Employee Profile

Eli Moen

Professor emerita

Department of Communication and Culture

Room number C4I-005
Phone +4746410588
E-mail eli.moen@bi.no

Biography

Dr. Eli Moen is professor in International and Cross-cultural Management. Moen holds a Dr. philos. from the University of Oslo in economic history. Moen has previously been employed at the University of Oslo, Department of history and Department of Culture Studies.

Moen has been a guest researcher at various research institutes abroad including The Max Planck Institute for Social Research, Cologne, Helsinki School of Economics, Wissenschaftzentrum Nordrhein- Westfalen, London School of Economics. Moen has also been teaching at L’Université de Toulouse II Le Mirail.

Research areas
Globalization processes, comparative studies of economic organizations and systems. Local answers to globalization processes.

Cultural and societal effects on organizations and systems. How institutional arrangements shape policies and business strategies and structures

Area of Expertise

Globalisation
Innovation
The Norwegian model
Industrial policy

Publications

Shows 5 of 32 publication(s)

Academic book Eli Moen, Hans Petter Graver, Robert Mood, Trygve Tamburstuen, Øystein Steiro (2025)

Statstyre på oljeglatt føre

Svein Sandnes bokforlag

Article Eli Moen (2020)

‘Kræsjkurs i den norske modellen’

Manifest tidsskrift

Chapter Peer Hull Kristensen, Eli Moen, Kari Lilja (2019)

Civilizing business enterprises: the search for a new Nordic growth and development model

The Relational Nordic Welfare State Between Utopia and Ideology p. 202-223 Doi: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788974653.00020

Article Eli Moen (2018)

Går vi mot en kjosifisering av arbeidslivet?

Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift (NNT) p. 206-218 Doi: https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.1504-3053-2018-03-04-02

Nye trender i arbeidslivet som økt bruk av midlertidighet og innleie har negative konsekvenser. Det er kjent at atypisk arbeid reduserer graden av fagorganisering, men når det brukes aktivt for å svekke ansattes forhandlingsmakt, truer det også organisert arbeid. Ved å se denne typen praksis i sammenheng med mer autoritære ledelsesformer og mindre medbestemmelse, stilles det spørsmål om disse fenomenene inngår i en større trend som radikalt kan endre arbeidslivet og dermed undergrave den norske modellen.

Article Eli Moen (2018)

Industrialiseringen av Norge: et samvirke mellom by og land

Fortid p. 60-65

Review article Eli Moen, Kari Lilja (2017)

Orchestrating a New industrial Field. The case of the Finnish wood-based bioeconomy

International Journal of Business Environment 9(3) p. 266-278 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBE.2017.10008889

The article's focus is on how companies and institutions interact and cooperate in order to develop the wood-based bioeconomy field. Based on a case study of the Finnish forest sector, the paper shows that shifting to sustainability requires processes of co-creation. As radical innovation requires complementary competences, companies have had to cooperate with a large number of actors. By interacting with multiple actors at multiple levels, both companies and institutions have engaged in new types of activities that have led to a change in their respective roles. By taking on responsibility for developing the new industrial field, both companies and institutions act as orchestrators for mobilising a large number of public and private actors. Subsequently, the paper argues that this interaction has produced a new type of complementarity between companies and institutions facilitating the development of the new industrial field.The article's focus is on how companies and institutions interact and cooperate in order to develop the wood-based bioeconomy field. Based on a case study of the Finnish forest sector, the paper shows that shifting to sustainability requires processes of co-creation. As radical innovation requires complementary competences, companies have had to cooperate with a large number of actors. By interacting with multiple actors at multiple levels, both companies and institutions have engaged in new types of activities that have led to a change in their respective roles. By taking on responsibility for developing the new industrial field, both companies and institutions act as orchestrators for mobilising a large number of public and private actors. Subsequently, the paper argues that this interaction has produced a new type of complementarity between companies and institutions facilitating the development of the new industrial field.

Article Eli Moen (2017)

Weakening trade union power: New forms of employment relations. The case of the Norwegian Air Shuttle

Transfer - European Review of Labour and Research 23(4) p. 425-439 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1024258917703547

For the past two decades – and in particular after the 2008 crisis – atypical employment has expanded across Europe. The crisis led to increased demand for more flexible labour markets, and thus atypical employment became an important tool for employment, competitiveness and economic growth. However, recent research reveals that employers are using atypical employment not just to compensate for unstable markets, but also as an opportunity to cut costs by bypassing collective agreements and to discipline workers, works councils and unions. The case study presented in this article corroborates these findings, arguing that employers – in addition to reducing costs – are making use of atypical employment to weaken organised labour as a goal in its own right. Whether such behaviour forms part of a larger drive to resist unions needs to be further researched. In any event, atypical employment represents an increasing challenge to trade unions across Europe.

