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  • 1.
    Ahlström, Karin
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    How Meetings affect the accomplishment of Broad Responsibility in a municipal CompanyManuscript (preprint) (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Municipal companies are important actors in the pursuit of the Agenda 2030 goals and are often formally obliged by their owners to work in this direction. This has however shown to be quite challenging, and managers lack knowledge about how to develop new ways of organizing to meet such responsibilities. The aim of this article is therefore to understand how the work of a top management team in meetings affects the accomplishment of broad responsibility. The analysis, which is underpinned by a communicative constitution of organizing (CCO) perspective, shows how the way specific communicative practices (agendas, minutes, timeslots, turn-taking, and stakeholder voicing) are enacted leads to the re-production of parts of the organization at the expense of the whole, the present at the expense of the future, and profit at the expense of the other dimensions of sustainability. This study contributes to the literature on public management by showing how communicative practices enacted in meetings make certain concerns present and others absent, thereby creating the conditions for the accomplishment of broad responsibility.

  • 2.
    Ahlström, Karin
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    How Meetings Affect the Accomplishment of Broad Responsibility in a Municipally Owned Corporation2024In: Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, ISSN 2001-7405, E-ISSN 2001-7413, Vol. 28, no 2, p. 21-39Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Municipally owned corporations are important actors in the pursuit of the Agenda 2030 goals and are often formally obliged by their owners to work in this direction. This has however shown to be quite challenging, and managers lack knowledge about how to develop new ways of organizing to meet such responsibilities. The aim of this article is therefore to understand how the work of a top management team in meetings affects the accomplishment of broad responsibility. The analysis, which is underpinned by a communicative constitution of organizing (CCO) perspective, shows how the way specific communicative practices (agendas, minutes, timeslots, turn-taking, and stakeholder voicing) are enacted leads to the re-production of parts of the organization at the expense of the whole, the present at the expense of the future, and profit at the expense of the other dimensions of sustainability. This study contributes to the literature on public management by showing how communicative practices enacted in meetings make certain concerns present and others absent, thereby creating the conditions for the accomplishment of broad responsibility.

  • 3.
    Ahlström, Karin
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Managing broad responsibility together in a municipal company: Communication as prophylaxis2024Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Municipal companies are important actors in the pursuit of the goals of Agenda 2030 and are often formally obliged by their owners to work towards achieving these goals, but without jeopardizing ongoing production and the delivery of vital public services. This has, however, shown to be challenging, and managers are often unsure how to develop new ways of organizing to meet such complex challenges and take on broad responsibility. What has been recognized is the importance of collaboration, which is a beneficial and distinct organizational form of its own that creates value greater than what individual organizations can do separately. Such ways of working are, however, hardly straightforward endeavours, since they usually involve members with contrasting goals and approaches, are inclined to fragmentation, and can sometimes even add to the challenges they set out to resolve. The aim of this thesis is to understand the practical challenges associated with collaborative efforts to manage broad responsibility in a municipal company. In response to this aim, responsible managing is studied both empirically and through a research literature review. The purpose of the literature review is to better understand the challenges of managing broad responsibility and what is currently being done to achieve the goals of Agenda 2030 at the municipal level. To understand how responsible managing is accomplished in practice, the enactment of responsible manging is empirically studied in a municipal company over a total of four years. Particularly, two cases have been studied using a participatory research approach: first, the case of a top management team managing responsibly together and second, the case of responsible managing in interorganizational collaboration in a municipal company. For both cases, a theoretical lens is used, resting on a social constructionist and processual-relational ontology, supported by practice-based studies in the communicative stream. This means that attention is focused on communication (both talk and text) in an approach that views responsible managing as a communicative practice, a form of emergent, relational, and situated practice and the means by which responsible managing emerges, is sustained, and transformed. The overall results show how situated communicative practices are influential for preventing the limitation of broad responsibility, fragmentation of the share responsibility, and the deprioritization of obligations over time. Based on this, a metaphor of dental prophylaxis is proposed. By conceptualizing responsible managing as a situated communicative practice and showing how responsible managing may be enacted, this thesis contributes theoretically to the field of organization and management.

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  • 4.
    Ahlström, Karin
    et al.
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Bruzzone, Silvia
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Farashah, Ali
    Municipalities working for Agenda 2030: Review and Agenda for future ResearchManuscript (preprint) (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Considering the population density of urban areas, their levels of consumption and emissions, their influence on social equality and inclusion, and the resources and power allocated to urban actors, it is important to examine how municipalities organize work as they proceed to implement Agenda 2030 and to what effect. A systematic literature review is used to analyse 77 articles, published between 2017 and 2022, that examine the sustainability activities of municipal actors in Europe. Two themes are identified and explained: a) a paradigm shift in local government; b) the mobilization of socio-technical approaches (e.g., smart cities and regenerative land use). Also, the limitations of the literature and some areas for future research are discussed: research comparing practices across regions and countries; research analysing the interaction of different initiatives within a municipality; and research examining the role of municipal companies.

  • 5.
    Ahlström, Karin
    et al.
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Crevani, Lucia
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Managing Responsibly Together: How an Obligation is Made to Matter in Top Management Team Work2023In: Journal of Change Management, ISSN 1469-7017, E-ISSN 1479-1811Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The aim of this article is to contribute to research on responsible management by developing knowledge on how managing responsibly together in a Top Management Team (TMT) may be accomplished, thus complementing research in the area that focuses on the work of individual managers. To this end, we mobilize the concept of obligation to characterize what emerges as what a TMT needs to respond to. Having followed the TMT for a municipal company working together in meetings over time, we propose that three accomplishments (making the obligation present, making the obligation enable action and accounting for the obligation) shape how an obligation is made to matter. This is no linear process, but rather it unfolds in a series of materializations of the obligation in text and talk, as the TMT goes about its work. The article thus provides a contribution to research on responsible management but also has practical consequences for developing how a TMT works in order to address the urgent demands for change related to sustainable development.MAD statementIn this article, we develop knowledge on how managing responsibly together may be accomplished in a Top Management Team (TMT). Besides adding to the responsible management literature, we also provide theoretical tools that may be mobilized in order to develop the work practices of TMTs that want to contribute to sustainable development.

