Haldor Byrkjeflot is professor at Department of Sociology and Human Geography at University of Oslo. He has been academic director of the strategic initiative UIO:Nordic at University of Oslo and has also initiated a Nordic strategic university hub related to research on the Nordics in a global context (ReNEW) with six Nordic universities as partners. His research interests include the emergence and circulation of societal and organizational models, organization theory, bureaucracy as well as historical-comparative studies. He has published articles on comparative management, the globalization of the MBA, changing knowledge regimes in universities, comparative labor systems, the role of bureaucracy in modern societies and reforms and organizational dynamics in health and education. Most recently he has coedited a forthcoming book on The Making and Circulation of Nordic Models (Routledge 2021)