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Associative Governance in Scandinavia: Organizing Societies by “Combining Together” book cover

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Associative Governance in Scandinavia Organizing Societies by “Combining Together”

Edited By Anker Brink Lund, Haldor Byrkjeflot, Søren Christensen Copyright 2024
320 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

320 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This edited volume explores a variety of aspects of associative governance, providing detailed case studies of associations and associational governance in Scandinavia. Theoretically developing a concept and approach of associative governance, the book sheds light on a dynamic way of perceiving associative aspects of community and commercial life that has been hitherto underexplored and... Read more

1. Introduction: Scandinavian perspectives on associative governance

Søren Christensen, Anker Brink Lund, Haldor Byrkjeflot and Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen

 

PART 1: Associative Roots

 

2. A Nordic model of associative governance?

Haldor Byrkjeflot

  

3. Governing morality: The role of intermediary elites in associative governance of religious revivals in Scandinavia

Anders Sevelsted

  

4. Governing Labor: Transformations of Collective Bargaining in Denmark

Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen 

 

5. Being strong together: Cooperative Farmer Organizing in Scandinavia

Esben Bøgh Sørensen and Mads Mordhorst

 

PART 2: Transformative Governance

 

6. Governing People’s Homes: Organizing Housing Associatively in Scandinavia

Anker Brink Lund and Søren Christensen 

 

7. Governing savings banks: From community-oriented associations to shareholder corporations

Louise Skyggebjerg  

 

8. Governing Economic Life: Organizing Business Corporations in Denmark

Mathias Hein Jessen

 

9. Lessons from Scandinavia: Premises and promises of associative governance

Søren Christensen, Anker Brink Lund, Haldor Byrkjeflot and Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen

Biography

Anker Brink Lund is Professor in the Department of Business Humanities and Law at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

Haldor Byrkjeflot is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo, Norway, and Visiting Scholar at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

Søren Christensen Ph.D. fellow at Roskilde University Center and researcher at Business Humanities and Law at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

“...The authors have written an excellent book, which will undoubtedly stimulate further research... [it] sheds new light on an important dimension of the so-called Nordic model... [and] clearly demonstrates how fruitful it can be to apply social science concepts and theories to complex historical material, a method that holds real potential for generating new insight..."

Flemming Mikkelsen, Book Review in Scandia, Vol. 91 (1), June 2025.

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