Department of Organization

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Department of Organization

  • imagine .. Centre for Creative Industries and Institutions
  • People and Organizing (PnO)
Frans
Bevort
Associate professor
,
PHD


Room: KIL/14.A-3.55
Tel:
+4538152986
E-mail: fb.ioa@cbs.dk
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Presentation

I have been studying organizations and working for more than two decades, with a specific focus on the development and management of people especially in knowledge intensive or professional organizational settings. 
The historical development of the relation between individual and organization has been an enduring interest. Therefore, themes within (Strategic) HRM, HRD, PM, OD, IR and OB have my attention.

I have been working ethnographically using a symbolic interactionist approach to understand the micro-foundations of institutional logics. For instance, the way professionals make sense of contradictory institutional 
logics of management in professional service firms (Bévort, 2012).

I am responsible for the administration and following analysis and publication of the Cranet survey (for two iterations, 2014 and 2021 and now the upcoming in 2026), which explores the state of Danish HRM in 
organizations with more than 100 employees (the survey is conducted in collaboration with 39 other countries).

I am currently working on projects that investigate how AI influences professional judgment and work (Bevort et al., 2024) and how institutional context shapes HRM practices (Einarsdottir et al., 2025).

This include digitalization and robots within HRM and how machine learning and GenAI affect professional work done by tax professionals, lawyers, midwives, doctors, and car sales professionals.


 

Primary research areas

Human Resource Management (HRM)

Employment Relations and Labour market theory

Management of Professional organizations and work

Symbolical interactionism (SI)

Institutional theory (NIT)

Curriculum Vitae
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Courses

Cand Merc/Soc HRM
Master of Business Development
Creative Business Processes
 

Supervision

Charlotte Dalgaard Thomsen (ongoing) for UKON, the project is called: Navigating Cross-Pressure.

Kathrine Solgaard Sørensen (2023) for Ballisager, the thesis is called: Who to hire? A situated study of employee selection as routine,. practice and process.
 

Selected publications

Einarsdottir, A., Bévort, F., Sandvik, A. M., Rizov, M., Smale, A., & Tengblad, S. (2025). Sometimes collaboration is the better strategy: institutional context and the calculative and collaborative HRM-performance relationship in the Nordics, 1999–2021. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 1–32. 
Gooderham, P. N., Olsen, K. M., Sandvik, A. M., Smale, A., Bévort, F., Einarsdottir, A., & Tengblad, S. (2025). The Nordic model of HRM from 1995–2021–a case of ‘bounded change’?. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 1-33.
Bévort, F., Sundbo, J., & Fuglsang, L. (2024). Using artificial intelligence to augment empathetic competences in professional services. In Handbook of Services and Artificial Intelligence (pp. 158-175). Edward Elgar Publishing.
Bévort, Frans (2023). "The role of organisational narrative in continuity and change of organisations.in Hernes and Feuls (2023), "A Research Agenda for Organisational Continuity and Change. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. 207-224.
Nielsen, R. K., Bevort, F., Henriksen, T. D., Hjalager, A. M., & Lyndgaard, D (2023). Navigating Leadership Paradox. Paradox. De Gruyter.
Suddaby, R., Bévort, F., & Strandgaard Pedersen, J. (2019). Professional judgment and legitimacy work in an organizationally embedded profession. Journal of Professions and Organization.
Bévort, F., & Suddaby, R. (2016). Scripting professional identities: How individuals make sense of contradictory institutional logics. Journal of Professions and Organization
 

Publications sorted by:
2025
Arney Einarsdottir; Frans Bévort; Alexander Madsen Sandvik; Marian Rizov; Adam Smale; Stefan Tengblad / Sometimes Collaboration is the Better Strategy : Institutional Context and the Calculative and Collaborative HRM-performance Relationship in the Nordics, 1999–2021.
In: International Journal of Human Resource Management, Vol. 36, No. 12, 2025, p. 2051-2082
Journal article > peer review
Frans Bévort; Mathias Kongshavn Vigdal / The Lonely Robots of HR : A (Show-)Case of Automation, Augmentation and Skill Development.
In: Proceedings of the Eighty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. ed. /Sonia Taneja. Valhalla, NY : Academy of Management 2025, 1 p. (Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings)
Conference abstract in proceedings > peer review
Paul N. Gooderham; Karen Modesta Olsen; Alexander Madsen Sandvik; Adam Smale; Frans Bévort; Arney Einarsdottir / The Nordic Model of HRM From 1995–2021 : A Case of ‘Bounded Change’?.
In: International Journal of Human Resource Management, Vol. 36, No. 12, 2025, p. 2018-2050
Journal article > peer review
2024
Frans Bévort; Jon Sundbo; Lars Fuglsang / Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Empathetic Competences in Professional Services
In: Handbook of Services and Artificial Intelligence. ed. /Ada Scupola; Jon Sundbo; Lars Fuglsang; Anders Henten. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2024, p. 158–175
Book chapter > peer review
2023
Rikke Kristine Nielsen; Frans Bévort; Thomas Duus Henriksen; Anne-Mette Hjalager; Danielle Bjerre Lyndgaard / Navigating Leadership Paradox : Engaging Paradoxical Thinking in Practice.
Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter 2023, 214 p. (De Gruyter Transformative Thinking and Practice of Leadership and Its Development, Vol. 3)
Book > peer review
Frans Bévort / The Role of Organisational Narrative in Continuity and Change of Organisations
In: A Research Agenda for Organisational Continuity and Change. ed. /Tor Hernes; Miriam Feuls. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2023, p. 207-224 (Elgar Research Agendas)
Book chapter
2022
Thomas Duus Henriksen; Rikke Kristine Nielsen; Frans Bévort / A Design-based Approach to Exploring Learning Games for Managers’ Paradox Learning
Paper presented at 38th EGOS Colloquium 2022, 2022
Paper > peer review
Frans Bévort; Stine Marie Lund Thorsen / HRM i Danmark i lyset af corona-pandemien : HR-funktionen i en ny og styrket position?.
Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School, CBS 2022, 80 p.
Report
2021
Thomas Duus Henriksen; Rikke Kristine Nielsen; Signe Vikkelsø; Frans Bévort; Mette Mogensen / A Paradox Rarely Comes Alone a Quantitative Approach to Investigating Knotted Leadership Paradoxes in SMEs
In: Scandinavian Journal of Management, Vol. 37, No. 1, 3.2021
Journal article > peer review
Frans Bévort; Lotte Holck; Mette Mogensen / Critical Contextualized Studies of Human Resource Management
In: The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Approaches to Human Resource Management. ed. /Emma Parry; Michael J. Morley; Chris Brewster. Oxford : Oxford University Press 2021, p. 71-95 (Oxford Handbooks)
Book chapter > peer review
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Research Projects
Outside activities
2023
Tandlægeforeningen
Oplæg, ledelse af professionelle
(January 6, 3 hours)
 
Cope Consulting/Kroager ApS
Oplæg om bæredygtig ledelse
(April 18, 1,5 hours)
 
2022
Dynamisk HR netværk
Presentation on HRM
(September 20, 2,5 hours)

ATP
Presentation on matrix organizations
(November 2, 4 hours)

2021
Dansk Industri 
Oplæg for DI HR-direktør netværk
2. september (4 timer) Gl. Vindinge
 
2020
Folkeuniversitetet
Undervisning
 
CBS Executive
Muligvis HRM-sommerskole
 
2019
No outside activities to report
 
2018
Finansforbundet
Sommerskole om kompetenceudvikling i den finansielle sektor
 
CPH Business
Oplæg om kompetenceudvikling i den finansielle sektor