Vedran Omanovic
Senior Lecturer
Department of BusinessAbout 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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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