  • 6.
    Ahlström, Karin
    et al.
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Lindell, Eva
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Stier, Jonas
    Mälardalen University, School of Health, Care and Social Welfare.
    Negotiating shared Responsibility for sustainable urban Development: Pronouns and In-here-ness as rhetorical ResourcesManuscript (preprint) (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    This article explores how issues of shared responsibility are negotiated in the realm of managing collaborative efforts between organizational actors for sustainable urban development abiding to the Agenda 2023 – with a particular focus on the rhetorical resources used in such negotiations. Through empirical material from recorded meetings in a one-year project at a municipal company, the article contributes to previous literature on collaborative ways of organizing and managing complex public challenges. With a focus on the discursive construction of shared responsibility, the concept of in-here-ness is introduced to denote accepted and assumed responsibility, which may shift through the use of pronouns: from a narrow ‘I’ or ‘we’ of stakeholders to a wider ‘we’ of collaborating parties. The article further contributes to the empirical field of sustainable development at the municipal level.

  • 7.
    Akay, Alpaslan
    et al.
    Univ Gothenburg, Dept Econ, Gothenburg, Sweden.;Univ Antonio Nebrija, Madrid, Spain..
    Savsin, Selen
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation. Örebro Univ, Business Sch, Örebro, Sweden..
    Offshoring and well-being of workers2022In: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, ISSN 0167-2681, E-ISSN 1879-1751, Vol. 200, p. 388-407Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Using long panels of industry-specific offshoring information and subjectively reported well-being datasets mainly from Germany, which is also supported by datasets from the UK and Australia, this paper aims to investigate the relationship between offshoring and workers' subjective well-being in the source country. We employ panel data fixed-effects models with time-variant personality measures and industry-specific measures to alleviate the bias stemming from the non-random sorting of individuals in industries. Our findings suggest that offshoring negatively relates to workers' subjective well-being. The result is unexceptionally consistent across Germany, the UK, and Australia, and the effect is larger in business services and among high-skilled workers. We extensively discuss how contextual "fear-factors" prevailing in the source countries interact with the angst generated by the negative framing of offshoring. To single out such angst, we first show that objective and subjective job security concerns, job characteristics, and labor market conditions only marginally relate to the well-being effect of offshoring. Then, we investigate how the effect of offshoring on well-being is amplified by a larger set of contextual factors pertaining to temporary economic shocks, negative narratives about offshoring during electoral cycles, partisan political preferences, and high immigration rates. Finally, we show that a recent skill upgrade significantly diminishes the negative effect of offshoring on well-being.

  • 8.
    Almén, Oscar
    et al.
    Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Stockholm, Sweden.
    Sundqvist, Gustav
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Local Governance Diversity in the Unitary Authoritarian State: NGO-State Relations in Guangzhou and HangzhouIn: Journal of Contemporary China, ISSN 1067-0564, E-ISSN 1469-9400Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [sv]

    This study investigates how the different political opportunity structures (POS) are related to NGO mobilization in two Chinese cities, Guangzhou and Hangzhou. Based on 48 interviews from 2016–2019, the study finds that variance in NGO mobilization is related to differences such as rules for NGO registration, more or less open-minded local leaders, and a relatively more independent media. NGO governance in Hangzhou is characterized as coopted participation. A few NGOs are allowed some influence in policy making, but in order to be allowed to mobilize, NGOs must accept a certain degree of cooptation. NGO governance in Guangzhou is characterized as constrained autonomy as the government plays a less active role in mobilizing NGOs, and more initiative for policy influence comes from the NGOs themselves. 

  • 9.
    Alvehus, J
    et al.
    Lund Univ Helsingborg, Dept Serv Management & Serv Studies, Box 882, S-25108 Helsingborg, Sweden.
    Crevani, Lucia
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Micro-ethonography: Towards An Approach for Attending to the Multimodality of Leadership2022In: Journal of Change Management, ISSN 1469-7017, E-ISSN 1479-1811, Vol. 22, no 3, p. 231-251Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This paper addresses the need for further developing an understanding of leadership as practice in its multimodality by means of theoretically motivated qualitative methods, allowing researchers to come close to the doing of leadership. Empirical studies of this kind are still relatively rare. By articulating a microethnographic approach, we encourage short-term-focused engagements in empirical work and the writing of closed vignettes. Through this, current theoretical developments are connected to recommendations for fieldwork and for writing practices. We thereby articulate one possible coherent and consistent position from which to study the multimodality of leadership and to understand leadership as an accomplishment of direction.

  • 10.
    Anastasiadou, Elena
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Exploring Business Actor Engagement Dynamics: An Abstract2023In: Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science, Springer Nature , 2023, p. 243-244Conference paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    One of the biggest challenges for businesses is how to engage and build long-lasting and deep connections with their customers and other partners (Wiersema, 2013). In recognition of this challenge, the concept of engagement has received growing attention and has gradually gained its momentum within marketing and service literature. Actors’ engagement – i.e., non-transactional actor behaviour that includes active collaboration and genuine interest in a relationship – imply that engaged actors have an active role in the integration of resources (e.g. goods, services, knowledge) and the perceived service outcomes (i.e. the perceived value) (Vargo & Lusch, 2011). The purpose of this qualitative study (including interview data from twenty customer firms and eight provider firms) is to explore the process of actor engagement in B2B relationships. This study thus explores business-to-business (B2B) collaboration in sustainability initiatives, and more specifically follows green leases as a type of a VEPs with aspirations to collaboratively reduce facilities’ impact on the environment, developed as a value proposition from the provider firms towards their B2B customers. Although there is plenty of research that focuses on actor engagement conceptualization (Alexander et al., 2018; Storbacka et al., 2016; Storbacka, 2019), as well as its antecedents and outcomes (Brodie et al., 2019; Hollebeek et al., 2018), the process of engagement has far gone largely unexplored (Ekman et a., 2021; Fehrer et al., 2018) because engagement has been viewed, although iterative, as a relatively static concept. Likewise, research on engagement in and between organizations has established the importance of engagement for successful relationships, but it has not fully explicated how engagement unfolds which thus limits potential insights both for theory and practice. Existing research has also largely assumed that engagement takes place naturally when a contract is in place connecting two or more parties. Moreover, given the complexity of engagement in contemporary knowledge intensive organizations, customers may need to interact with a single provider in long periods of time due to formal contracts, balancing different business logics, value understandings and perspectives over time, making engagement more complex than described in existing literature. Our study highlights that engagement fluctuates substantially and there are differences between surficial engagement (contractual relationship, formal interactions) and substantial engagement (active relationships). The study revealed that the process of B2B customer firms’ engagement with their provider firms could be viewed in three phases in relation to the sustainability value proposition (green lease): (i) initiation, (ii) emergence, and (iii) management offering both theoretical and managerial insights.

