Hege Merete Knutsen

• Knutsen, Hege Merete & Jordhus-Lier, David (2026). Endring i arbeidsregimer. In Jordhus-Lier, David; Stokke, Kristian & Sæther, Bjørnar (Ed.), Samfunnsgeografi: Perspektiver og prosesser. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 9788202899028. p. 261–271. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Samfunnsgeografi er studiet av samfunnets romlighet. Denne boka gir deg en innføring i fagets historie og kjernebegreper – som rom, sted, skala, territorium og nettverk – samt en gjennomgang av viktige underdisipliner og forskningstemaer som preger faget i dag. Kapitlene er skrevet av 24 samfunnsgeografer basert i Norge, som bruker sitt fag til å forstå viktige prosesser i samfunnet. Gjennom de ulike kapitlene blir du kjent med et fag som har hele verden som sitt forskningsfelt. Du lærer blant annet mer om samspillet mellom natur og samfunn, om hvordan geografisk ulikhet skapes, om hvordan byer og rurale strøk henger sammen, om endringer i politiske styresett, og om mennesker og varer i bevegelse. Som student i samfunnsgeografi utvikler du din geografiske forestillingsevne og blir i stand til å forstå betydningen av det geografiske i samfunnet rundt deg. Denne boka gir en bred innføring i fagets sentrale begreper, historiske utvikling og analytiske perspektiver – med eksempler og referanser tilpasset en norsk studiehverdag og samtidig forankret i den internasjonale forskningsfronten. Boka utvikler et tilgjengelig og presist norsk fagspråk for samfunnsgeografer, med referanser til engelske faguttrykk som gjør videre lesing og litteratursøk lettere. Boka består av tre deler. I del A finner du byggeklossene i faget: de romlige kjernebegrepene, samfunnsgeografiens faghistorie og metodiske tilnærminger. Del B introduserer underdisipliner og tematiske forskningsfelt, mens del C gir kortfattede innføringer i mange av de sentrale prosessene i samfunnsgeografisk forskning. Disse prosessene spenner bredt – fra regional utvikling og sirkulærøkonomier til autokratisering og byplanlegging. Du lærer også om nyere måter å tenke geografisk på, som skeiv usynliggjøring, kroppslig kunnskap og transnasjonal praksis. «Samfunnsgeografi: Perspektiver og prosesser» er en videreutvikling av læreverket «Samfunnsgeografi: En innføring» som kom i 2017. Selv om boka primært er rettet mot studenter på innføringsnivå, vil den også være relevant videre i studiet og for fagpersoner i beslektede felt.

• Knutsen, Hege Merete; Jordhus-Lier, David; Sliwa, Marcin & Østring, Peder Ressem (2025). The role of unions in shaping work-based precarity on the Norwegian continental shelf. Economic and Industrial Democracy: an international journal. ISSN 0143-831X. doi: 10.1177/0143831x251383669. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Based on desk studies and qualitative interviews with both workers and union representatives at different levels, we explore how Polish temporary migrant workers in the offshore-related industrial services and maintenance sector in Norway experience precarity; their relationship with unions at different levels; and how the unions tackle the challenges of representing them. The distinction between how unions operate to tackle precarity on the strategic level and in everyday practices provides a nuanced picture of what even strong, institutionally embedded unions and temporary workers face in stemming precarity. It underscores how important engagement of the unions is in everyday practices for temporary migrant workers to benefit from the regulatory achievements they make, and yet how challenging measures against precarity are to implement in contexts of sharp competition in labour costs.

• Knutsen, Hege Merete; Hansen, Arve; Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn & Potapohn, Manoj (2023). Brewing the Global Shift: Variegated Capitalism, Firm Strategies, and the Restructuring of the Southeast Asian Beer Industry. Journal of Contemporary Asia. ISSN 0047-2336. doi: 10.1080/00472336.2023.2254774. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  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 investments from global and regional capital and is undergoing significant restructuring, there has been little academic attention to these transformations. In this article, the focus is on Vietnam, Myanmar, and Thailand to analyse how global and regional lead firms adapt to changing competition and increasing demand in Southeast Asia. A combination of theorisations of variegated capitalism with embeddedness and symbolic value is used to explain firm strategies on accessing markets, managing risk and building stronger brands. This analysis demonstrates how regional and global production networks co-exist and interact, and how regional lead firms struggle to challenge global lead firms in accessing the Southeast Asian beer market. The findings show how regional and global capital to a limited extent dissociate from established networks when representing a reputational risk and illustrate how firms co-create the demand for beer. The analysis gives a strong account of the role of embeddedness for expanding market access, and how lead firms seek to strengthen their position through buying up local competition to profit from their established reputation, and territorial and societal embeddedness.

