Jeg har igennem en lang årrække forsket i danske virksomheders særlige måde at organisere produktion og samarbejde samt udviklingen heraf. Dette er bl.a. sket i sammenligning med andre landes virksomhedsorganisation, hvor institutionelle og kulturelle forhold har været inddraget for at forstå og forklare forskellighederne og de forskellige landes udviklingsdynamik. I den forbindelse ledte jeg over ti år internationale forskningsprojekter ( EMOT og ESRI) om komparative virksomhedsstudier, modellering af National Business Systems og udviklingen af industrielle distrikter. I de senere år har min forskning fokuseret på multinationale selskaber, hvor især forskellige landes datterselskabers forskel i muligheder for at overleve inden for de multinationale har stået i fokus. I disse år leder jeg en forskningsgruppe, som især koncentrerer sig om, hvordan danske datterselskaber gennem ændringer i arbejdsorganisation, forhandlingsrelationer, på lokale arbejdsmarkeder og ved hjælp fra arbejdsmarkedets parter er i stand til at begå sig i globaliseringen. Gruppens arbejde er finansieret af og indgår i flere sammenhænge, herunder FSE, EU Framework & samt Arbejdsmiljøtilsynet.

Selected Publications:

Books

Kristensen, Peer Hull and Jonathan Zeitlin 2005: Local Players in Global Games. The Strategic Constitution of a Multinational Corporation. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Kristensen, Peer Hull. 2003. Et grænseløst arbejde. (Work beyond borders). Copenhagen: Nyt fra Samfundsvidenskaberne.

Kristensen, Peer Hull, G. Morgan and R. Whitley (eds.). 2001. The Multinational Corporation: Organizing across National and Institutional Divides. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kristensen, Peer Hull, P. Karnøe and P. H. Andersen (eds). 1999. Mobilizing Resources and Generating Competencies. The remarkable success of small and medium sized enterprises in the Danish Business system. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press.

Kristensen, Peer Hull and R. Whitley (eds.). 1997. Governance at Work: The Social Regulation of Economic Relations in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kristensen, Peer Hull. 1995. Denmark - An Experimental Laboratory of Industrial Organization. (Doctoral thesis). Copenhagen: Handelshøjskolens Forlag. (548 pages).

Kristensen, Peer Hull and R. Whitley (eds.). 1995. The Changing European Firm: Limits to Convergence. London: Routledge (author to three contributions in this volume).

Kristensen, Peer Hull, I. Andersen, F. Borum and P. Karnøe. 1995. On the Art of Doing Field Studies. Copenhagen: Handelshøjskolens Forlag.

Kristensen, Peer Hull and J. Höpner. 1994. Fleksibilitetens Strukturform. Efteruddanelse, virksomhedsorganisation og arbejdskarriere. [The organizational structure of flexibility, continuous training, firm organization and careers at work.] Copenhagen: Samfundslitteratur.

Kristensen, Peer Hull and F. Borum (eds.). 1990. Technological Innovation and Change. Danish Patterns of Knowledge, Networks and Culture. Copenhagen: New Social Science.

Own contributions: Denmark's concealed production culture. Its sociohistorical construction and dynamics at work. (33 pages).

Kristensen, Peer Hull. 1986. Teknologiske projekter og organisatoriske processer. [Technological Projects and Organizational Processes]. Roskilde: Forlaget Samfundsøkonomi og Planlægning. (432 pages).

Articles in journals/books

Kristensen, Peer Hull (forthcoming): Transformative Dynamics of Innovation and Industry: New Roles for All Employees, submitted for Transfer.

 

Kristensen, Peer Hull and Robson Rocha (fortcoming): Reforming Unions for a New Governance Regime in Europe, submitted for Economy and Society.

Kristensen, Peer Hull and Glenn Morgan 2009: Multinational Firms as Societies, in Simon collinson and Glenn Morgan (eds) Images of the Multinational Firm, Chichester: John Wiley and Sons.

Kristensen, Peer Hull and Glenn Morgan 2007: Multinationals and Institutional Competitiveness, Regulation and Governance.

Kristensen, Peer Hull and Glenn Morgan, 2006: The Contested Space of Multinationals. Varieties of Institutionalism – Varieties of Capitalism, in Human Relations.

 

Kristensen, Peer Hull, 2006: The Danish Business System transforming towards the New Economy, in John L. Campbell, John A. Hall and Ove Kaj Pedersen (eds) : National Identity and the Varieties of Capitalism: The Danish Experience. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Kristensen, Peer Hull, 2005: Modelling National Business Systems and the Civilizing Process, in Glenn Morgan, Richard Whitley and Eli Moen (eds): Changing Capitalisms. Internationalism, Institutional Change and Systems of Economic Organization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Kristensen, Peer Hull. 2002. On the Constitution of Economic Actors in Denmark: Interacting Skill Containers and Project Coordinators. In: Richard Whitley (eds) Competing Capitalisms: Institutions and Economics. Cheltenham Glos: Edward Elgar.

Kristensen, Peer Hull and Jonathan Zeitlin. 2001. The Making of a Global Firm: Local Pathways to Multinational Enterprise. In: Glenn Morgan, Peer Hull Kristensen and Richard Whitley (eds) The Multinational Firm. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kristensen, Peer Hull. 2001. The Craft Origins of Modern Management. In: Haldor Byrkjeflot et al (eds): The Democratic Challenge to Capitalism, Management and Democracy in the Nordic Countries. Bergen: Fakbokforlaget.

Kristensen, Peer Hull, P. Kjær and Ditte R.Hansen. 2000. Ledelse, Autoritet og Moderniseringsstrategi: 18 teser om det industrielle ledelsesfelts historie i Danmark. In: M. Rostgaard and M.F. Wagner (red) Lederskab I Dansk Industri og Samfund, 1880-1960, Ålborg: Historiestudiet, AUC.

Kristensen, Peer Hull. 1999. Towards a New Sociology of Business Firms: Promises and Challenges in the National Business Systems Approach. In: International Studies of Management and Organization, vol 29, no 2, summer 1999 (94-112).

Kristensen, Peer Hull and Charles Sabel. 1997. The Small-Holder Economy in Denmark: The Exception as variation. In: Sabel, C. and J. Zeitlin (eds) Worlds of Possibility: Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge M.A. (36 pages).

Kristensen, Peer Hull. 1994. Strategies in a Volatile World. In: Economy and Society, vol 23, number 3, August 1994.

Kristensen, Peer Hull. 1994. Spectator communities and Entrepreneurial Districts. In: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, number 6, 1994, p 177-198.