  • 11.
    Anastasiadou, Elena
    et al.
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Ekman, Peter
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Röndell, Jimmie
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Business Actor Engagement and Perceived Initiator Roles in Platform DevelopmentManuscript (preprint) (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Abstract The implications of business actor engagement and industry-specific platform development within business-to-business (B2B) contexts requires more research. While existing literature provides some guidance on common engagement factors and their impact on value outcomes, it primarily focuses on consumer markets, overlooking the complexities of B2B markets. Recent studies highlight the need for mid-range conceptualizations of business actor engagement, emphasizing engagement’s role beyond the customer perspective. Understanding how responding actors perceive initiators in the BAE process is crucial, as it influences the overall engagement and value outcomes. This study addresses this gap by examining how the behavior and perceived role of initiating actors (in the study; Swedish real estate firms developing sustainability services for commercial tenants) impact responding actors’ engagement. Four perceived roles are identified and conceptualized: the diligent, negligent, steward, and dominant initiating actor. The results also offer insights into BAE role dynamics and suggest that digital platform components serve as business actor engagement role amplifier, shaping engagement and platform development

  • 12.
    Anastasiadou, Elena
    et al.
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Röndell, Jimmie
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Berglind, Magnus
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Ekman, Peter
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Identifying factors needed for business actor engagement in sustainable development goal (SDG) initiatives2023In: Journal of business & industrial marketing, ISSN 0885-8624, E-ISSN 2052-1189, Vol. 38, no 13, p. 195-210Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Purpose: This study aims to offer a mid-range theory conceptualization of factors central to understanding and facilitating business actor engagement (BAE). Reports on a study of real estate companies and their sustainable development goal (SDG) driven business initiatives. The aim is to identify the factors that need to be in place to facilitate positive engagement amongst actors in business-to-business (B2B) settings. Design/methodology/approach: A case study of real estate companies (landlords of business premises) and their business customers (tenants of offices and warehouses) – comprising interviews and workshops – offer insights related to the factors that need to be in place to facilitate BAE types and outcomes. Findings: The identified central factors of BAE – needed to understand and facilitate positive engagement to unfold – are the actors’ perception of: willingness (to act), resourcefulness (to contribute and solve issues) and influence (to affect decisions) regarding solutions related to the business initiative at hand. Failing to facilitate these factors may result in negative outcomes of BAE where “engagement” merely constitutes perceived obligations and responsibilities. Research limitations/implications: The study offers theoretical and managerial insights on how to manage the factors needed for BAE. It also sheds light on how actors can use SDG-driven business initiatives to achieve sustainability goals. Originality/value: It contributes to the concept of BAE, by emphasizing the dynamics of engagement, from the motivational and behavioral dimensions specific to B2B settings. It offers insights how to managerially cogovern rather than control BAE. It presents central factors needed to include and capacitate customers, facilitating successful implementations of SDG-driven business initiatives to reduce absent or negative outcomes. 

  • 13.
    Andersson, Christoffer
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Digital automation of administrative work: How automating reconfigures administrative work2023Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    This thesis is an examination of how digital automation of administrative work unfolds in practice. It sets out to understand how administrative work changes as it is digitally automated and how such changes have wider consequences beyond the performance of specific work tasks. A case study design is used, focusing on digital automation through Robotic Process Automation (RPA) at a Swedish municipality, and the methods to produce data include interviews, observations, and document analysis. The thesis contributes to the body of literature that understands work as practices performed by diverse configurations of social and material elements, a body of literature that spans the fields of organization studies and information systems research. It comprises five papers:Paper I builds a foundation for the thesis by examining the automation process and conceptualizing it as configuring work. This is a dynamic process of mutual reconfiguration of work practice, digital technology, and organizational arrangements through which a new agentive configuration of work is approached. Paper II explores the ways in which a new dichotomy of human and digital coworkers emerges and the role of social responsibility and context for work as a new division of labor emerges. Paper III takes a broader look at the effects of digital technology on the organizing of work and proposes the conceptualization of hyper-taylorization as a way of understanding how the rationale of digital automation technology comes to enhance Taylorism in terms of making work digitally legible, predictable, and controllable. Paper IV shifts the focus again to the ethics of digital automation, utilizing an example from the case study to explore ethical and managerial implications when digitally automating. Paper V is a conceptual paper that aims to conceptualize the thesis's core theoretical contribution, which is to understand digital automation of administrative work as not just a change in how work is performed but a change regarding how knowledge about work is created and the conditions of knowledge creation. Within this framework, “work” is understood as performing an epistemic machineryrelated to the materiality of the configuration that performs work. Thus, The paper concludes that digital automation, at least in technological history, implies an epistemological shift of administrative work towards a more strictly rationalistic way of understanding the world at the expense of a pluralistic set of ways of creating knowledge and understanding the world.The thesis concludes by discussing the implications of this shift and how the political terrain of administrative work comes to be abandoned as it is digitally automated.

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  • 14.
    Andersson, Christoffer
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Reconfiguring the epistemic machinery of work: How digital automation displaces professional values2023Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    This paper aims to develop a conceptual understanding of the epistemic effects on work of digital automation. It does so by developing a performative understanding of an epistemic machinery, a material-discursive configuration which enacts epistemic and ontological boundaries in work. It goes on to conceptualize how the materiality of digital automation, mainly in the form of algorithmic representation, comes to prefigure certain epistemological and ontological boundaries. It then discusses the second order effects of this reconfigured epistemic machinery that is displacement of professional values and the political implications of that. It contributes to organizational theory by providing a conceptualization of how digital technology can change knowledge in work. It also contributes to discussions about the political implications of digital automation and use of algorithmic technologies in organizations.

  • 15.
    Andersson, Christoffer
    et al.
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Crevani, Lucia
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Our new digital co-workers: How introducing an RPA changes the relational fabric of workManuscript (preprint) (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Workplace technologies today not only support work but also perform it. Whereas the general debate often focuses on quantitative effect in terms of possible jobs lost, what is still largely missing is how workplace technologies impact the quality of employee’s work-life, in particular for office and administrative work. By mobilizing the literature conceptualizing work as accomplished in digital/human configurations, in this article we aim at unpacking how introducing digital automation technologies may lead to repositioning the human worker at work. We study the very start of introducing an RPA in a Swedish municipality with an ethnographic sensibility. Building on close readings of three episodes, we discuss how such the human/digital emergent configuration produced a re-distribution of categories of tasks and responsibilities and, consequently, a dichotomous distinction between human and digital co-workers. This means also a changing fabric of relationships supporting work, which could be characterized in terms of asymmetrical co-workership. 

