Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Subject areas
Digitalization Enhancement of competence Industrial Relations Workplace relations Union strategies Atypical employment Regional innovasjon
Research groups
Research projects
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COMPRESSED − A longitudinal study of compressed work schedules within the health, care and welfare services
With increasing need for more workforce in the healthcare-sector, the offers of the future is reliant on how we precure sufficient staff and maintain the health of the workers.
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Crossbow: Crossing and Managing Boundaries between Work and Non-Work – Co-creating Healthy Teleworking
In this project we aim to map, explore and understand the opportunities and challenges of telework, and to contribute to enhanced organizational preparedness for healthy, sustainable and productive teleworking.
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Digital Prism and the Nordic Model of Workplace Democracy under Pressure (DigiWORK)
Big data and artificial intelligence are radically transforming the ways in which we work, are hired and fired, managed and led. This project investigates the effects of digital transformation of work on the Norwegian model of workplace democracy and tripartite collaboration.
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Regulated Occupations: Mobility, Qualification and Labour Market Outcomes (RECONNECT)
RECONNECT provides new knowledge on the consequences of occupational regulation for labor mobility and immigrants’ opportunity to integrate with their occupation of training.
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Sustained employment of 'hard-to-place' citizens in small and medium sized enterprises: A mixed-method study in Norway and the Netherlands (ENGAGE)
This research project aims to develop new knowledge about how small and medium sized enterprises (SME) can contribute successfully to the sustained workplace inclusion of vulnerable ‘hard-to-place’ citizens, and can be supported effectively in doing so.
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The Impact of Temporary Work Agencies on the Politics of Work
The Impact of Temporary Work Agencies on the Politics of Work is a research project funded by the Research Council of Norway under the Welfare, Working Life and Migration programme.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Aksnes, Siri Yde; Underthun, Anders; Hansen, Per Bonde (2023). Constructing New Organizational Identities in a Post-pandemic Return: Managerial Dilemmas in Balancing the Spatial Redesign of Telework with Workplace Dynamics and the External Imperative for Flexibility. Bergum, Svein; Peters, Pascale; Vold, Aud Tone (Ed.). Virtual Management and the New Normal: New Perspectives on HRM and Leadership since the COVID-19 Pandemic. Chapter 4. p. 59-78. Palgrave Macmillan.
Henningsen, Erik; Underthun, Anders (2023). Richard Sennett: Arbeid og den nye kapitalismen. ISBN: 978-82-02-67896-8. 200 p. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
Jordhus-Lier, David Christoffer; Underthun, Anders (2021). Fleksibel bemanning og fragmenterte fellesskap på hoteller og varelagre. Ljunggren, Jørn; Hansen, Marianne Nordli (Ed.). Arbeiderklassen. Kapittel 6. p. 127-144. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
Gialis, Stelios; Paitaridis, Dimitris; Seretis, Stergios; Ioannidis, Alexis; Underthun, Anders (2020). In what terms and at what cost resilient? 'Unregulated flexibilization' in regional 'troubled waters'. European Planning Studies . Vol. 28.
Ingelsrud, Mari Holm; Warring, Niels; Gleerup, Janne; Hansen, Per Bonde; Jakobsen, Anders; Underthun, Anders; Weber, Søren Salling (2019). Precarity in Nordic working life?. Hvid, Helge Søndergaard; Falkum, Eivind (Ed.). Work and Wellbeing in the Nordic Countries. Critical Perspectives on the World's Best Working Lives. Chapter 14. p. 285-301. Routledge.
Hansen, Per Bonde; Underthun, Anders (2019). The formation and destabilization of the standard employment relationship in Norway: The contested politics and regulation of temporary work agencies. Hvid, Helge Søndergaard; Falkum, Eivind (Ed.). Work and Wellbeing in the Nordic Countries. Critical Perspectives on the World's Best Working Lives. Chapter 16. p. 320-338. Routledge.
Underthun, Anders; Drange, Ida (2019). Bargaining for continuing education: A Norwegian case of 'lifelong learning unionism'. Hvid, Helge Søndergaard; Falkum, Eivind (Ed.). Work and Wellbeing in the Nordic Countries. Critical Perspectives on the World's Best Working Lives. Chapter 9. p. 178-193. Routledge.
Jordhus-Lier, David Christoffer; Underthun, Anders; Zampoukos, Kristina (2019). Changing workplace geographies: Restructuring warehouse employment in the Oslo region. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space . Vol. 51.
Underthun, Anders; Aasland, Aadne
(2018).
Motivation, migration, and nonstandard employment: A survey among temporary agency workers.
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies
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Vol. 8.
https://tidsskrift.dk/njwls/article/view/111156
Underthun, Anders; Svare, Helge; Gausdal, Anne Haugen
(2018).
Nettverksorganisasjoners betydning for kunnskapstilgang og innovasjon.
Søkelys på arbeidslivet
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Vol. 35.
http://hdl.handle.net/10037/13666