Research areas
- Work organisation
- Industrial relations, labour relations
- Labour market policy
- Institutional conditions of working life
Change processes in working life
My research often deals with change processes, focusing on work organisations, industrial relations and institutional conditions from national and international perspectives. I have taken an interest in issues relating to lean production, job quality, the digitisation of work tasks, skills development and learning, and restructuring involving redundancy notices and dismissals. The research has been conducted in collaboration with companies and trade unions, primarily in the industrial sector.
Publications
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Ahlstrand, Roland, McLachlan, Christopher J, MacKenzie, Robert, Rydell, Alexis, Stuart, Mark. Restructuring regimes in and between two crises : A comparison of Sweden and the UK, European journal of industrial relations, 2025, Vol. 31, No. 1, 31-51. Article : refereed.
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Ahlstrand, Roland. Lokala partsrelationer och funktionell flexibilitet : en fallstudie inom hotellbranschen under covid-19-pandemin, våren 2020, Arbetsmarknad & Arbetsliv, 2025, Vol. 31, No. 3, 25-44. Article : refereed.
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MacKenzie, Robert, McLachlan, Christopher, Ahlstrand, Roland, Rydell, Alexis, Hobbins, Jennifer. Strategic, episodic and truncated orientations to planning in post-redundancy career transitions, Human Relations, 2025, Vol. 78, No. 2, 156-186. Article : refereed.
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Holmgren, Carina A., Klimplová, Lenka, Ahlstrand, Roland. Hybrid Work Arrangements in the Post-COVID Era : Challenges, Lessons Learned, and Future Directions, 2024. Conference paper.
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Rydell, Alexis, MacKenzie, Robert, McLachlan, Chris, Hobbins, Jennifer, Ahlstrand, Roland. Displaced steel workers long-term experiences of post-redundancy transition support, 2024. Conference paper : refereed.
