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Bengt Larsson
Affiliated Professor
Department of Sociology and Work ScienceAbout Bengt Larsson
BENGT LARSSON is professor in sociology. His research interests are in the area of economic sociology/economy and society. His current research is on industrial relations in Europe and individual wage determination. He has previously conducted research on the debt relief process at the Swedish Enforcement Authority, consumption patterns of lottery winners, children’s environmental education and influence on their families’ consumption, and economic crime and regulations; particularly crime control by company auditors and media representations of economic crime and corporate scandals. Larsson is affiliated with CERGU (Centre for European Research at Göteborg University) and is a member of its board. He is also a member of the CFK-board (Centre for Consumer Science).
Researchgate-profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bengt_Larsson2
Ongoing and recently finished research projects (for publications see tab above)
-Principal investigator (2020-2022): The workers collective and polarization: trade unions and workers representation. The project is WP5 in the program The challenges of polarization on the Swedish labour market, financed by FORTE (Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare). PI: Prof. Tomas Berglund. Project Website
-Project Coordinator (2020): FutureFit Sweden. The project, carried out by researchers Erica Nordlander and Sofia Björk, is a research evaluation of an education in digital skills developed and funded by Nesta, Google and Futurion. The training is conducted by Hyper Island in collaboration with the unions Unionen, Vision and Finansbundet.
-Project Partner (2018-2020): EESDA – Enhancing the Effectiveness of Social Dialogue Articulation in Europe, funded by the European Commission (DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion). The project is led by the research institutes CEPS (Brussels) and CELSI (Bratislava). The project studies the articulation between European and national social dialogue. Project Website
-Principal investigator (2016-2020): Individual wage setting, from policy to practice – a comparative study of the meaning and application of wage criteria in different sectors, funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR). The project aims to describe the valuation and translation processes that occur in local wage setting, to identify and understand the actors' various arguments and valuations in these processes, and to explain what variations that affect the design and implementation in five different sectors. Project Website
-Project partner (2016-2018): SPEEED – Social Partner Engagement and Effectiveness in European Social Dialogue, funded by the European Commission (DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion). PI: Dr. Barbara Bechter, Durham University. The project aims to identify what factors that determine the effectiveness of the 43 sectoral social dialogues between employer organizations and trade unions in the EU-28, and, through an in-depth study of the health care and metal sectors, to understand what creates engagement and obstacles in the dialogues. Project Website
-Principal investigator (2014-2018): Conditions for and obstacles to trade union cooperation in Europe. A comparative study of countries and sectors, funded by The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (RJ]. This project is a comparative study of trade union cooperation and network-building at the sector level in Europe, aiming to explain what factors that enable or hinder cooperation.Project Website
Teaching and tutoring Larsson has lectured on industrial relations in Europe, economic sociology, sociology of law/social control, and classical and modern social theory, and has written and edited four textbooks in Swedish. Larsson has supervised students at both undergraduate and postgraduate/doctoral levels, and is currently supervisor for the doctoral students Jane Pettersson and Jesper Prytz.
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Changes in trade union membership and attitudes to unions in
Sweden
Jesper Prytz, Bengt Larsson
Scrutinising Polarisation: Patterns and Consequences of Occupational Transformation in the Swedish Labour Market - 2024 -
Digital disruption diversified—FinTechs and
the emergence of a coopetitive
market
ecosystem
Bengt Larsson, Bertil Rolandsson, Anna Ilsøe, Trine Pernille Larseon, Alex Lehr, Jaan Masso
Socio-Economic Review - 2024 -
Social status qualifiers:
dimensions and determinants of
factors shaping social status for
women and men in
Sweden
Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson, Bengt Larsson
Frontiers in Sociology - 2024 -
‘You see similarities more than differences after a while’. Communities of Practice in European industrial relations. The case of the hospital European Sectoral Social
Dialogue.
