Morten Levin

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Morten Levin (born 1946) is a Norwegian sociologist and Professor of Organization and Work Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He has formerly been a Research Director at SINTEF and has worked for the Royal Norwegian Defense Research Establishment and universities throughout Scandinavia and at Cornell University. His research focuses on change in organizations, especially with a view to the importance of the interaction between technology and organization. He has contributed to the epistemological and methodological basis of action research, and has published books and articles on organization and management, organizational development and action research. [1]

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Levin studied mechanical engineering and graduated with a master's degree in Operations Research and Economics in 1971. In 1981, he earned a PhD (mag.art.) in sociology. He joined the then-University of Trondheim as an assistant professor in 1976, was promoted to associate professor in 1982 and full professor in 1992. [2]

He was a member of an international committee evaluating the entire Danish PhD education in 2006. He is a member of the editorial boards of Systemic Practice and Action Research, Action Research, Action Research International, Handbook of Qualitative Inquiry and Handbook of Action Research.

Views on Israel

Morten Levin, who is Jewish, [3] is also a critic of Israel, and was one of the initiators of a petition that NTNU boycott Israel because he meant that "since 1948 the state of Israel has occupied Palestinian land and denied the Palestinians basic human rights". [4] Together with Ann Rudinow Sætnan (an American-born Jewish Professor of Sociology at NTNU) [5] and Rune Skarstein, he organized a conference on the Middle East conflict in 2009, attracting scholars such as Ilan Pappe, Stephen Walt and Moshe Zuckermann. [6] Israel's embassy in Norway protested against the conference. [7] Alan M. Dershowitz used the conference as an example of Norwegian academia being "one-sided" and "anti-semitic" in a 2011 op-ed. [8] In a 2009 op-ed in Adresseavisen, Levin criticized the labelling of critics of Israel as "Anti-semites", describing it as the "daily dose of propaganda from pro-Israeli organizations and media". [9]

Selected publications

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  2. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2011-04-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ↑ "Akademisk". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2011-04-05.
  4. ↑ "Akademisk og kulturell boikott av Israel! - Claim to the boards of NTNU and HiST for academic boycott". Archived from the original on 2011-09-03. Retrieved 2011-04-05.
  5. ↑ "Ann Rudinow Sætnan: An open letter in response to numerous media inquiries". Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2011-04-05.
  6. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-04-09. Retrieved 2011-04-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ↑ "'All-star Team of Israel-haters' at Norway School Raises Concern". Haaretz.
  8. ↑ Dershowitz, Alan M. (29 March 2011). "Norway to Jews: You're Not Welcome Here". Wall Street Journal.
  9. ↑ "Antisemittisme i Norge – skjelettet som ikke var i skapet". 15 April 2009.
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