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Ola Bergström
Professor
Department of Business AdministrationAbout Ola Bergström
Ola Bergström is Professor in Management and Organisation at the Department of Business Administration at the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Göteborg, Sweden. He obtained his doctorate at the University of Gothenburg in 1998. His research interests evolve around the interface between organizations and labour markets and in particular the field of restructuring in a European context. He has published articles and books on a wide range of topics such recruitment, organizational change, temporary agency work, restructuring and labour market policy. He has taken part in several European projects on Restructuring in Europe. Since 1 July 2020 he serves as Vice-Dean with responsibility for education at the School of Business, Economics and Law. He is also member of the board for the centre for Global Human Resource Management and is currently one of four members of the Economic Council for Swedish Manufacturing Industry.
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Research areas
- Strategy
- Strategic Human Resource Management
- Change Management
- International Human Resource Management
- European Labour markets
Teaching areas
- Strategy, Human Resource Management, Change Management, Organization studies, Research Methods
Selected publications
Increasing commitment after downsizing: the role of involvement and voluntary redundancies Bergström, Ola, Arman, RebeckaJournal of Change Management, 17:4, 2016
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Klimatomställning på lika villkor? Vägval för Sverige och svensk
industri
Ola Bergström, Göran Hjelm, Kristina Nyström, Lena Sellgren
2023 -
Inför avtalsrörelsen 2023: Svensk industri i en ny
världsordning
Ola Bergström, Lena Sellgren
2022 -
It takes change to remain the same: The transformation of Swedish government policy making in economic crises and the involvement of social
partners
Ola Bergström, Alexander Styhre
Economic and Industrial Democracy - 2021 -
Vägar till hållbar tillväxt: En förstudie om framtidens upplevelseindustri i
Västsverige
Ola Bergström
2021 -
Svensk industri och EU:s nya industripolitik: teknikskiften, kompetensförsörjning och grön
omställning
Ola Bergström, Erika Färnstrand-Damsgaard, Karin Olofsdotter
2021 -
Statens förändrade roll vid omställning efter större nedläggningar
– En analys utifrån ett historiskt och internationellt
perspektiv
Ola Bergström
2020 -
Industrin och
pandemin
Ola Bergström, Mauro Gozzo, Juhana Vartiainen
2020 -
The benefit of market-based governance devices: Reflections on the issue of growing economic inequality as a corporate
concern
Alexander Styhre, Ola Bergström
European Management Journal - 2019 -
Långsiktiga trender: klimatet, teknologin, demografin och
produktiviteten
Ola Bergström, Mauro Gozzo, Anna Breman, Juhana Vartiainen
2019 -
The role of the employer in foreign-born worker
integration
Ola Bergström, Vedran Omanović
EURAM-conferance. (Portugal, June 2019). - 2019 -
Changing restructuring regimes in eleven European Countries during and after the financial
crisis
Ola Bergström
European journal of industrial relations - 2019 -
Workforce reduction across borders: The role of legal
frameworks
Ola Bergström
Journal of Industrial Relations - 2018 -
Industriunder omvandlingstryck: Regional närvaro, klimatutmaningar och
globaliseringskritik
Ola Bergström, Anna Breman, Mauro Gozzo, Juhana Vartiainen
2018 -
Increasing commitment after downsizing: the role of involvement and voluntary
redundancies
Ola Bergström, Rebecka Arman
Journal of Change Management - 2017 -
Integrationsstrategier för utlandsfödda i
detaljhandeln
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Den svenska industrin, industriavtalet och framtida
utmaningar
Ola Bergström, Cecilia Hermansson, Mauro Gozzo, Juhana Virtiainen
2017 -
Industrins förutsättningar –i tider av lågräntemiljö, globalisering och
digitalisering
Cecilia Hermansson, Mauro Gozzo, Juhana Vartiainen, Ola Bergström
2016 -
Omställning i
detaljhandeln
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Vulnerable groups and restructuring in
Sweden
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Regional reconfiguration of the multinational companies in the knowledge
economy
Ola Bergström, Patrik Ström
The European Association for Research on Services, Annual conference 2015, proceedings. Septermber 10-12 2015, Köpenhamn. Organiserat av Roskilde Universitet. - 2015 -
Legitimizing inequality in the workplace: A case study of Bosnian and Herzegovina´s
company
Vedran Omanović, Ola Bergström
EGOS, Athena Greece, July 2st to 4th 2015 - 2015 -
Vulnerable workers and restructuring in
Sweden
Ola Bergström, Vedran Omanović
the 5th Swedish HRM workshop, Gothenburg 4-5th March 2015 - 2015 -
Omställningskompetens i detaljhandeln - Företagens erfarenheter av
uppsägningar
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Effects of restructuring at regional level and approaches to dealing with the consequences: Saab Automobile,
Sweden
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Paradoxifying Organizational Change: Cynicism and Resistance in the Swedish Armed
Forces
Ola Bergström, Alexander Styhre, Per Thilander
Journal of Change Management - 2014 -
Time to close: unintended consequences of early announcement of factory
closure.