Chapter Peer Hull Kristensen, Kari Lilja, Eli Moen, Glenn Morgan (2016)

Nordic countries as laboratories for transnational learning

Nordic cooperation. A European region in transition p. 183-204 Doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315755366-10

Article Eli Moen (2016)

Succeeding in international competition by making use of home-country institutions

Critical Perspectives on International Business 12(1) p. 83-99 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-12-2013-0051

Purpose – This paper aims to addresses the question how a low-cost carrier (LCC) embedded in a coordinated market economy is succeeding in a highly competitive industry with a strong cost focus. Design/methodology/approach – This paper reports the results of a case study of a LCC (Norwegian Air Shuttle). The case study draws on both organizational and institutional theory as to how the international business environment and the national institutional framework continuously impact on its strategies. Findings – It is found that home-country high wage levels and strong labour regulation have been overcome by developing firm-specific capabilities based on active employee involvement which aligns with the tradition of the national system of industrial relations. Research limitations/implications – The present case study provides an input for further research on how actors deal with conflicting pressures. It supports the varieties of capitalism (VOC) argument that national institutional arrangements influence firms and actors’ strategies and practices, but it also supports the call within institutional theories for a more malleable conceptualizing of the link between actors and institutions than is the case in the VOC models. Originality/value – The paper provides an account of a successful case in a highly competitive international business despite disadvantages linked with home-country institutions.

Article Eli Moen (2014)

Norwegian Air Shuttle - en aktør fra et høykostland i en lavkostbransje

Magma forskning og viten 17(4) p. 39-46

Chapter Eli Moen (2013)

L'industrialisation douce en Norvège: l'importance de la dimension sociale

Banques, industrie et Europe du Nord : hommage à Bertrand de Lafargue p. 203-216 Doi: https://doi.org/10.4000/books.pumi.31838

Article Henrik D. Finsrud, Eli Moen (2012)

Samarbeid på norsk - et konkurransefortrinn i den globaliserte økonomien?

Magma forskning og viten 15(4) p. 24-31

Article Peter Maassen, Eli Moen, Bjørn Stensaker (2011)

Reforming higher education in the Netherlands and Norway: the role of the state and national modes of governance

Policy Studies Journal (PSJ) 32(5) p. 479-495 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2011.566721

Chapter Eli Moen (2011)

Norway: Raw Material Refinement and Innovative Companies in Global Dynamics

Nordic Capitalisms and Globalization. New Forms of Economic Organizations and Welfare Institutions p. 141-182 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199594535.003.0004

Chapter Eli Moen, Silja Korhonen-Sande (2010)

Globalt konkurransedyktige bedrifter - nye krav til innovasjonspolitikken

Innovasjonspoilitikk - problemstillinger og utfordringer

Chapter Eli Moen (2009)

Norway: Entrapped by the refinement of raw materials or saved by a growing periphery of innovative agents?

P. H. Kristensen and K. Lilja (eds), New modes of globalizing: experimentalist forms of economic organization and enabling welfare institutions

Norway is performing remarkably well. For several years in a row the United Nations has named Norway the best country in the world to live in (Human Development Reports). The population enjoys one of the highest levels of GDP per capita, an egalitarian distribution of wealth, and generous welfare state arrangements. Yet, Norway is trailing the other Nordic countries in terms of economic dynamism. On the World Economic Forum’s ranking lists, Norway has been ranked lowest among the Nordic countries and has most recently dropped significantly behind. The country is ranked very low on international innovation scoreboards (cf. EIS), is blamed for investing too little in R&D, less than 1.7 per cent of GDP which is well below the OECD average, and is less integrated into the globalized economy than the other Nordic countries. Are these indicators symptoms of a nation about to be trapped by the paradox of plenty? Has Norway failed to sustain and develop a dynamic and competitive economy for future challenges?

Chapter Eli Moen (2007)

Næringsnøytralitet - en god idé?

