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- Gottlieb, Laura
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The Knowledge Triangle Cards : Supporting university-society collaborations
- 2017
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Games Based Learning, ECGBL 2017. - : Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited. - 9781911218562 ; , s. 807-813
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Knowledge Triangle Cards (KT Cards) is an educational tool designed for a pilot course at Mälardalen University which aims to help students to contextualize studies to global and national societal needs and to collaborate more closely with society (business and municipalities). The aim is to have students become better at choosing assignments, projects and thesis topics that tie in closer to the labour market and societal needs. The KT Cards are based on a traditional deck of cards and the suits represent different aspects of the knowledge context: opportunity, process, outcome, and stakeholder. Additionally, a set of gamified and non-gamified exercises were designed to prompt reflection and discussion about how student projects incorporate these aspects. A pilot study was carried out in order to test and develop the educational tools and future studies. A total of 24 students and teachers participated and data was collected through observations and feedback from participants. The study indicates that the gamified activities could influence reflection and discussion by speeding up pace of the activity and affecting group dynamics. Two aspects were identified as potentially prompting gamification-shorter time frames and having multiple groups completing the activities. Further studies will look more closely at these aspects for designing gamification and how this affects discussion. The next design iteration will implement minor changes to the visual design of the cards and review how the prototype could provide students with know-how on university-society collaborations and a deeper understanding of the Knowledge Triangle concept.
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- Höglund, Linda, 1972-, et al.
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Strategic management, management control practices and public value creation : The strategic triangle in the swedish public sector
- 2021
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Ingår i: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 0951-3574 .- 2051-3151 .- 1758-4205. ; 34:7, s. 1608-1634
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose The purpose of this paper is to enhance understanding of the conceptualisation and operationalisation of public value in practice by applying Moore's (1995) strategic triangle as an analytical framework to study strategic management and management control practices in relation to public value. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses an interpretative longitudinal case study approach including qualitative methods of document studies and interviews between 2017 and 2019. Findings In the strategic triangle, the three nodes of authorising environment, public value creation and operational capacity are interdependent, and alignment is a necessity for a strategy to be successful. But this alignment is vulnerable. The findings suggest three propositions: (1) strategic alignment is vulnerable to management control practices having a strong focus on performance measurements, (2) strategic alignment is vulnerable to standardised management control practices and (3) strategic alignment is vulnerable to politically driven management control practices. Originality/value With the strategic triangle as a base, this paper tries to understand what kind of management control practices enable and/or constrain public value, as there has been a call for this kind of research. In this way it adds to earlier research on public value, to the growing interest in the strategic triangle as an analytical framework in analysing empirical material and to the request for more empirical studies on the subject. The strategic triangle also embraces political factors, government agendas and political leadership for which there has also been a call for more research.
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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
- 2019
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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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- Yu, H., et al.
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Improved triangle splitting based bi-objective optimization for community integrated energy systems with correlated uncertainties
- 2022
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Ingår i: Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments. - : Elsevier Ltd. - 2213-1388 .- 2213-1396. ; 49
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Economic and environmental benefits are the most important in the operation of community integrated energy systems (CIES), modeled as a bi-objective optimization problem. In the case of the uncertainties from loads and renewable energy generators, the effectiveness of the operation strategies may be degraded in the practical applications of CIES. In this paper, an improved triangle splitting based bi-objective optimization method is proposed to search for the Pareto optimal solution of the CIES operation. The general preference of decision-makers in practical applications is utilized in the search process to reduce the detailed search interval and consequently improve the optimization efficiency. In addition, a bi-objective uncertain optimization framework is established for the economic-environmental operation of the CIES under uncertainties. The correlation between uncertainties is considered to generate the operation scenarios, in which the solution probability function is employed to determine the final operation strategy with robustness. A comprehensive case study is conducted based on a practical CIES in China, proving the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed methods.
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- Gleisner Villasmil, Lena
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Lärares digitala didaktik : En tematisk livshistorieansats om lärares didaktiska övertygelser, överväganden och val av digitala resurser
- 2019
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this study is to contribute with knowledge from a close teachers’ perspective on how teachers' considerations and choice of digital artefactsfor teaching are related to didactic beliefs that are shaped and changed over time in teacher's professional life. A thematic life history approach is used in combination with a socio-cultural perspective and didactic starting points. Life story interviews with six high school teachers from three Swe-dish schools constitute the empirical material that results in individual life history constructions about digitalization.The participating teachers have what is referred to as digital didactics, which focus on the teachers' competence to make didactic considerations and the choice of digital artefacts according to the needs that exist according to the target group for the teaching, subject content and surrounding envi-ronmental and time aspects.The findings of the study indicate that teachers have prominent didactic beliefs that are the hub for consideration and choice of digital resources. These can be understood as individual but also in a larger collective context. Teachers’ didactic beliefs are motivated by three dimensions, which are the teachers' subject matter, the desire to help the students and the personal satisfaction. The cognitive, historical and physical contexts are constantly changing due to the rapid development of digitalization and the didactic choices have been expanded with more opportunities but also greater chal-lenges. Didactic choices of digital artefacts can be divided into general-di-dactic choices, subject- and program-didactic choices and choices linked to didactic beliefs and experience.The contribution of this study is that teachers' digital didactics is based on teacher's didactic beliefs, which are formed in a historical, cultural and social context that influences the didactic present and the future. A school with digital artefacts is part of an ever-available global digital arena. The study contributes with a new model of an extended didactic triangle that visualizes teachers’ digital didactics where the teacher and the didactic belief are prominent.