Rebecka Arman, Ola Bergström
7th Nordic Working Life Conference, Gothenburg Sweden, June 11-13. Track 7: “Corporate restructuring, downsizing and plant closures: A Nordic perspective” - 2014 -
Dismantling SAAB: The role of transition agencies in
deinstitutionalization
Fredrik Lavén, Ola Bergström
Proceedings of the 30th EGOS Colloquium, July 3-5 2014, Amsterdam. - 2014 -
Time to
close:
Rebecka Arman, Ola Bergström
EGOS Colloquium in Rotterdam, Sub-theme 58: Reshaping Firms: Downsizing, Reorganizing, Intervening. - 2014 -
Restructuring and lay-off practices in the retail sector in
Sweden
Rebecka Arman, Ola Bergström
22nd Nordic Academy of Management Conference, Reykjavik, August 21-23 2013. - 2013 -
High-Involvement Workforce Reduction: Productivity and commitment in
downsizing
Ola Bergström, Rebecka Arman
22nd Nordic Academy of Management Conference in Reykjavik, 21st - 23rd August 2013. - 2013 -
Human Resource Management, Identifying the key
questions
Ola Bergström, Johan Berglund
the 4th Swedish HRM Workshop, August 22-23, 2012 - 2012 -
When corporations become too socially responsible, Investigating self-reinforcing mechanisms in socially responsible workforce
reduction
Ola Bergström, Andreas Diedrich
the 28th EGOS colloquium, July 5-7, 2012, Helsinki - 2012 -
Exercising social responsibility in downsizing: enrolling and mobilizing actors at a Swedish high-tech
company
Ola Bergström, Andreas Diedrich
Organization Studies - 2011 -
Regler vid driftsinskränkningar i viktiga
konkurrentländer
Ola Bergström
2011 -
Irish Butchers Rather than Irish Meat: Trade Union Responses to Agency Work in
Sweden
Ola Bergström, Alexander Styhre
Journal of Industrial Relations - 2010 -
Att förutse, förbereda och leda omställning i
Sverige
Ola Bergström
2010 -
Beredskap för omställning? De kvarvarande verksamheternas omställningsförmåga efter försvarsmaktens
omstrukturering
Ola Bergström
2010 -
The EU Synthesis Report for the ARENAS project on Anticipating and Managing Restructuring in
EU27
Ola Bergström, Andrea Triomphe, Claude Emmanuel Triomphe
2010 -
Institutional tensions as conditions for institutional experimentation and innovation – comparing the Netherlands and
Sweden
Lars Walter, Ola Bergström, Bas Kone, Hugo Driel
Paper presented on the 25th EGOS Colloquium, Barcelona, Sapin - 2009 -
Institutional tensions as conditions for institutional experimentation and innovation – comparing the Netherlands and
Sweden
Lars Walter, Ola Bergström, Bas Kone, Hugo Driel
Paper presented on the 25th EGOS Colloquium, Barcelona, Spain - 2009 -
Anticipating and Managing Restructuring in
Sweden
Ola Bergström
2009 -
Organizing disciplinary power in a knowledge
organization
Ola Bergström, Hans Hasselbladh, Dan Kärreman
Scandinavian Journal och Management - 2009 -
Den nya personalpolitiken – förändringar på arbetsmarknaden och arbetsgivarens kopernikanska
revolution
Ola Bergström
Nationell workshop i Human Resource Management, Linköping, 26-27 augusti, 2008 - 2008 -
Från invasionsförsvar till insatsförsvar: Omstruktureringsåtgärder inom
försvarsmakten
Ola Bergström
2008 -
Responsible Restructuring Practices in Europe – The role of
Multinationals
Ola Bergström, Andreas Diedrich
the European Academy of Management Conference in Ljubljana, 15-17th May 2008 - 2008 -
Innovative Restructuring - Learning from
experience
Ola Bergström, Andreas Diedrich
Restructuring work and employment in Europe - 2008 -
The Swedish model of
Restructuring
Ola Bergström, Andreas Diedrich
Restructuring work and employment in Europe - 2008 -
Towards a European practice of responsible restructuring – Innovation and learning from
experience
Ola Bergström, Andreas Diedrich
the HRM-network conference, Tilburg, 9th-10th November - 2007 -
Translating socially responsible workforce reduction - a longitudinal study of workforce reduction in a Swedish
company
Ola Bergström
Scandinavian Journal of Management - 2007 -
Den nya arbetsmarknaden - Bemanningsbranschens etablering i
Sverige
Ola Bergström, Kristina Håkansson, Tommy Isidorsson, Lars Walter
2007
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