Publications
Academic article
- Gran, Thorvald (2025). Our rationality unfolds with necessity in reflection rooms. John Searle’s gap taken into studies of organization. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2021). How a government panel on land reform in South Africa is stuck in old ways. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2020). Sovereignty and democracy in the struggle for equality. Norway as case. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2018). Looking back: Government politics and trust in rural Developments in Tanzania and Zimbabwe 1980-1990. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald; Jacobi, Nadia von (2016). How and when does speech-acting generate social innovations. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2015). The process of speech-acting specifies methods for grasping meaning. Ten operations. A contribution to hermeneutics. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2015). Lønnskontrakten som inntak til bedriftens basale organizasjon. David.P.Ellerman om eiendom og ansvar i bedrifter. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2015). Moses/Knutsen 2012: når kunnskapsskepsisen nesten tar overhånd. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2014). Talehandlinger som inntak til institusjonsmakt. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2013). John Searle om institusjoner, politisk makt og voldsmakt. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2012). John Searle on the concept of political power, the power of states and war-making: why states demand a monopoly of the organisation and use of soldiers. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2011). Objekt og subjekter i vitenskapene - kommentar til Tor Egil Førlands artikkel: Deltaker og medløper: Venstresiden, Sovjetunionen og objektivismens fall i Historisk tidsskrift nr. 4/2010. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2009). Land politics in the new state organisation in South Africa. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2009). VAM: Nasjonal nærsynthet i velferdsforskningen. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2007). Liberation regimes and land reform in Africa. land politics transcending enmity in South Africa. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2005). Hvordan institusjoner forklarer handling. John Searles bidrag. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2002). Land reform and trust in South Africa. IRAS sept. 2002 engelsk, fransk og arabisk utgaver. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2001). Demokratiets vilkår i Sør-Afrika. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (1996). Politikkbegrepet: statens strukturering av den politiske prosessen. Europeiske og norske erfaringer. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (1994). Aid and institution building. (external link)
Academic literature review
- Gran, Thorvald (2025). How the struggle of narratives in the time-space between decisions modifies the idea that knowledge and interests alone determine decisions. Searle’s gap taken into empirical studies of organizations. Expanded review of John Searle, Rationality in action. MIT Press, 2001. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2007). Statsvitenskapen mellom maktens ordensbehov og frigjøringspresset. (external link)
Academic monograph
- Gran, Thorvald (2024). State Power in Land Reform: Barriers to implementation in the Western and Northern Cape, South Africa, 1990–2006. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2017). How Speech acting and the struggle of narratives generate organization. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2012). Vitenskap i praksis. Metoder i forskning på harde og sosiale fakta. (external link)
Article in business/trade/industry journal
Academic lecture
- Gran, Thorvald (2023). Democratic firms.Generally and in Norway. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2022). Sovereign power wielding and democracy in organizations. The power of language communities, the military and privat business. Generally and in Norway. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2022). The struggle over sovereignty. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2022). The function and power of language communities. Constraints on sovereigty and democracy in nation states. The Norwegian case. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2020). Ulikhet mellom statlig suverenitet og demokrati. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2020). The power and function of language communities in nation states. Constraints on development of sovereignty and democracy. The Norwegian case. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2019). Sovereignty and democracy in nation states. Norway as case. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2019). Frihetens øyeblikk i møte med uløste utfordringer. Om refleksjonsrommet i organisasjoners beslutningsprosess. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2018). Is the employment contract exploitative?. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2018). Organisering i et talehandlingsperspektiv. Dannelsen av Kystfiskarlaget. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2017). A speech acting approach to the organization of Norwegian fisheries. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2016). THE SPEECH ACT THEORY OF INNOVATIVENESS AND INNOVATIONS. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2016). SPEECH-ACTING, FORMATION OF NARRATIVES, DELIBERATIONS AND REASONING IN GAPS. NARRATIVITY AND ORGANIZATION. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2016). Micro - macro relations of culture and innovation, in theory and in Norwegian and South African modernisation. Innovation – and rationality. A reflection on John Searle’s contribution. