Olof Hallonsten

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In Swedish / på svenska

Journal articles

Hallonsten, O. and E. Sevelin (2023). Why do associations run independent schools in Sweden, and why does it matter?. Forthcoming in Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration.

Hallonsten, O. (2023). Where did all the money go? Funding, personnel, and expenditure in Swedish universities and colleges 2001–21. Forthcoming in Quality in Higher Education.

Hammarfelt, B. and O. Hallonsten (2022). Are evaluative bibliometrics neoliberal? A historical and theoretical problematization. Social Science Information 61(4): 414-438.

Alvehus, J. and O. Hallonsten (2022). Institutional logics and functionalist differentiation theory: Challenges and pathways forward. Organization Theory 3(3): 1-22.

Hallonsten, O. (2022). The 'yawning abyss' between surface and substance: Organizational life as 'pseudo-reality'. Scandinavian Journal of Management 38(2): 101210.

Hallonsten, O. (2022). On the essential role of organized skepticism in science’s “internal and lawful autonomy” (Eigengesetzlichkeit). Journal of Classical Sociology 22(3): 282-303.

Hallonsten, O. (2021). Keep discussing evaluation – A personal and appreciative reflection. Social Science Information 60(3): 384-394.

Hallonsten, O. (2021). Stop evaluating science: A historical-sociological argument. Social Science Information 60(1): 7-26.

Hallonsten, O. (2021). Weber’s value spheres, functional differentiation, and Zetterberg’s Many-Splendored Society. Max Weber Studies 21(2): 151-170.

Hallonsten, O. (2020). Research infrastructures in Europe: The hype and the field. European Review 28(4): 617–635.

Perez Vico, E. and O. Hallonsten (2019). How industry collaboration influences research: The case of the Swedish Interdisciplinary Material Consortia 1990-2000. Industry and Higher Education 33(5) 289-307.

Hallonsten, O. (2018). Development and transformation of the third sector of R&D in Sweden, 1942-2017. Science and Public Policy 45(5): 634-644.

Heinze, T. and O. Hallonsten (2018). The reinvention of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 1992–2012. History and Technology 33(3): 300-332.

Heinze, T., Hallonsten, O. and S. Heinecke (2017). Turning the Ship: The Transformation of DESY, 1993-2009. Physics in Perspective 19: 424-451.

Hallonsten, O. and O. Christensson (2017). Collaborative technological innovation in an academic, user-oriented Big Science facility. Industry and Higher Education 31(6) 399-408.

Hallonsten, O. (2017). The third sector of R&D: Literature review, basic analysis, and research agenda. Prometheus 35(1): 21-35.

Perez Vico, E. and O. Hallonsten (2017). A resource- and impact-based micro-level conceptualization of collaborative academic work. Aslib Journal of Information Management 69(5): 624-639.

Gribbe, J. and O. Hallonsten (2017). The emergence and growth of materials science in Swedish universities. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 47(4): 459-493.

Hallonsten, O. (2016). Use and productivity of contemporary, multidisciplinary Big Science. Research Evaluation 25(4): 486-495.

Hallonsten, O. and T. Heinze (2015). Formation and Expansion of a New Organizational Field in Experimental Science. Science and Public Policy 42(6): 841-854.

Heinze, T., Hallonsten, O. and S. Heinecke (2015). From Periphery to Center: Synchrotron Radiation at DESY, Part II: 1977–1993. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 45(4): 513-548.

Hallonsten, O. (2015). Unpreparedness and risk in Big Science policy: Sweden and the European Spallation Source. Science and Public Policy 42(3): 415-426.

Heinze, T., Hallonsten, O. and S. Heinecke (2015). From Periphery to Center: Synchrotron Radiation at DESY, Part I: 1962–1977. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 45(3): 447-492.

Heidler, R. and O. Hallonsten (2015). Qualifying the performance evaluation of Big Science beyond productivity, impact and costs. Scientometrics 104(1): 295-312.

Holmberg, D. and O. Hallonsten (2015). Policy reform and academic drift: Research mission and institutional legitimacy in the development of the Swedish higher education system 1977-2012. European Journal of Higher Education 5(2): 181–196.

Hallonsten, O. (2015). The parasites: Synchrotron radiation at SLAC, 1972-1992. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 45(2): 217-272.

Hallonsten, O. (2014). How scientists may ‘benefit from the mess’: A resource dependence perspective on individual organizing in contemporary science. Social Science Information 53(3): 341-362.

Hallonsten, O. and O. Hugander (2014). Supporting ‘future research leaders’ in Sweden: Institutional isomorphism and inadvertent funding agglomeration. Research Evaluation 23(3): 249-260.

Hallonsten, O. (2014). How expensive is Big Science? Consequences of using simple publication counts in performance assessment of large scientific facilities. Scientometrics 100(2): 483-496.

Hallonsten, O. and T. Heinze (2013). From particle physics to photon science: Multidimensional and multilevel renewal at DESY and SLAC. Science and Public Policy 40(5): 591-603.