  • 16.
    Andersson, Christoffer
    et al.
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Crevani, Lucia
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Hallin, Anette
    Swedish Academy of Management (FEKIS), Sweden.
    LEADERSHIP AS CARE-FUL CO-DIRECTING CHANGE: A PROCESSUAL APPROACH TO ETHICAL LEADERSHIP FOR ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE2023In: 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.

  • 17.
    Andersson, Christoffer
    et al.
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Crevani, Lucia
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Hallin, Anette
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Ingvarsson, Caroline
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Ivory, Chris
    Anglia Ruskin University, United Kingdom.
    Lammi, Inti José
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Lindell, Eva
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Popova, Irina
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Uhlin, Anna
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Hyper-Taylorism and third-order technologies: Making sense of the transformation of work and management in a post-digital era2021In: Management and Information Technology after Digital Transformation, Taylor and Francis , 2021, p. 63-71Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 18.
    Andersson, Christoffer
    et al.
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Hallin, Anette
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Ivory, Chris
    Anglia Ruskin University, UK.
    Experimental governance and technology – figuring work and the introduction of Robot Process Automation in local government2019Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 19.
    Andersson, Ulf
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    MNE cross-border knowledge sourcing: a commentary2022In: Cross-border innovation in a changing world: players, places, and policies / [ed] Davide Castellani , Alessandra Perri, Vittoria G. Scalera, Antonello Zanfei, Oxford University Press, 2022, p. 240-248Chapter in book (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The MNE’s proficiency sourcing knowledge across borders is its raison-d’être. The broad knowledge sourcing overcomes the liability of foreignness and facilitates competitive advantage. Understanding the processes of subsidiary learning in local environments and alliance partners and then sharing within the Multinational Enterprise (MNE) is of immense importance to MNE management. This commentary summarizes and critically reflects on two chapters dealing with these issues, Chapter 7 and Chapter 8. The chapters nicely complement each other, one taking a subsidiary perspective and the other a headquarters perspective. Together they span ways of learning through captive, alliance, and market modes from foreign locations. Although there are exciting areas that are not investigated here the two chapters surface many matters for further research and pave the way for a range of urgent projects. MNE innovation performance through foreign knowledge sourcing and cross-border sharing continues to be a vibrant research area and subsidiaries’ roles in innovation processes remain at the centre of contemporary research.

  • 20.
    Andersson, Ulf
    et al.
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    O’Riordan,, Niall
    Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
    Ryan, Paul
    Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland).
    What is subsidiary strategy?: An international business research conundrum2022In: EIBAzine – International Business Perspectives, ISSN 2222-4785, no 31Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 21.
    Andersson, Ulf R.
    et al.
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Forsgren, Mats
    Institute of International Economics and Man- agement, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark..
    In search of centre of excellence: Network embeddedness and subsidiaryroles in multinational corporations2000In: MIR: Management International Review, ISSN 0938-8249, E-ISSN 1861-8901, Vol. 40, no 4, p. 329-350Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    In this paper the authors explore the role of a subsidiary as a centre of excellencewithin the multinational corporation (MNC). It is argued that such a role can bebased on the characteristics of a subsidiary's internal resources, its relationshipswith the rest of the MNC and the business context of which the subsidiary is apart. Based on the perspective of an MNC as a Network the latter aspect is es-pecially focused. Through an analysis of 98 subsidiaries the importance of thesubsidiary's embeddedness, in terms of business relationships with specific cus-tomers and suppliers for its role as a centre of excellence, is investigated.

    A conceptual result from this paper is that it offers a framework for analysingthe role of the business context for the subsidiary's role as a centre of excel-lence. Productive relationships with external counterparts in the business envi-ronment can be used by the subsidiary to enhance its role as a centre of excel-lence. An empirical result is that the external embeddedness of the subsidiaryis an important and significant explanatory variable of the subsidiary's possibil-ities to be considered important to the MNC as well as a prerequisite to influ-ence the future behaviour of MNC.

  • 22.
    Andersson, Ulf
    et al.
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Ryan, P.
    Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
    Foreign subsidiary networks2024In: Encyclopedia of International Strategic Management, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. , 2024, p. 105-108Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 23.
    Annerwall, Lovisa
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Extending the understanding of Firm Performance of Algorithmic Personalization2023Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 24.
    Annerwall, Lovisa
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    The long-term effects of recommender systems on multiple stakeholders2022In: ScAIEM PhD Candidate Workshop 2022, 2022Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    The recommender system has become an intergral part of any online experience. Previous research on recommender systems effects have focused on the user as the single stakeholder by evaluating the utility of the system for end users in a short term perspective. This thesis is building on the current research on recommender systems by expanding the number of stakeholders with the business as an explicit stakeholder and by evaluating the long-term effects of recommender systems on both the business and the customers.

  • 25.
    Annerwall, Lovisa
    et al.
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Dahlin, Peter
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation. University of Exeter Business School, Great Britain.
    Towards a Typology of Subscription-based Business Models2022Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Subscription-based business models are increasing in popularity, outgrowing nonsubscription-based businesses. Many companies want to explain themselves as “a Spotify for X” focusing on highlighting the similarity to the well-known music streaming service. We arguethat there are distinct differences between subscription businesses that need to be articulatedand aim at providing a common language to use when talking about subscription-basedbusiness models. Supported by business model theory, with a specific focus on profitability,we explore and exemplify how customer activity relates to variability in revenues and costs.The subscription typology illustrates meaningful differences between subscription businessesin their variance in customer activity, and to what degree customer activity is linked torevenue and cost. Through the profit equation, customer activity is linked to profitability.Profit variability is shaped by volume- or choice-driven cost variability and upgrade- orinvestment-driven revenue variability. In this study, the expectation that the customerinteract with the product is seen as key for a subscription business. We define subscriptionsas recurring, advance payments for a product or service with which the customer activelyengages, highlighting the customer behavior aspect.

