My major research interests are business history, from the late 18th Century to the present, and the history of modern consumer culture. I have done historical research on a broad range of topics: industry and manufacturing, knowledge, technology and expertise, retail and insurance, consumption, sales and advertising, and the media industry. My research also includes cultural history in a wide sense, and my latest work was on Sigrid Undset, the office worker who became a renowned novelist and intellectual, awarded the Nobel Price for Literature in 1928. Currently, I am writing a book on the history of the modern office over the past 200 years, to present days’ open space and online offices.
Artikkelen diskuterer bevegelser i det lokale ytringsrommet på Kongsberg i årene 1886–1890. Med utgangspunkt i etableringen av en ny, venstre-liberal lokalavis spør undersøkelsen om hendelsen kan ses på som et «frihetens øyeblikk» i offentligheten, slik avisa proklamerte. Artikkelen løfter særlig fram det som ofte havner i en blindsone: avviket, det neglisjerte, det tause, og den viser hvordan det var et knippe kvinnelige frelsesarmeoffiserer som virkelig flyttet ytringsrommets grenser disse årene.
Myrvang, Christine (2020)
Tause kilders tale. Var Dea Sigrid Undsets store, uforløste kjærlighet?
Eide, Martin & Myrvang, Christine (2018)
Alltid foran skjermen. Dagbladet og det digitale skiftet
Ekberg, Espen & Myrvang, Christine (2017)
Ulykkens frukter. Storebrand og forsikringsbransjen, bind 1: 1767-1945
The Democratic Challenge to Capitalism: Management and Democracy in the Nordic Countries
The book examines how industrial leaders met the challenge from the democratic movements and how this affected management models in the Nordic region. The industrial leaders had to develop new kinds of strategies, channels of influence and management styles. The book discusses in a historical perspective how each country developed distinct kinds of capitalis models.
Myrvang, Christine (2001)
West of Eden: Norwegian Industry in the Shadow of Swedish Grandeur 1914 to 1940
, s. 151- 178.
After Norway had gained fully independence from Sweden in 1905, the
freedom was to be supplemented with economic independence through
industrial modernisation. Rather ironically, Norway's former union
partner Sweden was a constant and important reference point in this
modernisation debate. The Norwegian industrial bourgeoisie admired both
the thriving domestic industry and the large-scale industrialisation of
its neighbour and hoped to follow in the footsteps of Swedish grandeur.
This chapter discusses three modernisation strategies of the Norwegian
heads of industry in the period from The Great War to the Second World
War: economic nationalism, rationalisation and the alliance between
industry, science and the government in the encounter with technocracy.
The first two strategies implied mobilisation from the bottom up, via
the consumers and the individual industrial enterprises, as an
alternative to government intervention by means of measures such as
protectionism and forced trustification. However, the third strategy
approached the government in that it attempted to revitalise a
collaboration that had arisen under the regulatory regime during the
First World War. The two strategies on the micro level met a certain
degree of opposition. It was not possible to change consumption
overnight, not at least due to the resistance from the internationally
oriented commercial bourgeoisie. Connected to the standardisation of
production and rationalisation of Norwegian businesses, there were
problems with scepticism in the many small companies, combined with the
lack of institutions and experts which had been of such a great
importance in Sweden. The third strategy was also controversial, since
it challenged the liberal paradigm. It was never actually implemented
until the social-democratic era after the Second World War.
Myklebust, Sissel & Myrvang, Christine (2001)
Varen som kulturformer og maktbærer
, s. 11- 44.
Myrvang, Christine (2000)
Teknikker i transformasjon. Ledelse, organisasjon og teknologi ved Årdal Verk og ÅSV fra 1940- til 1970-åra
Myrvang, Christine (1999)
From Socialism to Productivism. The Debate on Socialisation and Rationalisation in the Norwegian Labour Movement 1918-1953
, s. 39- 50.
Hamran, Olav & Myrvang, Christine (1998)
Fiin gammel. Vinmonopolet 75 år
Myrvang, Christine (1997)
Falkeblikk og styringsteknikk
, s. 86- 109.
Myrvang, Christine (1997)
Industrial Democracy or Technocracy? Norwegian Socialists and the Theory of Socialisation in the Inter-War Years
, s. 201- 232.
Myrvang, Christine (1996)
Alfred Madsen, Amerika og sosialiseringens utopi
, s. 123- 139.
Bonvik, Vigdis & Myrvang, Christine (2025)
Mye vil ha mer (podcast)
[Kronikk]
Myrvang, Christine (2023)
Grenseløs luksus
[Kronikk]
Myrvang, Christine (2019)
Studio 2: Dagbladet 150 år.
[Kronikk]
Myrvang, Christine (2017)
Næringslivshistoriens håndverkere
[Kronikk]
Myrvang, Christine (2017)
Historien som maskulint basketak
[Kronikk]
Myrvang, Christine (2014)
Såpas historie
[Kronikk]
Myrvang, Christine & Sogner, Knut (2014)
En god jubileumsstory
[Kronikk]
Myrvang, Christine (2014)
Det kvinner vil ha?
[Kronikk]
Myrvang, Christine (2013)
Revolusjonerende teknologier
[Kronikk]
Myrvang, Christine (2010)
Terningtyveriet
[Kronikk]
Myrvang, Christine (2008)
Intervju i programmet "I kveld" på NRK2 om Husmorfilmene på 1950- og 60-tallet som reklame
[Kronikk]
Myrvang, Christine (2006)
Om reklamepsykologiens historie. Intervju i Radioselskapet, NRK P2
