Peter Sørensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3938518 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Sørensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Sørensen |
| SIGNATURE | SORENSEN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Williams College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7903-3539 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The governing instruments for resilience in the neo‐Weberian state: The challenge of integrating Ukrainian war refugees
The unsettling conditions of contemporary society, marked by recurrent transboundary crises and turbulence, stimulate discussions about the resilience of different governing models. Public bureaucracy and its governing instruments are confronted with the virtues and vices of models dominated by markets and networks. We present a case study demonstrating how the governing instruments within a system resembling a neo‐Weberian state model with a ref…
Perceived Changes in Leadership Behavior during Formal Leadership Education
The aim of this study is to research how leaders’ subordinates, peers, and superiors perceive changes in leadership behavior (measured as task, relation, and change orientations) when leaders in their organization participate in formal leadership education. This question is addressed in a longitudinal 3-year study. This article uses data from a panel of respondents ( n = 860–897) from four Danish municipalities. Descriptive statistics and leader …
Does public managers' type of education affect performance in public organizations? A systematic review
Although scholars agree that public managers' education could affect performance in public organizations, no attempt has been made to synthesize the empirical evidence on this relationship. Consequently, we ask, do public managers with a general management education, such as an MPA, or a specialist education, such as an MD in the context of a hospital, affect different types of performance in public organizations? Based on a preregistered systema…
Knowledge Asymmetries Between Research and Practice: A Social Systems Approach to Implementation Barriers in Organic Arable Farming
This article discusses the problem of implementing scientific knowledge in practice. The discussion is based on a case study of barriers to implementing research-based principles of sustainable organic arable farming. The current literature tends to see this problem either as a dissemination issue (the linear approach) or as a failure of science to address real-world problems (the co-constructive approach). We argue that Luhmann's theory of socia…
Limits to Scale and Scope: The Failure of a Danish Slaughterhouse Merger in 1890/91
The seminal work of Alfred Chandler was based on observations relating to the so-called second industrial revolution. They concerned the development of the large modern manufacturing company and the paths of that development. This article attempts to apply the framework to a failed Danish slaughterhouse merger in 1890/91 between the established private slaughterhouses and the rising co-operative ones. The article deals with the question of the re…
Pathological Outcomes of Observational Learning
This paper explores how Bayes-rational individuals learn sequentially from the discrete actions of others. Unlike earlier informational herding papers, we admit heterogeneous preferences. Not only may type-specific ‘herds’ eventually arise, but a new robust possibility emerges: confounded learning. Beliefs may converge to a limit point where history offers no decisive lessons for anyone, and each type's actions forever nontrivially split between …
Otto Mønsted and the early margarine industry: Alliance capitalism a century ago
The story of the Danish margarine matador, Otto Mensied has not previously been researched in depth. This paper gives a short outline of the career of this international businessman. The main emphasis is on his involvement in the British market. The eclectic theory of foreign direct investment has recently been expanded to cover international networks or alliances. Using this framework we offer some explanation of the fact that Mensted's British …
Job Characteristics, Job Satisfaction, Motivation and the Role of Context Variables: A Study of Hospital Pharmacists
This paper reports a study of hospital pharmacists' jobs using the Hackman-Oldham model of job design and motivation. Briefly, the model concerns the relationship between job characteristics (skill variety, task identity, task significance, and autonomy) and several outcome variables (general satisfaction, internal work motivation, and satisfaction with growth opportunities). The model also incorporates several moderating variables (job security,…
Job Redesign: A Study of the Role of Context Variables and Growth Needs
A contemporary model of increasing employee motivation and satisfaction through job redesign projects is examined through a study of medical technicians. Results indicate that the common use of aggregate measures masks important relationships between the core dimensions and employees' satisfaction and motivation
Job Characteristics, Job Satisfaction, Motivation and Satisfaction with Growth: A Study of Industrial Engineers
For the industrial engineering jobs included in the study job characteristics were associated with two of the three outcome variables as predicted by the Hackman-Oldham model. Individual job characteristics had differential impact on outcomes while moderating variables exhibited little or no influence
The Measurement of Intraorganizational Power: The Application of the Control Graph to Organization Development
This is a review of work done in the past twenty years with the Control Graph, including the evolution of Control-Graph studies, its relationship to other perspectives of organizations, and an overview of study findings. These findings are reviewed within the context of contingency theory, and attention is given to the use of the Control Graph in the implementa tion and measurement of organizational change. Advantages of the Con trol Graph for ap…
Senior Citizen Centers: A Study of Control, Loyalty and Effectiveness
