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Atle Midttun
Born (1952-03-17) March 17, 1952 (age 72)
Bergen, Norway
CitizenshipNorwegian
EducationUppsala University (Phd) Economic Sociology/ Political Economy and Oslo University (Msc) Sociology, Economics, History, Philosophy
Occupation(s)Professor, Researcher
Employer(s)BI Norwegian Business School (1985 –

Resource Studies Group at the Norwegian Research Council (1982-85) Institute for Social Studies, Norway (1981-82)

Institute for Sociology, University of Oslo (1979-81)
Board member ofCo-director of the Centre for Energy and Environment (BI) Co-director of the Centre for Corporate Responsibility (BI)
SpouseNina Witoszek (2007-
ChildrenJohannes Midttun Lindholm
Websitehttps://www.atlemidttun.org/ https://www.bi.no/om-bi/ansatte/institutt-for-rettsvitenskap-og-styring/atle-midttun/

Atle Midttun is a professor emeritus at the Norwegian Business School (BI), the Department of Law and Governance. He has been a co-director of two of the BI’s s research centres: The Centre for Energy and Environment, and The Centre for Corporate Responsibility. [1]

In advance to his work at The Norwegian Business School, Atle Midttun held the position of researcher at the Resource Studies Group, under the Norwegian Research Council for Technical and Natural Sciences (1982-85). He was also a research assistant at the Institute for Social Studies (1981-82) and worked at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Oslo (1979-81). [2]

Research

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Throughout his career, Atle Midttun has conducted numerous research projects covering diverse areas such as energy, sustainability and corporate responsibility, financed by Norwegian and EU research councils, Innovation Norway and energy industry. In his research he has combined a broad societal perspective from economic sociology and political economy with strategy and innovation perspectives at the business level.[2]

Visiting Professorships

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Atle Midttun held visiting professorships at Stanford University, Woods Institute for the Environment; Université Paris Sud, Faculté Jean Monet; the University of Michigan, Business School/School of Natural Resources. He has also been a visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Aalborg, Haas School of Business and the Max Planck Institute for Social Science in Köln.[1]

Editorial Committees

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.Atle Midttun is a member of the editorial committees in European Management Review, the Energy & Environment Journal; Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society; and Energy Policy (1995-2014). He has also been a member of the Government's Climate Council, and advisory board member of Business for Peace Foundation, a board member of the International Museum of Children's Art.[1]

Selected Books

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Selected Articles

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  • Sequencing Lead Markets for Photovoltaics (with Elzbieta Toporowska) in Achim Brunnengraber & Maria Rosaria Di Nucci (eds) Im Hürdenlauf Zur Energiewende. Springer VS, Berlin, 2014.
  • The greening of the European petroleum industry Energy Policy, 167, 2022, (with Marina Khanieva Magne Lia and Eivind Wenner)
  • The Greening of European Electricity Industry: A Battle of Modernities, Energy Policy 2012.
  • The Firm as a Nexus of Product Cycles: Organizing Entrepreneurship in the Innovative Firm (With Nils-Otto Ørjasæter) in Maarten J. Arentsen, Wouter van Rossum and Albert E Steenge (eds) Governance of Innovation, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, Massachusetts, 2010.
  • The Political Economy of CSR in Western Europe Journal of Corporate Governance 2006 (with Kristian Gautesen and Maria Gjølberg).
  • CSR: Realigning Roles and Boundaries between Government, Business and Civil Society. Journal of Corporate Governance, 2005.
  • The Competitive Advantage of Collaboration – Throwing New Light on The Nordic Model, New Political Economy, 2019. (with Nina Witoszek).
  • The Negotiated Political Economy of a Heavy Industrial Sector: The Norwegian Hydropower Complex in the 1970's and 1980's. Scandinavian political Studies. 1988.

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Atle Midttun". Handelshøyskolen BI (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2024-12-09.
  2. ^ a b "Atle Midttun website". www.atlemidttun.org. Retrieved 2024-12-09.