Associative Governance in Scandinavia

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.

• 1. Introduction: Scandinavian perspectives on associative governance PART 1: Associative Roots 2. A Nordic model of associative governance? 3. Governing morality: The role of intermediary elites in associative governance of religious revivals in Scandinavia 4. Governing Labor: Transformations of Collective Bargaining in Denmark 5. Being strong together: Cooperative Farmer Organizing in Scandinavia PART 2: Transformative Governance 6. Governing People’s Homes: Organizing Housing Associatively in Scandinavia 7. Governing savings banks: From community-oriented associations to shareholder corporations 8. Governing Economic Life: Organizing Business Corporations in Denmark 9. Lessons from Scandinavia: Premises and promises of associative governance

“...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.