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2016). How and when does speech-acting generate new organisation. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2016). Talehandlingens og avtalens makt i konstitueringen av sosiale fakta. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald; Jacobi, Nadia von (2015). How speech acts generate social innovations. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2014). Organizational analysis: The generative speech-act model. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2014). Marx om kapital, klasser og bedriftsorganisasjon,. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2013). Kommentar til Jonathan Moses og Torbjørn Knutsen, Ways of Knowing. Naturalismen mot konstruktivismen. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2013). How the Norwegian state was pushed to adopt an ecological systems perspective in the regulation of fisheries. The strength of a transdisciplinary model of collective intentions. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2012). Den marine sektorens organisasjon i et helixperspektiv. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2012). Strategenes rolle. Fra embetsstat via borgerlig demokrati til profesjonsstaten. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2011). The power of expert knowledge in Norwegian politics. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2011). The agonistic movement towards high modernism and the power of democracy in Norwegian fisheries. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2010). Searles institusjonsteori. Bidrag inn i ny-institusjonalismen og organisasjonsteori. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2010). John Searle om institusjoner og politisk makt. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2010). Teknologiutvikling og reguleringer i fiskeriene i det nordatlantiske området. Norge, Skottland, Island og Newfoundland. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2010). Innovation systems and regulation regimes in Norwegian fisheries. The explanatory power of networks in the triple helix. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2008). Identitet og makt. Elias, Aubert, Dahl Jacobsen og Searles bidrag. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2008). Strategenes rolle i velferdsstatsprosjektet. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2008). Unesco and OECD on learning and innovation. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2007). Innovation processes in context. A variation seeking analysis of innovations in politics, science and the economy – in Norway and South Africa. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2007). INNOVATION SYSTEMS BETWEEN UNIVERSITIES, GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES AND MARKETS. THE CASE OF NORDIAG BERGEN. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2007). Strategenes rolle i det norske velferdsstatsprosjektet. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2007). Nation states as institutions are different from football games with umpires. A specification of Searle’s theory of institutions into the realm of politics. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2007). John Searles institusjonsteori. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2007). Snille folk spør ikke - stemmer ikke - og får heller ikke. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald; Nilsen, mari; Halhjem, Frank (2007). Management of natural resources. Marine learning and innovation systems (LIS) in Norway, Scotland, Iceland and Newfoundland. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2007). Learning and Innovation Systems (LIS) in marine sectors. West Coast of Norway in a comparative perspective (Scotland, Iceland, Newfoundland). (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2006). Innovasjonsfagets faglige innhold. Institusjonsteoriens bidrag. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2006). Forholdet mellom tillit og rasjonelle handlinger i organisasjoner. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald; Nilsen, mari; Halhjem, Frank (2006). Innovation system at micro level: From public medical research to marketable production. The creation of the Nordiag corporation. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2006). Hvordan institusjoner forklarer handling. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2006). Pizzorno om demokrati. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2005). Post-colonial democracies: Norway, South Africa and Timor Leste. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2005). Micro-macro relations of culture and innovation. Innovation and rationality. A reflection on John Searle's contribution. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2005). Land Politics, Trust Relations in Government and Land Reform Findings from the Western and Northern Cape provinces in South Africa. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2004). Micro - macro relations of culture and innovation. Norway and South Africa. A reflection on John Searle�s theory of rationality in action. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2004). Innovation – and rationality. A reflection on John Searle’s contribution. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2003). Innovation - between rationality, power and trust. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2002). Land politics and trust in Western South Africa. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2002). Land and trust in Western South Africa. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2001). Professionalism in African administrative cultures. Introduction to Admin Africa Book on the plight of professionalism in African states. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2001). Professionalism in Tanzania under colonial and TANU rule. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2000). Administration of land reform and trust relations, Western and Northern Cape compared. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (1995). A political Theory of Administrative Innovation. Public Administration as Agent of Economic Moderniztion. (external link)
