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Health Institutions, Temporary Work Agencies, and the Mobility Power of Nurses by Knutsen, Hege Merete

“…The objective of this article is to explore how the mobility power of nurses (the ability to move between employers or leave the labor market) contributes to…”
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Environmental practice in the commodity chain: the dyestuff and tanning industries compared by Knutsen, Hege Merete

“…The combined restructuring-commodity chain approach is applied to shed light on processes that explain changes in the spatial and functional division of labour…”
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Agency by exit: Swedish nurses and the “Not below 24,000” movement by Kiil, Maiken Bjerga, Knutsen, Hege Merete

“…•Contributes to conceptualisation of labour agency.•Introduces the concept of agency by exit.•Provides new insight into mobility as a source of structural…”
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Mobile with an agency: Negotiating the spatiotemporalities of the temp migrant worker by Zampoukos, Kristina, Knutsen, Hege Merete, Kiil, Maiken Bjerga, Olofsdotter, Gunilla

“…Several calls have been made by labour geographers in support for a more thorough investigation and theorization of labour as an active agent in the production…”
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Health Institutions, Temporary Work Agencies, and the Mobility Power of Nurses1 by Knutsen, Hege Merete

“…The objective of this article is to explore how the mobility power of nurses (the ability to move between employers or leave the labor market) contributes to…”
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Jøranli, Ingvild. Labour Markets and the Geography of Firm Learning by Isaksen, Arne, Hermelin, Brita, Knutsen, Hege Merete

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Restructuring and socially managed flexibility in the Norwegian hotel industry by Knutsen, Hege Merete

“…The article explores processes of restructuring firms in the Norwegian hotel industry in the light of constant negotiations between neoliberalisation and…”
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Brewing the Global Shift: Variegated Capitalism, Firm Strategies, and the Restructuring of the Southeast Asian Beer Industry by Knutsen, Hege Merete, Hansen, Arve, Wethal, Ulrikke, Potapohn, Manoj

“…Asia has become the world’s largest beer-consuming region, and Southeast Asia sees the strongest growth in demand. While the Asian beer industry attracts…”
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Integration and Exclusion at Work: Latvian and Swedish Agency Nurses in Norway by Knutsen, Hege Merete, Fangen, Katrine, Žabko, Oksana

“…Qualitative interviews with Latvian and Swedish agency nurses in Norway reveal that the two groups have quite different experiences of integration in the…”
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Jøranli, Ingvild: Labour markets and the geography of firm learning by Isaksen, Arne, Hermelin, Brita, Knutsen, Hege Merete

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Restructuring and socially managed flexibility in the Norwegian hotel industry by Knutsen, Hege Merete

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Industrial development in buyer-driven networks: the garment industry in Vietnam and Sri Lanka by Knutsen, Hege M.

“…The garment industry in Vietnam has been included in global buyer-driven networks since the 1990s. Industrial upgrading takes place, but the changes are…”
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Preferential treatment in a transition economy: the case of state-owned enterprises in the textile and garment industry in Vietnam by Knutsen, Hege Merete, Nguyen, Cuong Manh

“…The article examines the role and contribution of preferential treatment of state enterprises to growth in the textile and garment industry. State enterprises…”
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Globalisation and the garment industry in Sri Lanka by Knutsen, Hege M.

“…The objective of this article is to explain how globalisation, the phase-out of MFA and regionalisation affect the development of the garment industry in Sri…”
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Preferential treatment in transition economy: the case of state-owned enterprises in the textile and garment industry in Vietnam by Knutsen, Hege Merete, Nguyen, Cuong Manh

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Restructuring, stricter environmental requirements and competitiveness in the German, Italian and Portuguese tanning industry by Knutsen, Hege Merete

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Globalization and international division of labour: two concepts - one debate? by Knutsen, Hege Merete

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A Review of "Hanging by a Thread: Cotton, Globalization and Poverty in Africa": William G. Moseley and Leslie C. Gray, eds. Athens: Ohio University Press and The Nordic Africa Institute, 2008. xii and 297 pp., maps, diagrams, photos, notes, and index. $24.00 paper (ISBN 978-0-89-680-260-6) by Knutsen, Hege Merete

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Labour Markets and the Geography of Firm Learning by Isaksen, Arne, Hermelin, Brita, Knutsen, Hege Merete, Joranli, Ingvild

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Environmental regulation and industrial competitiveness in pollution- intensive industries

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