E-mail:

Katarina.Ostergren@nhh.no

Telephone:

+47 55 95 96 37

Fax:

+47 55 95 93 20

Title:

Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Umeå 1995

Nationality:

Swedish
Curriculum Vitae

Teaching languages:

Swedish, English

Teaching areas:

• Budsjettstyring (Budgeting, mainly in public sector)
• Økonomisk styring (Governance in public sector)
• Strategi, endring og læring (Strategy, change and learning)

• Symbols or Reality- DO waiting time guarantees improve access in the Scandianvian countries? (co-authors: Vrangbæk, K; U Winblad) Conference paper presented at the EHPG Fifteenth Meeting, London, 13-14 September.
   

• Østergren, K and I Stensaker (2007) Strategic responses to the Quality Reform: A comparative study of changes in Norwegian Higher Education. Presented at the NFF conference in Bergen, 9-11 August, 2007.

• Østergren, K. Management contral practices and clinician managers: The case of Norwegian health sector. Presented at the EEA conference in Lisboa 23-25 of April 2007.
   

• Between different transparencies - the dilemma of management accounting reforms in public hospitals. Working paper No. 10/2006, Bodø Graduate School of Business (co-authors: K. Nyland and I. J. Pettersen).

• Östergren K. (Co-author Vrangbæk K., U. Winblad, H. O. Birk (2007) Patients’ reactions to hospital choice in Norway, Denmark and Sweden. Health Economics, Policy and Law, April Vol. 2:125-152.

• Östergren K. (Co-author Boni S., K. Danishevski, O. Kaarbøe (2007) The process of implementing decentralization. In R B Saltman, V Bankauskaite and K Vrangbæk (eds.): Decentralization in health care: Strategies and outcomes. Open University Press/McGraw-Hill.

• Östergren, K. (Co-author K Vrangbæk) (2006) Patient empowerment and the introduction of hospital choice in Denmark and Norway. Health Economics, Policy and Law, Vol. 1(4), October.

• Östergren, K. (2006). The Institutional construction of consumerism – A study of implementing quality indicators. Financial Accountability and Management, Vol. 22(2), May, p. 179-205.

• Östergren, K. (2006). A Case of Organizational Learning in Higher Education. In R. Lines, I. Stensaker and A. Langley (eds.): New perspectives on organizational change and learning. Fagbokforlaget.

• Östergren, K. (2005). Global Standards as a Governance Form - Implementing the Quality reform in Norwegian Higher Education Sector, in T. Halvorsen, G. Mathisen (eds): Identity formation or knowledge shopping – Education and research in the new globality. Bergen: SIU publisher.

• Östergren, K. & G. S. Dahl Reisæter (2005). Koordinering i psykiatrien - et grenseflateproblem? Tidsskr Nor Lægeforen 125:2821-2.

• Huzzard, T & K. Östergren (2002). When Norms Collide – Learning under Hypocricy. British Journal of Management. Special Issue on Organisational Learning and Knowledge Management. Vol. 13, p. 47-59.

• Eskerod, P. & K. Östergren (2000). Standardizing Project Work. International Project Management Journal, Vol 6(1), p.34-39 .

• Huemer, L. & K. Östergren (2000). Strategic Change and Organisational Learning in Two `Swedish´ Construction Firms. Construction Management and Economics, Vol. 18(5), p. 635-642.

• Östergren, K. & L. Huemer (1999). Interpretation and Translation of Industry Recipes - A study of the Strategic Thinking in Swedish Building Construction Industry. Journal of Strategic Change, Vol. 8, p. 445-457.

• Müllern, T. & K. Östergren (1995). Lärandekulturer - en studie av organisatoriskt lärande under olika institutionella betingelser. (Learning culture - a Study of Organizational Learning under different Institutional Conditions, Dissertation). Doctoral thesis. Umeå: University of Umeå.

• Visiting scholar at Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in 2001.

• Visiting scholar at Stanford University in 1998-1999.

•  Board member (SNF) - Institute for Research in Economics and Business Administration. 2007 - present.
   
•  Board member; Program for Health Economy, Bergen, 2007 - present
   
•  Board member for Center for Ethics and Economics 2006 - present.