Reseach and projects
COA researchers are involved in several research projects.
COA has collaborative research projects with a wide range of organizations, from companies in the energy, maritime, light metals and ICT industries. These projects are international, regional, and national oriented as well as cross-disciplinary, grounded and action-oriented. The funding of these projects are from the Norwegian Research Council, NTNU, EU as well as private companies.
NTNU
- “Work Unlimited: Identity construction in a global context” is a project funded by Working Life Research Program at the Norwegian Research Council (NFR). This project will be starting Fall 2008 and ending Fall 2011. The project will be focusing on the subjective and personal experiences of global work migrants moving across geographical and administrative boundaries in different European countries. This research will be a collaborative project involving the fields of organizational anthropology and organizational psychology located at the departments of Social Anthropology and Psychology respectively at NTNU.
- Work Organisation and Restructuring in the Knowledge Society (WORKS). This project is funded by the European Commission under its 6th Framework Programme (2005-2009) with the aim of gaining an understanding of the changes which are taking place in the organization of work as corporate structures are transformed in the context of economic globalization and rapid technological change. The project involves partners from seventeen different institutions in thirteen EU Member States and is coordinated by the Higher Institute for Labour Studies based at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belguim. For more information see http://www.worksproject.be
- hetogo 2000 - A multi-disciplinary research and development project on productivity and enterprise development in Botswana. Key partners are SINTEF, Botswana National Productivity Centre (BNPC), and three local companies. The project takes a holistic value chain approach, whilst also drawing on the balanced scorecard and intellectual capital perspectives.
- ’Culture’ and management in a global context (PhD)
- Management of international investment projects (PhD)
- Post industrial work praxis (PhD)
- Simulations and extreme marine operations (PhD)
- Work praxis and communities in global corporations (PhD)
- Work migration (PhD)
- Risk and safety among Norwegian fishermen (PhD)
Institute of Society and Technology, SINTEF
- Time and space for management?
- The implications of extensive system requirements for the
- Role of management and HSE practice offshore
NTNU Social Research Ltd. - Studio Apertura
- ’Culture’ and management in a global context.
- SAMRISK: Critical Infrastructures, Public Sector Reorganisation and Societal Safety
- Evaluering av endret styrende dokumentasjon på StatoilHydros forsyningsbaser
- Evaluering av FAST-prosjektet i StatoilHydro UPN
StatoilHydro Research Center
- The Tyrihans/Kristin oil and gas prodcution facility into the future "Kristin/Tyrihans Power to the edge".
- The work practices of subsurface professionals in StatoilHydro.
- The development and standardization of global collaborative infrastructures.
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