Hallonsten, O. (2013). Introducing 'facilitymetrics': A first review and analysis of commonly used measures of scientific leadership among synchrotron radiation facilities worldwide. Scientometrics 96(2): 497-513.

Hallonsten, O. and D. Holmberg (2013). Analyzing structural stratification in the Swedish higher education system: data contextualization with policy-history analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 64(3): 574-586.

Hallonsten, O. (2012). Continuity and change in the politics of European scientific collaboration. Journal of Contemporary European Research 8(3): 300-318.

Hallonsten, O. and C. Silander (2012). Commissioning the university of excellence: Swedish research policy and new public research funding programs. Quality in Higher Education 18(3): 367-381.

Hallonsten, O. (2012). Seeking alternative researcher identities in newcomer academic institutions in Sweden. Higher Education Management and Policy 24(1): 69-86.

Jacob, M. and O. Hallonsten (2012). The persistence of big science and megascience in research and innovation policy. Science and Public Policy 39(4): 411-415.

Hallonsten, O. and T. Heinze (2012). Institutional persistence through gradual adaptation: analysis of national laboratories in the USA and Germany. Science and Public Policy 39(4): 450-463.

Hallonsten, O. (2011). Growing Big Science in a Small Country: MAX-lab and the Swedish Research Policy System. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 41(2): 179-215.

Books

Hallonsten O. (2023). Empty Innovation. Causes and Consequences of Society’s Obsession with Entrepreneurship and Growth. Palgrave Pivot.

Hallonsten O. (2020). The Campaign. How a European Big Science facility ended up on the peripheral farmlands of Southern Sweden. Arkiv Academic Press.

Cramer, K. and O. Hallonsten (eds.) (2020). Big Science and Research Infrastructures in Europe. Edward Elgar.

Hallonsten, O. (2016). Big Science Transformed. Science, Politics and Organization in Europe and the United States. Palgrave Macmillan.

Hallonsten, O. (ed.) (2012). In pursuit of a promise: Perspectives on the political process to establish the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund, Sweden. Arkiv Academic Press.


Book chapters

Hallonsten, O. (2020). Is there an ‘iron law’ of Big Science? In Cramer, K. and O. Hallonsten (eds.), Big Science and Research Infrastructures in Europe.. Edward Elgar.

Hallonsten, O., Eriksson, H., and A. Collsiöö (2020). The role of research infrastructures in innovation systems: the case of Swedish participation in the Halden Reactor Project (HRP). In Cramer, K. and O. Hallonsten (eds.), Big Science and Research Infrastructures in Europe.. Edward Elgar.

Hallonsten, O. and T. Heinze (2016).'Preservation of the Laboratory is not a Mission.' Gradual Organizational Renewal in National Laboratories in Germany and the United States. In Heinze, T. and R. Münch (eds.) Innovation in Science and Organizational Renewal. Historical and Sociological Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan.

Hallonsten, O. (2014). The Politics of European Collaboration in Big Science. In Mayer, M., Carpes, M. and R. Knoblich (eds.) The Global Politics of Science and Technology - Vol. 2. Springer.

Hallonsten, O. (2013). Myths and realities of the ESS project: A systematic scrutiny of readily accepted ‘truths’. In Kaiserfeld, T. and T. O'Dell (eds.) Legitimizing ESS: Big Science as a collaboration across boundaries. Nordic Academic Press.

Hallonsten, O. (2012). Contextualizing the European Spallation Source: what we can learn from the history, politics, and sociology of Big Science. In Hallonsten, O. (ed.) In pursuit of a promise: Perspectives on the political process to establish the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund, Sweden. Arkiv Academic Press.


Reports

Hallonsten, O. and M. Slavcheva (2018). RIO Country Report 2017: Sweden. European Commission, Joint Research Centre Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS).

Hallonsten, O. and O. Christensson (2017). An ex post impact study of MAX-lab. Lund University.

Eriksson, H., Olsson, A. and O. Hallonsten (2016). Evaluation of the Swedish participation in the Halden Reactor Project 2006–2014. Swedish Radiation Safety Authority / Oxford Research.

Hallonsten, O. (2014).ERAWATCH Country Report 2013: Sweden. European Commission, Joint Research Centre Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS).

Hallonsten, O. (2013). ERAWATCH Country Report 2012: Sweden. European Commission, Joint Research Centre Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS).


Popular science

Hallonsten, O. (2021). The case for ending evaluation. Research Professional News September 16, 2021.

Hallonsten, O. (2018). Big Science in a small town. An introduction to ESS and MAX IV for the humanities, social sciences, economics, and legal studies. Lund University.

Hallonsten, O. (2016). Corporate culture has no place in academia. Nature 06.10.2016.

Hallonsten, O. (2015). Europe needs fresh focus on big-science projects. Nature 19.02.2015.

Hallonsten, O. (2014). Is common ground safe? Research Europe 23.10.2014.

Hallonsten, O. (2013). Don’t let brinkmanship get in the way of Big Science. Research Europe 10.10.2013.