  • 26.
    Armstrong, Ryan
    et al.
    Department of Business, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
    Babri, Maira
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Herath, Gayanga Bandara
    Center for Research on Digitalization and Sustainability (CREDS), Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Elverum, Norway.
    Kask, Johan
    Center for Research on Digitalization and Sustainability (CREDS), Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Elverum, Norway.
    Guest editorial: Change, well-being and meaning in organizations2024In: International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior, ISSN 1093-4537, E-ISSN 1532-4273, Vol. 27, no 3, p. 161-167Article in journal (Other academic)
  • 27. Askerlund, Therese
    et al.
    Javaheri, Frida
    Nilsson, Emma
    Soleiman, Shadan
    Hagberg, Caroline
    Lindblad, Annika
    Raag, Vaike
    Nadina, Nadina
    Småbarnsföräldrars konsumentbeteende: En kvantitativ studie om engagemang, säkerhetstänkande, värderingar och omgivningens påverkan på köpbeslut2008Report (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Den här boken är resultat av åtta studenters arbete under en uppsatsperiod på tio veckor. Vi började träffas i mars 2008 och i april satte arbetet igång på allvar. Under perioden gjorde studenterna en enkät, samlade in data och analyserade för att komma fram till hur småbarnsföräldrar funderar kring inköp av artiklar åt sina barn. I slutet av maj var arbetet klart! Det har varit ett nöje att få handleda arbetet och jag känner mig stolt att som handledare få presentera den här boken, vars innehåll är väldigt rikt med tanke på under vilken kort period den skapats. Jag hoppas att den kommer att läsas av studenter i marknadsföring som vill ha inspiration till hur undersökningar om konsumentbeteende kan genomföras, eller som helt enkelt bara vill läsa sig mer om ämnet. Vi vill alla tacka några personer som engagerat sig i att hjälpa till med arbetet, genom att låta sig intervjuas, släppa in oss i sällskap av konsumerande föräldrar eller givit synpunkter på arbetet som helhet. Tack till Linn Söderlund, Nicolaus Eberhardt och Maria Hedlund. Cecilia Lindh, Maj 2008

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  • 28.
    Axelsson, Karin
    et al.
    Mälardalen University, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Innovation and Product Realisation.
    Höglund, Linda
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation. Stockholm University, Sweden.
    Strategic management in the public sector - the case of the Swedish transport administration2024In: International Public Management Journal, ISSN 1096-7494, E-ISSN 1559-3169Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Strategic management in the public sector has become quite popular in practice and several studies have shown that it has an impact on organizational performance. However, we still know little of how strategic management unfolds in practice. Overall, our message is that there are specific challenges that appear when applying strategic management in a public sector context that need to be handled to enhance the possibility of succeeding with strategy work. We present these challenges in terms of four tensions emerging in strategy work: planned versus emergent strategies, legitimacy versus practicality, administrative management versus innovative approach, and accessibility versus security. Based on these identified tensions, we suggest four propositions that not only have implications for further research, but also practical implications.

  • 29.
    Babri, Maira
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Media Review: Materially and Ethically Engaged Methods for Organizational Scholarship2024In: Organization Studies, ISSN 0170-8406, E-ISSN 1741-3044Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 30.
    Babri, Maira
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Method as Democratizing; Through Researcher Positionality and Empirical Inclusivity2024In: Qualitative research in organization and management, ISSN 1746-5648, E-ISSN 1746-5656, Vol. 19, no 2, p. 57-70Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present how my positionality as a researcher alignedwith the works of Latour in terms of methodological inspirations and allowed me to develop acritical vantage point and simultaneously adopt a heterogeneously rather than hierarchicallyinformed approach to ordering the world, which I argue serves as a basis for a more inclusivestudy of management systems.Design/methodology/approach: I reflect over my own positionality as a researcher and sharehow my interpretation of Latour’s ontology through some of his ideas and concepts; particularlysymmetry, power, translation, and agency, allowed me to incorporate and organizeheterogeneous actors depicted in different empirical materials into space-time contexts andsubsequently theorize organizing and management practices as agential, multiple, andbecoming.Findings: A base in Latour’s ontology has equipped me with openness towards empiricalsettings, which I argue retains a democratic approach to theorization, i.e. theorization whichremains mindful of inadvertent assumptions about power, hierarchy or the taken for granted.This approach has also given me a form of personal resilience as a researcher.Originality: The originality of this paper lies in presenting and developing the concept ofmethod as democratizing. I argue that Latour’s approach to the empirical allows for at least twoforms of active democratizing, one relating to the researcher as self and the other in how itincorporates the empirical actors into research making possible the inclusivity of heterogeneityin analyses of organizations and organizing.

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  • 31.
    Beime, Kristina S.
    et al.
    Örebro University School of Business, SE-701 82 Örebro, Sweden.
    Englund, Hans
    Örebro University School of Business, SE-701 82 Örebro, Sweden.
    Gerdin, Jonas
    Örebro University School of Business, SE-701 82 Örebro, Sweden.
    Seger, Karin
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Theorizing the subjectivizing powers of market-based technologies: Looking beyond coercion and seduction2024In: Critical Perspectives on Accounting, ISSN 1045-2354, E-ISSN 1095-9955, Vol. 99, article id 102662Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Existing theorizations on how the proliferation of market-based technologies within universities come to foster so-called academic performer subjectivities have mainly drawn attention to their coercive and seductive powers. However, while these theorizations help explain why researchers either unwillingly adapt to, or identify with and cherish, their neoliberal ideals, they are less useful to explain recent empirical results showing that many researchers willingly comply yet are very critical of the very same ideals. Drawing upon an interview study of Swedish researchers, we address this theoretical gap in the literature by analytically disentangling three important qualities of the technologies per se, in terms of them producing performance numbers characterized by Specificness, Ongoingness, and Emptiness (SOE). These three qualities do not only have the dual power to interchangeably provoke bitter and sweet feelings, but also to foster the adoption of an academic performer subjectivity. In fact, it is precisely by provoking bittersweet feelings that these qualities break the sharp edges of pure coercion and seduction, thereby fostering a type of low-affective, yet highly persuasive form of reasoning about pros and cons of market-based technologies, which make their neoliberal ideals seem acceptable and reasonable at the end of the day.

  • 32.
    Bell, Emma
    et al.
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation. Open University Business School, The Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK.
    Cozza, Michela
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Avoiding the ‘God trick’: Internationalism and situated knowing in Scandinavian Journal of Management2024In: Scandinavian Journal of Management, ISSN 0956-5221, E-ISSN 1873-3387, Vol. 40, no 3, article id 101360Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    To mark the 40th anniversary of the Scandinavian Journal of Management, we explore its becoming in a context where internationalism is used to evidence claims about journal quality. Through an analysis of editorial voices, we show how internationalism positions journals as ‘a view from nowhere’, making them party to a ‘God trick’. Acknowledging the situated nature of all knowledge instead provides a means of disturbing geographies of power that shape how knowledge is created, performed and transformed in journals and expanding the range of others that ‘management’ represents. We trace the beginnings of a feminist new materialist theoretical shift in the journal, which we argue is crucial in providing hope regarding what management can do and engaging with our ethical response-abilities as knowers.

