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. She works with sector collective bainaing and local level.

Concurrently, Nana Wesley Hansen also conducts analysis on the recruitment of highly skilled foreign workers to Denmark. She studies the policy developments and recruitment practices at national and local levels. Recently, she has engaged in research on the relationship between offshoring of jobs and mobility of highly skilled employees in multinational companies within medico and the ICT business.

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

Selected publications

  1. E-pub ahead of print

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

    Hansen, Nana Wesley & Hau, Mark Friis, 7 Nov 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Work, Employment and Society.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  2. Published

    Employment Relations in Denmark

    Andersen, Søren Kaj, Hansen, Nana Wesley, Due, J. J. & Madsen, Jørgen Steen, 15 Mar 2021, International and Comparative Employment Relations: Global Crises and Institutional Responses (7th edition). SAGE Publications

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

  3. 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

  4. Accepted/In press

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

    Bjørnholt, B., Boye, S. & Hansen, Nana Wesley, 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: Public Management Review .

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  5. 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

  6. Published

    The creation and future of the new Danish trade union confederation

    Andersen, Søren Kaj & Hansen, Nana Wesley, 17 Jul 2019, In: Transfer: European review of Labour and Research. 25, 2, p. 229–234

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  7. 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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