Lecture
- Gran, Thorvald (2023). Anti-demokratiske tankeretninger og organisering. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2020). Ulikhet mellom nasjonalstatlig suverenitet og demokrati. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2020). Einar Thorsrud, Robert Dahl og David Ellerman om bedriftsdemokrati.. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2019). Giorgio Agamben Om personen i Felleskapet som skal komme. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2018). Språk og fornuft. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2018). Om språk og hva språk gjør med oss. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2018). Frihet og fornuft - eller omvendt?. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2018). Refleksjonsrom i beslutningsprosesser. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2016). Kurs Høyanger: Ledelse og identiteter i kommuneorganisasjonen. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2016). Om utplassering som ledd i fagutdanningen. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2014). World Social Science Report on Climate Change: A science policy programme, not a knowledge report. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2014). Om forholdet mellom hovedfagene naturvitenskap, humaniora og samfunnsfag i et talehandlingsperspektiv. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2010). Hva er faglig ledelse av universitetet? Konsernmodellens sterke og svake sider. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2008). An institutional political science (IPS) perspective on the political crisis in Zimbabwe. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2006). Demokrati som nasjonalstat og styresett. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2006). Samfunnsfagene møter arbeidslivet. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (1995). Gruppeleder forvaltningspolitikk. (external link)
Feature article
- Gran, Thorvald (2022). Skal Ukraina slåss alene?. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2022). The non-aligned movement should support the liberation war in Ukraine. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2022). Dårlig moral. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2022). Et demokrati trenger ingen tillitsreform. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2022). Om Rødts prinsipper. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2022). Forsvarsallianser med atommakter er livsfarlige. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2022). Ulikhet og demokrati. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2021). Underskudd på demokrati?. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2021). Demokrati i stat og bedrift. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2021). Folkeliv som samfunnskunnskap. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2021). En demokratisk revolusjon?. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2021). Tror Rødt på bedriftsdemokrati?. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2021). Om Rødts prinsipper. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2021). En demokratisk revolusjon?. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2020). Den åpne historien. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2014). Retten som teater. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2013). Samme modell passer ikke overalt. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2012). Den temmede hesten. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2011). Det viktigste våpenet for et sivilisert samfunn (valgene). (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2010). Ansvar for fellesskapet. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2010). Samfunnsveven. Biologien legger vilkårene for individets frihet og samfunnets variasjonsbredde. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2009). Eilertsens næringslivsbegeistring. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2009). Norge trenger u-hjelp. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2009). Finanskrisen i politisk lys. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2009). Eilertsens næringslivsbegeistring. Det skjøre systemet i politikken er det offentlige. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2008). Opprørsk og reaksjonært. (politikkbegrepet i Frps program). (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2007). Velgere fra samfunnets ytterkant. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (1995). Verdibegrpets institusjonsavhengighet. Hvem skaper og bruker verdier?. (external link)
Popular scientific article
- Thorsen, Dag Einar; Gran, Thorvald (2022). korporativ stat. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2021). Ungdom i Tønsberg 1960-1972. Artiumskullet 1962 velger sine veier. Et tidsbilde.. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2020). Hvorfor er historien åpen. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2017). Om fornuft i uløste organisasjonsspørsmål. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2011). Språket limer oss sammen. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2010). Hva med handlingsfriheten? Kronikk i BT. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2007). ANC-privatisering sender folk til byene. (external link)
Reader opinion piece