  • 33.
    Berg, Monika
    et al.
    Örebro Universitet.
    Johansson-berg, Tobias
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Privatiserade fängelser en sällsynt dyr och dålig idé2024In: Dagens nyheter, ISSN 1101-2447, Vol. 07, no 03Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
    Abstract [sv]

    Ett förslag mot bristen på fängelseplatser är privata anstalter. Att överlåtadelar av statens våldsmonopol till marknaden är dock vanskligt, ochekonomiska fördelar finns knappast. Både principiella och praktiska skältalar för att inlåsning av kriminella ska skötas av myndigheter, skriversamhällsvetarna Monika Berg och Tobias Johansson-Berg.

  • 34.
    Berglind, Magnus
    et al.
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Thompson, S.
    Robins School of Business, University of Richmond, United States.
    Ekman, Peter
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Caught on the platform or jumping onto the digital train: Challenges for industries lagging behind in digitalisation2021In: Management and Information Technology after Digital Transformation, Taylor and Francis , 2021, p. 33-42Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 35.
    Berglund, Mattias
    et al.
    Mälardalen University, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Innovation and Product Realisation.
    Axelsson, Karin
    Mälardalen University, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Innovation and Product Realisation.
    Hoppe, Magnus
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Fighting catch-22 – Intra-organizational collaboration, exploring capabilities for local innovation2021In: ISPIM Connects Valencia (2021) - Reconnect, Rediscover, Reimagine, 2021Conference paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    There is a growing pressure for innovation in the public sector. Research on innovation suggests a new role for organizations, from a producer of predefined goods and services to a facilitator of co-creation and new forms of network-based governance. Previous research is mostly focused on the need for organizations to collaborate across sectors (inter-organizational) to promote innovation, less on the need for collaboration across local governments different departments (intra-organizational) but also across smaller units (inter-departmental). The aim is to explore how internal conditions affect a municipality’s innovation capability. 

    This is done through a study based on interviews with departmental managers. The study reveals a heterogenic organizational environment where managing is situated and intra-departmental on the expense of inter-departmental and intra-organizational collaborations. The study also reveals that the situation is created by established practices, processes and structures which do not promote inter-departmental collaborations and thus does not build intra-organizational innovation capabilities.

  • 36.
    Blomberg, J.
    et al.
    Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden.
    Löwstedt, Patrik
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Werr, A.
    Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden.
    Boundary constructions in interorganizational knowledge relations2007In: Acad. Manag. Annu. Meet. Proc., 2007Conference paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    In the wake of the "knowledge society" organizations are becoming increasingly dependent on external knowledge sources. Consultants, networks, alliances, etc. are all increasingly important ways through which organizations secure access to central knowledge. This paper sets out to investigate interorganizational knowledge relations by asking the question "How do people involved in interorganizational knowledge work construct boundaries within and around their knowledge intensive endeavours?" Based on an interview study we identify different kinds of knowledge relations. An analysis of the accounts of these relations points at five dimensions along which boundaries are constructed - interests, interpretive frameworks, trust, private/organizational and priority. Based on these dimensions and the social-interaction perspective theoretically underpinning the paper a dynamic model for understanding boundary construction in interorganizational knowledge work is suggested.

  • 37.
    Blomkvist, Pär
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Articulating Publicness in Infrastructure: The History of Municipal Streets, Water and Sanitation in Sweden2023Book (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The contribution of this book lies in the historical comparison of infrastructural systems that are normally dealt with separately. The synthesis has been achieved by an extensive literature review of research from a wide range of various fields and by using prime sources. The comparative and long-term perspective allows the discovery of similarities and differences in the development of arrangements around streets, water and sanitation. Using the analytical lens of publicness, the author challenges the common belief that these three areas have always been public concerns or obligations, an assumption based on the fact that presently they are indeed public infrastructural systems. Furthermore, the evolution of municipal streets, water and sanitation has left a historical legacy which is still affecting the way these infrastructural systems are managed today.

  • 38.
    Blomkvist, Pär
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Research report and excerpts on the history of municipal streets, water, and sanitation in Sweden2023Report (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The first contribution of this report lies in the historical comparison of infrastructural systems that normally are dealt with separately. The synthesis has been achieved mainly by an extensive literature review of research from a wide range of various fields and by using prime sources to some extent. I have reinterpreted earlier results and brought together research areas that not so often communicate. The comparative and long-term perspective allows me to discover similarities and differences in the development of arrangements around streets, water, and sanitation. By using the analytical lens of publicness I can challenge the common belief that these three areas have always been public concerns or obligations. An assumption that relies on the fact that presently they indeed are public infrastructural systems. The second contribution is that I connect the historical development of these three sectors with research in medical, social, cultural, economic, and political history highlighting the most important contextual factors in society at large that has profoundly affected streets, water, and sanitation. I show how their respective evolution into public infrastructural systems has been strongly influenced by the strong Swedish tradition of local independence, by urbanization, demography, and industrialization, the municipal reform of 1862, and specifically for water and sanitation, the conflict between the private and the public; the social issue (concern for, and fear of, the working class and the poor); high mortality, Cholera epidemics and new perceptions of health and sickness; the Sanitary movement; the national health act of 1874. Finally, using theoretical concepts from the research traditions of Large Technical Systems (LTS, Hughes) I show how the evolution in municipal streets, water, and sanitation has left a historical legacy still affecting the way these infrasystems are managed today.

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  • 39.
    Blomkvist, Pär
    et al.
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Karpouzoglou, Timos
    Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Brinellvägen 8, 114 28, Stockholm, Sweden.
    Nilsson, David
    Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Brinellvägen 8, 114 28, Stockholm, Sweden.
    Wallin, Jörgen
    Department of Energy Technology, Division of Applied Thermodynamics and Refrigeration, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Brinellvägen 8, 114 28, Stockholm, Sweden.
    Entrepreneurship and alignment work in the Swedish water and sanitation sector2023In: Technology in society, ISSN 0160-791X, E-ISSN 1879-3274, Vol. 74, article id 102280Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Water and sewage (WS) systems are, like most grid based infrastructural systems, often centralised and hierarchical and the end user has almost no possibility to influence the technical standards, business models or system architecture. The preferred method for connecting new areas to the grid are underground water pipes and gravity flow for sewage. Thus, the WS system is “tightly coupled”. It is hard to change and conservative in its system culture, exhibiting a strong “momentum” or “path dependence”.