• Knutsen, Hege Merete & Ta, Khanh Do (2020). Reforming state-owned enterprises in a global economy:The case of Vietnam. In Hansen, Arve; Bekkevold, Jo Inge & Nordhaug, Kristen (Ed.), The Socialist Market Economy in Asia: Development in China, Vietnam and Laos. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9789811562471. p. 141–166. doi: 10.1007/978-981-15-6248-8_5. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  What does the new phase of SOE reforms starting around 2016 tell us about economic and institutional transformations and contradictions in Vietnam? In raising this question, we shed light on contradictions between the Vietnamese socialist ideology and the market imperative and international pressure the Vietnamese economy is subject to as a global player. In the wake of the doi moi process for economic renewal, the need of reforming the SOE sector attained a lot of attention. The Government decided to promote equitization of SOEs in 1992. This means that the enterprises should be turned into joint stock companies in which the state, workers and private investors hold shares, and that either the state or the private investors hold the majority shares. However, the process went slowly. There were considerable resistance from managers and a fear of job losses. What then characterizes the new phase of SOE reforms? What is new about the context that the reforms are implemented in? After a brief account of previous SOE reforms we delve into how the state and industry plan for, perceive and experience the new phase of reforms and how the reforms are addressed by international institutions and mass media.

• Knutsen, Hege Merete; Fangen, Katrine & Zabko, Oksana (2019). Integration and exclusion at work: Latvian and Swedish agency nurses in Norway. Journal of International Migration and Integration. ISSN 1488-3473. doi: 10.1007/s12134-019-00660-5. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Qualitative interviews with Latvian and Swedish agency nurses in Norway reveal that the two groups have quite different experiences of integration in the Norwegian labor market. Aiming to add knowledge about differentiation within migrant labor markets, the objective of this article is to examine how language, nursing culture, and personal motivation affect the double control that agency nurses are subject to, their resultant skill-sets, inclusion in the workplace, and response to this. Norway is of interest as the Norwegian language can be difficult to learn outside Scandinavia. The Latvian agency nurses are harder hit by the double control of the temporary work agencies than the Swedish are. They obtain higher wages and better working conditions and are ready to speak up against unfair treatment. If they want to leave the agency, they easily find direct employment. Latvian nurses seem more ready to accept work below their qualifications and some show signs of resigned acceptance. They have more to lose than the Swedish nurses in terms of access to work, wages, and working conditions if they return to their homeland. Although Latvian and Swedish nurses largely feel well received in the workplace, the double control they are subject to calls for self-restraint and impedes a sense of inclusion. For the Latvian nurses, language problems and cultural differences exacerbate this. The study expands and nuances how double control affects agency workers, and applying a broad concept of resigned acceptance it nuances what language means for discrimination in the workplace.

• Knutsen, Hege Merete (2018). Health institutions, temporary work agencies and the mobility power of nurses. Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies. 8(4), p. 25–44. doi: 10.18291/njwls.v8i4.111927. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  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 changing relations between health institutions and temporary work agencies in the Norwegian welfare state. Based on case study as the research strategy, the article contributes to the political economy of labor relations approach and the debate over the role ofTWAs and temporary nursing in the health sector.The mobility power of Swedish nurses who shift from agency nursing to direct temporary nursing in health insti- tutions (bank nursing) partly explains the constrained growth of agency nursing in the Norwegianhospital sector. However, contracting flows of Swedish nurses to Norway since 2015 challengeinternal labor hire and could make health institutions more agency-dependent in future.The dataemployed are semi-structured interviews, official statistics, reports, and news clippings.

