Erhard Friedberg is an Austrian
sociologist born in 1942. His major contribution to organizations analysis is the conceptualization of the "
organized action" and a methodology to analyze it.
Career
Most of his professional career has been spent in France.
From 1998 to 2007 he is the director of the Centre de sociologie des organisations,
Center for the Sociology of Organizations
The Center for the Sociology of Organizations (CSO) () is a research laboratory in social sciences located in Paris. At first the Center focused on topics related to the state and the French government; soon after, it expanded its range of researc ...
(CSO), located in Paris, a laboratory under the joint sponsorship of CNRS and Sciences Po.
From 1998 to 2010, he is a
professor
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of political science at
Sciences Po Paris
Sciences Po () or Sciences Po Paris, also known as the Paris Institute of Political Studies (), is a public research university located in Paris, France, that holds the status of ''grande école'' and the legal status of . The university's unde ...
.
From 2012 to 2015, he is Program Director of the School of Government and Public Policy (SGPP Jakarta / Indonésia). Since 2015 he is Eminent Visiting Professor at the University of Brunei Daressalam (UBD).
Honours
Doctor honoris causa of the University of Liege (2012).
Publications
Books
Pr Friedberg has written the following books:
Le pouvoir et la règle. Dynamique de l'action organisée.
Edition du Seuil 1993
* Observing Policy-Making in Indonesia, Approaches the world of policy-making from the perspective of implementation. (With Mary Hilderbrand) Singapore, Springer, 2017.
* Local Orders. The Dynamics of Organized Action. Translated by Emoretta Yang. Greenwich, CT:
JAI Press, 1997.
* Les Politiques culturelles des villes et leurs administrateurs, (with
Mario d'Angelo
Mario d’Angelo is a French academic, management consultant and author, born in 1954 with Italian and German ancestry.
His work in the field of culture and the creative industries is in the line with the system analysis and interdisciplinarity a ...
and Philippe Urfalino).
La Documentation française
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, 1989 ()
* Actors and Systems: The Politics of Collective Action. (With
Michel Crozier
Michel Crozier (6 November 1922, Sainte-Menehould, Marne – 24 May 2013, Paris) was a French sociologist and member of the ''Académie des sciences morales et politiques'' from 1999 until his death. He also was a fellow of the American Acade ...
). Chicago:
University of Chicago Press
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, 1980.
Articles
* "Conflict of Interest from the Perspective of the Sociology of Organized Action" in Conflict of Interest in Global, Public and Corporate Governance, Anne Peters & Lukas Handschin (eds), Cambridge University Press, 2012
* "Institutional Change as an Interactive Process. The Case of the Modernization of the French Cancer Centers", with Patrick Castel in Organization Science, Mars 2010.
* "Organization and Collective Action. Our Contribution to Organizational Analysis"
[With Michel Crozier] in S.B. Bacharach, P., Gagliardi & P. Mundell (Eds). ''Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Vol. XIII, Special Issue on European Perspectives of Organizational Theory'', Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1995) Greenwich, CT
References
External links
Erhard Friedberg bio page on the web site of Sciences Po, Paris
Worldcat identities
{{DEFAULTSORT:Friedberg, Erhard
1942 births
Living people
Academic staff of Sciences Po
Austrian sociologists