    In this article we investigate an unusual case in the development of WS-systems. As a rule, WS-systems, as most infrastructural systems, develop gradually through incremental innovations, and system owners/utilities traditionally build their systems “from the inside out”. In our case, we investigate a situation where the end users took the initiative to connect a residential area, Aspvik, part of the municipality of Värmdö, outside Stockholm, Sweden, to the municipal grid and thus expand the WS-system, not from the inside out, but from the outside in.

    Furthermore, we highlight another unusual feature: the role of a resident that acted as the “entrepreneur” in this process of WS-system expansion. The entrepreneur had unique trust building abilities in the local community, which the regime actor (the WS utility), could not match. Historically, inventor-entrepreneurs have been common, acting as “system builders” in the establishment phase of new infrastructural systems. However, entrepreneurs outside the regime are not common in the WS sector.

    Although atypical in mature WS systems in developed countries, these types of local initiatives or hybrid solutions are common in developing countries. In this article, we argue that there are lessons to be learnt from our case, when dealing with system expansion processes both inside and outside the Global North.

  • 40.
    Blomquist, Tomas
    et al.
    Umeå University, Sweden.
    Dehghanpour Farashah, Ali
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Editorial: Exploring human resources in the context of projects2023In: Frontiers in Psychology, E-ISSN 1664-1078, Vol. 14, article id 1166597Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 41.
    Boman, Björn
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Human capital indicators as influenced by SES, cognitive and non-cognitive skills: evidence from Taiwan’s PISA performance2024In: SN Social Sciences, E-ISSN 2662-9283, Vol. 4, article id 165Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Taiwan’s high performance in the PISA surveys has not been unnoticed by researchers. However, both individual level research and cross-national research which is relevant for Taiwan’s PISA achievement is typically lacking, especially as regards later surveys. This article examined Taiwan’s PISA mathematics and reading achievement in 2018, using individual level data (Valid N = 6863) and cross-national data with aggregated data for 77 countries. At the individual level, socioeconomic and non-cognitive variables explain the most variance of PISA mathematics and reading. At the cross-national level, cognitive ability and average income were statistically significant with cognitive ability as the strongest predictor. As Taiwan has a high level of average cognitive ability it may regarded as a strong comparative advantage with regard to human capital.

  • 42.
    Boman, Björn
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Left, right or something else? José Ortega y Gasset’s intellectual influence in the ideological realm2024In: SN Social Sciences, E-ISSN 2662-9283, Vol. 5Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset has influenced several thinkers of thetwentieth century, among whom Julius Evola, Ayn Rand, and Pierre Bourdieuspecifically have been examined in this article. The selection of thinkers indicates thatOrtega has influenced both those on the left and those on the various strands of theright. In relation to Evola, Ortega’s critique of the emergent masses in the age ofmodern democracy has been emphasized, although they do not share the sameoverarching social philosophy as Ortega is essentially a proponent of liberalism whichEvola fiercely opposes. Regarding Rand, there are striking affinities between Ortega’smajor work Revolt of the Masses and Rand’s The Virtue of Selfishness in relation topersonal responsibility and the state’s role in providing welfare. Bourdieu, on hisbehalf, has manifestly linked his reasoning in his major work Distinction to Ortega’swork The Dehumanization of Art. Overall, this shows that Ortega’s philosophy has animpact on both the left and the right.

  • 43.
    Boman, Björn
    et al.
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Hultin Rosenberg, Jonas
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Democratically included? A systematic literature review on voter turnout of people with intellectual disabilities2024In: Frontiers in Political Science, E-ISSN 2673-3145, Vol. 6Article, review/survey (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The extent to which people with intellectual disabilities (ID) are voting is an underresearched area. In order to fill this gap, we conducted a systematic literature review with a focus on voter turnout and democratic inclusiveness among people with ID. In total, we found N = 9 studies that met our inclusion criteria, all of which were based on samples from Western countries such as Croatia, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and US. Our findings suggest that people with ID have substantially lower voter turnout than ordinary voters. Constraining factors for voting and other instances of democratic inclusion include educational limitations and physical obstacles at ballot places, as well as being under full guardianship. On the other hand, living in a household with a voter constitutes a facilitating factor. Because of the limited number of studies, we suggest that more basic quantitative and qualitative research in many countries ought to be conducted.

  • 44.
    Bomark, Niklas
    et al.
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Carlberg Larsson, E.
    Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden.
    Wennberg, K.
    Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden.
    Corporate Demography and Wage Inequality: Revisited2024In: Socius, ISSN 2378-0231, Vol. 10Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    To further research how organizations influence workforce wage inequality, the authors replicate and extend Sorensen and Sorenson’s study on organizational demography and wage inequality in region-industries by (1) replicating original results from Danish regions from 1992 to 1998 using a close-to-identical dataset in Sweden during the same time period, (2) using multiverse analysis to gauge the effect of analytical choices on research results, and (3) expanding the scope of Sorensen and Sorenson’s model by two new measures of organizational diversity. The findings suggest strong to fair test-retest validity of the original model, but model extensions with nuanced measures of organization form diversity do not enhance the model’s explanatory power. The authors analyze and discuss replication anomalies and show how multiverse analysis can be gainfully used more generally in comparative organizational sociology.

  • 45.
    Bosse, Douglas
    et al.
    Univ Richmond, Robins Sch Business, 102 UR Dr, Richmond, VA 23173 USA..
    Thompson, Steven
    Univ Richmond, Robins Sch Business, 102 UR Dr, Richmond, VA 23173 USA..
    Ekman, Peter
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    In consilium apparatus: Artificial intelligence, stakeholder reciprocity, and firm performance2023In: Journal of Business Research, ISSN 0148-2963, E-ISSN 1873-7978, Vol. 155, article id 113402Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Firms are increasingly using forms of AI to serve stakeholders across various business functions, resulting in both positive and negative outcomes. Stakeholder theory explains how firms create and destroy value via their stakeholder encounters, making it an ideal foundation for understanding AI deployment on firm-level perfor-mance. As AI continues to evolve, both when it comes to the activities and roles it takes and the stakeholders it affects, the AI-stakeholder framework developed herein identifies and situates key managerial decisions related to the adoption and deployment of AI that drive the firm's likelihood of creating or destroying value through stakeholder encounters. The AI-stakeholder framework focuses on stakeholder justice and is supported by testable propositions about the conditions most likely to affect the outcomes of incorporating AI into business processes. The framework also supports future research and practical managerial guidance by articulating the challenges and potential of AI for managing stakeholder encounters.