Karl Glad og Eli Moen, Tariffavtalen som formet Norge. Verkstedsoverenskomsten 100 år

Chapter Eli Moen, Kari Lilja (2005)

Change in Coordinated Market Economies: The Case of Nokia and Finland

Changing capitalisms? : internationalization, institutional change, and systems of economic organization / edited by Glenn Morgan, Richard Whitley, and Eli Moen

Anthology Glenn Morgan, Richard Whitley, Eli Moen (2005)

Changing capitalisms? : internationalization, institutional change, and systems of economic organization

Oxford University Press

Chapter Eli Moen (2002)

The American Productivity Gospel in Norway: A Matter of Politics

Catching up with America. Productivity missions and the diffusion of American economic and technological influence after the second world war p. 99-112

Chapter Eli Moen, Kari Lilja (2001)

Constructing Global Corporations: Contrasting National Legacies in the Nordic Forest Industry

The Multinational Firm. Organizing Across Institutional and National Divides p. 97-121

Article Eli Moen (1998)

Oligopoly and Vertical Integration. The Reshaping of the Pulp and Paper Industry, 1950-1980

Entreprises et Histoire 19 p. 85-97

Article Eli Moen, Harm Schröter (1998)

Editorial: Americanization as a concept for a deeper understanding of economic changes

Entreprises et Histoire 19 p. 5-13

Anthology Eli Moen (1998)

The Decline of the Pulp and Paper Industry in Norway, 1950-1980. A Study of a Closed System in an Open Economy

Scandinavian University Press

Chapter Eli Moen (1998)

State and Industry in a Mixed Economy: the crises of the Norwegian pulp and paper industry in a corporatist perspective, 1950-1980

Economic Crises and Restructuring in Small Countries p. 265-283

Article Eli Moen (1997)

Lokalhistorisk søkelys på den nye Noregs-historia: Ståle Dyrvik/Ole Feldbæk: Mellom brødre 1780-1830

Heimen - Lokal og regional historie 34 p. 93-98

Chapter Eli Moen (1996)

L'industrie du papier en Norvège. Innovation contre déclin irréversible?

Centre de recherche en histoire des sciences et des techniques p. 69-84

Chapter Eli Moen (1995)

Barnearbeid under det industrielle gjennombrudd

Veier til vår tid, Norges og verdenshistorie før 1850 p. 476-481

Article Eli Moen (1994)

Technological Change and the Decline of the Traditional Pulp and Paper Industry in Norway, 1950-1980

Scandinavian Economic History Review XLII(3) p. 257-278

Chapter Eli Moen (1991)

Norway's Entry into the Age of Paper: The Development of the Pulp and Paper Industry in the Drammen District

Technology Transfer and Scandinavian Industrialisation p. 257-278

Article Eli Moen (1991)

Fra kgl. privilegert verk til moderne storbedrift. Modum Blåfarveverk i norsk historie

Norsk Bergverksmuseum Skrift p. 61-67

p. 22-24

Feature article Eli Moen (2016)

Norsk arbeidsliv ved et veiskille?

p. 48-49

Participation in media Eli Moen (2002)

Norsk industripolitikk

Shows 5 of 135 publication(s)

Lecture Eli Moen (2021)

Hva skal vi leve av etter oljen?

Bokpresentasjon og paneldebatt

Lecture Eli Moen (2021)

Norge verdens beste land å bo i, refleksjoner rundt samfunnsutvikling og arbeidsliv

Kurs

Book Eli Moen (2021)

Hva skal vi leve av etter oljen? Politikk og verdiskaping i petrostaten

Solum Bokvennen

Lecture Eli Moen (2021)

Hva skal vi leve av etter oljen?

Fagseminar

Commentary Eli Moen (2020)

En politisk fallitterklæring. Det er ikke mye bærekraft å spore i NHOs nyliberale veikart.

Klassekampen

Commentary Eli Moen (2020)

En bærekraftig bløff. Med finansverdenens brutale spilleregler vektlegges kortsiktig profitt framfor industriell utvikling

Klassekampen

Lecture Eli Moen (2019)

Trenger vi et organisert arbeidsliv i dag?

Kurs

Lecture Eli Moen (2019)

Grenseløse muligheter – med mer samarbeid på tvers

Torsbykonferansen 2019

Conference lecture Eli Moen (2019)

Linking the Macro and the Micro

Towards a new world order

Lecture Eli Moen (2019)

Et kompetent arbeidsliv – vårt viktigste konkurransefortrinn

Manifestkonferanse 2019

Lecture Eli Moen (2019)

Et kompetent arbeidsliv - vårt viktigste konkurransefortrinn

Industriaksjonens stiftelsesmøte

Article Eli Moen (2018)

Fortsatt kjosifisering av arbeidslivet?

