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Department of Organization
- WETO – Work, Expertise, Technology and Organization
My research attends to the organizational, practical, and ethical implications of recent transformations of the public sector. In particular, I investigate the assumptions and constitutive effects of quality and safety reforms in the healthcare sector with a view to changes in concrete work practices, core tasks, and discretionary abilities of healthcare professionals. In my book Organizing Patient Safety: Failsafe Fantasies and Pragmatic Practices (2018, Palgrave), I inquire into the international preoccupation with patient safety and the faith in the possibility of creating failsafe organizations through system-improvements.
Recent research projects include an investigation of safety and emergency organization in healthcare during Covid-19; an examination of medical professionalism from an ‘ethics of office’ perspective (supported by the Velux Foundation); and an ethnographic investigation into the introduction of clinical pathways in cancer treatment with specific attention to reconfigurations of clinical practice and medical reasoning (supported by the Danish Cancer Society). Conceptually, I combine an engagement with American pragmatism, primarily John Dewey, with a wider interest in practical philosophy, classic organization theory, and medical sociology.
- Healthcare organization, clinical work, and medical reasoning
- Safety and quality management
- Organizational change and public sector reform
- Unintended effects of optimizing technology and standardization
- Professional training, habituation, and discretion
- Bureaucracy and ‘the bureaucratic ethos’
- American pragmatism, classic organization theory, and medical sociology
- Philosophy of science, qualitative methodology, and ethnography
- Change in Organizations, MSc in Business Administration and Psychology (Cand. Merc. Psyk.)
- The Organization of Healthcare Innovation, MSc in Business Administration and Innovation in Health Care (IHC)
- Introductory and Development module, Master of Public Governance, CBS Executive Master programme
- Perspectives in Organizational Analysis, PhD Course, Doctoral School in Organisation and Management Studies, CBS
- Research Design and Analysis, HD1, Graduate Diploma, CBS
- Pedersen, K. Z., & Pors, A. S. (2022). Discretionary Responses in Frontline Encounters: Balancing Standardization with the Ethics of Office. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muac012
- Pedersen, K. Z., & Roelsgaard Obling, A. (2020). ‘It's all about Time’: Temporal Effects of Cancer Pathway Introduction in Treatment and Care. Social Science & Medicine, 246, [112786]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112786
- Bosk, C. L., & Pedersen, K. Z. (2019). Blind Spots in the Science of Safety. The Lancet, 393(10175), 978-979. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30441-6
- Pedersen, K. Z., & Roelsgaard Obling, A. (2019). Organising through Compassion: The Introduction of Meta-virtue Management in the NHS. Sociology of Health and Illness, 41(7), 1338-1357. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12945
- Pedersen, K. Z. (2018). Organizing Patient Safety: Failsafe Fantasies and Pragmatic Practices. Palgrave Macmillan. Health, Technology and Society https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53786-7
- Pedersen, K. Z. (2016). Standardisation or Resilience? The Paradox of Stability and Change in Patient Safety. Sociology of Health and Illness, 38(7), 1180–1193. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12449
In: Healthcare, Vol. 12, No. 18, 9.2024
Paper presented at 16th Europen Sociological Association Conference 2024, 2024
Abstract from 39th EGOS Colloquium 2023, 2023
In: European Accounting Review, Vol. 32, No. 4, 2023, p. 875-902
In: Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Vol. 33, No. 1, 1.2023, p. 80-93
In: Politica - Tidsskrift for politisk videnskab, Vol. 55, No. 3, 9.2023, p. 218–241
In: Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, Vol. 6, No. 2-3, 6.2023, p. 119-130
Paper presented at 38th EGOS Colloquium 2022, 2022
In: Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, Vol. 5, No. 2, 6.2022, p. 151-163
In: The Politics of the Public Encounter: What Happens When Citizens Meet the State. . ed. /Peter Hube. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2022, p. 333-351
In: Journal of Interprofessional Care, Vol. 35, No. 4, 7.2021, p. 503-513
