Works
- Form and Content in Industrial Democracy: Some Experiences from Norway and Other European Countries, Tavistock Publications, London; reissued by Routledge, 1969
- Democracy at Work: The Report of the Norwegian Industrial Democracy Program, Martinus Nijhoff Social Sciences Division, Leiden (179 pages; in cooperation with Per H. Engelstad, Jon Gulowsen, and Thoralf Qvale), 1976
In Organizational Structures
Known for
The Norwegian Industrial Democracy Program
Ideas
Industrial democracy experiments. With Emery, Thorsrud reported the Norwegian Industrial Democracy Program's field experiments with semi-autonomous work groups at four companies. Caveat: The experiments spread less than hoped (Gustavsen 1992).