• Collaborative Management in Norwegian Municipalities: Do Middle Managers Make a Difference? 

      Haug, Are Vegard (Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration;Vol 26, No 2 (2022), Academic article, 2022)
      Norway is an example of the Nordic model in which the local level is of fundamental importance. However, the municipalities are relatively small and increasingly subject to decentralisation of their activities. To compensate ...
    • The construction of leadership practice: Making sense of leader competencies 

      Jansson, Dag; Døving, Erik; Elstad, Beate (Leadership;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02-24)
      The notion of leadership competencies is a much-debated issue. In this article, we propose that how the leader makes sense of his or her competencies is key to leadership practice. Specifically, we look at how leaders ...
    • Core-city climate leadership in metropolitan contractual management agreements 

      Hanssen, Gro Sandkjær; Tønnesen, Anders (European Planning Studies;Volume 30, 2022 - Issue 2, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07-01)
      Metropolitan governance and planning increasingly are understood as essential in managing urban growth and fostering a sustainable and climate-friendly metropolitan development. Lately, a contractual turn can be observed ...
    • Leading co-creation for the green shift 

      Hofstad, Hege; Sørensen, Eva; Torfing, Jacob; Vedeld, Trond (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      European cities are formulating ambitious climate mitigation goals and calling for the mobilization of societal resources through the co-creation of innovative solutions to help them achieve their goals. To improve the ...
    • Polycentric urban climate governance: Creating synergies between integrative and interactive governance in Oslo 

      Vedeld, Trond; Hofstad, Hege; Hilde, Solli; Gro Sandkjær, Hanssen (Environmental Policy and Governance;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-03-08)
      Abstract Cities have emerged as important agents and sites in climate governance interventions, experimentations and networks. Drawing upon two strains of climate governance and collaborative governance literature, ...
    • Using the metaphor of orchestration to make sense of facilitating teacher educator professional development 

      Hordvik, Mats Melvold; Fletcher, Tim; Haugen, Anders L. Hage; Engebretsen, Berit; Møller, Lasse (European Journal of Teacher Education;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07-14)
      The purpose of this research was to examine the ways that a metaphor could help describe and make sense of the facilitation practices of a teacher educator who collaborated in a self-study of teacher education practice ...