My research has for more than a decade been focussing on the distinct mode of organizing and collaboration within and among Danish firms and its evolutionary dynamic. The studies have been pursued within a comparative perspective of national divergent forms of work organization, organization of firms, labour-markets and working careers, using historical and institutional conditions to explain and understand the distinctiveness of dynamics in different countries. Within international research projects (EMOT and ESRI) financed by European Science Foundation, I have for a decade managed comparative projects of firms, modeling of National Business Systems and studies of Industrial Districts. Recently, my focus has shifted to multinational corporations and the comparative ability of subsidiaries from different countries to fight for survival and growth within MNCs. In the next years I will be directing projects that focus on how Danish subsidiaries by changing their work organization, developing ways of negotiation, relating more actively to local labor markets and being supported by the social partners are empowering themselves to meet the demanding tasks offered by the process of globalization. Our research group is financed by The Danish Social Science Council, the EU Framework 6 program and the Directorate for Working Health.

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.