• Zampoukos, Kristina; Knutsen, Hege Merete; Kiil, Maiken Bjerga & Olofsdotter, Gunilla (2018). Mobile with an agency: Negotiating the spatiotemporalities of the temp migrant worker. Geoforum. ISSN 0016-7185. 93, p. 40–47. doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.05.003. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  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 of economic geographies. The present paper responds to this challenge by examining how Swedish agency warehouse workers and temp nurses working in Norway act and think in relation to mobility and how certain spatiotemporalities come into play in the mobility agency of individual workers. Though we are particularly concerned with the ambiguities involved in the relationship between mobility, agency and power, a second objective is to contribute to the theorization of how space and time matters to mobile workers. Drawing on data from twenty interviews with Swedish temp nurses and six focus group interviews with Swedish agency warehouse workers, and by combining several strands of literature ranging from current research on mobilities and migration to the work of classical scholars in geography and sociology, we propose that a ‘trialectics of spatiotemporalities' is part and parcel of workers' mobility agency. Furthermore, our findings suggest that the purposive agency as emphasized for instance by the notion of ‘mobility strategy' needs to be complemented by a conceptualization of agency that includes what we term (erratic) probing. We conclude that labour mobility may be strategic and a sign of power, but not always and everywhere, and not in any pure sense.

• Knutsen, Hege Merete & Haugen, Heidi Østbø (2017). Utvikling i globale verdikjeder og produksjonsnettverk. In Jordhus-Lier, David Christoffer & Stokke, Kristian (Ed.), Samfunnsgeografi: En innføring. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 9788202547752. p. 95–108. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Samfunnsgeografi er studiet av samfunnets romlighet. Som student i samfunnsgeografi utvikler du din geografiske forestillingsevne og blir i stand til å forstå betydningen av det geografiske i samfunnet rundt deg. Denne boka gir deg en innføring i fagets historie og kjernebegreper – som rom, sted, skala, territorium og nettverk – samt en gjennomgang av viktige underdisipliner og forskningstemaer som preger faget i dag. Kapitlene er skrevet på norsk av 24 samfunnsgeografer basert i Norge. Forfatterne bruker selv en samfunnsgeografisk tilnærming i sin egen forskning. Gjennom de ulike kapitlene lærer du blant annet mer om klimaendringer, globalisering og ulikhet, politisk deltagelse, byutvikling, migrasjon, fattigdom og utviklingsspørsmål.

• Kiil, Maiken Bjerga & Knutsen, Hege Merete (2016). Agency by exit: Swedish nurses and the "Not below 24,000" movement. Geoforum. ISSN 0016-7185. 70, p. 105–114. doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.02.012. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Hirschman’s (1970) concepts of exit, voice and loyalty can be reworked to add further nuances to the understanding of labour agency. Agency by exit is of interest in demonstrating how agency is conditioned by structures and context that constrain and enable successful action. It may start as individual acts of coping and then enable and empower more collective actions of reworking and resistance. Agency by exit thereby expands our understanding of what strategies of coping, reworking and resistance entail. We base our arguments on a case study of the “Not below 24,000” movement among nurse students and newly graduated nurses for acceptable entry wages in Sweden. The movement has succeeded in raising the entry wage for a number of newly graduated nurses by turning individual and collective agency by exit into structural power. While the movement has managed to shake power relations, it has not fully changed the rules of the game.

• Knutsen, Hege Merete & Ou, Xiaoxi (2015). Ecological modernisation and dilemmas of sustainable development in China. In Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (Ed.), Emerging Economies and Challenges to Sustainability: Theories, strategies, local realities. Routledge. ISSN 9780415747325. p. 65–78. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (2015). Transfer of 'Western' institutions to a transition economy context: experiences from the Vietnamese petroleum sector. Forum for Development Studies. ISSN 0803-9410. 42(1), p. 65–87. doi: 10.1080/08039410.2014.918054. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete; Endresen, Sylvi Birgit; Bergene, Ann Cecilie & Jordhus-Lier, David Christoffer (2015). Labor, Geography of. In Wright, James D. (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition. Elsevier. ISSN 9780080970868. p. 163–168. Full text in Research Archive
• Dokka, Synne; Knutsen, Hege Merete & Endresen, Sylvi Birgit (2014). Outsourcing with a human face? Variegated workplace regimes in the Norwegian hotel sector. In Jordhus-Lier, David Christoffer & Underthun, Anders (Ed.), A hospitable world?: Organising work and workers in hotels and tourist resorts. Routledge. ISSN 9780415747790. p. 84–100. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (2014). Restructuring and socially managed flexibility in the Norwegian hotel industry. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0029-1951. 68(5), p. 271–281. doi: 10.1080/00291951.2014.965739. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (2012). Industriell oppgradering og arbeidsmarked. In Bekkevold, Jo Inge & Kristoffersen, Henning (Ed.), Kinas økonomi. Gyldendal Akademisk. ISSN 9788205418103. p. 117–137. Full text in Research Archive
• Magnusson, Ola Anders; Knutsen, Hege Merete & Endresen, Sylvi Birgit (2010). Between coercion and consent : understanding post-apartheid workplace regimes. In Bergene, Ann Cecilie; Endresen, Sylvi Birgit & Knutsen, Hege Merete (Ed.), Missing links in labour geography. Ashgate. ISSN 9780754677987. p. 169–181. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Addressing a number of 'missing links' in the analysis of labour and its geographies, this volume examines how theoretical perspectives on both labour in general and the organizations of the labour movement in particular can be refined and redefined. Issues of agency, power and collective mobilizations are examined and illustrated by a wide range of case studies from the 'global north' and 'global south' in order to develop a better and fuller appreciation of labour market processes in developed and developing countries.

