Disputation i arbetsvetenskap

Elin Storman försvarar sin doktorsavhandling i arbetsvetenskap "Navigating Organisational Restructuring and Job Transitions : A Case Study of Workers in the Swedish Hotel Sector".

Doktorsavhandling Elin Storman 2026:18

Nedan följer en kort beskrivning av innehållet (ur baksidestexten):

This is a thesis about hotel workers’ experiences of organisational restructuring and job transitions during the COVID-19 pandemic. It draws on four empirical papers based on 45 semistructured interviews conducted in a labour market shaped by fluctuating demand, pandemic restrictions, organisational restructuring and extensive shorttime work (STW). The analysis captures insights from hotel workers across multiple post-restructuring labour market statuses, illustrating job transitions across internal and external labour markets and the liminal space in between. Across all workers, restructuring brought substantial changes to both work and employment conditions.  

The thesis integrates theories of internal and external labour markets, restructuring strategies, job transitions and established restructuring outcomes categories: Victims, Endurers and Survivors. To capture experiences overlooked within existing frameworks a fourth category, Liminals, is introduced. To analyse these transitions, the thesis develops the Job Transition Model, a visual and analytical model grounded in theoretical and empirical insights from this thesis, applied here to understand job transitions across labour markets in the context of organisational restructuring involving extensive STW implementation. 

Disputationen sker vid Högskolan Dalarna men går att följa via zoomvisning i 3A 340 på Karlstads universitet.

Händelsen är öppen för allmänheten.

Medverkande

  • Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson, opponent, professor, Linnéuniversitetet
  • Elin Ennerberg, betygsnämnd, docent, Malmö universitet
  • Rebecka Tolstoy, betygsnämnd, docent, Göteborgs universitet
  • Daniel Larsson, betygsnämnd, docent, Umeå universitet

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