Frifagbevegelse LO Media

Article Eli Moen (2018)

Bærekraft og grønn økonomi

BI Business Review

Article Eli Moen (2018)

Best i Europa på krevende kunder

BI Business Review

Conference lecture Eli Moen (2018)

The Nordic Model revisited.

Senter-seminar

Lecture Eli Moen (2018)

The Role of Business for a Sustainable Future

Bioeconomy-led Development Opportunities through Nordic-Southern Cone Countries Cooperation

Lecture Eli Moen (2018)

Anstendig arbeid og økonomisk vekst

Medlemsmøte

Lecture Eli Moen (2018)

Et anstendig arbeidsliv

Kurs

Lecture Eli Moen (2017)

Anstendig arbeid og økonomisk vekst. Hvilken retning går utviklingen?

København-kurs

Lecture Eli Moen (2017)

Anstendig arbeid og økonomisk vekst

Lederkurs

Conference lecture Eli Moen (2017)

Nordic Labour relations in a decentralized economy

Renewing the Nordic Model

Conference lecture Eli Moen (2017)

Anstendig arbeid og økonomisk vekst

Styrekurs

Lecture Eli Moen (2017)

Anstendig arbeid og økonomisk vekst.

Medlemsmøte

Book chapter Eli Moen (2017)

Krøderbanen – en trivelig arbeidsplass

Gamle Modum: Årsskrift for Modum Historielag 2017

Lecture Eli Moen (2017)

En ny skogsindustri - et eventyr eller reell mulighet?

Skog og tre

Lecture Eli Moen (2017)

Anstendig arbeid og økonomisk vekst

Lokallagsmøte

Lecture Eli Moen (2017)

Anstendig arbeid og økonomisk vekst

Medlemskurs

Conference lecture Eli Moen, Kari Lilja (2016)

Towards a decentralized and open innovation setting: the changing role of multinationals and institutions in the Finnish forest

EGOS 32nd Colloquium

Lecture Eli Moen (2016)

Luftfarten i globaliseringens frontlinje

LOs Luftfartskonferanse

Lecture Eli Moen (2016)

Anstendig arbeid og økonomisk vekst. Hvilken retning går utviklingen?

kurs

Lecture Eli Moen (2016)

Anstendig arbeid og økonomisk vekst

SEK 3516 Stat

Lecture Eli Moen (2016)

Anstendig arbeidsliv og økonomisk vekst. I hvilken retning går utviklingen?

Kurs

Conference lecture Eli Moen, Jack Netskar (2016)

Changing environment and structural changes in European aviation: flag carriers strategic responses – and potential implications

ICAROS: New competition and the comparative local advantages of airlines and airports

Lecture Eli Moen (2016)

Anstendig arbeid og økonomisk vekst

Kurs

Lecture Eli Moen (2016)

Anstendig arbeidsliv og økonomisk vekst

SEK1516 Internasjonalt perspektiv

Lecture Eli Moen (2016)

Anstendig arbeid og økonomisk vekst

Kurs

Lecture Eli Moen (2016)

Nye trender i norsk arbeidsliv?

PRINSIPPER OG DILEMMAER

Conference lecture Eli Moen, Kari Lilja (2015)

Transition in the Nordic Forest Industry

Den framvoksende bio-økonomien - skog og bærekraftig industri

Lecture Eli Moen, Jon Bingen (2015)

Fra bioøkonomi til industri og næring

Arbeidsseminar

Conference lecture Eli Moen (2015)

The creation of non-standard employment: the case of Norwegian Air Shuttle, a multinational embedded in a coordinated market economy

Society for the Advancement of Socio-economics (SASE)

Lecture Eli Moen (2014)

Bioøkonomi – hva skjer

Nettverk for bioøkonomi

Conference lecture Eli Moen (2014)

The Nordic countries towards experimentalist economies and enabling welfare states

CAS husseminar

Lecture Eli Moen, Florian Becker-Ritterspach (2014)

New Forms of Employment in the Airline Industry

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AVIATION

Lecture Eli Moen (2014)

Skogsindustrien som en driver i omlegging til en bioøkonomi

Norsk bioøkonomi

Article Eli Moen (2014)

Framtidig utnyttelse skogressursene: råstoff for eksport eller utviklingsdriver?