- Gran, Thorvald (2022). Internasjonale soldater inn i forsvarskrigen. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2021). Kvinners markedsverdi. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2012). Tilregnelighet - en bemerkning til hva det er. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2008). Balansen på Høyden. Uib krtikken. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2008). Replikk til Lægreid og Roness. (external link)
Report
- Gran, Thorvald (2015). Innovation and regulation regimes overe time in Norwegian fisheries. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2012). Materiale fra helixkonferansen i Bergen. Mål, makt, effektivitet og fornuft i norsk marin sektor. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2007). Universitetet i Bergen: Organisasjon, sosiale strukturer og organisasjonsideologi. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2007). Institusjoner som makten og materiale for fornuftig handling. Problemstillinger og realistiske metoder i forskningen på institusjoner. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2006). Land politics, trust relations in government and land reform in South Africa. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2006). Land is not a commodity! Land politics, Trust and Land Reform in South Africa. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2006). Innovasjon i organisasjoner. Mellom kreativitet, sosial mobilisering og maktutøvelse. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (1995). Public administration and development. Reflections on the research agenda. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (1994). Statsbygging og økonomisk modernisering: Var demokratiet kritisk for det norske moderniseringsprosjektet?. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (1994). Nasjonalstatens politikkbegrep. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (1994). Er EU en sosialdemokratisk organisasjon? En organisasjonssosiologisk tilnærming. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (1994). Hjelpepleiernes organisasjonsproblem: i spenningsfeltet mellom myndigheter, organisasjoner og andre yrker. Utgreiing for Norsk Hjelpepleierforbund Oslo. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (1994). State. Democracy and Economic Modernization in the Nordic/Baltic Countries. A synopsis for a research project. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (1994). Fra mobilisering til modernisering. En sammenlikning av Norges og Tanzanias veier inn i verdensøkonomien. (external link)
Masters thesis
- Langsholt, Siw Camilla Wendelbo; Gran, Thorvald (2006). En studie av offentlig entreprenørskap i Pudong New Area, Shanghai. (external link)
- Hanson, Hanne; Gran, Thorvald (2006). MåltidsARENA - der måltid er mer enn mat. (external link)
- Hansen, Iris; Gran, Thorvald (2006). Regionalt innovasjonssystem. Betingelsen for en velfungerende forsknings- og kunnskapspark. (external link)
- Li, Kristian; Froestad, Jan; Gran, Thorvald (2006). The new contractualism: Many and different approaches. An exploration of contemporary use and interpretations of contractual protocols. (external link)
- Bjørkly, Cecilie Linn; Gran, Thorvald; Jensen, Thor Øivind (2006). Fra læring til næring. Nettverksbygging som strategi for nye næringer. (external link)
- Nesje, Oddbjørn; Gran, Thorvald (2006). Organisasjonsprosesser i FN. (external link)
- Klungseth, Lars-Bjarne; Gran, Thorvald (2004). Accesibility Transparency and Public Choice. (external link)
Doctoral dissertation
- Chikwanha, Annie Barbara H.; Gran, Thorvald (2006). The Politics of Housing Delivery: A Comparative Study of Administrative Behaviour in South Africa and Zimbabwe. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (1988). A critique of state autonomy in Norway 1850-1970 : changing class-state relations in a small capitalist society. (external link)
Programme participation
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
- Gran, Thorvald (2005). Land Politics and Trust Relations inm Government: Findings from Western South Africa. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2005). The contraction- and detraction thesis. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2005). The Contraction- and Detraction Thesis. A theory on power and values conflicts in democracies. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2004). Professionalism in African settings. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2004). In conclusion: Resistance to 'traditional' modernisation, deconstruction of the modernising state and the increased importance of cultured professionalism. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2004). The space for knowledge in Tanzanian politics is not there. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (2003). Kontraksjon og detraksjonstesen. En teori om makt og verdikonflikt i demokratier. Kapittel 18. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (1999). A political theory of administrative innovation. (external link)
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Poster
- Gran, Thorvald (1999). The politics of aministrative authority in rural development, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and South Africa compared. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (1999). Administrative authority in African states. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (1999). Political regimes and knowledge in East-South Africa States. The Problem of Institutionalising Professionalism in African governments. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (1999). The Admin South Africa Project: Democracy, administrative authority and trust. (external link)
Encyclopedia article
Non-fiction book
- Gran, Thorvald (1994). The State in the Modernization Process: The Case of Norway 1850-1970. (external link)
- Gran, Thorvald (1993). Aid and Entrepreneurship in Tanzania. The Norwegian Development Agency's (NORAD's) Contribution to Entrepreneurial Mobilization in the Public Sector in Tanzania. (external link)