• Bergene, Ann Cecilie; Endresen, Sylvi Birgit & Knutsen, Hege Merete (2010). Re-engaging with agency in labor geography. In Bergene, Ann Cecilie; Endresen, Sylvi Birgit & Knutsen, Hege Merete (Ed.), Missing links in labour geography. Ashgate. ISSN 9780754677987. p. 3–14. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Addressing a number of 'missing links' in the analysis of labour and its geographies, this volume examines how theoretical perspectives on both labour in general and the organizations of the labour movement in particular can be refined and redefined. Issues of agency, power and collective mobilizations are examined and illustrated by a wide range of case studies from the 'global north' and 'global south' in order to develop a better and fuller appreciation of labour market processes in developed and developing countries.

• Bergene, Ann Cecilie; Endresen, Sylvi Birgit & Knutsen, Hege Merete (2010). Approaches to the Social and Spatial Agency of Labour. In Bergene, Ann Cecilie; Endresen, Sylvi Birgit & Knutsen, Hege Merete (Ed.), Missing links in labour geography. Ashgate. ISSN 9780754677987. p. 227–240. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Addressing a number of 'missing links' in the analysis of labour and its geographies, this volume examines how theoretical perspectives on both labour in general and the organizations of the labour movement in particular can be refined and redefined. Issues of agency, power and collective mobilizations are examined and illustrated by a wide range of case studies from the 'global north' and 'global south' in order to develop a better and fuller appreciation of labour market processes in developed and developing countries.

• Knutsen, Hege Merete & Hansson, Eva (2010). Theoretical approaches to changing labour regimes in transition economies. In Bergene, Ann Cecilie; Endresen, Sylvi Birgit & Knutsen, Hege Merete (Ed.), Missing links in labour geography. Ashgate. ISSN 9780754677987. p. 155–169. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Addressing a number of 'missing links' in the analysis of labour and its geographies, this volume examines how theoretical perspectives on both labour in general and the organizations of the labour movement in particular can be refined and redefined. Issues of agency, power and collective mobilizations are examined and illustrated by a wide range of case studies from the 'global north' and 'global south' in order to develop a better and fuller appreciation of labour market processes in developed and developing countries.

• Knutsen, Hege Merete (2008). Impeding industrial development? Regional trade arrangements as response to quota abolition in the textile and garment industry. In Taylor, Mike & Tamàsy, Christine (Ed.), Globalising worlds and new economic configurations. Ashgate. ISSN 9780754673774. Full text in Research Archive
• Hesselberg, Jan; Knutsen, Hege Merete; Barton, Jonathan R.; Jenkins, Rhys & Bartzokas, Anthony (2007). Environmental regulation and industrial competitiveness in pollution-intensive industries. In Parto, Saeed & Herbert-Copley, Brent (Ed.), Industrial innovation and environmental regulation: Developing workable solutions. United Nations University Press. ISSN 9789280811278. p. 51–80. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (2006). Changing terms of competition in the global textile and garment industry: the role of location in Vietnam as a restructuring option to firms from Taiwan. In Chun, Hsien (Eds.), Research forerunner of Southern Taiwan society: from theory to practice. National Pingtung University of Education. ISSN 9789860043181. p. 155–175. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (2006). Geographies of informalization. Conceptual Dilemmas over Social Standards and Informalization of Labor. In Gatrell, Jay D. & Reid, Neil (Ed.), Enterprising Worlds. A geographic perspective on economics, environments and ethics. Springer. ISSN 9781402052255. p. 221–230. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete & Nguyen, Cuong Manh (2004). Preferential treatment in transition economy the case of state-owned enterprises in the textile and garment industry in Vietnam. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0029-1951. p. [125]-135–[125]-135. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The article examines the role and contribution of preferential treatment of state enterprises to growth in the textile and garment industry. State enterprises are still the largest single sector in the textile and garment industry in Vietnam, but are losing market shares to private Vietnamese enterprises and foreign-owned enterprises despite the benefits that they enjoy. However, in the present context of economic transition and keen competition in the global market, well-managed state enterprises are attractive to foreign buyers of their products and have a role to play in market access abroad. This contrasts with the neoliberal notion that privatization is essential to competitiveness in the global market.

