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Vedran Omanovic

Senior Lecturer

Department of Business

Telephone

+46 31-786 54 17

Mail

vedran.omanovic@handels.gu.se

Fax

+46 31-786 14 66

Visiting address

Vasagatan 1

41124 Göteborg

Room number

J413

Postal address

Box 610

40530 Göteborg

About Vedran Omanovic

Research areas

Diversity in Organizations
Organizing Integration of foreign born
Migration and Polarization on the Labour Market
Alternative Paradigms
Integration and establishment of youth and foreign born in retail

Research in progress

Organising labour market integration of immigrants – theory and practice, 2017-01 - 2019-12
The Challenges of Polarization on Swedish Labour Market, 2017-01 - 2019-12

Teaching areas

(Strategic) Human Resource Management
Management
Methodological Issues
Alternative Paradigms
Conceptual foundations of Organization Studies

Selected publications

(Mis) Managing Diversity: Exploring the Dangers of Diversity Management Orthodoxy
Knights, David, Omanović, Vedran
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 35:1, s. 5-16, 2016

Rethinking Diversity in Organizations and Society
Knights, David, Omanović, Vedran
The Oxford Handbook of Diversity in Organizations, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 672, 2015

Opening and closing the door to diversity: A dialectical analysis of the social production of diversity
Omanović, Vedran
Scandinavian Journal of Management, 29:1, s. 87-103, 2013

• Diversity and its Management as a Dialectical Process: Encountering Sweden and the U.S. Scandinavian Journal of Management. Vol 25 (4): 352-362.
Omanović, Vedran
Scandinavian Journal of Management, 2009

Integrationsstrategier för utlandsfödda i detaljhandeln.
Omanović, Vedran, Bergström Ola
Forskningsrapport 2017:9, Handelsrådet., 2017

Publications

Assimilation, Integration or Inclusion? A Dialectical Perspective on the Organizational Socialization of
Migrants

Vedran Omanovic, A. Langley
Journal of Management Inquiry - 2023
Practices of organizing migrants' integration into the European labour
market

Emre Tarim, Vedran Omanović, Lotte Holck
European Management Review - 2022
Institutions and Organizations of Refugee Integration: Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Syrian Refugees in
Sweden.

Gregg Bucken-Knapp, Vedran Omanović, Andrea Spehar
2020
TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION AND THE NEW SUBJECTS OF WORK: Transmigrants, Hybrids and Cosmopolitans by Banu
Özkazanc-Pan

Vedran Omanović
Gender, Work and Organization - 2020
Institutions and Organizations of Refugee Integration: Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Syrian Refugees in
Sweden

Gregg Bucken-Knapp, Vedran Omanović, Andrea Spehar
2019
The role of the employer in foreign-born worker
integration

Ola Bergström, Vedran Omanović
EURAM-conferance. (Portugal, June 2019). - 2019
The emergence and evolution of researcher identities: Experiences, encounters, learning and
dialectics

Vedran Omanović
Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal - 2019
Integrationsstrategier för utlandsfödda i
detaljhandeln

Ola Bergström, Vedran Omanović
2017
Migration and Polarization on the Swedish
Labourmarket

Gabriella Elgenius, Denis Frank, Vedran Omanović
University of Gothenburg - 2017
(Mis) Managing Diversity: Exploring the Dangers of Diversity Management
Orthodoxy

David Knights, Vedran Omanović
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal - 2016
Vulnerable groups and restructuring in
Sweden

Ola Bergström, Vedran Omanović
2015
Rethinking Diversity in Organizations and
Society

David Knights, Vedran Omanović
The Oxford Handbook of Diversity in Organizations - 2015
Legitimizing inequality in the workplace: A case study of Bosnian and Herzegovina´s
company

Vedran Omanović, Ola Bergström
EGOS, Athena Greece, July 2st to 4th 2015 - 2015
Vulnerable workers and restructuring in
Sweden

Ola Bergström, Vedran Omanović
the 5th Swedish HRM workshop, Gothenburg 4-5th March 2015 - 2015
Opening and closing the door to diversity: A dialectical analysis of the social production of
diversity

Vedran Omanović
Scandinavian Journal of Management - 2013
Mismanaging
Diversity

Vedran Omanović, David Knights
EURAM 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey, 26-29 Juni 2013. - 2013
Rethinking Diversity in
Organizations

David Knights, Vedran Omanović
the 22th NFF conference in Reykjavik, Iceland, 21-23 August, 2013. On Practice and Knowledge Eruptions. - 2013
Managing Restructuring in Organizations and Society: A Case of Bosnia and
Herzegovina

