Nils Brunsson

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Nils Brunsson is an economist specialized in organizations. He holds the City of Stockholm Chair in Management at the Stockholm School of Economics since 1986. He has published more than 20 books and numerous articles on organizations. His research includes studies of decision-making, administrative reforms and standardization. He is now working with issues of rule-setting and regulation.

His publications include:

• The Consequences of Decision-Making, 2007
• Mechanisms of Hope: Maintaining the Dream of the Rational Organization, 2006
• A World of Standards, with Bengt Jacobsson, 2002
• Organizing Organizations,with James G. March and Johan P. Olsen, 1998
• The Reforming Organization, with Johan P. Olsen, 1993
• The Organization of Hypocrisy: Talk, Decisions and Actions in Organizations, 1991
• The Irrational Organization: Irrationality as a Basis for Organizational, 1985
• Propensity to change: an empirical study of decisions on reorientations, 1976