Manuela Galetto, Sabrina Weber, Bengt Larsson, Barbara Bechter, Thomas Prosser
Industrial relations journal - 2023 -
Social partners and OSH: a multilevel and cross-country exploration in the hospital and social services
sectors
Sabrina Weber, Barbara Bechter, Manuela Galetto, Ramune Guobaite, Inga Blaziene, Linda Hiltunen, Bengt Larsson, Maciej Pankow, Jan Czarzasty, Dominik Owczarek
Journal of Social Policy Research/ Zeitschrift für Sozialreform - 2023 -
The digital transformation of financial services and labour relations in the FinTech sector - Summary
report
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The Legitimacy of Performance-Related Pay in Swedish Public Sector
Organisations
Bengt Larsson, Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson, Petra Adolfsson
Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration - 2022 -
Employment Relations as Networks. Methods and
Theory
Bernd Brandl, Bengt Larsson, Alex Lehr, Oscar Molina
2022 -
Multilevelness and Multiplexity in Trade Union Cooperation Networks in
Europe
Bengt Larsson
Employment Relations as Networks. Methods and Theory - 2022 -
Institutions or resources and capabilities? Explaining engagement in European sectoral social
dialogue
Thomas Prosser, Barbara Bechter, Manuela Galetto, Sabrina Weber, Bengt Larsson
Economic and Industrial Democracy - 2022 -
Motivating and Demotivating Effects of Performance-Related Pay in Swedish Public Sector
Organizations
Bengt Larsson, Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson, Petra Adolfsson
Review of Public Personnel Administration - 2022 -
Conclusions and Outlook: Structures, Actors and Mechanisms in Employment
Relations
Bernd Brandl, Bengt Larsson, Alex Lehr, Oscar Molina
Employment Relations as Networks. Methods and Theory - 2022 -
Introduction
Bernd Brandl, Bengt Larsson, Alex Lehr, Oscar Molina
Employment Relations as Networks. Methods and Theory - 2022 -
THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF FINANCIAL SERVICES MARKETS AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS –
Exploring FinTech development in Denmark, Estonia, the Netherlands and
Sweden
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Sectoral networks of transnational trade union cooperation in
Europe
Bengt Larsson, Anton Törnberg
Economic and Industrial Democracy - 2021 -
Opening the black box: Actors and interactions shaping European sectoral social
dialogue
Barbara Bechter, Sabrina Weber, Manuela Galetto, Bengt Larsson, Thomas Prosser
European journal of industrial relations - 2021 -
Under the Surface of Individual and Differentiated Pay in Sweden: A Zero‐Sum Game of Performance‐Based
Pay?
Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson, Bengt Larsson, Petra Adolfsson
British Journal of Industrial Relations - 2021 -
Employees of Greatness: Signifying Values in Performance Appraisal
Criteria
Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson, Bengt Larsson, Petra Adolfsson
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies - 2021 -
Cultural Obstacles in Transnational Trade Union Cooperation in
Europe
Bengt Larsson
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies - 2020 -
What’s the point of European Sectoral Social Dialogue? Effectiveness and polycontexturality in the hospital and metal
sectors
Bengt Larsson, Manuela Galetto, Sabrina Weber, Barbara Bechter, Thomas Prosser
Industrial relations journal - 2020 -
Trade Union Cooperation in Europe. Patterns, Conditions,
Issues
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Implementing and Integrating Policies on Performance-Based Pay: Coordinating the “One-Employer Approach” in a Swedish
Municipality
Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson, Bengt Larsson, Petra Adolfsson
International Journal of Public Administration - 2019 -
Enhancing the effectiveness of social dialogue articulation in Europe: Case Study for
Sweden
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Managers’ and co-workers’ co-creation of individual performance in public
organizations
Petra Adolfsson, Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson, Bengt Larsson
not published - 2019 -
The co-creation of performance – salary talks as part of performance
appraisal
Petra Adolfsson, Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson, Bengt Larsson
not published - 2019 -
Sweden
Bengt Larsson, Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson
Akgüc, M., Martišková, M. and Szüd, G., Stakeholder’s views on and experiences with the articulation of social dialogue and its effectiveness - 2019 -
Ett finansekonomiskt
medborgarskap?
Oskar Engdahl, Jane Pettersson, Bengt Larsson
Soneryd, L. & Sundqvist, G. (red) Vetenskapligt medborgarskap. - 2019 -
To Get Or Not To Get A Yearly Pay Increase – And Other Peculiarities In Performance-Based Pay Raise In
Sweden
Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson, Bengt Larsson, Petra Adolfsson
14th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Manchester, United Kingdom, 20 – 23 August 2019 - 2019 -
Motivating and Demotivating Effects of Performance Appraisal. Performance-based Pay in SE Public Sector
Organisations
Bengt Larsson, Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson, Petra Adolfsson
ESA-Conference 2019, 20-23 august, Manchester - 2019 -
Patterns of transnational trade union cooperation in Europe: The effect of regimes, sectors and
resources
Patrik Vulkan, Bengt Larsson
European journal of industrial relations - 2019 -
Dimensions of worth in work. Values from markets, performances and
tasks
Bengt Larsson, Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson, Petra Adolfsson
36th International Labour Process Conference, March 21-23, Buenos Aires, Argentina - 2018 -
Valuing work in wage policies and
criteria.
Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson, Bengt Larsson, Petra Adolfsson
36th International Labour Process Conference, 21-23 March, Buenos Aires, Argentina. - 2018 -
Transnational trade union co-operation networks on sectoral level in
Europe
Bengt Larsson, Anton Törnberg
Industrial Relations in Europe Conference 10-12 sept, Leuven - 2018 -
European sectoral social dialogue: insight into the experiences of Germany, Italy and Sweden. So faraway, so
close?
Manuela Galetto, Bengt Larsson, Sabrina Weber, Barbara Bechter, Tom Prosser
Industrial Relations in Europe Conference 10-12 sept, Leuven - 2018 -
Personalvetenskapliga perspektiv på lön och
belöning
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Individual wage setting in the public sector- Fulfilments of an "one company
approach"?
Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson, Bengt Larsson, Petra Adolfsson
13th Conference of the European Sociological Association, RN17 Work, Employment and Industrial Relations. Athens, Greece: 29 Aug - 01 Sept - 2017 -
Cultural borders as obstacles to European trade union
cooperation
Bengt Larsson
Andrén M. (Ed.) Cultural Borders and European Integration - 2017 -
Forms and content in European trade union cooperation: The importance of resource-, sectoral- and industrial regime
differences
Patrik Vulkan, Bengt Larsson
13th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA). Athens: 29 august - 1 september - 2017 -
European Sectoral Social Dialogue. Insight into the Swedish and Italian experiences: so faraway, so
close?
Manuela Galetto, Bengt Larsson
Industrial Relations European Conference. Warsaw: 7-8 September - 2017 -
Effectiveness and Engagement in European Social
Dialogue
Barbara Bechter, Gizem Bozdemir, Bengt Larsson, Manuela Galetto, Thomas Prosser, Sabrina Weber
13th Conference of the European Sociological Association. Athens, Greece: 29 august -1 september - 2017 -
Cultural obstacles to transnational trade union cooperation in
Europe
Bengt Larsson
24th Int. Conference of Europeanists. Glasgow, UK: 12-14 July 2017 - 2017 -
Europeiska arbetsmarknader - institutioner, aktörer,
politik
Mattias Bengtsson, Bengt Larsson, Kristina Lovén Seldén
Bengtsson M. & Berglund T. (red.). Arbetslivet - 2017 -
Individual wage setting in a Swedish municipality - A one company
approach?
Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson, Bengt Larsson, Petra Adolfsson
INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON HRM. Gothenburg, Sweden: 23-25 March - 2017 -
Duties to Distrust: the Decentring of Economic and White-Collar Crime Policing in
Sweden
Oskar Engdahl, Bengt Larsson
British Journal of Criminology - 2016 -
Kreditsamhällets baksida – överskuldsättning och
skuldsanering
Bengt Larsson, Jane Pettersson
Vardagslivets finansialisering - 2016 -
Vardagslivets finansialisering – introduktion till ett
forskningsfält
Erik Andersson, Oskar Broberg, Marcus Gianneschi, Bengt Larsson
Vardagslivets finansialisering - 2016 -
I kreditsamhällets
skugga
Bengt Larsson, Jane Pettersson
Ord & Bild - 2016 -
Kulturella skillnader och fackligt samarbete i Europa. Nordiska erfarenheter av ett gränsöverskridande
arbete
Bengt Larsson
Gränsöverskridande - Vänbok till Claes G. Alvstam. (red.) Linda Berg, Inge Ivarsson, Rutger Lindahl & Patrik Ström - 2016 -
Nordic Perspectives on Transnational Trade Union Cooperation in
Europe
Bengt Larsson, Kristina Lovén Seldén, Mattias Bengtsson
ILERA 2016 European Regional Congress, Milano 8-10 sept - 2016 -
Nordiska perspektiv på transnationellt fackligt samarbete i Europa – former, hinder, utmaningar och
strategier
Bengt Larsson, Kristina Lovén Seldén, Mattias Bengtsson
2016
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