tlhioa
Department of Organization
Thomas
Lopdrup-Hjorth
Associate professor
Leave:
On leave
Room:
Outside campus
E-mail:
tlh.ioa@cbs.dk
252004
Presentation
My current research revolves around two main topics. On the one hand, I’ve since my PhD been preoccupied with the history and foundational problems of Organization Theory – in particular with what has happened to the core object of Organization Theory, i.e. ‘organization’.
On the other hand, I’m involved in a large research project on ‘the ethics of office’ in state service. In conjunction with this, my research explores the conditions for and critiques of bureaucratic office-holding, with a primary emphasis on Denmark. These two lines of research currently intersect in a study of anti-statist left- and right-wing critiques of formal organizational principles.
Primary research areas
Organization theory
Bureaucracy and formal organization
Ethos of office / state service
Curriculum Vitae
Link to this homepage
www.cbs.dk/en/staff/tlhioa
Courses
Organization theory – HA(fil.)
Strategy – Master of Public Governance
Supervision
I supervise projects at bachelor and master levels. My key areas of expertise include: Management, organization, strategy, and administration within the public as well as the private sector. I have previously supervised projects on a wide range of topics such as, for instance, bureaucracy, co-creation, the history of organization theory, creativity, philosophy, and political economy.
Selected publications
du Gay, P. and T. Lopdrup-Hjorth (2016) “Fear of the formal”, European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 3(1): 6-40. https://doi.org/10.1080/23254823.2016.1160658
Lopdrup-Hjorth, T. (2015) “Object and Objective Lost? Organization-Phobia in Organization Theory”, Journal of Cultural Economy, 8(4): 439-461. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2014.989883
Lopdrup-Hjorth, T., M. Gudmand-Høyer, P. Bramming and M. Pedersen (2011): “Governing Work through Self-management”, editorial in Ephemera: theory & politics in organization, 11(2): 97-104. http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/governing-work-through-self-...
Gudmand-Høyer, M. & T. Lopdrup Hjorth (2009): “Liberal Biopolitics Reborn”, Foucault Studies, nr. 7, pp. 99-130.
Publications sorted by:
2024
Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth; Paul du Gay / Facing Up to the Present? : Cultivating Political Judgment and a Sense of Reality in Contemporary Organizational Life.
In: Sociological Thinking in Contemporary Organizational Scholarship. ed. /Stewart Clegg; Michael Grothe-Hammer; Kathia Serrano Velarde. Leeds : Emerald Group Publishing 2024, p. 85-108 (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. vol. 90)
In: Sociological Thinking in Contemporary Organizational Scholarship. ed. /Stewart Clegg; Michael Grothe-Hammer; Kathia Serrano Velarde. Leeds : Emerald Group Publishing 2024, p. 85-108 (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. vol. 90)
Book chapter > peer review
Paul du Gay; Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth / Organizing States : The Continuing Relevance of Formal Organization Within Political Administration.
In: Organization Theory, Vol. 5, No. 1, 3.2024
In: Organization Theory, Vol. 5, No. 1, 3.2024
Journal article > peer review
2023
Anne Roelsgaard Obling; Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth / Blowing the Whistle in National Security and Defence Organizations : Navigating the Tensions Between Transparency and Secrecy.
Paper presented at XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, 2023
Paper presented at XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, 2023
Paper > peer review
Cara Reed; Alexandra Bristow; Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth; Gabriela Spanghero Lotta / Expert Futures? : Re-examining the Role of Experts and Expertise in Organizations and Organizing.
In: Organization, 2023
In: Organization, 2023
Comment/debate
Paul du Gay; Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth / ”Reason of State” As an Organising Stance for the World As We Find It
Paper presented at XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, 2023
Paper presented at XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, 2023
Paper > peer review
2022
Paul du Gay; Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth / For Public Service : State, Office and Ethics.
Abingdon : Routledge 2022, 183 p. (CRESC. Culture, Economy and the Social)
Abingdon : Routledge 2022, 183 p. (CRESC. Culture, Economy and the Social)
Book > peer review
Cara Reed; Alexandra Bristow; Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth / Sub-theme 31 : Imperfect Knowledge: Re-examining the Role of Experts and Expertise.
Brussels : European Group for Organizational Studies 2022
Brussels : European Group for Organizational Studies 2022
Other contribution
2020
Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth; Paul du Gay / Speaking Truth to Power? : Anti-bureaucratic Romanticism from Critical Organizational Theorizing to the White House.
