Background
Olsen, Johan Peder was born on August 14, 1939 in Tromsø, Norway. Son of Johan and Henny Olsen.
scientist university professor
Olsen, Johan Peder was born on August 14, 1939 in Tromsø, Norway. Son of Johan and Henny Olsen.
Master of Science, University Oslo, 1967. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Åbo Academy, Finland, 1988. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Copenhagen, Denmark, 1990.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 2003. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University TromsØ, 2006. Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science Public Administration, University Bergen, Norway.
Olsen obtained his Master of Arts om Political Science, with a minor in economics and political history, at the University of Oslo in 1967. He obtained an Honorary Doctorate from the Åbo Akademi, Finland in, 1988, and from the University of Copenhagen in 1990. Olsen has started his career as journalist and reporter for various Norwegian newspapers from 1958 to 1963.
He started his academic career as research assistant at the Institute of Political Science of the University of Oslo in 1965.
In 1969 he was appointed Assistant professor at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Bergen, in 1970 Associate professor, and in 1973 Professor in Public Administration and Organization Theory until 1993. He was Research Director at ARENA for many years, and is now.
Olsen is one of the developers of the systemic-anarchic perspective of organizational decision-making known as the Garbage Can Model. P. March, March, Cohen, and March,, and Johan P.
"The new institutionalism: organizational factors in political life." American political science review 78.03 (1983): 734-749.
European Group for Organizational Studies. Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters]
Olsen was also member of the Norwegian Research Council, and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.He established ARENA (Advanced Research on the Europeanization of the Nation State) in 1994.
Married Helene Marie Adriansen, August 15, 1959. Children: Vivi Danielsen, Heidi Dybesland.