” & “Everybody is responsible, but nobody is guilty.” by Professor Marjo Lips-Wiersma, AUT University and Associate Professor Camilla Sløk, CBS
October 23, 2019, Paper presentation: “A Policy Enterpreneur Stuck on a Path? Was the "Coherence reform" (Sammenhængsreformen) Coherent?” by Professor Carsten Greve, CBS
November 12, 2019, Paper presentation: “Babylon or bureaucratic control? A Q methodology study of Danish elite actors' governance perception in the transport infrastructure sector.” by Postdoc Fellow Lene Tolstrup Christensen, CBS
December 3, 2019, Paper presentation: “Public Innovation” by PhD Fellow Ditte Thøgersen, CBS
POVI 2019 - Spring Seminars
January 16, 2019, Paper presentation: "Speaking Truth to Power? Anti-Bureaucratic Romanticism from Critical Organizational Theorizing to the White House" by associate professor Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth, CBS
February 8, 2019, POVI talk: “A research agenda and vision of futures of Public Administration research” by Professor Geert Bouckaert, KU Leuven, Belgium Event: click here
March 21, 2019, VELUX & POVI seminar: "When the State meets the Street' and 'The Enabling Roles of Bureaucracy in Collaboration Across Expertise Domains" by Assistant Professor Bernardo Zacka, MIT and Postdoc Fellow Pedro Monteiro, EMLYON Business School
Program: click here
May 15, 2019, Paper presentation: “Everybody is responsible, but nobody is guilty” by Associate Professor Camilla Sløk, CBS
June 19, 2019, Paper presentation: “Shared decision-making in a Health care setting” by Associate Professor Kirstine Zinck Pedersen, CBS
POVI 2018 - Fall Seminars
September 4, 2018: Round table talk & Paper presentation by Professor Anne Reff Pedersen & Associate Professor Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen, CBS
September 24, 2018: Talk by Professor Mark Moore, Harvard University
September 24-25, 2018: Professor Mark Moore visit at IOA on Program
Interview with Mark Moore: " Implications for leaders"
October 9, 2018: Paper presentation and round table talk by Professor Carsten Greve & Postdoc Fellow Lene Tolstrup Christensen, CBS
October 23, 2018: Talk by Assistant Professor Mie Plotnikof, Københavns Professionshøjskole
October 29-30, 2018: Workshop on Nordic experiences with public sector innovation and public value creation
Place: Copenhagen, Tivoli Hotel & Congress Center
Program
November 6, 2018: Paper presentation & Velux project talk by Professor Paul Du Gay, CBS
November 20, 2018: Talk on "Democracy, governance and law in the Nordic public sectors" & Nordic project talk by Professor Haldor Byrkjeflot, University of Oslo & CBS
POVI 2018 - Spring Seminars
April 16, 2018: Round table talk and paper presentation on “Institutional Logics, Embedded Agency and Performance Measurement as Decision-making” by visiting PhD Fellow Ben Ngoye, ESADE
April 30, 2018: Talk by Head of Analysis Ole Bech Lykkebo, Center for public Innovation (COI)
May 8, 2018: Paper presentation & IRSPM talk on “Translating value based management into health care" by Associate Professor Susanne Boch Waldorff, CBS and Chief Research Analyst Marie Henriette Madsen, VIVE
May 22, 2018: Talk by Research Director Vibeke Normann Andersen, VIVE
June 12, 2018: Paper presentation and round table talk on “Is there such a thing as”collaborative” tax checking?” by Associate Professor Karen Boll, CBS
June 26, 2018: Talk on "En forskers erfaringer fra ledelseskommissionens arbejde og resultater" by Associate Professor Caroline Grøn, KU