Anne Welle-Strand
Professor emerita
Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour
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Biography
Anne Welle-Strand is Professor in the Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour at BI Norwegian Business School. She holds a PhD degree from the University of Stockholm (1996) and an Advanced Degree in Education from the University of Oslo (1993).
Since 2007 Welle-Strand holds an endowed professorship in Development Studies and Microfinance and was Director of the former Center for Development Studies and Microfinance (MICRO) at BI. Previous positions include research positions at the University of Oslo and visiting scholarships at Stanford University, Xiamen University, Hong Kong University, Western Cape University, and Zimbabwe University. She was also an educational advisor for the UNESCO/NORAD on behalf of the Norwegian National Commission.
Research areas
Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction
Evaluation
Project Management
Education and Development, Education Management, Educational Leadership, School Management;
Comparative and International Education, Higher Education, Education Policies
Teaching areas
Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction
Education Management
Project Management.
Since 2007 Welle-Strand holds an endowed professorship in Development Studies and Microfinance and was Director of the former Center for Development Studies and Microfinance (MICRO) at BI. Previous positions include research positions at the University of Oslo and visiting scholarships at Stanford University, Xiamen University, Hong Kong University, Western Cape University, and Zimbabwe University. She was also an educational advisor for the UNESCO/NORAD on behalf of the Norwegian National Commission.
Research areas
Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction
Evaluation
Project Management
Education and Development, Education Management, Educational Leadership, School Management;
Comparative and International Education, Higher Education, Education Policies
Teaching areas
Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction
Education Management
Project Management.
Publications
Shows
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of 30 publication(s)
Article Anne Welle-Strand, Monica Vlaicu, Arild Tjeldvoll (2013)
Vietnam - A New Economic Dragon in Southeast Asia?
Article Anne Welle-Strand, Monica Vlaicu (2013)
Business and State Balancing International Development Agendas - The Case of Norwegian CSR
This study looks into the interplay between governments and transnational corporations (TNCs) regarding corporate social responsibility (CSR), and it investigates the potentials to link CSR to the international development agenda. The analysis focuses on Norwegian CSR, that illustrates a rare combination of strong state with significant ownership in national companies, a relatively small number of TNCs and a strong civil society. The results of the analysis indicate that the Norwegian government exercises a strong influence over corporate governance. However, despite an apparent alignment between the topics proposed by the State’s development cooperation agenda and those Norwegian companies are expected to report on, the analysis did not find proof of a transfer of agendas. Instead, businesses appear to use CSR as a communication tool, thus complying with the government’s desire to project a positive image of Norway internationally. Furthermore, the government appears to prioritize commercial goals and profitability.
Article Anne Welle-Strand, Graeme Ball, Mariann Viksaas Hval, Monica Vlaicu (2012)
Electrifying solutions: Can power sector aid boost economic growth and development?
Article Anne Welle-Strand, Pei-Fen Chen, Graeme Ball (2011)
The Taiwanese Economic "Miracle": Continuing?
The island of Taiwan has successfully managed sixty years of fast-paced economic growth. Taiwan is a demonstrably resilient player in the global economy, while also maintaining high levels of income equality. However, there is a great deal of uncertainty surrounding whether the factors that have enabled and sustained the Taiwanese development project thus far will be an adequate means of managing the contemporary challenges facing the island. Taiwan may be becoming increasingly vulnerable to global economic conditions, and the island’s future seems also to be increasingly tied to developments in the Chinese mainland. This paper examines the prospects for a continuing Taiwanese growth paradigm from both a cultural and an economic perspective and finds reason for optimism. This optimism is contingent on the strength of international export markets and prudent management of cross-Strait relations with the Chinese mainland.
Article Anne Welle-Strand, Kristian Kjøllesdal, Nick Sitter (2010)
Assessing Microfinance: The Bosnia and Herzegovina Case
Article Kristian Kjøllesdal, Anne Welle-Strand (2010)
Foreign Aid Strategies: China Taking Over?
Article Arild Tjeldvoll, Anne Welle-Strand (2009)
A Report on the HEAD-Ache in Norway
Article Anne Welle-Strand, Lars Molden (2007)
Mikrofinans med makroutfordringer
Chapter Anne Welle-Strand, Arild Tjeldvoll (2006)
School Management Training in the Education Value Chain: Framework for a comparison of school leader training in five countries
Article Dijana Tiplic, Anne Welle-Strand (2006)
Bosnia-Herzegovina's Higher Education System: Issues of Governance and Quality
Article Arild Tjeldvoll, Christopher Wales, Anne Welle-Strand (2005)
School Leadership Training under Globalisation: Comparisons of the UK, the US and Norway
Chapter Anne Welle-Strand, Arild Tjeldvoll (2005)
School Management Training in the Education Value Chain: framework for a comparison of school leader training in five countries
Article Fabio Bento, Anne Welle-Strand, Arild Tjeldvoll (2005)
The complex relations between university, society and state: The Ethiopian Predicament in Establishing a Service University.
