Tor Hernes

Presentation

My main research interests focus questions of organization and time. Whereas many works focus on time as regular temporal structuring, I am particularly interested in what may be called an event-based understanding of time. The main thrust of my work on time is directed towards an events-based view inspired by Alfred North Whitehead’s philosophy.

Another, and related, aspect of time that interests me, is how actors construct different combinations of near and distant horizons extending both into the future and the past, and how does that construction take place? Here lie, I think, some of the ”secrets” of organizational continuity and change. At IOA I also direct the Centre for Organizational Time.

Primary research areas

Organizational continuity and change

Organization and time

Theories of organization
 

Courses

MPG (Master of Public Governance)

SOL (Strategy, Organization and Leadership)

MBD (Master of Business Development)

Supervision

PhD: Jonathan Schmidt and Sophie Cappelen