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Wang, Q., Hallin, A., Lang, S. & Barner-Rasmussen, W. (2025). The many socials: how a social enterprise uses social media to communicate social capital-based social value. A case study. Social Enterprise Journal, 21(1), 22-45
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The many socials: how a social enterprise uses social media to communicate social capital-based social value. A case study
2025 (English)In: Social Enterprise Journal, ISSN 1750-8614, E-ISSN 1750-8533, Vol. 21, no 1, p. 22-45Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

 This study responds to the need in social entrepreneurship research for more empirical studies to clarify the meaning of social value. Specially, it aims to explore the meaning of social value communicated on social media (SoMe) within the local context of a social enterprise (SE).Design/methodology/approachA multimodal social semiotic approach was applied to several hundred Facebook posts of a Finnish SE providing elderly care solutions, complemented by secondary data from high-quality press sources.FindingsBuilding on Young's (2006) dimensions of social value and Hidalgo et al.'s (2021) theorisation of social capital in social entrepreneurship, the authors find that an SE draws on multiple levels of social capital on SoMe to express the meaning of the social value it creates.Research limitations/implicationsAlthough limited to one case, this study provides a deep contextual understanding of how SEs can give meaning to social value and leverage social capital on SoMe to do so.Practical implicationsThe authors offer a contextually embedded framework for SEs to communicate social value through media. This approach enables SEs to engage stakeholders more effectively and improve the quality of support for local initiatives.Social implicationsImprovements in SEs' ability to communicate social value will increase their legitimacy, thus enhancing their prospects to survive and create sustained social value.Originality/valueThe authors strengthen the theoretical underpinnings of social value by being among the first to empirically describe its connection to social capital in an SE, thereby deepening previous studies on subjective social value. Methodologically, this study is the first, to the best of the authors' knowledge, to apply social semiotics to research on SEs.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2025
Keywords
Social value, Social capital, Social enterprise, Social semiotics, Social media, Elderly care
National Category
Social Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-68209 (URN)10.1108/SEJ-08-2023-0104 (DOI)001290440800001 ()2-s2.0-85201085915 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2024-08-21 Created: 2024-08-21 Last updated: 2025-01-13Bibliographically approved
Hallin, A. & Hellin, J. (2024). Chapter 7 Interview methodology for understanding projects, project management and temporary organising (2ed.). In: Beverly Pasian, Rodney Turner (Ed.), Design Methods and Practices for Research of Project Management: . Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Chapter 7 Interview methodology for understanding projects, project management and temporary organising
2024 (English)In: Design Methods and Practices for Research of Project Management / [ed] Beverly Pasian, Rodney Turner, Routledge, 2024, 2Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2024 Edition: 2
National Category
Economics and Business
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-69661 (URN)9781032123875 (ISBN)
Available from: 2024-12-18 Created: 2024-12-18 Last updated: 2024-12-18Bibliographically approved
Tripney Berglund, R., Ivory, C., Bäcklander, G., Santos, K., Hallin, A. & Lammi, I. J. (2024). Is the potential impact of Fintech on employeewell-being acknowledged?. In: : . Paper presented at XXXV ISPIM Innovation Conference, held in Tallinn, Estonia on 09 June to 12 June 2024.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Is the potential impact of Fintech on employeewell-being acknowledged?
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2024 (English)Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This study scrutinizes how the effect of artificial intelligence on workerwelfare is discussed in banking-related news media. We reviewed 162articles from 2021 to 2023 and found only 47 articles that mentionedworkers. Among these articles, where business leaders and other industryexperts were interviewed, a prevailing trend was the lack of attention toworker welfare concerns. However, Fintech innovations pose potentialthreats to working conditions if left unchecked. Despite academicevidence of work intensification and surveillance from AI, the publicdiscourse, including that of union executives, lacks acknowledgment ofthese issues. Urgent action is needed to address these overlookedconcerns and ensure the well-being of bank employees amidsttechnological advancements, now and in the future.

