The AGILE Team
Prof. Caroline de la Porte is a comparative political economist, specialized in the Europeanisation of national policies, especially at the intersection of labor market and social policy.
Her recent work has focused on the centrality of family policy for parents’ labour market engagement. In this regard, she has examined the shift to a more equal sharing of parental leave across European countries, prompted by the EU’s work-life balance directive. Her research on this this topic includes: ‘The EU’s work-life balance directive: Institutional change of father-specific leave across member states’ (w. Im, Pircher & Szelewa, 2023) and ‘An examination of ‘instrumental resources’ in earmarked parental leave: The case of the work–life balance directive’ (w. Im, Pircher, Ramos Martin, & Szelewa, 2023)
She has also focused on early childhood education and care in the Nordic countries. Her work on this topic includes: ‘Still a poster child for social investment? Changing regulatory dynamics of early childhood education and care in Denmark and Sweden’ (w. Larsen, and Lundqvist, 2023)
Her work has had societal impact, via liaisons and communication with stakeholders. For instance, her research results on the uneven impact of the EU’s work-life balance across member states has been disseminated to policy-makers, unions, employers, think-tanks, and professional associations of lawyers.
Zhen Jie Im researches the development and impact of Social Europe. He has examined how different actors shape policy designs related to work-life balance, and the consequences these designs have for reconciling work-life balance. His research on these include: Variations in Social Europe? National political parties’ positions on EU-level social regulations.(2024), European Social Dialogues: Shaping EU Social Policy through Parental Leave Rights (w. Larsen, T. P., & Pircher, B., 2024), and The EU’s work-life balance directive: Institutional change of father-specific leave across member states. (w. de la Porte, C., Pircher, B., & Szelewa, D., 2023)
Additionally, Zhen researches public opinion on how citizens politically respond to structural transformations such as technological change and the green transition in advanced economies, with a focus on fairness. His most recent research on these topics include: Paying the piper for the Green Transition? Perceptions of unfairness from regional employment declines in carbon-polluting industrial sectors (2024).
His research findings have been communicated to relevant stakeholders through various platforms such as a plenary on “Managing Disruptive Technologies and Platform Economy: Labor Market and Social Policy Implications. A Policymaker-Practitioner-Scholar Dialogue” held by the Institute of Public Policy and Institute for Emerging Market Studies, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology.
Louise Mors is a Professor of Strategic and International Management at the Copenhagen Business School. Prior to joining CBS, she was on the faculty at the London Business School and also spent time as a post-doc at the Sloan School at MIT. Louise Mors has a PhD from INSEAD in France.
Professor Mors is actively involved in the academic community with the Strategic Management Society and the Academy of Management. Currently she is an elected officer of the Strategic Management division of the Academy of Management and she has served two terms as an Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Perspectives.
With a focus on large, global firms, Professor Mors’ research examines the relationship between senior managers’ informal networks, organization design and performance. Recently her work has also examined the role of female directors on corporate boards. Professor Mors’ work has been published in the top strategy and management journals, such as the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science and the Academy of Management Journal.
Kristina Dahlin is an organizational scholar who studies learning and innovation. She does empirical research on multiple levels of analysis: individual, team, technology, organizational as well as social networks. She has studied various settings, from the tennis racket industry, cellphone operators and equipment manufacturers, freight rail, robotics and medical devices. Recent work focus on failure learning and differences across settings with the ambition to transfer insights from fast to slow-learning industries with a special focus on health care. Opportunity, motivation and ability to learn from failures and errors: Review, synthesis, and the way forward (2018).
Manuel Alvariño is finishing his PhD in the European University Institute and will join AGILE as a Post-doctoral fellow in May. He researches comparative welfare politics, with a focus on the gender transformation of European welfare states. His recent work explores the partisan politics of work-life balance policies, including: ‘Partisan Politics and Feedback Effects: Comparing Defamilialization by Center-Right Parties across Six Familistic Countries’ (2024) and ‘Conviction or Consent? Tracing the Influence of Coalition Partners on Family Policy under Centre-Right Ministers’ (w. Milan Thies, 2024)
His research results show how macroeconomic and political drivers explain why some countries introduce more work-life balance policies than others, with a great impact on life opportunities and gender equality. These findings have been substantially shared with society through publications in the media.
Sondre Holm is a research assistant at AGILE, currently studying Economics at the University of Copenhagen. Sondre graduated from BSc in Economics and Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School, with his thesis focusing on the intersection of the Child Penalty and work-life balance policies.