• Knutsen, Hege Merete (2004). Industrial development in buyer-driven networks: the garment industry in Vietnam and Sri Lanka. Journal of Economic Geography. ISSN 1468-2702. 4(5), p. 545–564. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (2003). Globalisation and the garment industry in Sri Lanka. Journal of Contemporary Asia. ISSN 0047-2336. 33(2), p. 225–250. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (2003). Black entrepreneurs, local embeddedness and regional economic development in Northern Namibia. The Journal of Modern African Studies. ISSN 0022-278X. 41(4), p. 555–586. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (2003). The garment industry - a steppingstone of industrialisation in Vietnam? Occasional paper. ISSN 0803-0596. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (2000). Leather tanning: environmental regulations and competitiveness. In Hesselberg, Jan & Knutsen, H.M. (Ed.), FIL Working Papers. Universitetet i Oslo. p. 8–36. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (2000). Environmental practice in the commodity chain: the dyestuff and tanning industries compared. Review of International Political Economy. ISSN 0969-2290. 7(2), p. 254–288. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (1999). Leather tanning, environmental regulations and competitiveness in Europe: a comparative study of Germany, Italy and Portugal. FIL Working papers. ISSN 0804-5828. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (1999). The concept of sustainable development: way out or far out? SUM occasional paper. ISSN 0803-1223. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete & Wiik, Karin (1999). Tanning and the environment in Mexico: The case of León. FIL Working papers. ISSN 0804-5828. p. 63–89. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (1998). Restructuring, stricter environmental requirements and competitiveness in the German, Italian and Portuguese tanning industry. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0029-1951. 52(4). Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (1998). Globalisation and the international division of labour. Two concepts- one debate? Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0029-1951. 52(3). Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (1997). The use of case studies in analyses of industrial change in the third world. FIL Working papers. ISSN 0804-5828. p. 37–52. Full text in Research Archive

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• Bergene, Ann Cecilie; Endresen, Sylvi Birgit & Knutsen, Hege Merete (2010). Missing links in labour geography. Ashgate. ISBN 9780754677987. 246 p. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Addressing a number of 'missing links' in the analysis of labour and its geographies, this volume examines how theoretical perspectives on both labour in general and the organizations of the labour movement in particular can be refined and redefined. Issues of agency, power and collective mobilizations are examined and illustrated by a wide range of case studies from the 'global north' and 'global south' in order to develop a better and fuller appreciation of labour market processes in developed and developing countries.

• Jenkins, Rhys; Barton, Jonathan; Bartzokas, Anthony; Hesselberg, Jan & Knutsen, Hege Merete (2002). Environmental regulation in the new global economy. The impact on industry and competitiveness. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781840645408. 349 p. Full text in Research Archive