Article Taran Thune, Anne Welle-Strand (2005)
ICT for and in internationalization processes: A business school case study
Article Anne Welle-Strand, Arild Tjeldvoll, F. Bento (2005)
The Complex Relations between University, Society and State: The Ethiopian Predicament in Establishing a Service Unviersity
Article Anne Welle-Strand (2003)
Norwegian Development Aid to Education. How is Evaluation Used to Improve?
Article Anne Welle-Strand, Taran Thune (2003)
E-learning policies, practices and challenges in two Norwegian organizations
Article Anne Welle-Strand, Arild Tjeldvoll (2003)
Creativity, Curricula and Paradigms
Article Taran Thune, Anne Welle-Strand (2002)
The Ambiguous Quality Agenda in Norwegian Higher Education Policies
Article Taran Thune, Anne Welle-Strand (2002)
Reorganising resources for independent learning
Article Anne Welle-Strand (2002)
Continuing Higher Education in the Service University
Article Anne Welle-Strand, Arild Tjeldvoll (2002)
The Norwegian unified school – A paradise lost
Chapter Anne Welle-Strand, Arild Tjeldvoll, Taran Thune (2001)
Current main issues of Norwegian Education Debate
Chapter Anne Welle-Strand, Petter Gottschalk (2001)
Service and quality of higher education in Norway
Chapter Petter Gottschalk, Hans Solli-Sæther, Anne Welle-Strand (2001)
Integration between business planning and information systems planning : an analysis of the role of IS/IT in three different configurations
Article Taran Thune, Anne Welle-Strand (2001)
Reorganising resources for independent learning: libraries becoming Learning Resource Centres
Chapter Anne Welle-Strand (2000)
Evaluation as Organizational Learning in Norwegian Development Aid
Article Anne Welle-Strand (2000)
Knowledge Production, Service and Quality. Higher Education Tensions in Norway
Article Anne Welle-Strand (2000)
Utdanningsledelse i en e-læringstid
Chapter Anne Welle-Strand (1999)
The Quality of Knowledge Production in Higher Education -The Norwegian Scene
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of 33 publication(s)
Feature article Anne Welle-Strand (2014)
Bistandens blå kameler og hvite elefanter
Vi fortsetter å gi milliarder til bistand, uten å kontrollere resultatene. Når skal regjeringen slutte å svelge kameler og begynne å se på bistandens resultater?
Interview Anne Welle-Strand (2013)
Den gode viljen. 5:5
Norsk dokumentarserie. I 2013 øker det norske bistandsbudsjettet med 2,4 milliarder kroner. I løpet av de siste åtte årene er bistandsbudsjettet doblet. I 60 år har norsk bistand feilet, lagt om kursen, feilet igjen og lagt om kursen igjen. Er det på tide å gi seg?
Interview Anne Welle-Strand (2013)
Gjør mer skade enn gavn
Participation in media Anne Welle-Strand (2013)
Den gode viljen
Interview Anne Welle-Strand (2013)
Bistanden frykter fakta
Feature article Anne Welle-Strand (2013)
Egeninteresser ødelegger bistanden
Interview Anne Welle-Strand (2012)
Foreldres utdanning enda viktigere
Interview Anne Welle-Strand (2011)
Kritiske rapporter om bistand lite lest
Interview Anne Welle-Strand (2010)
Fattige sliter etter mikrolån
Interview Anne Welle-Strand (2010)
Mikrofinans - i gang med investeringene
Interview Anne Welle-Strand (2010)
Ikke alene om å være blåøyd
Interview Anne Welle-Strand (2010)
Norad-direktør om at bistanden ikke ønsker resultater: - En fornærmelse
Interview Anne Welle-Strand (2010)
Kineserne kommer
Interview Anne Welle-Strand (2010)
Solheim: Pengene kommer frem
Interview Anne Welle-Strand (2009)
Gigantvekst for mikrofinans
Interview Anne Welle-Strand (2009)
Investorene trekker sørover
Feature article Anne Welle-Strand, Asle Toje (2009)
Mugabes rike onkel
Feature article Anne Welle-Strand, Asle Toje (2009)
Kan vi vente 30 år på Norad?
