Bjørn Gustavsen (born April 3, 1938) is a Norwegian academic and

working life Employment is a relationship between two parties regulating the provision of paid labour services. Usually based on a contract, one party, the employer, which might be a corporation, a not-for-profit organization, a co-operative, or any othe ...

researcher. He has been Director of the

Work Research Institute The Work Research Institute (WRI) ( no, Arbeidsforskningsinstituttet, AFI), formerly known as the Institute of Work Psychology, is a Norwegian government-owned social science research institute in Oslo. Its purpose is to "produce systematic knowle ...

(1972–1983) and Professor at the Arbetslivscentrum in Stockholm (1986–1999), the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...

(1995–1999) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (from 2000). He is originally trained as a lawyer, and took the cand.jur. degree at the University of Oslo in 1964. He was an assistant judge 1965-66. After fours years as a research fellow at Norges almenvitenskapelige forskningsråd, he became a researcher at the Work Research Institute in 1970. Much of his academic work belongs to the

action research Action research is a philosophy and methodology of research generally applied in the social sciences. It seeks transformative change through the simultaneous process of taking action and doing research, which are linked together by critical refle ...

tradition. He had a central role in the drafting of the Norwegian Working Environment Act. He has also taken a great interest in the Nordic Model, which he sees not so much in terms of economic policies but in the practical cooperation between the social partners, and between these partners and political institutions.
Workplace cooperation key to Nordic model's success, Nordic Labour Journal, Dec 14, 2012

Bibliography

*1969: Bedriftsorganisasjon : Alternative modeller *1992: Dialogue and development - Theory of communication, action research and the restructuring of working *2001: ''Creating connectedness - The role of social research in innovation policy'', med Håkon Finne og Bo Oscarsson,

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population of 907,976 within the city proper, 1,558,755 in the urban ar ...

: John Benjamins Publishing Company. ''Dialogues on Work and Innovation'', vol. 13. *2004: ''Kan regionale bedriftsnettverk skapes gjennom forskning? - Refleksjoner om forholdet mellom teori og praksis'', i Dale, B., Karlsdottir, R., Strandhagen O. (red.) «Bedrifter i nettverk».

Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...

: Tapir Akademisk Forlag. s. 371-385. *2004: ''Making knowledge actionable - From theoretical centralism to distributive constructivism'' «Concepts and Transformation» (artikkelsamling), vol. 9, no. 2, s. 147-180. *2007: Learning together for local innovation: promoting learning regions, med Richard Ennals og Barry Nyhan. *2008: Learning from Workplace Development Initiatives: External Evaluations versus Internal Understandings, International journal of action research, Special issue: Working life reform in difficult times: International experiences. Vol. 4, no. 1+2, pp. 15–38.

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