Tom Karlsson
About Tom Karlsson
Tom S. Karlsson has a background as a PhD in business administration (accounting and management accounting) and is an associate professor in public administration. His research has largely touched on management trends and leadership in central government, as well as how accounting and management accounting and control affect organizations and individuals. The concept new public management (NPM) has been in special focus, where he has published both books and scientific articles in international journals such as Public Management Review and Financial Accountability & Management.
Current research projects include:
- The view of efficiency in public and private entities and organizations
- The construction of citizens as customers
- Digitalization of processes and decision support in public organizations
- The significance of calculations and cost accounting within municipal and government decision-making
He has a broad teaching background, especially in the areas of accounting, financial management and calculation, where both graduate economists and administrative economists have been his students. He has extensive experience in developing courses in the areas of business administration and public administration and supervises and examines essays at the bachelor's and master's level.
Since 2019, he has been director of studies and program coordinator for the Nordic master's program Nordic Master in Pubic Administration, Leadership, and Digitalization.
Read more about Tom S. Karlsson on Research Gate
Special competencies: New Public Management, governance and organization in central government, leadership, market reforms.
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Den hyperrationella förvaltningens hot mot offentlig sektors
framtid
Tom Karlsson, Cemil Eren Firtin
Organisation & Samhälle - 2022-01-01 -
Governance - en
introduktion
Tom Karlsson
Organisation & Samhälle - 2022-01-01 -
Descriptions of customers and citizens in public administration: studying the is, will, and ought of public service
constituents
Tom Karlsson
SWEPSA 2022 - 2022-01-01 -
The failure of the post-NPM 'paradigm': A conceptual discussion of why soft bureaucracy will never become
practice
Elin Funck, Tom Karlsson
IRSPM 2022 - 2022-01-01 -
Nu startar vi om
NPM!
Tom Karlsson
Organisation & Samhälle - 2022-01-01 -
Martketization of Higher
Education
Tom Karlsson, Susanna Karlsson
Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance / Editors: Ali Farazmand - 2021-01-01 -
Handbok för systematiska litteratur- och dokumentstudier inom
samhällsvetenskapen
Elin Funck, Tom Karlsson
- 2021-01-01 -
Higher Education Marketization: a Case of Language and Colliding
Interests
Tom Karlsson, Susanna Karlsson
Public Organization Review - 2021-01-01 -
Performative Consequences of Measuring Performance – Insights from Health-care
Contexts
Tom Karlsson, Cemil Eren Firtin
Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance - 2021-01-01 -
Marketization of Higher
Education
Tom Karlsson, Susanna Karlsson
Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance - 2021-01-01 -
Twenty-five years of studying new public management in public administration: Accomplishments and
limitations
Elin Funck, Tom Karlsson
Financial Accountability and Management - 2020-01-01 -
(Re)descriptions of medical professional work: exploring accounting as a performative device within an emergency unit health-care
context
Cemil Eren Firtin, Tom Karlsson
Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management - 2020-01-01 -
Language policy as ‘frozen’ ideology: exploring the administrative function in Swedish higher
education
Susanna Karlsson, Tom Karlsson
Current Issues in Language Planning - 2020-01-01 -
Att vara kund till
staten
Tom Karlsson
Statlig förvaltningspolitik för 2020-talet: En forskningsantologi - 2020-01-01 -
Calculation, justification, and medical profession: Introduction of performance appraisals and pecuniary incentives within an emergency
unit
Cemil Eren Firtin, Tom Karlsson
Kingston University, Faculty of Business and Social Sciences and University of Gothenburg, School of Public Administration Doctoral Forum, 20-21 March 2019 - 2019-01-01 -
NPM (2.0) - A BLAST FROM THE
PAST
Tom Karlsson
New Public Sector (NPS) seminar - 2019-01-01 -
Värdebaserad vård – en kritisk granskning av konceptet och befintliga
erfarenheter
Andersson Madelen, Tom Karlsson, Gustaf Kastberg Weichselberger
- 2019-01-01 -
När blir det plagiat? – En tvärsnittsstudie av studenters färdigheter och förmågor gällande fusk i form av
plagiat
Tom Karlsson
Högre Utbildning - 2019-01-01 -
Public Administration in transition: Studying understandings and legitimations amongst middle managers within a government
agency
Tom Karlsson
Journal of Language and Politics - 2019-01-01 -
Calculation, justification, and medical profession: Introduction of performance appraisals and pecuniary incentives within an emergency
unit
Cemil Eren Firtin, Tom Karlsson
The Centre for Global Human Resource Management, International Interdisciplinary Conference on HRM, 03-05 April 2019, Gothenburg - 2019-01-01 -
Searching for managerial discretion: How public managers engage managerialism as a rationalization for increased latitude of
action
Tom Karlsson
Public Management Review - 2019-01-01 -
Decisions, by Karin Brunsson and Nils
Brunsson
Tom Karlsson
Offentlig förvaltning. Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration - 2018-01-01 -
Higher Education
Marketization
Tom Karlsson, Susanna Karlsson
10th International EIASM Public Sector Conference, 4-6 September, Lund - 2018-01-01 -
Post-NPM, vad är
det?