Feature article Anne Welle-Strand, Asle Toje (2008)
Synsing som forskning
Interview Anne Welle-Strand (2008)
Forskning må vise vei
Interview Anne Welle-Strand (2008)
Dårlig ledelse i norsk bistand
Interview Anne Welle-Strand (2008)
Ikke bekymret
Interview Anne Welle-Strand (2008)
U-hjelp rett ut av vinduet
Interview Anne Welle-Strand (2008)
Business i en korrupt verden
Feature article Anne Welle-Strand (2007)
Business er god bistand
Interview Anne Welle-Strand (2007)
BI bygger kompetanse på om næringsliv og bistand
Feature article Anne Welle-Strand (2007)
Telenors uhjelp i Bangladesh
Interview Anne Welle-Strand (2007)
Ringen er sluttet
Interview Anne Welle-Strand (2007)
MICRO i Uganda
Interview Anne Welle-Strand (2007)
Grameenphone vinner med «norsk» lederstil
Feature article Anne Welle-Strand, Lars Molden (2006)
Fredsprisen krever ny kompetanse
Feature article Anne Welle-Strand (2006)
Blåruss og bistand
Feature article Anne Welle-Strand (2000)
Zimbabwes politiske ulykke og norsk bistand
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5
of 30 publication(s)
Chapter in encyclopedia Anne Welle-Strand, Anders Daniel Faksvåg Haugen, Beathe Øgård (2021)
Skole og utdanning i Tanzania
Report Anne Welle-Strand, Gunnar Svedberg, Jan Beyer Schmidt-Sørensen, Geoffrey Wood, Sidsel Gro Bang-Jensen (2014)
Copenhagen Business School - Institutional Accrediation
Report Anne Welle-Strand, Roger Saljø, Kirsti Koch Christensen, Anders Kvernmo Langset (2014)
Evaluering av system for kvalitetssikring av utdanningen ved Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus
Article Anne Welle-Strand (2013)
Fra bistand til næringspolitikk
Report Helge Salvesen, Gunn Haraldseid, Airi Rovio-Johanson, Anne Welle-Strand, Marius Lervåg Aasprong (2011)
Evaluering av system for kvalitetssikring av utdanningen ved Universitetet i Agder Rapport fra sakkyndig komité
Report Helge Salvesen, Gunn Haraldseid, Airi Rovio-Johansson, Anne Welle-Strand, Marius Lervåg Aasprong (2011)
NOKUTs tilsynsrapporter: Evaluering av system for kvalitetssikring av utdanning ved Universitetet i Agder
Report Anne Welle-Strand, Pernille Dehli, Erik Kimmestad, Christen Torp (2009)
Private actors in the aid landscape - Mapping an Emerging Segment in Norwegian Development Aid
Report Anne Welle-Strand, Asle Toje (2009)
"Creating Value(s)? Norwegian Hydropower and Aquaculture in Chile
Commentary Anne Welle-Strand, Lars Molden (2007)
Ikke løsning alene
Commentary Anne Welle-Strand (2007)
Norsk bistand - endelig på alvor?
Article Anne Welle-Strand (2007)
Sterk start for MICRO
Commentary Anne Welle-Strand (2006)
BI og bistand
Report A. Tjeldvoll, Peter Nagy, Anne Welle-Strand (2006)
Balkan Higher Education: Challenged to Change.
Report Arild Tjeldvoll, Anne Welle-Strand, B. Cuckovic (2005)
Higher Education in the Balkans. Approaching Bologna and the Service University. Studies in Education Management Research, nr 10
Report Christopher Wales, Anne Welle-Strand (2005)
School Management Training. Country Report: Norway. HEAD Country Report 2005
Report Arild Tjeldvoll, Anne Welle-Strand, B. Cuckovic (2005)
One Bosnia-Herzegovina Higher Education System - Mission Impossible? Four case studies from the BOSHMAN Project.
Report Arild Tjeldvoll, Anne Welle-Strand, Jenny Stretton (2005)
Xiamen International School: Ambition excellence. A HEAD Project Pilot Study.
Book chapter Carl Johan Hatteland, D. Hodzic, Anne Welle-Strand (2004)
Re-embedding interfaces between industry and university in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Report Arild Tjeldvoll, Anne Welle-Strand, F. Bento (2003)
Overview of Institutions and Programmes. School Manager Training in Finland, France, United Kingdom and The United States. Studies in Education Management Research, Vol. 3
Report Anne Welle-Strand, Jan Merok Paulsen, Haakon Kobbenes (2003)
Skoleledelse i Norge: En kartlegging av forskning og utdanning i perioden 1998-2003. Studies in Education Management Research, Vol. 4
Report Arild Tjeldvoll, Anne Welle-Strand, Christopher Wales (2003)
Annotated bibliography: School Manager Training in Finland, France, United Kingdom and The United States. Studies in Education Management Research, Vol. 2
Conference lecture Carl Johan Hatteland, D. Hodžic, Anne Welle-Strand (2003)
Re-embedding interfaces between industry and university: From ‘head to head’ to ‘finger to finger’ - Framing the state and transition of technical and organisational interfaces between a BiH welding research unit and its users
Report Taran Thune, Anne Welle-Strand (2003)
Worldwide Virtual Ed? An empirical study of ICTs for and in internationalization processes at a business school.