In: Organization, Vol. 27, No. 3, 5.2020, p. 441-453
In: Organization, Vol. 27, No. 3, 5.2020, p. 441-453
Journal article > peer review
2019
Paul du Gay; Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth; Kirstine Zinck Pedersen; Anne Roelsgaard Obling / Character and Organization
In: Journal of Cultural Economy, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2.2019, p. 36-53
In: Journal of Cultural Economy, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2.2019, p. 36-53
Journal article > peer review
Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth / Disruptor in Chief
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 19, No. 3, 2019, p. 663-670
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 19, No. 3, 2019, p. 663-670
Book review
2019
Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth; Anne Roelsgaard Obling / Monstrous Rebirth : Re-instating the Ethos of Bureaucracy in Public Organization.
In: Organization, Vol. 26, No. 6, 11.2019, p. 830-852
In: Organization, Vol. 26, No. 6, 11.2019, p. 830-852
Journal article > peer review
Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth; Paul du Gay / Speaking Truth to Power? : Anti-Bureaucratic Romanticism from Critical Organizational Theorizing to The White House.
Paper presented at 35th EGOS Colloquium 2019, 2019
Paper presented at 35th EGOS Colloquium 2019, 2019
Paper > peer review
Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth / The Vocabulary of the Outside : Towards a Genealogy of Openness in Organizational Theorizing.
Paper presented at 35th EGOS Colloquium 2019, 2019
Paper presented at 35th EGOS Colloquium 2019, 2019
Paper > peer review
2018
Paul du Gay; Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth; Kirstine Pedersen; Anne Roelsgaard Obling / Character and Organization
Abstract from XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology 2018, 2018
Abstract from XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology 2018, 2018
Conference abstract for conference > peer review
Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth; Anne Roelsgaard Obling / Codification and Ethos of Office : Contextualising a Codex-solution Introduced in the Danish Central Administration.
In: Bureaucracy and Society in Transition. ed. /Haldor Byrkjeflot; Fredrik Engelstad. Bingley : Emerald Group Publishing 2018, p. 265-285
In: Bureaucracy and Society in Transition. ed. /Haldor Byrkjeflot; Fredrik Engelstad. Bingley : Emerald Group Publishing 2018, p. 265-285
Book chapter > peer review
2016
Paul du Gay; Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth / Fear of the Formal
In: European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology , Vol. 3, No. 1, 2016, p. 6-40
In: European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology , Vol. 3, No. 1, 2016, p. 6-40
Journal article > peer review
Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth; Anne Roelsgaard Obling / Is Something Rotten in Denmark?
Paper presented at 6th Latin American and European Meeting on Organization Studies. LEAMOS 2016, 2016
Paper presented at 6th Latin American and European Meeting on Organization Studies. LEAMOS 2016, 2016
Paper > peer review
Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth; Anne Roelsgaard Obling / Obscuring Contemporary Problems of Political-Administrative Responsibility? : Codification and the Ethics of Office in the Danish Central Administration.
Paper presented at The 2016 Whitlam Workshop, 2016
Paper presented at The 2016 Whitlam Workshop, 2016
Paper > peer review
Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth / Outside Organization
Paper presented at New Technologies of Government and their Implications for Value, 2016
Paper presented at New Technologies of Government and their Implications for Value, 2016
Paper > peer review
Paul du Gay; Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth / Reclaiming Formal Organization
In: Reclaiming the Public: Working Papers in the Human Rights and Public Life Program. . ed. /Anna Yeatman. Sydney : Whitlam Institute. Western Sydney University 2016, p. 57-85 (Working Papers in the Human Rights and Public Life Program, Vol. 3)
In: Reclaiming the Public: Working Papers in the Human Rights and Public Life Program. . ed. /Anna Yeatman. Sydney : Whitlam Institute. Western Sydney University 2016, p. 57-85 (Working Papers in the Human Rights and Public Life Program, Vol. 3)
Book chapter > peer review
2015
Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth / Object and Objective Lost? : Organization-Phobia in Organization Theory.
In: Journal of Cultural Economy, Vol. 8, No. 4, 2015, p. 439-461
In: Journal of Cultural Economy, Vol. 8, No. 4, 2015, p. 439-461
Journal article > peer review
Paul du Gay; Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth / Reclaiming Formal Organization
Paper presented at Reclaiming the Public, 2015
Paper presented at Reclaiming the Public, 2015
Paper
2014
Paul du Gay; Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth / Fear of the Formal : On Organizational and State Phobia.
