Steen Erik Navrbjerg

• Presentation
• CV
• Research outputs
• Press/Media
• Activities
• Keywords
• Most downloaded

Steen E. Navrbjerg is member of FAOS (Employment Relations Research Centre) at department of Sociology and part of the research group Knowledge, Organisation and Politics.

Current research:



- The relations between employers and employees at workplace level, including longitudinal studies of employee representatives worklife and role as mediator at the work place (TR-survey 1998 and TR-survey 2010). Both projects employed responses from 8,000 LO shop stewards to analyze shop stewards working conditions and cooperation at work place level. They 2010 survey included responses from some 1,600 employers and as well as 1,475 rank and file colleagues and 225 local unions. 

- The significance of 'yellow'/alternative unions and disorganized labour for trade union forces, particularly at work place level.

- A survey of employers' organizations in Denmark, including their various functions in relation to the Danish labor market model.

- Analysis of multinationals companies' employment practices and their impact on national labor market models, including the internatiolnal research network INTREPID (Employment Practices of Multinationals in Organizational Context - in cooperation with research groups from 8 countries).

- Analysis of changes in valuechains and the consequinces of the industrial relations systems in Denmark and abroad.

Primary fields of research

Management-employee cooperation and negotiation - private and public sector; the impact of multinational corporations on negotiation and cooperation; shop stewards and health & safety representatives; local unions; employers' organisations; value chains and industrial relations models.

Selected publications

1. Published

   Adapting to survive: The case of Danish employers' organisations

   Ibsen, Christian Lyhne & Navrbjerg, Steen Erik, 2 Jan 2019, In: Human Resource Management Journal. 29, 1, p. 36-50

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

2. Published

   Macro Talent Management in Denmark: The Origins of Danish Talent Paradox

   Minbaeva, D., Andersen, T., Lubanski, N., Navrbjerg, Steen Erik & Torfing, R. M., 2018, Macro Talent Management: A Global Perspective on Managing Talent in Developed Markets. Vaiman, V., Sparrow, P., Schuler, R. & Collings, D. G. (eds.). New York: Taylor & Francis, p. 154-169 16 p.

   Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

3. Published

   MNCs in Denmark and the UK: Accommodating to or Transforming National Industrial Relations?

   Navrbjerg, Steen Erik & Marginson, P., 6 Sep 2016, Den Danske Model set udefra: Komparative perspektiver på dansk arbejdsmarkedsregulering . Ilsøe, A. & Larsen, T. P. (eds.). København: Djøf Forlag, p. 345-368 24 p.

   Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

4. Published

   The (un)predictable factor: the role of subsidiary social capital in international takeovers

   Navrbjerg, Steen Erik & Minbaeva, D., 1 Apr 2016, In: Journal of Organizational Effectiveness. 3, 2, p. 115-138 24 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

5. Published

   Advancing Understanding on Industrial Relations in Multinational Companies: Key Research Challenges and the INTREPID Contribution

   Gunnigle, P., Valeria, P., Edwards, T., Belizón, M. J., Navrbjerg, Steen Erik, Olsen, K. M. & Susaeta, L., 1 Apr 2015, In: Journal of Industrial Relations. 57, 2, p. 146-165 20 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

6. Published

   The labor market regimes of Denmark and Norway – One Nordic model?

   Gooderham, P., Navrbjerg, Steen Erik, Olsen, K. M. & Steen, C. R., 24 May 2014, In: Journal of Industrial Relations. p. 1-21 21 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

7. Published

   The economic crisis: Testing employee relations

   Navrbjerg, Steen Erik & Larsen, Trine Pernille, 16 Oct 2013, In: Economic and Industrial Democracy. p. 1-23 23 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

8. Published

   HRM and IR in Multinational Corporations in Denmark: Uneasy Bedfellows?

   Navrbjerg, Steen Erik & Minbaeva, D., 2009, In: International Journal of Human Resource Management. 20, 8, p. 1720-1736 17 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review