This study reports the relationship between total and distribution of control to loyalty and organizational effectiveness within Senior Citizen Centers (social and recreational centers for the elderly). Based on previous findings (1, 4 ) it was hypothesized that organizational effectiveness and participant's loyalty would be positively related to amount of total control and inversely related to degree of authoritarian control. Questionnaires were…
Some Difficulties in Longitudinal Assessment of Need Satisfaction Related to Management by Objectives
This study reports changes in on-the-job need satisfaction as related to management training and development in Management by Objectives. Previous work (Timm, atensen, Strauss, & Babcock, 1977) indicated that the introduction of Management by Objectives may be related to positive changes in the extent to which various needs are met. One of the methodological difficulties, however, cited in the above study was the reliance upon respondents' recall…
Impact of Management by Objectives on Maslows Need Hierarchy: An Empirical Study
A pilot study of changes in need deprivation following the introduction of a Management by Objectives program is reported. Changes in deprivation were measured by the Porter-Lawler Needs Questionnaire distributed to 44 subjects in a community service organization. Findings indicate significant decreases in deprivation for 4 of 5 need levels: social, self-esteem, autonomy and self-actualization following the introduction of the program
Authoritarian Attitudes and Control in a Social Service Organization
The hypothesis that highly authoritarian Ss would tend to desire a more traditional control structure than those who scored lower was tested by giving a sample of 44 members of a social service organization Tannenbaum's Control Graph and the California F Scale. Results were mixed, with highly authoritarian Ss desiring more influence from immediate supervisory positions and Ss lower in authoritarianism desiring more influence from the general plan…
Student Authoritarian Attitudes and Perspectives on University Power Structures
The relationship of student authoritarian attitudes and the perception of university control structures are examined. Responses to the F scale and Tannenbaum-Kahn Questionnaire were obtained from 72 students. Students scoring higher in authoritarianism ( n = 24) tend to desire greater control by the administration and faculty and less control by student groups and perceive new student groups, i.e., the Students for a Democratic Society and Black …
Control, Communication and Organizational Effectiveness: An Empirical Examination
Patterns of Consensus in the Perception of Organizational Control
(1969). Patterns of Consensus in the Perception of Organizational Control. The Sociological Quarterly: Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 335-340
Knowledge Asymmetries Between Research and Practice: A Social Systems Approach to Implementation Barriers in Organic Arable Farming
This article discusses the problem of implementing scientific knowledge in practice. The discussion is based on a case study of barriers to implementing research-based principles of sustainable organic arable farming. The current literature tends to see this problem either as a dissemination issue (the linear approach) or as a failure of science to address real-world problems (the co-constructive approach). We argue that Luhmann's theory of socia…
The governing instruments for resilience in the neo‐Weberian state: The challenge of integrating Ukrainian war refugees
The unsettling conditions of contemporary society, marked by recurrent transboundary crises and turbulence, stimulate discussions about the resilience of different governing models. Public bureaucracy and its governing instruments are confronted with the virtues and vices of models dominated by markets and networks. We present a case study demonstrating how the governing instruments within a system resembling a neo‐Weberian state model with a ref…
Patterns of Consensus in the Perception of Organizational Control
(1969). Patterns of Consensus in the Perception of Organizational Control. The Sociological Quarterly: Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 335-340
Control, Communication and Organizational Effectiveness: An Empirical Examination
Student Authoritarian Attitudes and Perspectives on University Power Structures
The relationship of student authoritarian attitudes and the perception of university control structures are examined. Responses to the F scale and Tannenbaum-Kahn Questionnaire were obtained from 72 students. Students scoring higher in authoritarianism ( n = 24) tend to desire greater control by the administration and faculty and less control by student groups and perceive new student groups, i.e., the Students for a Democratic Society and Black …
Authoritarian Attitudes and Control in a Social Service Organization
The hypothesis that highly authoritarian Ss would tend to desire a more traditional control structure than those who scored lower was tested by giving a sample of 44 members of a social service organization Tannenbaum's Control Graph and the California F Scale. Results were mixed, with highly authoritarian Ss desiring more influence from immediate supervisory positions and Ss lower in authoritarianism desiring more influence from the general plan…
The Measurement of Intraorganizational Power: The Application of the Control Graph to Organization Development
This is a review of work done in the past twenty years with the Control Graph, including the evolution of Control-Graph studies, its relationship to other perspectives of organizations, and an overview of study findings. These findings are reviewed within the context of contingency theory, and attention is given to the use of the Control Graph in the implementa tion and measurement of organizational change. Advantages of the Con trol Graph for ap…
Senior Citizen Centers: A Study of Control, Loyalty and Effectiveness
This study reports the relationship between total and distribution of control to loyalty and organizational effectiveness within Senior Citizen Centers (social and recreational centers for the elderly). Based on previous findings (1, 4 ) it was hypothesized that organizational effectiveness and participant's loyalty would be positively related to amount of total control and inversely related to degree of authoritarian control. Questionnaires were…
Some Difficulties in Longitudinal Assessment of Need Satisfaction Related to Management by Objectives
