Wanted professional top-up – funded an MBA herself
Charlotte Berg-Svendsen went from working for a large international corporation with over 120,000 employees to a small start-up. Prior to this decision, she registered for an executive MBA.
Professor Inger G. Stensaker
- Inger.Stensaker@nhh.no
- Telephone
- +47 55 95 96 69
- Department
- Strategy and Management
- Centre
- Digital Transformation Hub Focus
- Office
- E350
- Expertise
- Organisation and Management Strategy Change Management
BIO
Inger Stensaker is Professor in Strategic Change at NHH Norwegian School of Economics and Dean of NHH Executive Programs. Her research interests are within the area of strategy implementation, strategic change processes, organizational change capacity and qualitative process studies.
She has extensive experience leading collaborative and cross-disciplinary research projects and strongly believes in developing close academic-practitioner relationships.
In her research, Stensaker works closely with firms as they are undergoing strategic change in order to explore how they can develop capacity for change. She typically examines strategic change processes from various levels in the organization (top management, middle management and employee level) and draws on sensemaking and identity theory to understand the dynamics of change.
Her work has appeared in Human Relations, Human Resource Management, British Journal of Management, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Organizational Dynamics and Journal of Change Management. Stensaker is past Chair of the ODC division at Academy of Management.
Selected publications
| Author(s) | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Stensaker, Inger G.; Balogun, Julia; Langley, Ann | The Power of the Platform: Place and Employee Responses to Organizational Change | Journal of Applied Behavioral Science; page 1 - 30; 2020 |
| Grøgaard, Birgitte; Colman, Helene Loe; Stensaker, Inger G. | Legitimizing, leveraging, and launching: Developing dynamic capabilities in the MNE | Journal of International Business Studies; 2019 |
| Stensaker, Inger G. | Radikal endring og innovasjon | Magma - Tidsskrift for økonomi og ledelse Volume 21 (7); page 38 - 48; 2018 |
| Sverdrup, Therese E.; Stensaker, Inger G. | Restoring trust in the context of strategic change | Strategic Organization Volume 16 (4); page 401 - 428; 2017 |
Dissemination
How to manage radical technology-driven changes
NHH researchers have been granted around NOK 25 million for the research project ‘How should we manage radical technology-driven changes in established businesses?’