  • 46.
    Botella-Andreu, A.
    et al.
    Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain.
    Villar, C.
    Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain.
    Pla-Barber, J.
    Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain.
    Andersson, Ulf
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Subsidiary political embeddedness: mechanisms for leveraging local competences2023In: European Business Review, ISSN 0955-534X, E-ISSN 1758-7107Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Purpose: This study aims to investigate the drivers of political embeddedness and the possible outcome in terms of autonomy and subsidiary unique competences.

    Design/methodology/approach: This study draws on resource dependence theory and applies structural equation modeling on a sample of 193 subsidiaries.

    Findings: Political embeddedness is confirmed as a source of potential autonomy and the development of competences and is usually boosted by previous existing networks at the internal and external levels.

    Originality/value: The authors investigate and discuss how multinational corporations can leverage political resources in host-country political arenas, extending their understanding of the interplay between political activities and market strategies.

  • 47.
    Bruzzone, Silvia
    et al.
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Crevani, Lucia
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Supporting and Studying Organizational Change for Introducing Welfare Technologies as a Sociomaterial Process2022In: Frontiers in Psychology, E-ISSN 1664-1078, Vol. 13, article id 787223Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Welfare technologies (WT) for older people is a rapidly expanding sector that offers a way to tackle the challenge of an aging population. Despite their promise in terms of advances in care services and financial savings, their use is still limited. Their design and implementation remain problematic, as they require changes in working practices through coordination among a multiplicity of actors. In order to address these challenges, the need for change is often expressed in terms of a lack of working methods appropriate to their scope. This has led to a proliferation of different toolkits, guidelines, models, etc.; however, these methods often imply a linear understanding of an implementation project and thus fail to take into consideration the emergent and situated character of the processes that lead up to the adoption of welfare. The aim of this article is to propose an alternative means of providing support for the introduction of these technologies by initiating a process for organizational change. The term "change" is understood here as something that is produced by practitioners-in collaboration with researchers-and not brought by researchers to practitioners. To this end, using the tradition of intervention research as inspiration, a learning process at the crossroads of different practices and objects was initiated. The center of attention of this article' is the sociomaterial process by which different communities of practitioners interact on the co-creation of a checklist. This is a new working method in which the focus is not the artifact in itself but how it emerges through successive interactions and iterations among different objects, practitioners and researchers, resulting in a joint sociomaterial process that reconfigures power relations and the work objective associated with WT. In other words, a new working method artifact is developed in a process in which practitioners, researchers and contextual objects interact and become one with each another.

  • 48.
    Bruzzone, Silvia
    et al.
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Stridsberg, Henny
    Dancing Urban Waters. A Posthuman Feminist Perspective on Arts-Based Practice for Sustainable Education2023In: The Posthumanist Epistemology of Practice Theory: Re-imagining Method in Organization Studies and Beyond / [ed] Michela Cozza, Silvia Gherardi, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, p. 123-150Chapter in book (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The chapter explores how arts-based practices informed by posthuman feminism can contribute to expanding ways of learning and knowing about sustainability. Posthuman feminism relocates agency from the human subject to heterogenous assemblages of humans and nonhumans and anchors subjectivity to the body and materiality. From a pedagogical perspective, this means subverting the traditional approaches rooted in the reproduction of a given area of knowledge and taking all materialities, including the body, into account in the learning process as a way of becoming with the world. The authors set up a workshop in which they mobilise creative dance in order to explore different approaches to urban water, in particular flooding, with students of industrial engineering. The students explore the materialities involved in urban flooding through corporeal interactions and creative tasks. They physically experience becoming bodies of water, encountering and intra-acting with “hard”, protective infrastructures as well as more sustainable solutions under the new paradigm “more room for water”. Through these bodily practices, the students multiply the ways of experiencing connectedness with urban water beyond control and mastery as part of a watery subjectivity. The experiment and methodology also contribute to the conversation on post-qualitative research in the framework of a posthumanist epistemology of practice.

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  • 49.
    Buli, Benti Geleta
    et al.
    Mälardalen University, School of Health, Care and Social Welfare, Health and Welfare.
    Tillander, Annika
    Linköping University, Sweden.
    Fell, Terence
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Bälter, Katarina
    Mälardalen University, School of Health, Care and Social Welfare, Health and Welfare. Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.
    Active Commuting and Healthy Behavior among Adolescents in Neighborhoods with Varying Socioeconomic Status: The NESLA Study2022In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, ISSN 1661-7827, E-ISSN 1660-4601, Vol. 19, no 7, article id 3784Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    (1) Background: The World Health Organization recommends active commuting as a source of physical activity. Active commuting is determined by various factors, including the socioeconomic status (SES) of families and neighborhoods, distance to schools, perceived neighborhood safety, lifestyles, and availability of walkways and biking paths. This study aimed to assess factors associated with modes of transportation to and from school among adolescents aged 16–19 living in a middle-sized city in Sweden. (2) Method: Three hundred and fourteen students, of whom 55% were females, from schools in the city of Västerås participated in the study. Printed as well as web-based self-administered questionnaires were used to collect the data. (3) Results: Adolescents living in high SES neighborhoods were 80% more likely to bike or walk to school (OR = 1.80; CI: 1.01, 3.20) than adolescents living in low SES neighborhoods. Furthermore, active commuting was associated with higher consumption of fruits and vegetables (OR = 1.77; CI: 1.05, 2.97) and less consumption of junk foods (OR = 0.43; CI: 0.26, 0.71), as compared to passive commuting. (4) Conclusions: Active commuting is a cost-effective and sustainable source of regular physical activity and should be encouraged at a societal level. 

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  • 50.
    Buli, Benti Geleta
    et al.
    Mälardalen University, School of Health, Care and Social Welfare, Health and Welfare. Mälardalen Univ, Div Publ Hlth Sci, Västerås, Sweden..
    Tillander, Annika
    Linköping Univ, Dept Comp & Informat Sci, Linköping, Sweden.
    Fell, Terence
    Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation.
    Bälter, Katarina
    Mälardalen University, School of Health, Care and Social Welfare, Health and Welfare. Karolinska Inst, Dept Med Epidemiol & Biostat, Stockholm, Sweden.
    O3-3 Active commuting and healthy behavior among adolescents in neighborhoods with varying socioeconomic status2022In: European Journal of Public Health, ISSN 1101-1262, E-ISSN 1464-360X, Vol. 32, no 2Article in journal (Other academic)
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