Marius Lervåg Aasprong is a Ph.D-candidate in working-life studies at the department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management, NTNU. His focus is on the impact Multinational Corporations has on the development of working-life and industrial relations, especially concerning the Norwegian working-life model. His project is a part of Lean Operations, a research-project which aims to investigate how Lean can be successfully implemented in Norwegian organizations. Marius has a Bachelor in social sciences, with majors in psychology and sociology and a Masters degree in Sociology. In his masters-degree he examined how the academic literature on Corporate Social Responsibility deals with issues of power. He is influenced by critical management studies, systems theory, meta-theory and postmodern organizational theory. He is interested in how organizations and leadership structure society, and in turn how society structures these phenomena. He is a member of the research-project Leadership for Transition (LiFT), which aims to promote more integrative and sustainable ways of living.