Invitation to mini-conference:
"Change Management in High-Reliability Organizations"
This mini-conference forms part of the Integration Research Program funded by Statoil for the
period 2008-2010. The program is being accomplished by a team of researchers from three
institutes: Fafo, NHH/SNF and IRIS and was initiated to follow and document the integration of
Statoil and Hydro.
Conference program
Date: 25 November 2009
Time: 09:00 - 12:00
Venue: University of Stavanger, Kjølv Egelands hus, room A101
Attendance is open.
Contact person at IRIS: Jorunn E. Tharaldsen.
We are pleased to have gathered highly profiled international researcher working with
organizational reliability and occupational health safety from different perspectives, within a
variety of organizations and across countries. Our main purpose is to highlight important
theoretical and analytical perspectives on organizational risk and safety, and to discuss how
reliability may be influenced during change.
The main goals of the research program are to (i) document and build future competence on
Mergers &Acquisitions for major, future organizational change in Statoil, (ii) gather systematic
and independent information regarding the change process, and (iii) build research competence
within Norway on “Mergers & Acquisitions”. The research program is a collaboration project
involving between 10 and 15 researcher from Fafo, IRIS and SNF/NHH and an additional
network of international collaborating partners.
Our main research themes are related to: (i) Strategic intentions and results, (ii) Change
management, (iii) Union participation and involvement, (iv) Identity and reputation, (v) New
organizational interfaces, (vi) Occupational health and safety (vii) Competence.
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Conference program