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Virginie Pérotin: Are more democratic firms more productive?
Virginie Pérotin, Professor of Economics at Leeds University Business School ABSTRACTFirms run by their employees are often thought to be more productive than other firms because of the effects of work
Completed: Firms as Political Activists: The Scope and Nature of Corporate Political Responsibility
This project explores the changing political role of corporations in the 21st century by combining political science, sociology, and business science.
What to lobby on? Explaining Why Large American Firms Lobby on the Same or Different Issues
Business and Politics Abstract What determines whether or not firms lobby on the same policy issues? Scholars offer two broad answers to this question. Firms that are (1) similar or (2) connected throug
When employees matter: How employee resource groups and workforce liberalism jointly spur firms to support Pro-LGBTQ legislation
Journal of Business Research. Vol. 186 Abstract Employees are increasingly vocal about and attentive toward their organizations’ social policies and practices. Scholars have identified two main channels
Social norms and collective threats
Do social norms help dealing with collective threats? This project studies the behavior of people in the face of risk, and asks how social norms can motivate people to cooperate.
Predicaments in the Futures of Aging Democracies
Alternative demographic scenarios for Sweden are used to illustrate how even very small variations in the assumptions of demographic projections lead to radically different future population structure
Victor Galaz: Big Money, Big Change – Exploring the Links Between Tax Havens and Global Sustainability
Victor Galaz, deputy director and associate professor at the Stockholm Resilience Centre.AbstractThe role of “tax havens” in the global economy has gained increasing attention in recent years. The dis
Is Early Retirement Encourage by the Employer? Labor-Demand Effects of Age-Related Collective Fees
The objective of this paper is to examine how employers’ non-wage costs for their workforce affect voluntary early retirement, using the case of the Swedish private sector. The results show that a 1 p
NEW SEMINAR: Social Networks, Employee Selection and Labor Market Outcomes: Toward an Empirical Analysis
Oskar Nordström Skans och Lena Hensvik, Institutet för arbetsmarknads- och utbildningspolitisk utvärdering The Montgomery (1991) model of employee referrals suggests that it is optimal for firms to sel
Rethinking intimacy: Semi-anonymous spaces and transitory attachments in Argentine tango dancing
Current Sociology, 66(3), pp. 356-372. doi.org/10.1177/0011392116681385 Abstract Although intimacy is an area characterized by great variety and complexity, both popular and academic discourses have tra