In: Organising Care in a Time of Covid-19: Implications for Leadership, Governance and Policy. . ed. /Justin Waring; Jean-Louis Denis; Anne Reff Pedersen; Tim Tenbensel. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan 2021, p. 99-120 (Organizational Behaviour in Healthcare)
Abstract from 15th Conference of the European Sociological Association. ESA 2021, 2021
In: Kvalitet og patientsikkerhed under covid 19: Bind 1. Håb er ikke en strategi. . ed. /Inge Kristensen; Mickael Bech; Nanna Kure-Biegel; Jan Mainz. Frederiksberg : Dansk Selskab for Patientsikkerhed 2021, p. 190-201 (Kvalitet og patientsikkerhed under covid-19, Vol. 1)
In: Citizen Categories in the Danish Welfare State: From the Founding Epoch to the Neoliberal Era. . ed. /Jesper Vestermark Køber; Niklas Olsen; Heidi Vad Jønsson. Odense : Syddansk Universitetsforlag 2021, p. 135-160
In: Tidsskrift for Arbejdsliv, Vol. 22, No. 3, 2020, p. 72-88
In: Discretion and the Quest for Controlled Freedom. ed. /Tony Evans; Peter Hupe. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan 2020, p. 221-236
In: European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1.2020, p. 75-95
In: Health, Technology and Society. ed. /Andrew Webster; Sally Wyatt. : Palgrave Macmillan 2020, p. 75-134 (Health, Technology And Society)
Paper presented at 36th EGOS Colloquium 2020, 2020
In: Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 246, 2.2020
In: Academy of Management Proceedings 2019. ed. /Guclu Atinc. Briarcliff Manor, NY : Academy of Management 2019, 1 p. (Academy of Management Proceedings)
In: The Lancet, Vol. 393, No. 10175, 3.2019, p. 978-979
In: Journal of Cultural Economy, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2.2019, p. 36-53
In: Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol. 41, No. 7, 9.2019, p. 1338-1357
Paper presented at ISA RC52 Interim Meeting 2019, 2019
Abstract from XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology 2018, 2018
In: The Triumph of Managerialism? : New Technologies of Government and their Implications for Value. . ed. /Anna Yeatman; Bogdan Costea. London : Rowman & Littlefield International 2018, p. 145-161
London : Palgrave Macmillan 2018, 279 p. (Health, Technology and Society)
Paper presented at XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology 2018, 2018
Paper presented at The 33rd EGOS Colloquium 2017, 2017
In: Når teknologier holder mere, end de lover: Kritiske perspektiver på ledelse af velfærd. . ed. /Anders La Cour; Susanne Boch Waldorff; Holger Højlund. København : Nyt fra Samfundsvidenskaberne 2017, p. 141-166
In: International Journal of Public Sector Management, Vol. 30, No. 1, 2017, p. 85-98
Paper presented at The 6th Latin American and European Meeting on Organizational Studies. LAEMOS 2016, 2016
In: Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol. 38, No. 7, 2016, p. 1180–1193
Paper presented at The 31st EGOS Colloquium 2015, 2015
Paper presented at Reclaiming the Public, 2015
Abstract from Kræft i kontekst – kliniske, organisatoriske og psykosociale perspektiver på kræftforløb, 2014
Abstract from Neo-liberalism in Translation, 2014
Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School [Phd] 2013, 323 p. (PhD series, No. 32.2013)
Abstract from The 4S/EASST Joint Conference 2012, 2012
Paper presented at The Sociology of Risk, 2011
Paper presented at The 5th Nordic Conference on Health Organization and Management, 2011
In: Ledelse gennem patienten: Nye styringsformer i sundhedsvæsenet. . ed. /Peter Kjær; Anne Reff. København : Handelshøjskolens Forlag 2010, p. 27-45
Abstract from 4S Conference 2010, 2010
Frederiksberg : Center for Health Management 2008, 125 p.
COVID-19 er et organisatorisk eksperiment i sundhedsvæsenet
558 forskere og undervisere: Universitetets formålsparagraffer skal skrives med grønt
Det umulige nul
Alvorlige bivirkninger i sundhedsvæsenet
Husk hierarkiet
Sundhedstjek af kræftpakkerne
Kræftlægers roller under forandring
- Cancer Pathways in a Psychosocial Perspective: Effects on Professional Roles and Patient Experience
- Office as a Vocation: re-instating the ethics of office in public service
- Cancer Pathways in a Psychosocial Perspective: Effects on Professional Roles and the Patient Experience
- Patient safety and organization
2023
Master of Public Health, Cophenhagen University
Teaching
(2 x 3 hours per year)
Dragør Kommune
Speaker at Leadership Seminar
(november)
2022
Master of Public Health, Copenhagen University
Teaching on the course: Patient Safety and Learning Culture: Analysing the Context
(2 x 3 hours per year)
Foredrag 'Organisering af patientsikkerhedsarbejdet'
2021