He was also Professor of Sociology at the University of Oslo from 1991 to 1998 and at BI Norwegian Business School from 1997 to 2002.
He is an expert on organizational theory, consumer behaviour, money, debt and living conditions, entrepreneurship, and quantitative methods.
He has also been involved in research on modernization and political instability, employing quantitative methods to the study of African coups d'état.
Lunde holds a PhD in sociology from Stanford University (1987); his dissertation was titled The state in a cross-national perspective: growth, inertia, and internal competition, and his doctoral advisor was Morris Zelditch, himself a doctoral student of Talcott Parsons.
[2][3] He was a member of the Government Commission on Consumer Affairs, which presented Norwegian Official Report (NOU) 1995:21 "Organisering av forbrukerapparatet.