Vedran Omanović
the International Conference: Central and Eastern Europe: Work, Employment and Societies between Transition and Change, France 21-22nd November 2013 - 2013
Diversity in organizations: A Critical Examination of the Assumptions about Diversity and Organizations in 21st Century Management
Literature

Vedran Omanović
Handbook of Gender, Work and Organization - 2011
(Mis)Managing Diversity: Exploring Dangers of Displacing Alternative
Perspectives

David Knights, Vedran Omanović
the 7th International Critical Management Conference, 11-13 July 2011 Naples, Italy - 2011
An Untold Story about Diversity Production in Organizations: Encounters, Reflections and the Search for
Alternatives

Vedran Omanović
EGOS, Gothenburg, Sweden July 2011 - 2011
Producing Diversity Work: A Case of Attempted Change at a Large Manufacturing Company Located in
Sweden

D Litvin, Vedran Omanović
the 21st NFF conference in Stockholm, Sweden August 2011 - 2011
Reflections on Diversity Production in Organizations: Encounters and the Search for
Alternatives

Vedran Omanović
Symposium on Work, Organization and Ethnography: 1st-3rd September 2010 - 2010
A Dialectical View on Diversity and its
Management

Vedran Omanović
5th EURODIV conference on "Dynamics of Diversity in the Globalization Era", 22-23 October 2009, Milan, Italy - 2009
Diversity and its management as a dialectical process: Encountering Sweden and the
US

Vedran Omanović
SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT - 2009
Diversity in Organizations - a Critical Examination of the Assumptions about Diversity and Organizations in the
Literature

Vedran Omanović
The 20th Annual Nordic Academy of Management Conference: Business as Usual, 19-21 August, 2009, Turku/Åbo, Finland - 2009
A Dialectical View on Diversity and its
Management

Vedran Omanović
The 5th EURODIV conference on Dynamics of Diversity in the Globalisation Era, 22-23 October 2009 in Milan, Italy - 2009
Producing a Story about a (Social) Production of
Diversity

Vedran Omanović
the 2nd Conference on Qualitative Research at HANKEN Svenska handelshögskolan Vasa, Finland, May 20-21 2008 - 2008
Opening and Closing the Door for
Diversity

Vedran Omanović
EURAM, 14-17 May 2008, Ljubljana & Bled, Slovenia - 2008
Diversity and its Management as a Dialectic Social-Historical
Process

Vedran Omanović
EURAM, 14-17 May 2008, Ljubljana & Bled, Slovenia - 2008
A production of diversity : appearances, ideas, interests, actions, contradictions and
praxis

Vedran Omanović
2006
Understanding “Diversity in Organizations” Paradigmatically and
Methodologically

Vedran Omanović
The international conference on “Understanding Diversity: Mapping and Measuring” Milano, Italy January 26th–27th 2006 - 2006
Understanding “Diversity in Organizations” Paradigmatically and
Methodologically

Vedran Omanović
The IFSAM VIIIth world congress on September 28-30 at Freie University Berlin. - 2006
Doing Critical Organizational Research - Implications for Studies on "Diversity in
Organizations"

Vedran Omanović
2006
Understanding "Diversity in Organizations" Paradigmatically and
Methodologically

Vedran Omanović
2006
Negotiating and Naturalizing "Diversity": A Swedish Manufacturing
Case

Vedran Omanović
EGOS Colloquium Sub-theme 10: Beyond Dichotomies and Stereotypes: The Production and Reproduction of "Gender" and "Ethnicity". Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 1st-3rd, 2004 - 2004
Perspectives on Diversity
Research

Vedran Omanović
Reflecting Diversity – Viewpoints from Scandinavia - 2002
Diversity from "A Swedish" Perspektive: Different motives, similar
definitions.

Vedran Omanović
Paper presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., August 3rd - 8th 2001 - 2001
A Different Reason: Viewing "Diversity" from Functionalist, Interpretative, and Critical
Perspectives

Vedran Omanović
Paper presenterade vid 16:e Nordiska Företagsekonomiska ämneskonferensen, Uppsala, 2001 - 2001
Mångfaldens mångfald - olika sätt att se på och leda
olikheter

Vedran Omanović, Svante Leijon
2001
Om (stereo)typifieringars (ir)rationalitet- utveckling av en teoretisk
ansats

Kems Adu Gyan, Ahmad Ahmadi, Vedran Omanović, Gill Widell
2000
Invandrare i Västsverige. En studie av utrikes födda/utländska medborgares nationalitet, utbildning, sysselsättning, arbetslöshet, yrkesfördelning samt inkomst under 1990 -
talet

Vedran Omanović
1997