This study reports changes in on-the-job need satisfaction as related to management training and development in Management by Objectives. Previous work (Timm, atensen, Strauss, & Babcock, 1977) indicated that the introduction of Management by Objectives may be related to positive changes in the extent to which various needs are met. One of the methodological difficulties, however, cited in the above study was the reliance upon respondents' recall…
Impact of Management by Objectives on Maslows Need Hierarchy: An Empirical Study
A pilot study of changes in need deprivation following the introduction of a Management by Objectives program is reported. Changes in deprivation were measured by the Porter-Lawler Needs Questionnaire distributed to 44 subjects in a community service organization. Findings indicate significant decreases in deprivation for 4 of 5 need levels: social, self-esteem, autonomy and self-actualization following the introduction of the program
Job Characteristics, Job Satisfaction, Motivation and Satisfaction with Growth: A Study of Industrial Engineers
For the industrial engineering jobs included in the study job characteristics were associated with two of the three outcome variables as predicted by the Hackman-Oldham model. Individual job characteristics had differential impact on outcomes while moderating variables exhibited little or no influence
Job Characteristics, Job Satisfaction, Motivation and the Role of Context Variables: A Study of Hospital Pharmacists
This paper reports a study of hospital pharmacists' jobs using the Hackman-Oldham model of job design and motivation. Briefly, the model concerns the relationship between job characteristics (skill variety, task identity, task significance, and autonomy) and several outcome variables (general satisfaction, internal work motivation, and satisfaction with growth opportunities). The model also incorporates several moderating variables (job security,…
Job Redesign: A Study of the Role of Context Variables and Growth Needs
A contemporary model of increasing employee motivation and satisfaction through job redesign projects is examined through a study of medical technicians. Results indicate that the common use of aggregate measures masks important relationships between the core dimensions and employees' satisfaction and motivation
Pathological Outcomes of Observational Learning
This paper explores how Bayes-rational individuals learn sequentially from the discrete actions of others. Unlike earlier informational herding papers, we admit heterogeneous preferences. Not only may type-specific ‘herds’ eventually arise, but a new robust possibility emerges: confounded learning. Beliefs may converge to a limit point where history offers no decisive lessons for anyone, and each type's actions forever nontrivially split between …
Otto Mønsted and the early margarine industry: Alliance capitalism a century ago
The story of the Danish margarine matador, Otto Mensied has not previously been researched in depth. This paper gives a short outline of the career of this international businessman. The main emphasis is on his involvement in the British market. The eclectic theory of foreign direct investment has recently been expanded to cover international networks or alliances. Using this framework we offer some explanation of the fact that Mensted's British …
Limits to Scale and Scope: The Failure of a Danish Slaughterhouse Merger in 1890/91
The seminal work of Alfred Chandler was based on observations relating to the so-called second industrial revolution. They concerned the development of the large modern manufacturing company and the paths of that development. This article attempts to apply the framework to a failed Danish slaughterhouse merger in 1890/91 between the established private slaughterhouses and the rising co-operative ones. The article deals with the question of the re…
Knowledge Asymmetries Between Research and Practice: A Social Systems Approach to Implementation Barriers in Organic Arable Farming
This article discusses the problem of implementing scientific knowledge in practice. The discussion is based on a case study of barriers to implementing research-based principles of sustainable organic arable farming. The current literature tends to see this problem either as a dissemination issue (the linear approach) or as a failure of science to address real-world problems (the co-constructive approach). We argue that Luhmann's theory of socia…
Does public managers' type of education affect performance in public organizations? A systematic review
Although scholars agree that public managers' education could affect performance in public organizations, no attempt has been made to synthesize the empirical evidence on this relationship. Consequently, we ask, do public managers with a general management education, such as an MPA, or a specialist education, such as an MD in the context of a hospital, affect different types of performance in public organizations? Based on a preregistered systema…
Perceived Changes in Leadership Behavior during Formal Leadership Education
The aim of this study is to research how leaders’ subordinates, peers, and superiors perceive changes in leadership behavior (measured as task, relation, and change orientations) when leaders in their organization participate in formal leadership education. This question is addressed in a longitudinal 3-year study. This article uses data from a panel of respondents ( n = 860–897) from four Danish municipalities. Descriptive statistics and leader …
The governing instruments for resilience in the neo‐Weberian state: The challenge of integrating Ukrainian war refugees
The unsettling conditions of contemporary society, marked by recurrent transboundary crises and turbulence, stimulate discussions about the resilience of different governing models. Public bureaucracy and its governing instruments are confronted with the virtues and vices of models dominated by markets and networks. We present a case study demonstrating how the governing instruments within a system resembling a neo‐Weberian state model with a ref…
Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Applied Psychology (7 works) · Applied Psychology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Control (management (4 works)