Speakers

November 4th 2020

Jarmo Vakkuri

Professor at the Faculty of Management, Tampere University, and the director of the research group on Public Financial Management

Jarmo Vakkuri is Professor at the Faculty of Management, University of Tampere, and the director of the research group on Public Financial Management. His research concentrates on performance measurement in public administration, theories of decision-making, hybrid organizations and governance, and urban policy-making. Vakkuri is director and partner of several research projects in Finland and in other countries, and a supervisor of several Ph.D. thesis. Vakkuri is a guest editor for special issues in academic journals. Vakkuri works as an academic expert in several working groups in Finland and in other countries. He is the director of the HYPER project (Performance measurement for hybrid governance), and one of the directors in the BEMINE project (Beyond MALPE coordination: integrative envisioning), both funded by the Academy of Finland.

Jan-Erik Johanson

Professor of Administrative sciences, Tampere University, Finland

Johanson is a professor of administrative science and chair of administrative sciences at the University of Tampere, Finland. Currently, he is a vice-chair in a project studying performance of hybrid organizations, and he is charge of another project studying social media in organizational setting and participates in a third project studying value-creation in digitalized services. In addition to hybrid governance and strategic management he has recently studied power relations of pension funds, public sector innovations and determinants of efficiency in teams. Johanson is President of the Finnish Association of Administrative Studies, and he serves as board member of Nordic administrative Alliance (NAF), Finnish section, and as an editorial board member of Administrative Sciences.

Giuseppe Grossi

Professor in Accounting at Kristianstad University (Sweden), Nord University (Norway)

Giuseppe Grossi is Professor in Accounting at Nord University (Norway), Professor in Public Management and Accounting at Kristianstad University (Sweden) and Visiting Professor at Kozminski University (Poland). His research focuses on hybrid forms of governance, smart cities, and public budgeting. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting, and Financial Management.  He can be reached at giuseppe.grossi@hkr.se.

Joaquim Rubens Fontes Filho

PhD, Head of Executive Master´s in Business Administration, Getulio Vargas Foundation / Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration

Joaquim Rubens Fontes Filho is PhD in administration and master in public administration, graduated and master in production engineering, and working in academic research and professional activities as a consultant and advisor in companies and non-profit organizations. He is visiting professor at the Andean University, in Ecuador, and author and coordinator of several books and articles on corporate governance and strategy.

Eduardo Rodrigues da Silva

MsC, Researcher, Getulio Vargas Foundation / Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration

Eduardo Rodrigues da Silva is internal Auditor professional with more than 10 years of experience in Oil and Gas industry, and MSc in business management at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV-EBAPE). Eduardo Rodrigues da Silva is Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified in Risk Management Assurance (CRMA) and Certified in Control Self-Assessment (CCSA).

Jennifer Hall

PhD candidate, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada

Jennifer Hall is a PhD candidate in public administration at the University of Victoria and brings with her extensive work and teaching experience at the post-graduate level.  Following over 20 years in the BC and Alberta public services, Jennifer established her own management consulting company providing policy, planning and governance advice and services to public, non-profit and private sector organizations. She is active in research in public sector governance, the intersectionality of the public and private sectors, and has contributed to workplace development in the area of older workers and strategic human resource management. Jennifer has presented her work at conferences around the globe and has contributed to public administration internationally as an observer at the UN Committee of Experts in Public Administration on behalf of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada.

Michael A. O'Neill

Ph.D., M.Ed., Adjunct faculty, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Michael A. O’Neill teaches and conducts research on public policy and administration at the University of Ottawa. He brings to his work extensive experience acquired in Canada’s government, the OECD and as a consultant. Michael completed his PhD in politics at the University of Warwick and recently completed further postgraduate studies in education, focusing on the issues of skills development and curriculum. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and policy papers on public sector governance, social policy, and professional training pedagogy.

Adina Dudau

Senior Lecturer in Management in University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School, PGR Co-convener (Management) Accounting, Finance, Business & Management, SGSSS pathway representative

Dr Adina Dudau is a senior lecturer (Associate Professor) in management at the University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School. She is a founding member of IRSPM Public Sector Accounting and Accountability Special Interest Group and also a member of the newer Hybrid Management and Governance IRSPM SIG. Adina’s research is on public sector management control (at the intersection of public management, HR & organisational behaviour and accounting), management science and pedagogy. Her passion, as a former civil servant, is to advance public management research. Her research is published in Public Management Review, Public Money & Management, Public Policy & Administration, Financial Accountability and Management and Management Accounting Research. She reviews for numerous academic journals and is on the editorial board of Public Management Review, Public Money & Management and Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management.

Thursday 5th of November

Philip Marcel Karré

Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Administration & Sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), the Netherlands

Dr. P.M. Karré is Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Administration & Sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), the Netherlands. His main research interests are governing and managing hybridity and hybrid organizations, e.g. autonomized agencies, social enterprises and other forms of social innovation at the interface of state, market and society. His research is aimed at understanding the meaning of hybridity, how different forms of organizations and governance arrangements are hybrid and what positive and negative effects their hybridity produces for organizations, their customers, political principals and society at-large. Recent publications include the edited volume Smart Hybridity. Potentials and Challenges of New Governance Arrangements (together with Joop Koppenjan and Katrien Termeer) published at Eleven International Publishing and a chapter in the Handbook on Hybrid Organisations, published by Edward Elgar. Website: www.hybridorganisations.com

Anna Thomasson

Associate Professor, Lund University School of Economics and Management, Sweden

Anna Thomasson is a researcher within the field of public management with focus on issues related to hybridity, accountability and collaboration in the public sector. Anna has published several articles related to accountability and governance in hybrid organizations and various kinds of public sector collaborations and municipally owned corporations.

Harald Torsteinsen

Professor, Dr. of political science science/public management, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Harald Torsteinsen’s research interests include: administrative and political innovation and reform in local government; management and organization of public service provision; and hybridity and legitimacy in regional and local government. Recent publications in English: (1)The meaning of institutional logics for performance assessment in boards of municipal companies” (with co-authors Olsen and Solstad), Public Money & Management (2017), 37 (6), 393-400. (2) “Effects of External Agentification in Local Government: A European Comparison of Municipal Waste Management” (with co-authors Van Genugten, Mikula, Mussons and Puey)“, in Kopric, I., Wollmann, H. and Marcou, G. (Eds) Evaluating Reforms in Local Public and Social Services in Europe. More Evidence for Better Results. Palgrave MacMillan (2018), 171-189, and (3) “Debate: Corporatization in local government – the need for a comparative and multi-disciplinary research approach”, Public Money & Management, (2019), 39(1), 5-8. You can contact Prof. Torsteinsen through email harald.torsteinsen@uit.no

Lene Tolstrup Christensen

Industrial postdoc, Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Lene Tolstrup Christensen, Ph.D., is postdoc researcher at Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Her research interest is on the governance and management of State-owned enterprise and hybrid organizations in public services and infrastructure. She is currently working on an industrial postdoc on the Danish State Guarantee Model as a model for organizing and financing large infrastructure projects using multiple methodological approaches. Her work appears in several international peer reviewed outlets.

Harri Laihonen

Professor, University of Eastern Finland

Harri Laihonen is professor in the University of Eastern Finland. His research interests lie in the fields of knowledge management and performance management. Within these fields, Prof. Harri Laihonen is interested in how performance information can be more efficiently used to support decision-making and organizational learning.