Nana Wesley Hansen

Nana Wesley Hansen

Associate Professor

Primary fields of research

Public sector collective bargaining; management-employee cooperation in the public sector; skilled labour migration; outsourcing/offshoring.

Current research

Nana Wesley Hansen is associate professor at the Employment Relations Research Centre (FAOS) at the Department of Sociology. Her primary research area is collective bargaining and cooperation in the private and public sector. 

Concurrently, Nana Wesley Hansen also conducts analysis on highly skilled foreign workers coming to Denmark. She is Co-I on the project SkillsINCORP - redefining incorporation of high-skilled professionals funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark (Oct 2022 to Sept 2025). 

Nana Wesley Hansen is part of the research group on Knowledge, Organization and Policy at the Department of Sociology.

Selected publications

  1. Published

    Between Settlement and Mobilization: Political Logics of Intra-Organizational Union Communication on Social Media

    Hansen, Nana Wesley & Hau, Mark Friis, 2023, In: Work, Employment and Society. 38, 2, p. 299-317

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  2. E-pub ahead of print

    Script Adaptation: Understanding Continuity in Local Cooperation After Sector-Level Conflict Over Teachers’ Working Time

    Hansen, Nana Wesley, 27 Nov 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Work, Employment and Society. 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Employment Relations in Denmark

    Andersen, Søren Kaj, Hansen, Nana Wesley, Madsen, Jørgen Steen & Due, J. J., 2021, International and Comparative Employment Relations: Global Crises and Institutional Responses (7th edition). Bamber, G., Cooke, F. L., Doellgast, V. L. & Wright, C. F. (eds.). 7 ed. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    The influence of regulative contents, stakeholders, and formalization on managerial autonomy perceived at the front line

    Bjørnholt, B., Boye, S. & Hansen, Nana Wesley, 2021, In: Public Management Review . 24, 10, p. 1569-1590

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Government employers in Sweden, Denmark and Norway: The use of power to control wage and employment conditions

    Hansen, Nana Wesley & Seip, Å. A., 29 Jan 2018, In: European Journal of Industrial Relations. 24, 1, p. 73-89 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Public service employment relations in an era of austerity: The case of Denmark

    Hansen, Nana Wesley & Mailand, Mikkel, 2013, In: European Journal of Industrial Relations. 19, 4, p. 375-389 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  7. Published

    The creation and future of the new Danish trade union confederation

    Andersen, Søren Kaj & Hansen, Nana Wesley, 2019, In: Transfer: European review of Labour and Research. 25, 2, p. 229–234

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Labour market specific institutions and the working conditions of labour migrants: The case of Polish migrant labour in the Danish labour market

    Arnholtz, Jens & Hansen, Nana Wesley, 3 Sep 2013, In: Economic and Industrial Democracy. 34, 3, p. 1-22 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

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