Åke Sandberg

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Åke Sandberg (* 1944 ) is a Swedish sociologist.

Sandberg studied economics and sociology in Gothenburg , Stockholm and Uppsala . He received his PhD from Uppsala University with a dissertation on the limits of democratic planning (1976).

He worked for many years as research director at the interdisciplinary Arbetslivscentrum ( The Swedish Center for Working Life ) and, since the 1990s, at its successor institution, the National Institute for Working Life . After its closure in 2007, he moved to the Sociological Faculty of Stockholm University as a professor . His work and research focus are work , organizational and economic sociology .

Sandberg has taught as a visiting professor at universities in Denmark, Australia and France and has held representative functions in the Research Committee on Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management (RC10) of the International Sociological Association .

Fonts

  • (Ed.): Computers Dividing Men and Work - Recent Scandinavian Research in Planning and Computers from a Trade Union Perspective . Stockholm 1979.
  • Technological Change and Co-Determination in Sweden . Temple University Press, Philadelphia 1992.
  • (Ed.): Enriching Production: Perspectives on Volvo's Uddevalla Plant as an Alternative to Lean Production . Avebury, Aldershot 1995.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Members of RC10 Boards ( Memento from July 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Sandberg, Åke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1944