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Funding from FORTE for studying police investigators!

Oscar, Ola and Ulrika Haake received funding (3,2 Mkr!) from FORTE for more studies of the Police. The project is titled:”Den ”civilianiserade” polismyndigheten: Genus, status och professionsgränser inom brottsutredning”, approximately “The civilanized police authority: Gender, Status and boundaries of profession … Continue reading

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Article accepted: Sensemaking in detective work: The social nature of crime investigation

In what ways can detective work be understood as a social process? Together with Ola Lindberg and Oscar Rantatalo we explore this question in our recent article “Sensemaking in detective work: The social nature of crime investigation”, accepted for publication … Continue reading

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Funding for studying organizational routines in incident command centers

Last night, Oscar, Ola, and I received the news that Riksbankens jubileumsfond will finance our project “Organizational routines in incident command centers: Improving society’s ability to handle extreme events“!!! Please find the abstract below. Abstract The project investigates organizational routines … Continue reading

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Funding from AFA insurances to study meaningful routines in healthcare

Mattias, Malin and Virginia have received funding (approx 3000 000 kr; 300 000 Euro) from AFA insurances to study meaningful routines in healtcare! Please find the abstract below and more information in the URLs. https://mattiasjacobsson.me/2020/07/09/meaningful-routines/ https://www.afaforsakring.se/nyhetsrum/pressmeddelanden/2020/07/6-miljoner-till-forskning-inom-arbetsmiljo-och-halsa/?fbclid=IwAR08hg-XUe51fMp8JX4qgribnHOKmHoMopWz18jlDRguQGq0m37uLD-olSU It is well-known that … Continue reading

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The Dark side of team behavior recognized in Financial Times, Irish time and Weltwoche

David and Markus paper on the Dark side of team behavior, with lessons from The Walking Dead was recognized by Financial times. FT wrote a long nice piece on the lessons that could be learned, after having spoken to Markus … Continue reading

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Accepted for publication – Criminal investigation in rural areas: How police detectives manage remoteness and resource scarcity.

Oscar, Ola, and I had the paper “Criminal investigation in rural areas: How police detectives manage remoteness and resource scarcity” in Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice. Please find the abstract below: Abstract: This article addresses how rural environments characterized … Continue reading

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Accepted for publication- The dark side of group behavior: Zombie apocalypse lessons

David Buchanan and my article “The dark side of group behavior: Zombie apocalypse lessons” is accepted for publication in Academy of Management Perspectives (http://aom.org/Publications/AMP/Academy-of-Management-Perspectives.aspx) . Abstract: How will groups of survivors behave in a doomsday scenario? Will there be competition … Continue reading

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Presentation by Derin Kent on “Organizing for Temporal Uncertainty: On the road with storm chasers”, 10th of December

You are all invited to what will be a fascinating presentation by Doctor Derin Kent from Aalto University. Derin will be talking about his ethnography with storm chasers, and teamwork under uncertain conditions that epitome the adage of situations swinging between boredom … Continue reading

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First newsletter from the Organizing Extreme Contexts network distributed!

The first newsletter from the community was just distributed. If you have any information that you would like distributed or are curious about the community, please email info@organizingextremecontexts.org. A copy of the newsletter is found below. Here is the link: https://mailchi.mp/8a19a9f706f5/organizingextremecontexts?e=ce27d00106

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