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- Perez Vico, Eugenia, 1980-, et al.
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Knowledge Triangle Configurations at Three Swedish Universities
- 2021
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Ingår i: The Knowledge Triangle. - Cham : Springer. - 9783030813451 - 9783030813482 - 9783030813468 ; , s. 187-212
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The concept of a Knowledge Triangle, i.e. the principle of strengthening the linkages between research, education and innovation, has emerged as a result of policymakers’ expectations on universities to assume a broader societal responsibility. Yet, little is known about how these tasks and their interaction are orchestrated at universities. We explore how they are manifested in the organisation and strategy of three different Swedish universities, and how the policy landscape conditions these manifestations. The chapter highlights that although the knowledge triangle remains a priority, explicit national policies are lacking, with the responsibility of integration falling on universities themselves. We observe a great diversity in how knowledge principles are orchestrated at the universities, e.g. through individuals’ interpretations and attitudes, and through management strategies and incentive schemes. The three tasks have largely been handled separately, with weak coordination and generally limited ambitions from university managements to forge new combinations of remits. At the individual and group level, we observe weak task articulation, although some role models serve as inspiration. Tensions emerge as the responsibilities of operationalising the Knowledge Triangle falls on individuals who sometimes lack the appropriate mandate and resources. These findings raise questions for further research and implications for policy and university management. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
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- Olsson, Elizabeth, 1980
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The Conflict Snowflake: Galtung’s Conflict Triangle Transformed
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Ingår i: Sociologidagarna 2018, Lund.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- From notions of “structural violence” to “positive peace” (1969), Johan Galtung has made notable contributions to the field of sociology. While these ideas are significant, they are not above critique. Unfortunately, over the last five decades, these contributions have received insufficient criticism (Lawler, 1994) and, as a result, they are not being adequately employed, refined, and transformed. In this paper, I redress this oversight by exploring one of Galtung’s most prominent and widely cited contributions: the conflict triangle (1996). My purpose is to understand what this model adds to our conceptualization of conflict and, more importantly, what it hides and distorts. I argue that this needlessly reductionist representation suffers from the logical fallacy of equating causes with consequences and, therefore, fails to clarify why conflicts occur (Wallensteen, 2015, p. 42). This becomes especially problematic when Galtung employs it as a model for conflict handling in his TRANSCEND method (Galtung & Fischer, 2013, pp. 59–86). I offer an alternative representation of conflict called the Conflict Snowflake. I use this model to identify the six fundamental features that constitute the ‘why’ of conflict including power, identity, emotion, belief, history, and context. I conclude by demonstrating the ways in which the Conflict Snowflake provides new avenues for conflict analysis.
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- Philip, Johan, 1932-
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The area of a random triangle in a square
- 2010
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We determine the distribution function for the area of a random triangle in a unit square. The reault is not new. The method presented here is worked out to shed more light on the problem.
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- Höglund, Linda, 1972-, et al.
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Strategic management, public value creation and the strategic triangle : Strategy work in the Swedish public cultural sector
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Strategic management (SM) is argued to be increasingly important for shaping the performance of public organizations (Poister, 2010; Andrews et al. 2012). In relation to performance, activities of monitoring and evaluation are described as important to succeed with strategy work in public sector (Plant 2009; Poister 2010), but few studies have been done on this area (Höglund 2015; Höglund et al., 2018). This is despite the fact that an important part of SM in the public sector is reporting on performance through some form of administrated performance information (see e.g. Weiss, 2016). It is, nevertheless, not easy to incorporate SM into the public sector (Elbanna et al., 2016; Poister 2010; Weiss 2016), as these theories builds on private sector ideas that focus on profitability, competitive advantage, a unique market position, and growth through market-shares, performance aspects not always well-suited to the public sector (Ferlie and Ongaro 2015; Höglund et al., 2018; Lane and Wallis 2009). One of the few that explore possible performance measurements in public sector context is Lane (2008) who suggest that public sector should focus on delivering service e.g. the quantity of service, quality of service, service satisfaction and distribution of service. That this kind of performance measurements are important to understand in order to get an idea of what kind of value a public organization is contributing to the society and its citizens. Drawing upon the aspects of performance and public value we introduce public value management (PVM) by addressing the strategic questions of (Moore, 1995; Stoker 2006): Is it valuable for the public? Is it legitimate and politically supported? Do we have the operational capacity? In this way contributing with an analytical framework of SM in public sector that focus on performance and its relation to public value.In short, the proposed paper can be seen as an attempt to meet up with the call to enhance our understanding of SM and performance reporting in relation to public value. We do this by presenting a qualitative case study of how the cultural department at Region Stockholm, in Sweden, has been affected by the organizations work to achieve a congruent SM that will give them an overall direction with common work practices. In this way Region Stockholm takes on an approach to SM that will give the organization a holistic view of all their departments by mixing long-term thinking, goal analysis, and evaluation of values, goals, and priorities (cf. Mintzberg et al., 1987).Our results indicate that the work with SM at Region Stockholm gives the culture department and opportunity to become more visible in the organization by getting their own goal in the strategic plan and are included in other departments goals. However, the goals and the performance measurements do position culture as a mean, rather than a goal. In this way culture becomes nothing more than an instrument and a commodity to reach better performance for Region Stockholm as an organization. In this way culture tend to lose its own value, and consequently how public culture will generate value to its citizens.
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