Elin Funck, Tom Karlsson
- 2018-01-01 -
Considering (New Public) Civil Servants: Emerging Roles and
Contexts
Tom Karlsson, Jan Olsson
Offentlig förvaltning. Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration - 2018-01-01 -
25 years of studying New Public Management: Accomplishments and
limitations
Elin Funck, Tom Karlsson
The 22nd Annual International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM) Conference. Edinburgh, Scotland: 11-13 April - 2018-01-01 -
Bristande samordning och liten förståelse: En studie av arbetsgivares behov av stöd vid anställning av individer i långvarigt
utanförskap
Tom Karlsson, Viveka Nilsson
- 2017-01-01 -
Trendiga chefsideal inte alltid bäst för
samhället
Tom Karlsson
Svenska Dagbladet - 2017-01-01 -
Book review: A Research Agenda for Management and Organization Studies, edited by
Czarniawska
Tom Karlsson
Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration - 2017-01-01 -
New Public Management - Ett nyliberalt
90-talsfenomen?
Tom Karlsson
- 2017-01-01 -
Investigating dilemmas in language policy
implementation.
Susanna Karlsson, Tom Karlsson
IRSPM Annual Conference. Budapest: 19-21 April - 2017-01-01 -
Shaping NPM: Social Democratic Values at
Work
Tom Karlsson
Lapsley, I. & Knutsson, H. (Eds.) Modernizing the Public Sector: Scandinavian Perspectives - 2017-01-01 -
The search for managerial discretion: How responsiveness is competing with neutrality in public
management
Tom Karlsson
Lund Public Management Seminar - 2016-01-01 -
Challenging the dichotomy of management and civil service: An institutional analysis of Swedish public
management
Tom Karlsson
19th International Research Society for Public Management Conference, University of Birmingham, UK - 2015-01-01 -
Manager and Civil Servant: Exploring actors' taken-for-granted assumptions in public
administration
Tom Karlsson
- 2014-01-01 -
Speglingar av en förvaltning i förändring: Reformeringen av
Försäkringskassan
Fredrik Andersson, Tomas Bergström, Louise Bringselius, Margareta Dackehag, Tom Karlsson, Stina Melander, Gert Paulsson
- 2012-01-01 -
Organisering och styrning för ökad
enhetlighet.
Tom Karlsson
Speglingar av en förvaltning i förändring: Reformeringen av Försäkringskassan, Stockholm: Santérus Förlag, 2012 - 2012-01-01 -
A conceptual framework for logical (original)
institutionalism
Tom Karlsson
Manchester Accounting and Finance Group Seminar, Manchester Business School, November 28 2012. - 2012-01-01 -
Styrparadoxens förvaltare - om styrning och komplexitet i offentlig
förvaltning
Tom Karlsson
Nordisk Workshop i Ekonomi- och Verksamhetsstyrning - 2010-01-01 -
Den värdefulla ekonomen: En rapport om resurstilldelningen. En jämförelse med Danmark, Norge och
Finland
Tom Karlsson, Alexander Paulsson
- 2010-01-01 -
The (re)production of accountability within the Swedish public
sector
Tom Karlsson
The Gothenburg Public Management seminar 2009 - 2009-01-01