Bjørn Gustavsen

List of John Benjamins publications for which Bjørn Gustavsen plays a role.

Book series

Journal

Titles

Creating Connectedness: The role of social research in innovation policy

Bjørn Gustavsen, Håkon Finne and Bo Oscarsson

[Dialogues on Work and Innovation, 13] 2001. x, 282 pp.
Subjects Industrial & organizational studies

Work Organization and Europe as a Development Coalition

Richard Ennals and Bjørn Gustavsen

[Dialogues on Work and Innovation, 7] 1999. viii, 209 pp.
Subjects Industrial & organizational studies
Subjects Industrial & organizational studies

Development Coalitions in Working Life: The ‘Enterprise Development 2000’ Program in Norway

Edited by Bjørn Gustavsen, Tom Colbjørnsen and Øyvind Pålshaugen

[Dialogues on Work and Innovation, 6] 1998. xi, 153 pp.
Subjects Industrial & organizational studies

Concept-Driven Development and the Organization of the Process of Change: An evaluation of the Swedish Working Life Fund

Bjørn Gustavsen, Bernd Hofmaier, Marianne Ekman Philips and Anders Wikman

[Dialogues on Work and Innovation, 3] 1996. ix, 198 pp.
Subjects Industrial & organizational studies

Beyond Theory: Changing organizations through participation

Edited by Stephen Toulmin and Bjørn Gustavsen

[Dialogues on Work and Innovation, 2] 1996. viii, 233 pp.
Subjects Industrial & organizational studies

Articles

All concepts applied in social research have two sources of meaning: other words and practical experience. Making knowledge (more) actionable implies increasing the emphasis on the practical. This increase, however, is no simple process to be carried through as a turnaround operation. Rather, the… read more
Gustavsen, Bjørn 2004 Participation and local organisationAction Research in Workplace Innovation and Regional Development, Fricke, Werner and Peter Totterdill (eds.), pp. 15–42 | Article
Contemporary action research is facing three major challenges: The need to deal with a future that can no longer be understood in terms of the past, the need to create processes that can involve large numbers of other actors and the need to link the practical results of action research to the… read more
Gustavsen, Bjørn 2003 Action research and the problem of the single caseConcepts and Transformation 8:1, pp. 93–99 | Miscellaneous
In his article in Volume 7, No.2 of Concepts and Transformation, Greenwood lays the ground for a self-critical review of action research. This is very much called for but there is a need to avoid this review becoming a revival of yesterday’s “famous cases”. Major parts of today’s action research… read more
The emergence of network society implies that all actors face new demands, research being no exception. In processes of interactive learning, together with other actors, research can no longer claim exclusive domains. Instead, it has to become a general innovation partner. Innovation partner is,… read more
Gustavsen, Bjørn 2001 Chapter 6. Contemporary European developmentsCreating Connectedness: The role of social research in innovation policy, Gustavsen, Bjørn, Håkon Finne and Bo Oscarsson, pp. 101 ff. | Chapter
The article presents the most recent workplace development program in Norway, called Value Creation 2010. With the notion of broad employee participation on enterprise level at its core, the program aims at creating and sustaining learning networks between enterprises and at strengthening regional… read more
Gustavsen, Bjørn 2001 Chapter 4. Social partnership and workplace developmentCreating Connectedness: The role of social research in innovation policy, Gustavsen, Bjørn, Håkon Finne and Bo Oscarsson, pp. 73 ff. | Chapter
Gustavsen, Bjørn 2001 Chapter 5. Research and the challenges of working lifeCreating Connectedness: The role of social research in innovation policy, Gustavsen, Bjørn, Håkon Finne and Bo Oscarsson, pp. 85 ff. | Chapter
Ennals, Richard and Bjørn Gustavsen 1999 Creating a New European Development Agenda: Learning across CulturesConcepts and Transformation 4:1, pp. 11–21 | Article
The article presents a new European collaborative project, building on experience of regional development coalitions across Europe. Globalization is complemented by regionalization, and the emergence of new structures between the levels of individual enterprises and national governments.… read more
Ennals, Richard and Bjørn Gustavsen 1998 Work Organization and Europe as a Development CoalitionConcepts and Transformation 3:1/2, pp. 153–162 | Article
Gustavsen, Bjørn 1998 Chapter IX: Concluding RemaksDevelopment Coalitions in Working Life: The ‘Enterprise Development 2000’ Program in Norway, Gustavsen, Bjørn, Tom Colbjørnsen and Øyvind Pålshaugen (eds.), pp. 145 ff. | Chapter
Gustavsen, Bjørn 1996 1. Development and the Social Sciences: An uneasy relationshipBeyond Theory: Changing organizations through participation, Toulmin, Stephen and Bjørn Gustavsen (eds.), pp. 5 ff. | Chapter
Gustavsen, Bjørn 1996 Is Theory Useful?Concepts and Transformation 1:1, pp. 63–77 | Article
The point about a 'Scientific theorY' has traditionally been that it provides a 'guarantee of truth.' While it has, on the one hand, proved difficult to establish such theory within fields like work, organization and leadership, the growing competition and complexity facing most modern… read more
Gustavsen, Bjørn, Anders Wikman, Marianne Ekman Philips and Bernd Hofmaier 1996 Concept-Driven Change: The Core Element in a National Workplace Development ProgramConcepts and Transformation 1:2/3, pp. 193–211 | Article
Sweden experienced a strong increase in productivity during the first part of the 1990s. Data from the Swedish Working Life Fund show that the productivity increase is linked to changes in work organization. These changes did not break with the Swedish tradition of expanding on work roles and the… read more