Lars Erik Kjekshus
Biographic Data
| ID | 1739841 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lars Erik Kjekshus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lars Erik |
| FAMILY NAME | Kjekshus |
| SIGNATURE | KJEKSHUS L E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0122-0625 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Building Trust With Trust? A Qualitative, Explorative Study of Implementing a Trust Reform in a Norwegian Municipality
What does a more trust-based governance reform look like in practice? This qualitative, exploratory study contributes to a relational view of reform design and implementation. Findings from documents and semi-structured interviews with municipal managers were analyzed using a theoretically developed framework for maintaining and building organizational trust through governance reform. The studied trust reform had an open design, and managers were…
How do professionals in home-based health care services react to a new trust-based way of working? – A story dialogue study
This study explored professionals' reflections regarding a new, trust-based way of working in municipal home-based services, in relation to the concept of trust. The new way of working represents an alternative to the purchaser–provider split model. Instead of decisions being made on behalf of the service user by an intermediate purchaser, small, interdisciplinary teams are to cooperate to make decisions. The study is qualitative and exploratory,…
Bridging the relevancy gap in higher education via project-based learning
Bridging the gap between higher education and working life is a central quest for both academia and industry. This article explores learning from conflict in project-based education as a tool for bridging the gap between education and work. A case of a project-based learning programme in the social sciences at graduate level at the University of Oslo is analysed with regard to assessing learning outcomes. The data comes from two empirical sources…
Socially induced motivation in learning
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a total digital disruption of all activities at universities. New digital tools and arenas replaced the daily physical interactions between students and professors. How did this affect motivation and learning outcomes? This article uses the pandemic as a prism to understand how and why social relations and interaction are important in the educational system. Data were obtained from 26 informants in two case studi…
Competing institutional logics in hospital management during the Covid-19 pandemic – lessons for the future
Hospitals had to adapt quickly when the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in January 2020. This article analyses the organisation of the crisis management efforts of Oslo University Hospital (OUH). The analysis is based on theories that organising is a process of sensemaking, especially in the face of unexpected events. Crises stress test organisations and can highlight important decision patterns and otherwise hidden underlying logics. Theories of eme…
Work-related moderators of the relationship between organizational change and sickness absence
The results from this study suggest that the relationship between unit-level downsizing and sickness absence varies according to the stage of change, and that work-related factors moderate this relationship, albeit in different directions. The identification of specific work-factors that moderate the adverse effects of change represents a hands-on foundation for managers and policy-makers to pursue healthy organizational change
Survival of the project
Medical Management in Norwegian Hospitals
Hospitals are increasing in size and complexity and hospital manage-ment is being professionalized. This paper aims to investigate how doctors engage in hospital management. Are doctors losing their influence? Based on a review of existing literature and data from a longitudinal study, we show that Norwegian doctors have seemingly lost some of their previous dominance in hospital manage-ment, as other professions have entered traditional areas of…
State Regulatory Capacity
State regulatory capacity is being threatened by internationalization, commercialization and persistent demand for public services. The article addresses the overarching question of how the state is changing due to recent public sector reforms. By studying changes in the regulation of the health care sector and the food sector in Norway, the article challenges the assumption that recent public sector reforms have necessarily led to a decline of t…
Survival of the project
State Regulatory Capacity
State regulatory capacity is being threatened by internationalization, commercialization and persistent demand for public services. The article addresses the overarching question of how the state is changing due to recent public sector reforms. By studying changes in the regulation of the health care sector and the food sector in Norway, the article challenges the assumption that recent public sector reforms have necessarily led to a decline of t…
Competing institutional logics in hospital management during the Covid-19 pandemic – lessons for the future
Hospitals had to adapt quickly when the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in January 2020. This article analyses the organisation of the crisis management efforts of Oslo University Hospital (OUH). The analysis is based on theories that organising is a process of sensemaking, especially in the face of unexpected events. Crises stress test organisations and can highlight important decision patterns and otherwise hidden underlying logics. Theories of eme…
State Regulatory Capacity
State regulatory capacity is being threatened by internationalization, commercialization and persistent demand for public services. The article addresses the overarching question of how the state is changing due to recent public sector reforms. By studying changes in the regulation of the health care sector and the food sector in Norway, the article challenges the assumption that recent public sector reforms have necessarily led to a decline of t…
Medical Management in Norwegian Hospitals
Hospitals are increasing in size and complexity and hospital manage-ment is being professionalized. This paper aims to investigate how doctors engage in hospital management. Are doctors losing their influence? Based on a review of existing literature and data from a longitudinal study, we show that Norwegian doctors have seemingly lost some of their previous dominance in hospital manage-ment, as other professions have entered traditional areas of…
Survival of the project
Work-related moderators of the relationship between organizational change and sickness absence
The results from this study suggest that the relationship between unit-level downsizing and sickness absence varies according to the stage of change, and that work-related factors moderate this relationship, albeit in different directions. The identification of specific work-factors that moderate the adverse effects of change represents a hands-on foundation for managers and policy-makers to pursue healthy organizational change
Socially induced motivation in learning
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a total digital disruption of all activities at universities. New digital tools and arenas replaced the daily physical interactions between students and professors. How did this affect motivation and learning outcomes? This article uses the pandemic as a prism to understand how and why social relations and interaction are important in the educational system. Data were obtained from 26 informants in two case studi…
Competing institutional logics in hospital management during the Covid-19 pandemic – lessons for the future
Hospitals had to adapt quickly when the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in January 2020. This article analyses the organisation of the crisis management efforts of Oslo University Hospital (OUH). The analysis is based on theories that organising is a process of sensemaking, especially in the face of unexpected events. Crises stress test organisations and can highlight important decision patterns and otherwise hidden underlying logics. Theories of eme…
How do professionals in home-based health care services react to a new trust-based way of working? – A story dialogue study
This study explored professionals' reflections regarding a new, trust-based way of working in municipal home-based services, in relation to the concept of trust. The new way of working represents an alternative to the purchaser–provider split model. Instead of decisions being made on behalf of the service user by an intermediate purchaser, small, interdisciplinary teams are to cooperate to make decisions. The study is qualitative and exploratory,…
Bridging the relevancy gap in higher education via project-based learning
Bridging the gap between higher education and working life is a central quest for both academia and industry. This article explores learning from conflict in project-based education as a tool for bridging the gap between education and work. A case of a project-based learning programme in the social sciences at graduate level at the University of Oslo is analysed with regard to assessing learning outcomes. The data comes from two empirical sources…
Building Trust With Trust? A Qualitative, Explorative Study of Implementing a Trust Reform in a Norwegian Municipality
What does a more trust-based governance reform look like in practice? This qualitative, exploratory study contributes to a relational view of reform design and implementation. Findings from documents and semi-structured interviews with municipal managers were analyzed using a theoretically developed framework for maintaining and building organizational trust through governance reform. The studied trust reform had an open design, and managers were…
Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Corporate governance (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Health care (2 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (2 works)