Peter Norlander
Associate Professor of Management
Peter Norlander is a nationally recognized expert on gig work, guest worker programs, labor mobility, and methods for mining the text of labor market documents to improve data and knowledge about work. He leads the Quinlan school's social impact initiative, strengthening Chicago's business support ecosystem to level the playing field for underserved businesses. He teaches courses on employment relations, business consulting, negotiation and conflict management, managing and motivating in the workplace, and global and comparative employment relations.
Education
- PhD Management and Organizations, UCLA Anderson School of Management, Los Angeles, CA
- BS Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Ithaca, NY
Research Interests
- Globalization of knowledge work
- The future of remote work, outsourcing, and offshoring
- Institutional differences in visa-sponsorship and guest worker impacts
- Contemporary Issues in Employment Relations
- How platforms extend control over gig workers
- Race and gender differences in positive and negative experiences at work
- The future of work
Professional Employment
- Faculty Affiliate,, 2024-present
- Global Labor Organization, Fellow, 2018-present
- Postdoctoral scholar and instructor, Research Design and Applications for Data Analysis, Online Masters of Information and Data Science program, University of California, Berkeley School of Information 2014-2015
- Teaching Assistant, Negotiations, Human 草莓社区 Management, Social Network Analysis, Leadership Foundations, Interpersonal, Group and Cultural Dynamics at Work, MBA, Part-Time MBA, Global Executive Latin America and Asia MBA programs, UCLA Anderson School of Management, 2009-2014.
Professional/Community Affiliations
- Labor and Employee Relations Association Chicago Chapter
- Academy of Management
Courses Taught
- HRER 311: Employment Relations
- ACJL 350: Conflict Management and Negotiations
- HRER 502: Global and Comparative Employment Relations
- HRER 417B: Managing and Motivating in the Workplace
- Business Consulting
Publications/Research Listings
Refereed Journal Articles
Norlander, P. (2021). Do guest worker programs give firms too much power? IZA World of Labor.
Norlander, P., Jukic, N., Varma, A., & Nestorov, S. (2021). The International Journal of Human Management, DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2020.1867614. Accepted Manuscript:
Norlander, P., Ho, G.C., Shih, M., Walters, D.J. & Pittinsky, T.L. (2020). , DOI:10.1080/01973533.2019.1689363
Gibbons, E., Greenman, A., Norlander, P., and Sorensen, T. (2019). . Antitrust Bulletin, 64: 540-565. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0003603X19875040. (; ).
Norlander, P, Varma, A. (2019). Thunderbird Int. Bus. Rev. 2019; 61: 565– 579.https://doi.org/10.1002/tie.22044
Norlander, P. Ho, G.C., Shih, M., Walters, D.J. & Pittinsky, T.L. (2019). , DOI:10.1080/01973533.2019.1689363
Norlander, P., & Sørensen, T. A. (2018). Migration Letters; Vol. 15, Iss. 3: 409-422. ()
Depew, B., Norlander, P., Sorensen, T Journal of Population Economics. ()
Norlander, P., Erickson, C., Kuruvilla, S., & Kannan-Narasimhan, R. (2015). E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies, 4(1).
Under Review
Norlander, P. and DeVaro, J. "Labor Law Violations, Economic Conditions, and Labor-Market Power: The case of Wage Theft Against H-1B Workers." Under review at Journal of Law and Economics.
Norlander, P., Does, S., Shih, M. "Deprivation at work: The Racial Gap Between White and Non-White Americans' Quality of Work Life."
Shih, M., Does, S., Norlander, P. The Absence of Positive Experiences: Examining Disparities at Work. (submitted)
Harris, D. A., Norlander, P. Fifteen Years Later: The Pipeline to the Top at Best Practice and Matched Comparison Firms. (submitted)
Other Intellectual Contributions
Book Chapters
Norlander, P. (2019). The Growing Divergence in US Employee Relations: Individualism, Democracy, and Conflict. In International ComparativeEmployee Relations, Eds. Pietro Manzella and Karl Koch. Edward Elgar. London, UK. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788973229.00018. ().
Varma, A., Budhwar, P., Dasgupta, B. Norlander, P. (2019). Living in India: Western and Indian Thinking. In Doing Business in India. Budhwar, P., and Varma, A. (eds.). Routledge: London.
Varma, A., Budhwar, P., Norlander, P. Performance Management in Asia. Handbook of HRM in Asia. Routledge.
Varma, A., Budhwar, P., Norlander, P. Performance Management and Motivation. Sage.
Varma, A., Budhwar, P., Norlander, P. (2017). HRM and performance in Asia. Routledge Handbook of HRM in Asia (pp. 19). Routledge.
Varma, A., Budhwar, P., Norlander, P. (2017). Performance Management and motivation (278-301). Human resource management: Strategic and International Perspectives (Second Edition ed., pp. 278-301). Sage.
Varma, A., Budhwar, P., Norlander, P. Performance Management in Asia. Handbook of HRM in Asia. Routledge.
Varma, A., Budhwar, P., Norlander, P. Performance Management and Motivation. Sage.
Book Review
Norlander, P. (2017). , edited by Andrea Bernardi and Salvatore Monni. A Review. The Co-Operative Firm Keywords, edited by Andrea Bernardi and Salvatore Monni.
Awards
- Gemini Academic Program Award, January 2026.
- Co-PI, Small Business Administration Community Fund, 2023 – Sept 2026, “Strengthening Minority Owned Businesses.”
- Co-PI, Washington Center for Equitable Growth, June 2023 – Sept 2026, “Building an open-source knowledge base and machine learning tools to automate the transformation of job advertisement text into data.”
- PI, Russell Sage Foundation Presidential Grant, June 2022- 2025, “A Public Dataset of Firm-Level Employment Practices.”
- PI, Economic Security Project, Antimonopoly Fund, January 2022. “Non-Solicitation Clauses in Public Sector Outsourcing Contracts.”