National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-67824 (URN)978-952-65069-6-8 (ISBN)
Conference
XXXV ISPIM Innovation Conference, held in Tallinn, Estonia on 09 June to 12 June 2024
Available from: 2024-06-24 Created: 2024-06-24 Last updated: 2024-12-17Bibliographically approved
Hallin, A. & Karbom Gustavsson, T. (2024). Projektledning (4ed.). Liber
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Projektledning
2024 (Swedish)Book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Liber, 2024 Edition: 4
National Category
Economics and Business
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-69662 (URN)978-91-47-13106-8 (ISBN)
Available from: 2024-12-18 Created: 2024-12-18 Last updated: 2024-12-18Bibliographically approved
Karrbom Gustavsson, T., Hallin, A. & Dobers, P. (2024). Stakeholder involvement in distributed projects: a performative approach to large scale urban sustainable development projects and the case of Stockholm Royal Seaport. Construction Management and Economics, 42(2), 146-161
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Stakeholder involvement in distributed projects: a performative approach to large scale urban sustainable development projects and the case of Stockholm Royal Seaport
2024 (English)In: Construction Management and Economics, ISSN 0144-6193, E-ISSN 1466-433X, Vol. 42, no 2, p. 146-161Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The involvement of stakeholders in large scale urban sustainable development projects (LSUSDP.s) has proven difficult. The stakeholders are distributed across the geographical area, and they have stakes not only in the LSUSDP, but in the geographical location where the project takes place. To understand stakeholder management in “distributed projects”, we propose abandoning the “inside-out” perspective where the project is the point of departure, and focus on the emergence of stakeholders across time. Adopting such a performative, “outside-in,” perspective on the longitudinal and digital study of a LSUSDP, we are able to map how actors became stakeholders in the project through their actions. The paper makes four contributions. First, we reconceptualize stakeholder involvement by adopting a performative perspective, whereby “stakeholders” are envisaged as emergent and non-fixed. Second, we demonstrate how such a reconceptualization may be applied to the analysis of an empirical case. Third, we show that stakeholder involvement is not merely the result of stakeholder management but something that happens over time, through the material and discursive actions of those that become stakeholders. Finally, the paper contributes with an illustration of how the online, digital footprint, of a project may be useful to understand the emergence of a project. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2024
Keywords
digital footprint, distributed project, Large scale urban sustainable development projects, performativity theory, stakeholder involvement, Stockholm Royal Seaport, Development programmes, Distributed projects, Large scale urban sustainable development project, Large-scales, Performativity, Stockholm, Urban sustainable development, Sustainable development
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-64014 (URN)10.1080/01446193.2023.2232893 (DOI)001026776300001 ()2-s2.0-85165138580 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2023-08-16 Created: 2023-08-16 Last updated: 2025-01-13Bibliographically approved
Mård, M. & Hallin, A. (2023). Digital Literacy in a Post-Digital Era: Rethinking 'Literacy' as Sociomaterial Practice. In: Gunilla Widen, Jose Teixeira (Ed.), Information Literacy and the Digitalization of the Workplace: . Facet Publishing
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Digital Literacy in a Post-Digital Era: Rethinking 'Literacy' as Sociomaterial Practice
2023 (English)In: Information Literacy and the Digitalization of the Workplace / [ed] Gunilla Widen, Jose Teixeira, Facet Publishing, 2023Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Facet Publishing, 2023
National Category
Social Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-65049 (URN)9781783305810 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-12-15 Created: 2023-12-15 Last updated: 2023-12-15Bibliographically approved
Andersson, C., Crevani, L. & Hallin, A. (2023). LEADERSHIP AS CARE-FUL CO-DIRECTING CHANGE: A PROCESSUAL APPROACH TO ETHICAL LEADERSHIP FOR ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE. In: Organizational Change, Leadership And Ethics: Leading Organizations Towards Sustainability, 2nd Edition (pp. 83-96). Taylor and Francis
Open this publication in new window or tab >>LEADERSHIP AS CARE-FUL CO-DIRECTING CHANGE: A PROCESSUAL APPROACH TO ETHICAL LEADERSHIP FOR ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
2023 (English)In: Organizational Change, Leadership And Ethics: Leading Organizations Towards Sustainability, 2nd Edition, Taylor and Francis , 2023, p. 83-96Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This chapter makes the case for a processual approach to understanding ethical change leadership in order to develop a more fine-grained understanding of how leadership matters. It starts with a vignette taken from current empirical studies on digitalization, leadership, and organizing. This vignette is utilthere isized as an illustration of the theoretical argument made. The argument is presented in three steps. First, the vignette is reread and some critical questions as posed. Second, it delves deeper into the perspective that leadership may be understood as a process, and what this means for understanding leadership for change. Third, a processual conceptualization of ethics that is not centered on individuals, but focused on what is produced, re-produced, and not-produced in the doing of leadership for organizational change, is presented. This leads to the introduction of the concept of care, and propose the idea of care-ful co-directing change.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor and Francis, 2023
National Category
Work Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-62333 (URN)10.4324/9781003036395-7 (DOI)2-s2.0-85152329349 (Scopus ID)9781000776164 (ISBN)9780367477493 (ISBN)
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Export Date: 26 April 2023; Book Chapter

