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- Arora-Jonsson, Stefan, Professor, 1969-, et al.
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Competition unbundled : taking stock and looking forward
- 2021
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Ingår i: Competition. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 9780192898012 - 9780191924460 ; , s. 221-236
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this final chapter, we discuss how the preceding chapters illuminate some fundamental questions about competition. How is it constructed? How are the behaviours resulting from competition managed? What are the consequences of competition? How can competition be removed? And, how do these factors vary with the good people compete for? Our aim is to provide an outline of a social science research programme on competition that is long overdue. A central message of the book is that competition seems ubiquitous but that it should not be taken for granted or be naturalized as an inevitable aspect of human existence. Its emergence, maintenance, and change are often the result of intention and purposive efforts, and a central challenge for social science is to learn more about these developments.
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- Arora-Jonsson, Stefan, Professor, 1969-, et al.
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Losing Their Religion : Organizational Identity Hybridization of British Political Parties 1950–2015
- 2024
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Ingår i: Journal of Management. - : Sage Publications. - 0149-2063 .- 1557-1211.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Our research addresses how organizations manage a shift from a single to a hybrid identity, a question that the identity literature still is grappling with. We address this question by reflecting on how organizations develop hybrid identities in response to institutional decline. Identity hybridization, we predict, takes place in stages via strategies that gradually hybridize the identity. We study how British political parties hybridized their identities in response to the decline of social-class politics over the period 1950–2015. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of the identity projections of three political parties in their election manifestos provide support for our hypotheses.
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- Arora-Jonsson, Stefan, Professor, 1969-, et al.
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Storföretagens tysta motstånd mot förändring
- 2023
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Ingår i: Organisation & Samhälle. - : Föreningen Företagsekonomi i Sverige (FEKIS). - 2001-9114 .- 2002-0287. ; 1:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Att företag gör motstånd mot samhällsförändringar som hotar deras existens är naturligt och väletablerat, men exakt hur detta går till har fått mindre uppmärksamhet.
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- Arora-Jonsson, Stefan, Professor, 1969-, et al.
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Teaching schools to compete : the case of Swedish upper secondary education
- 2024
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Ingår i: Socio-Economic Review. - : Oxford University Press. - 1475-1461 .- 1475-147X.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Significant efforts have been made to promote competition in public service sectors, expanding the reach of competition into non-economic fields. Surprisingly little is, however, known about the process by which competition is introduced into such settings. We examine this process, focusing on a Swedish municipality’s efforts to implement competition for students among its schools. By incorporating recent theoretical advancements regarding competition as an organized relationship, and utilizing a combination of qualitative and quantitative data, we shed light on the organizational efforts undertaken by politicians and bureaucrats to teach their schools to compete. We find that introducing competition can be complex, time-consuming and that it requires substantial organizational commitment. We highlight the existence of varying perceptions of competition among different stakeholders following its introduction. These findings suggest the need for future research that addresses questions about the costs of, and interests behind, introducing competition, as well as questions about responsibility for the subsequent effects of competition.
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- Arora-Jonsson, Stefan, Professor, 1969-, et al.
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The Construction of Competition in Public Research Funding Systems
- 2023
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Ingår i: Handbook of Public Funding of Research. - Cheltenham; Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781800883079 - 9781800883086 ; , s. 172-184
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Competition is a core feature of public research systems. Previous literature has mainly focused on the consequences of competition for research funding in such systems. These consequences are important, but the literature has largely assumed that competition for funding is inevitable in public research systems. This assumption masks the extent to which competition is a constructed phenomenon requiring explanation. When and why is there competition for research funding in public systems? In this chapter, our aim is to develop new knowledge about the ways that various allocations of funding are or are not constructed as competition for funding. We utilise recent theorising to analyse competition for research funding as a phenomenon that eventually comes about through organising efforts. Our chapter revitalises previous literature, and offers policy implications and future inquiry avenues that highlight the importance of understanding how competition for funding is constructed, and potentially revoked, in public research systems.
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- Arora-Jonsson, Stefan, Professor, 1969-, et al.
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The Origins of Competition : institution and organization
- 2021
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Ingår i: Competition. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 9780192898012 - 9780191924460 ; , s. 61-76
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Institutional conditions and organizational efforts are key for understanding how and why the elements constituting competition come about. Several contemporary institutions favour the construction of competition. States, organizations, and individuals are increasingly being seen as actors that are able to compete with each other, and globalization and other recent institutional developments have increased the number of relationships that they can construct. An impressive economic development during the last century has not prevented a continued sense of scarcity and new desires have emerged, not least the desire for status positions. Fourth parties organize social life in ways that create competition by intention or unintentionally. Organizers of contests in politics, markets, sports and many other sectors construct actors, relationships, and scarcity for something desired. Similar efforts have been an essential part of many recent reforms of organizations and markets. The increasing number of prizes and rankings in almost any area of life produces scarcity and is likely to create new desires for goods that per definition are scarce.
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- Arora-Jonsson, Stefan, Professor, 1969-, et al.
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Where Does Competition Come From? : The role of organization
- 2020
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Ingår i: Organization Theory. - : Sage Publications. - 2631-7877. ; 1:1, s. 1-24
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although an ever-increasing number and types of organizations are expected to compete, the origins of competition have been a neglected topic. By assuming that competition simply emerges, organization theory currently lacks an understanding of when and why organizations compete. In this article we critically review and extend existing literatures on competition to offer an organizational theorization of the origins of competition. We argue that competition is the social construction of its four constitutive elements: actors, relationships, scarcity and desire. Furthermore, we show that three types of actors – those who compete, those who adjudicate the competition, and those who have an interest in creating competition – can construct competition independently or in concert. We also discuss different types of organized competition; the role of rankers, prize givers and other actors interested in creating competition; and competition as an unintended consequence of organization. Finally, we outline future research on competition and organization that follows from our conceptualization, along with some normative implications.
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- Blomgren, Maria, 1966-, et al.
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The Three Loci of Organizational Identity Work : Prospective, Current and Former Members
- 2022
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Ingår i: Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings. - : Academy of management. - 0065-0668 .- 2151-6561. ; 2022:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Organizations work continuously to form, maintain and change their identities. This identity work has this far has been assumed to be carried out only with respect to the members of an organization. In this longitudinal study of identity formation, maintenance, and change we show that the identity work of some organizations has multiple loci. The Swedish secondary school that sought to form and maintain an identity of an ‘excellent school’ directed its identity work not only at its current staff and students, but also towards its prospective as well as former students. Multiple loci of identity work, we argue, is typical for organization where the characteristics of the members are important to its identity. Ignoring the identity work directed at prospective members ignores its fundamental importance in setting the scope for any identity work that can be carried out with the members of an organization. Re- conceptualizing identity work to also include efforts directed outside the organization, furthermore, address the critique that the organizational identity literature is too narrow in its focus on the formal boundaries of organizations and it opens up for an understanding of the sometimes competitive interactions across the identity work of several organizations.
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