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• Isaksen, Arne; Hermelin, Brita & Knutsen, Hege Merete (2019). Jøranli, Ingvild. 2018. Labour markets and the geography of firm learning. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0029-1951. p. 1–3. doi: 10.1080/00291951.2019.1589568. Full text in Research Archive
• Zabko, Oksana; Knutsen, Hege Merete & Fangen, Katrine (2017). Inclusion and exclusion at work: experiences of Latvian and Swedish temporary nurses in Norway. Full text in Research Archive
• Underthun, Anders; Knutsen, Hege Merete; Kiil, Maiken Bjerga & Hansen, Per Bonde (2017). Bør bemanningsbyråer forbys? [Internet]. Forskning.no. Full text in Research Archive
• Zampoukos, Kristina; Knutsen, Hege Merete; Kiil, Maiken Bjerga & Gunilla, Olofsdotter (2017). Swedish temp nurses and agency warehouse workers in Norway: Negotiating and strategizing the spatiotemporalities of the migrant workers. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete & Kiil, Maiken Bjerga (2017). Mobility Power in the Labour market- guests at work: Swedish temp nurses in Norway. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete & Kiil, Maiken Bjerga (2015). Agency by exit: Swedish nurses and the Not below 24,000 movement. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (2011). Globalization and the transfer of "Western institutions": possibilites and challenges of developing a regualtory framework for HSE in the Vietnamese petrolem sector. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (2011). Oil for development in Vietnam: In what ways is context sensitivity reflected in the programme and how does it affect outcome? Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (2010). William G. Moseley and Leslie C. Gray, eds. Hanging by a thead: cotton,globalization and poverty in Africa. Professional Geographer. ISSN 0033-0124. 62(1), p. 147–149. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (2010). Industrial relations under global stress: What is at stake for management in the Norwegian hotel sector? Some preliminary observations and findings. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (2010). Hanging by a Thread: Cotton, Globalization and Poverty in Africa. Professional Geographer. ISSN 0033-0124. 62(1), p. 147–149. doi: 10.1080/00330120903446513. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete & Hansson, Eva (2008). Theoretical approaches to changing labour regimes in transformation economies. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (2007). Context-sensitive explanations of creation and appropriation of value: lessons from Vietnam. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (2006). Changing positions of labour in global production networks. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (2006). Impeding industrial development? Regional trade arrangements as response to quota abolition in the textile and garment industry. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (2005). Changing terms of competition in the global textile and garment industry: the role of location in Vietnam as a restructuring option to firms from Taiwan. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (2005). Formalising the informal: dilemmas over social standards and informalisation of labour. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (2003). Industrial development in buyer-driven networks: the case of the garment industry in Vietnam. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (2003). Different contexts- similar outcome: the role of buyer-driven networks for industrial development in the garment industry in Sri Lanka and Vietnam. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (2001). Black entrepreneurs and regional economic development in Northern Namibia. Theories on economic linkages and social relations as analytical framework. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (1999). Leather tanning and the environment in León, Mexico. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (1999). Leather tanning,environmental regulations and competitiveness in a North - South perspective. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (1999). Globalization and developing countries. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (1999). Ti år med FIL. Samfunnsgeografen. ISSN 0802-9091. p. 16–19. Full text in Research Archive
• Endresen, Sylvi Birgit & Knutsen, Hege Merete (1996). Klassisk eller ny arbeidsdeling? Hvor hender det?. ISSN 0801-9509. Full text in Research Archive
• Horst, Cindy; Knutsen, Hege Merete & Christophersen, Sara (2020). Embodied Possibilities: A study of dance as an artistic, everyday practice in Palestine. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive
• Jordhus-Lier, David; Bergene, Ann Cecilie; Knutsen, Hege Merete & Underthun, Anders (2010). Hotel workplaces in Oslo and Akershus. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet. ISSN 9788270718344. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Last ned gratis This working paper presents an overview of hotel workplaces in the Oslo/Akershus region of Norway, with regards to their main characteristics. In addition, a brief discussion of work and business strategies in the hotel sector in Norway is included. The paper is based on preliminary analysis in preparation of a large-scale survey and qualitative case studies of hotel workplaces in Oslo and Akershus. Tilknyttet prosjekt Industrial relations under global stress

• Knutsen, Hege Merete & Wiik, Karin (2002). Assessing the uptake of EST in developing countries: the case of the leather tanning industry in Leòn, Mexico. UNIDO. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (1999). Leather tanning, environmental regulations and competitiveness - final report. Samfunnsgeografi, Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (1999). Om å skrive mellomfagsoppgave. Samfunnsgeografi, Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (1998). Leather tanning, environmental regulations and competitiveness in Europe: a comparative study of Germany, Italy and Portugal. Environmental regulation, globalisation of production and technological change - phase two report. Department of Sociology and Human Geography. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (1998). Internationalisation of capital and the opportunity to pollute. Department of Sociology and Human Geography. Full text in Research Archive
• Bergstø, B.; Endresen, Sylvi Birgit & Knutsen, Hege Merete (1998). "Source and hide pollution". Industrial organisation, location and the environment: sourcing as a firm strategy. Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (1991). "International Location of Polluting Industries: Methods Applied in Selected Studies". Department of Human Geography, University of Oslo. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete (1991). Flytting av forurensende industri til utviklingsland. Norske Geografers Forening. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Utvikling og Miljø

• Knutsen, Hege Merete (1991). "International Location of Polluting Industries: Review of Literature". Department of Human Geography, University of Oslo. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Utvikling og Miljø

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