Competition What It Is and Why It Happens

Stefan Arora-Jonsson, Chair in Organization and Society, Uppsala University,Nils Brunsson, Professor of Management, Uppsala University,Raimund Hasse, Professor of Sociology and Head of the Institute for Sociology, University of Lucerne,Katarina Lagerstr?m, Associate Professor in Business Studies, Uppsala University

Stefan Arora-Jonsson is Chair in Organization and Society at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Nils Brunsson is Professor of Management affiliated with Uppsala University and the Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (SCORE), Sweden.

Raimund Hasse is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Institute for Sociology at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland.


Katarina Lagerstr?m is Associate Professor in Business Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden.

1. A New Understanding of Competition, Stefan Arora-Jonsson, Nils Brunsson, and Raimund Hasse
2. Competition as Sensemaking, Daniel Sands, Gino Cattani, Joseph Porac, and Jason Greenberg
3. Competition by Mutual Adjustment, Patrik Aspers
4. The Origins of Competition: Institution and Organization, Stefan Arora-Jonsson, Nils Brunsson, and Raimund Hasse
5. Convincing Others That They are Competing: The Case of Schools, Niklas Bomark, Peter Edlund, and Stefan Arora-Jonsson
6. Constructing Competition for Status: Sports and Higher Education, Nils Brunsson and Linda Wedlin
7. Avoiding Competition: The Effects of Rankings in the Food Waste Field, Nadine Arnold
8. Competition and Auditing: Esteemed but Incompatible Ideas, Karin Brunsson and Katarina Rahnert
9. The Allure of Prizes: How Contests Trap Us in Competitive Relationships, Michael Scroggins and Daniel Souleles
10. The Organization of Competition and Non-Competition in Schools, S?ren Christensen and Hanne Knudsen
11. Cooperating While Competing: The Case of Multinational Corporations, Katarina Lagerstr?m, Emilene Leite, Roger Schweizer, and Cecilia Pahlberg
12. Reversing Competition: The Case of Corporate Governance, Fabien Foureault
13. Debunking the Holy Trinity: Competition, Individualism, and Meritocracy, Sebastian Kohl and Abraham Sapi?n
14. Competition Unbundled: Taking Stock and Looking Forward, Stefan Arora-Jonsson, Nils Brunsson, Raimund Hasse & Katarina Lagerstr?m