• 27 days of managerial work in the police service 

      Karp, Tom; Filstad, Cathrine; Glomseth, Rune (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The purpose of this study was to uncover the realities of managerial work in the Norwegian police service. Observation and interview of 27 police managers showed that managerial work emerged and unfolded through specific ...
    • Becoming a learning organization: The espoused value of police managers from two Norwegian districts 

      Filstad, Cathrine; Gottschalk, Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      Purpose – The aim of this paper is to investigate the extent to which espoused values among police managers in the Norwegian police force are compatible with those of a learning organization. Design/methodology/approach ...
    • Belonging at work: the experiences, representations and meanings of belonging. 

      Filstad, Cathrine; Traavik, Laura E. Mercer; Gorli, Mara (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Purpose This paper explores what belonging is through the represented experience of people at work. Our aim is to investigate employees’ interpretations of belonging at work and its interrelation with the material, ...
    • Characteristics of white-collar criminals: a Norwegian study 

      Filstad, Cathrine; Gottschalk, Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      This article addresses the following research question: What are the characteristics of white-collar criminals in Norway? Our research is based on data from articles in Norwegian financial newspapers for one year were a ...
    • Creating a learning organization in law enforcement: Maturity levels for police oversight agencies 

      Filstad, Cathrine; Gottschalk, Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)
      Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize a stage model for maturity levels for police oversight agencies. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on a literature review covering police oversight ...
    • Crossing power and knowledge boundaries in knowledge sharing: the role of EMS 

      Filstad, Cathrine; Simenova, Boyka; Visser, Max (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the crossing of knowledge and power boundaries within a bureaucratic organization by using enterprise social media (ESM). (Carlile’s 2002) boundary crossing framework ...
    • Diverging assessments of learning organizations during reform implementation 

      Borge, Baard Herman; Filstad, Cathrine; Olsen, Trude Høgvold; Skogmo, Per Øyvind (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Purpose This study aims to explore whether hierarchical position and organizational size affect perceptions of a learning organization (LO) during reform implementation. Design/methodology/approach An electronic survey ...
    • Executive's knowledge of white-collar crime: Learning to prevent criminal behavior 

      Filstad, Cathrine; Gottschalk, Petter; Solli-Sæther, Hans (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      The purpose of this empirical study was to create insights into executives´ knowledge of white-collar crime and how they can prevent criminal behavior in business organizations. That involves mapping their perceptions of ...
    • How newcomers use role models in organizational socialization 

      Filstad, Cathrine (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2004)
      This study examines how newcomers use colleagues as role models in organizational socialization, taking a multiple level approach to organizational socialization as individual, social and cultural learning processes. The ...
    • How police leaders learn to lead 

      Filstad, Cathrine; Karp, Tom; Glomseth, Rune (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      This article examines how Norwegian police leaders learn to lead and what constitutes police practices. Twenty-seven police leaders were shadowed during and interviewed about their daily practices of policing. We found ...
    • Knowing in mobile organisations – trust and knowledge sharing in virtual teams 

      Filstad, Cathrine (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)
      We investigate how trust and knowledge sharing affect collaboration in virtual teams as knowing across boundaries in a mobile organisation. It is important for collaborative work that personnel have sufficient understanding ...
    • Learning and Knowledge as Interrelations between CoPs and NoPs 

      Filstad, Cathrine (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Purpose – The purpose of our study is to investigate the characteristics and interrelations between informal communities of practice and formal networks of practice and its consequences for learning and new knowledge at ...
    • Learning how to lead police investigations 

      Nilsen, Jon-Andre; Aaserud, Terje; Filstad, Cathrine (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The aim of this article was to investigate how police investigation leaders learn leadership and whether the facilitation of learning activities and learning methods might bridge the well-known gap between teaching and ...
    • Learning to learn differently 

      Olsen, Trude Høgvold; Glad, Tone; Filstad, Cathrine (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Purpose:This paper aims to investigate whether the formal and informal learning patterns of community health-care nurses changed in the wake of a reform that altered their work by introducing new patient groups, and to ...
    • Police leadership as a professional practice 

      Filstad, Cathrine; Karp, Tom (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      In this paper, we ascertain whether a practice-based approach can increase our knowledge of police leadership. This approach represents an alternative to normative management models which have dominated the management ...
    • Suksesskriterier for etablering av en sterk læringskultur 

      Filstad, Cathrine (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)
      Innenfor et kunnskapssamfunn forutsettes at organisasjoner er innovative, endringsdyktige, kompetente og konkurranseorienterte. Dette er derfor begreper som brukes i organisasjonens visjoner og strategier. I tillegg finner ...
    • The politics of sensemaking and sensegiving at work 

      Filstad, Cathrine (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Purpose – The aim of this paper is to investigate how political activities and processes influence sensemaking and sensegiving among top management, middle management and employees and to examine its consequences for ...
    • Transforming knowledge to knowing at work: The experiences of newcomers 

      Filstad, Cathrine; McManus, Jacqueline (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      This paper explores how newcomers experience their transition to work as they strive to move from a position of ‘educational’ knowledge to professional knowing. Hence, we focus on how newcomers learn to transform knowledge ...
    • When sensemaking remains local: implications for distributed sensemaking in reform implementation 

      Filstad, Cathrine; Olsen, Trude Høgvold; Thomassen, Anja Overgaard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Purpose This paper aims to contribute to the literature on distributed sensemaking by studying how the police establish and develop their new position as police contacts during the police reform. Design/methodology/a ...