Available from: 2023-04-26 Created: 2023-04-26 Last updated: 2023-10-31Bibliographically approved
Lammi, I. J. & Hallin, A. (2023). Making Do with Limited Transparency of Sensitive Information in Secretive Organizations: Collective Information Literacy Through Hinting. In: Gunilla Widén & Jose Teixeira (Ed.), Information Literacy and The Digitalisation of the Workplace: . Facet Publishing
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Making Do with Limited Transparency of Sensitive Information in Secretive Organizations: Collective Information Literacy Through Hinting
2023 (English)In: Information Literacy and The Digitalisation of the Workplace / [ed] Gunilla Widén & Jose Teixeira, Facet Publishing, 2023Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In this chapter, we build on the concept of information literacy when exploring sensitive information in workplaces. Drawing on an empirical study of project work in a high-security organization, we find that when information is sensitive and not readily available to everyone, information literacy is only made possible because of how organizational members work collectively to make do with the sings and cues they are able and allowed to disclose to each other. In these cases, the group can only achieve information literacy together through what we call hinting

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Facet Publishing, 2023
National Category
Social Sciences Information Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-63457 (URN)9781783305810 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-06-21 Created: 2023-06-21 Last updated: 2023-06-29Bibliographically approved
Lammi, I. J. & Hallin, A. (2023). Making Do with Limited Transparency of Sensitive Information in Secretive Organizations: Collective Information Literacy Through Hinting. In: Gunilla Widen, Jose Teixeira (Ed.), Making Do with Limited Transparency of Sensitive Information in Secretive Organizations: Collective Information Literacy Through Hinting: . Facet Publishing
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Making Do with Limited Transparency of Sensitive Information in Secretive Organizations: Collective Information Literacy Through Hinting
2023 (English)In: Making Do with Limited Transparency of Sensitive Information in Secretive Organizations: Collective Information Literacy Through Hinting / [ed] Gunilla Widen, Jose Teixeira, Facet Publishing, 2023Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Facet Publishing, 2023
National Category
Social Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-65048 (URN)9781783305810 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-12-15 Created: 2023-12-15 Last updated: 2023-12-15Bibliographically approved
Lammi, I. J. & Hallin, A. (2023). On responses to crisis and subsequent (non)-significant change in high hazard organizing. In: : . Paper presented at Organizing for the Good Life: Between Legacy and Imagination, University of Cagliari, July 6-8, 2023, Italy, Sub-theme 73: Studying Change in, through and around Organizations with a Practice Sensitivity.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>On responses to crisis and subsequent (non)-significant change in high hazard organizing
2023 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

High hazard organizations are often praised for their ability to remain stable and reliable. In this paper, we draw on a longitudinal case study from 2019 to 2023 from a high hazard organization and its project work to examine how such an organization reacted to the COVID 19 pandemic. As we show, an organization prone to avoid the use of new technologies and to favor on-site work can experience a seemingly significant change while its actors do not perceive such change as significantly different. We argue that an important consideration is not whether change has happened but whether it is significantly different in light of core aspects of organizational practices, such as their teleological structure and core concerns. Indeed, a high hazard organization might thus change meeting and communicative practices while remaining the same in aspects that matter more – leading to paradoxical narratives of change and non-change to manifest simultaneously. 

National Category
Other Social Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-65073 (URN)
Conference
Organizing for the Good Life: Between Legacy and Imagination, University of Cagliari, July 6-8, 2023, Italy, Sub-theme 73: Studying Change in, through and around Organizations with a Practice Sensitivity
Available from: 2023-12-18 Created: 2023-12-18 Last updated: 2023-12-18Bibliographically approved
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