Ake Sandberg Professor Emeritus

Åke Sandberg is professor at the Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, from 2010 emeritus professor. Formerly at the Natioal Defence Research Institute (FOA), National Institute for Working Life (NIWL) and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) at the Department of Computer Science and Communication, and Department of Industrial Management.
He holds and MBA from tje Gothenburg School of Economics, and a PhD in sociology after studying sociology in Stockhom and Uppsala and industrial management at KTH.

Åke Sandberg's main areas of interest are work, organisation, management, digitalization, labour processes and employment relations. Key aspects and values are participation, job quality and productivity. Presently he is doing research on work in the digital gig and platform economy and on transformations of the “Nordic model”, on migration in a local context, and he is considering a study of football as work. See also Åke Sandberg’s personal homepage.

• Ian Hampson and Åke Sandberg: The Swedish contribution to job quality, this is a draft of chapter, a revised version is published in The Oxford Handbook of Job Quality. Oxford: Oxford UP 2022
• Åke Sandberg: Främling i sin stad. Stängda fabriker och butiker - missnöje och framtidstro. Stockholm: BoD 2021
• Arbete & välfärd. Ledning, personal och organisationsmodeller i Sverige, Åke Sandberg, editor and author of six chapters. Lund: Studentlitteratur 2019. Publisher's information.
• På jakt efter framtidens arbete. Utmaningar i arbetsliv och forskning, edited by Åke Sandberg. On challenges in working life and research, in Swedish, with abstracts in English. May be downloaded from akesandberg.se. Tiden: Stockholm.
• Nordic Lights: Work, Management and Welfare in Scandinavia, edited by Åke Sandberg. Stockholm: SNS förlag 2013 at Bokus. The foreword and Introductory chapter may be downloaded at akesandberg.se.
• Åke Sandberg:Contested Nordic Models of Work and Employment. Volvo Uddevalla and Welfare Capitalism. Stockholm: Arena idé 2013. Downloadable here
• Åke Sandberg, Fredrik Augustsson and Anne Lintala: IT and Telecom Companies in Kista Science City. Stockholm: Arbetslivsinstitutet 2007. Downloadable here and here
• Åke Sandberg: Värden i välfärden. Stockholm: Arena Idé 2014. Downloadable here
• Enriching production. Perspectives on Volvo’s Uddevalla Plant as an Alternative to Lean Production, edited by Åke Sandberg. Aldershot: Avebury 1996, digital edition with new foreword 2007. May be downloaded here and here. There is background publication information.
• Åke Sandberg et al.: Technological Change and Co-Determination in Sweden. Philadelphia: Temple University Press 1992.
• Åke Sandberg:The Limits to Democratic Planning. Knowledge, power and methods in the struggle for the future. Stockholm: LiberFörlag 1976.