Report Taran Thune, Anne Welle-Strand (2003)
Worldwide Virtual Ed.? An empirical study of ICT for and in internationalization processes in a business school
This report addresses the issues of internationalization and how information and communication technologies are parts of internationalization processes in higher education. It is frequently assumed that Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are pivotal in globalization of higher education and in internationalization processes, by posing opportunities for integration across time and space enabling distributed nodes to work as units in real time. Moreover, it is claimed that globalization and new technologies has lead to a global market for education, in which new providers of higher education operate, and that this competitive agenda poses significant threats to traditional providers. This report investigates these assumptions through a case study. To provide some background and focus for the empirical work central concepts are discussed related to globalization and higher education, international competition and cooperation, and the role of Information and Communication Technologies in internationalization related to potentials for overcoming space and time boundaries. Guided by these considerations, we present qualitative data derived from policy documents and interviews with key actors at the institution, focused on four main themes: Internationalization as strategy, international operations, ICTs for internationalization, and challenges for internationalization. In terms of internationalization as strategy, internationalization is seen as a competitive strategy in both domestic and foreign markets. The way to achieve competitiveness is unanimously recognized as through cooperative means and the way to achieve international presence is through cooperation with local partners. In terms of the second main focus, how ICTs are related to internationalization, we highlight the difference in perspectives of ICTs for internationalization and ICTs in international activities and internationalization processes. In terms of the first perspective, ICTs, though important, are not considered to be a driving force for internationalization in higher education. ICTs are however regarded as very central supporting in ongoing international activities, and as such is regarded as a success criterion.
Book chapter Anne Welle-Strand (2003)
The Power of Ignorance. Norwegian Development Aid to Education
Report Anne Welle-Strand, Arild Tjeldvoll (2002)
ICT, Learning & Value Creation - Strategies Missing?
What are effects of the ICT-revolution on the organising of learning within universities and corporations and on the “learning relations” between corporations and universities? The pilot study has responded to this question by reviewing a sample of existing relevant literature and by conducting policy analysis and interviews with key persons of two Norwegian organisations, The Norwegian School of Management (BI) and Telenor. The research question was specified into three sub questions: How does universities and corporations e-react as organisations to the current context of a global informational society and a global conomy? How well are educational rationales understood and implemented by universities’ and corporations’ management and staff? To which extent has a functional e-Learning Meeting Place for learning partnerships between university and corporation been established? The literature review and the empirical pilot have confirmed that the ICT-revolution has had a dramatic effect on universities’ and corporations’ policies and implementation of ICT expected to facilitate learning, and to make it more efficient. However, it was not found convincingly empirically underpinned that all ICT investments for learning purposes are goal- and cost-effective. There is a lack of overall strategies for the use of ICT based learning. And, an organisational schizophrenia has been found between policy writers and staff in terms of the need for pedagogical understanding. Such understanding is absent in the policy documents, while strongly expected by staff. The top management does not show sufficient concern for a pedagogically rational use of ICT based learning. A pedagogically sound solution needs to focus on how people actually learn and how to best facilitate for different modes of learning. This also touches on the need to balance individual and corporate needs and goals. Such considerations ought to be reflected in an articulated corporate learning strategy endorsed by the top management and implemented in such a manner that both time and space are created to facilitate for learning. E-learning meeting places between universities and corporations have not yet been developed. The findings of and conclusions have given direction, motivation and new ideas for a follow-up comprehensive research project, including several universities and corporations in three countries.
Report Arild Tjeldvoll, Anne Welle-Strand (2002)
Globalisation and service university research in Africa
Conference lecture Anne Welle-Strand (2001)
Education and political instability. Zimbabwe at the turn of the Century
Book Anne Welle-Strand, Petter Gottschalk (2001)
Læring gjennom økonomi, system og prosjekt : festskrift til Erling S.Andersen Project Management and Information Technology
Report Taran Thune, Anne Welle-Strand (2000)
Infrastruktur for læring. Bibliotek og læringsressurssentre i høyere utdanning
| Year | Academic Department | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Stockholm University | Ph.D. |
| 1993 | University of Oslo | Master Cand. Polit. |
| Year | Employer | Job Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 - Present | Centre for Development Studies and Microfinance (MICRO) | Director |
| 2004 - Present | BI Norwegian Business School | Professor |
| 2002 - Present | Centre for Education Management research (CEM) | Director |
| 1998 - 2004 | BI Norwegian School of Management | Associate Professor |
| 1997 - 1998 | University of Oslo | Researcher |
| 1993 - 1994 | UNESCO | Consultant |