Abstract from The Second Workshop on the Analysis of Bureaucracy in Society, 2014
Abstract from The Second Workshop on the Analysis of Bureaucracy in Society, 2014
Conference abstract for conference > peer review
Anders Raastrup Kristensen; Bent Meier Sørensen; Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth / Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995)
In: The Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy and Organization Studies. ed. /Jenny Helin; Tor Hernes; Daniel Hjorth; Robin Holt. Oxford : Oxford University Press 2014, p. 499-514 (Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management)
In: The Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy and Organization Studies. ed. /Jenny Helin; Tor Hernes; Daniel Hjorth; Robin Holt. Oxford : Oxford University Press 2014, p. 499-514 (Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management)
Book chapter > peer review
Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth / Organization within Organization Studies : From Core Object to Unspecified, Awkward Relic.
Paper presented at XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology 2014, 2014
Paper presented at XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology 2014, 2014
Paper > peer review
2013
Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth / Has Organization Studies Lost Its Object?
Paper presented at The 29th EGOS Colloquium 2013, 2013
Paper presented at The 29th EGOS Colloquium 2013, 2013
Paper > peer review
Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth / Let’s Go Outside : The Value of Co-Creation.
Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School [Phd] 2013, 352 p. (PhD series, No. 20.2013)
Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School [Phd] 2013, 352 p. (PhD series, No. 20.2013)
PhD thesis
2012
Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth; Sverre Raffnsøe / Udenfor er afgørende : Værdiskabelsens nye grundbetingelser og erhvervsøkonomiens status.
In: Kapitalismens ansigter . ed. /Morten Raffnsøe-Møller; Mikkel Thorup; Thomas Vinther Larsen; Ejvind Hansen. Aarhus : Forlaget Philosophia 2012, p. 56-74
In: Kapitalismens ansigter . ed. /Morten Raffnsøe-Møller; Mikkel Thorup; Thomas Vinther Larsen; Ejvind Hansen. Aarhus : Forlaget Philosophia 2012, p. 56-74
Book chapter > peer review
2011
Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth; Marius Gudmand-Høyer; Pia Bramming; Michael Pedersen / Governing Work through Self-Management
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2011, p. 97-104
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2011, p. 97-104
Editorial
2010
Anders Raastrup Kristensen; Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth / The Metaphysics of Management : A Practical Turn in Process Organization Studies.
Paper presented at Second International Symposium on Process Organization Studies: PROS 2010 , 2010
Paper presented at Second International Symposium on Process Organization Studies: PROS 2010 , 2010
Paper > peer review
2009
Marius T. Gudmand-Høyer; Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth / Liberal Biopolitics Reborn : Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-1979. Edited by Michel Senellart. Translated by Graham Burchell (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008), ISBN: 978-1403986542.
In: Foucault Studies, No. 7, 2009, p. 99-130
In: Foucault Studies, No. 7, 2009, p. 99-130
Review article > peer review
Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth / Management, Self-Management and the Creation of Value
Paper presented at The Critical Management Studies Conference 2009, 2009
Paper presented at The Critical Management Studies Conference 2009, 2009
Paper
Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth / Self‐Management and the Creation of Value
Paper presented at Management Philosophy Group Day Conference, 2009
Paper presented at Management Philosophy Group Day Conference, 2009
Paper
More results... (total 33 results)
2023
Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth; Anne Roelsgaard Obling / Danmark skal ruste sig bedre til kriser
In: Jyllands-Posten, 13.1.2023, p. 33
In: Jyllands-Posten, 13.1.2023, p. 33
Contribution to newspaper - Feature article
2018
Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth / Den politiske evergreen : Er afbureaukratisering et entydigt gode?.
In: DJØFbladet, Vol. 42, No. 9, 13.10.2018, p. 60-61
In: DJØFbladet, Vol. 42, No. 9, 13.10.2018, p. 60-61
Comment/debate
Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth / Kritikken af bureaukratiet er forfejlet
In: Information, 22.8.2018, p. 16-17
In: Information, 22.8.2018, p. 16-17
Contribution to newspaper - Feature article
2009
Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth / Alle steder hele tiden? : Historiske forskydninger i værdiskabelsens organisering.
In: Turbulens, No. 1, 2009, p. 52-59
In: Turbulens, No. 1, 2009, p. 52-59
Journal article
2023
Gentænk dine succeskriterier, når du leder i usikre tider
13/02/2023 // Cbs.dk (Copenhagen Business School) // CBS
Debat: Danmark skal ruste sig bedre til kriser
12/01/2023 // Jyllands-Posten // Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth, Lektor, CBS ; Anne Roelsgaard Obling, Lektor, FAK
2019
558 forskere og undervisere: Universitetets formålsparagraffer skal skrives med grønt
22/09/2019 // Politiken, Politiken.dk // 558 forskere og undervisere
Research Projects
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2022
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2021
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2020
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2019
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2018
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