Norsk Skogbruk p. 22-23

Conference lecture Eli Moen (2014)

New forms of employment in the airline industry: the extent of managerial discretion and trade unions’ capacities in defining and redefining institutional arrangements

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AVIATION

Lecture Eli Moen (2014)

Utfordringer i luftfarten. Hvordan møte disse?

LO Luftfart Strategisamling

Conference lecture Eli Moen (2013)

Nordic Countries in Transition

Nordic Cooperation Revisited.

Lecture Eli Moen (2013)

Skogen som ressurs

Boklansering

Conference lecture Eli Moen (2013)

Building Global Leadership: regulatory, social and organiational conditins for technological excellence in the Norwegian offshore industry

SASE 25th Annual Conference

Conference lecture Eli Moen (2013)

Towards Experimentalist Economies and Enabling Welfare States

Nordic Cooperation revisited

Book chapter Eli Moen (2013)

Skogen - en fornybar ressurs med ubegrensede muligheter?

Fra sorte til grønne karboner p. 70-83

Conference lecture Eli Moen (2013)

Balancing international competition and home-country institutions. a case study of a low cost carrier

1. International Civil Aviation Symposium

Conference lecture Eli Moen, Kari Lilja (2012)

Nordic based business operations and new global games

Nordic Cooperation Revisited

Conference lecture Eli Moen (2012)

Diversity, Super-diversity and transnational entrepreneurship

Nordic Network for Adult Learning

Conference lecture Eli Moen (2012)

Norwegian: an LCC ascending on consistent strategies and organizational flexibility

International Consortium for Aviation Research

Lecture Eli Moen (2012)

Velferd – en forutsetning for innovasjon og bærekraft

Nordisk formannskapskonferanse for innovasjon

Conference lecture Eli Moen (2012)

NVL (Nordic Network for Adult Learning) research network on innovation: Norway

NVL Research Network on Innovation

Lecture Eli Moen (2012)

Teamwork and Competitiveness: advantages of the Nordic model in the Global economy

Norske Dager Riga

Lecture Eli Moen (2012)

Samarbeidsmodellen som et ledelsesperspektiv

YS-konferansen 2012

Report Eli Moen (2012)

Forsknings- og innovasjonspolitikk. Norske utfordringer i lys av internasjonale endringer

Handelshøyskolen BI

I og med globaliseringen er forsknings- og innovasjonspolitikk blitt et prioritert område i en rekke land. En hensikt med denne rapporten er å bringe nye perspektiver inn i debatten ved å drøfte utfordringer knyttet ti endringer i den globaliserte økonomien, presentere internasjonale synspunkter på ny innovasjonspolitikk, de krav dette reiser om nye styringsformer, drøfte norsk innovasjonsevne og hvilke utfordringer den globalisert økonomien representerer for norsk økonomi.

Conference lecture Eli Moen (2012)

Pennywise and pound-foolish. Road infrastructure and R&D policies in Norway 1985-2005. Intentional or unintentional lock-ins in policymaking

The 23rd EGOS Colloquium

Conference lecture Eli Moen (2006)

Case Studies Norway: Preliminary Outline of Expectations from the Empirical Study: High tech industries against the wind?

Kick-off conference Translearn

Report Eli Moen (2004)

Det sosio-kulturelle grunnlaget for norsk industripolitikk og industriutvikling med utgangspunkt i en sammenligning med Finland

Globaliseringsforum

Lecture Eli Moen (2002)

To be or not to be? Levels of involvement of employee representatives in the EWC activities of multinational paper industry corporations

17th EGOS Colloquium

Conference lecture Eli Moen (2001)

Internationalisation of Bundles of Practices: The role of cross-sectoral integration and types of national business systems

15th EGOS Colloquium

Conference lecture Eli Moen, Kari Lilja (1999)

Families, Ideology and Economic Development in Nineteenth Century Norway. The Legacy of Haugeanism in the Drammen District

Prøveforelesning

Report Eli Moen (1998)

Academic Degrees
Year	Academic Department	Degree
1998	University of Oslo	Ph.D Dr. Philos.
1984	University of Oslo	Master Cand. Philol.

Work Experience
Year	Employer	Job Title
2013 - Present	Norwegian Business School	Professor
2004 - 2013	BI Norwegian Business School	Senior Researcher
2000 - 2004	University of Oslo	Postdoc fellow
1999 - 2000	Østfold fylkeskommune	Senior Researcher
1998 - 1999	University of Oslo	Part-time teacher
1996 - 1996	University of Oslo	Research Fellow
1990 - 1995	University of Oslo	Research Fellow