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- Höglund, Linda, 1972-, et al.
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Strategic management and public value creation : The strategic triangle and the Case of the Swedish Public Employment Services
- 2021
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In our paper we try to understand strategic management (SM) at the Swedish Public Employment Services (SPES), one of the largest tax-funded central agencies in Sweden. The agency has been struggling to strategically manage not only contradictory goals and wicked problems due to rapid changes in political governance, but also a rapidly growing unemployment in society due to the extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 epidemic. We have studied SPES between 2015-2021 and treated it as a case using qualitative methods of document studies, observations and 180 interviews with e.g. board members, managers and employees at SPES as well as politicians and union representants. To understand how SPES “do” SM we have used Moore’s (1995) strategic triangle as an analytical framework. Recently, an increasing number of scholars have taken an interest in SM from a public value approach (see e.g. Bracci et al., 2019; Bryson et al., 2014a; 2014b; 2015; 2017; Hartley et al., 2017; Mintrom and Luetjens, 2017). The three nodes of the strategic triangle framework – the authorising environment, public value creation and operational capacity – recognise that there are key issues affecting most, if not all, public sector organisations (Alford and Greve, 2017). However, as several researchers has noted there is a lack of empirical research on the subject of SM and public value (see e.g. Bracci et al., 2019; Bryson et al., 2017b; Hartley et al., 2017; Höglund et al, 2021), as well as on how people “do” SM in practice (se e.g. George and Desmidt, 2014; Höglund et al., 2018a; Höglund and Mårtensson, 2019). Our paper is an attempt to contribute to this call by addressing the following RQ: How do public organizations “do” SM during extraordinary times?The findings suggest that SM tend to fall short in extraordinary times as COVID19, due to ad hoc management that focuses on short term goals that most of the times do not align with previous stated strategic goals and/or the creation of long-term public value. This suggests it becomes important to further study the consequences of an ad hoc management style in relation to SM and public value, especially during extra ordinary times. Our findings also show how the authorizing environment in terms of media and political governance of SPES limited the agency’s operational capacity to act strategically. In conclusion to this we suggest that several studies need to include media and political governance when they study SM in public organizations.
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- Hoppe, Magnus, 1963-
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First, we take Manhattan : Creating value by changing the system from within.
- 2018
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Through associations evoked by the lyrics from Leonard Cohens song First we take Manhattan, the paper explore what public values are created in a co- creation processes between actors within a public organization and a coordinating researcher representing a university. Data for the paper comes from a project for researching collaborative innovation in a municipality as well as experiences made by the author in three interlinked roles as researcher, project manager and finally as process manager for sustainable development projects involving the university and public partners.Four types of public values have been identified through the associative structuring approach. They are relational values, knowledge values, change values, and symbolic public values. The tension between these co-created public values reveal that existing organizational hierarchical power structures are ever present. Public values that correspond to dominating official agendas of the collaborating organizations are quite noticeable in the empirical account. Proof of the success of a formal collaboration between the university and its partners, are valued and asked for. Coordination thus favours constructions of implicit symbolic public values, where mediated symbols of the structures, processes and results appear as preferred outcomes.The study thus mainly reveals public values associated with what is good for the people, but not so much what is valued by the people. Complementary practical contributions that more directly could be valued by the people, when and where researchers and public professionals build relations and knowledge in order to enhance the public organizations ability to deliver public value, are given less attention.As a complementary contribution to method, the article introduces and discuss the pros and cons of associative structuring, that has been used in order to evoke an autoethnographic account of the researcher’s experiences of the collaboration.
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- Pettersson, Rune
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Circles, Triangles and Squares : Sacred Symbols in the Mayan Culture
- 1998
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Ingår i: Journal of Visual Literacy. - : Taylor and Francis Ltd.. - 1051-144X .- 2379-6529. ; 18:2, s. 137-148
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The circle and the triangle, as well as the square, are shapes that have b a very long time. There have always been circles and triangles in ou they have a the use of circles, triangles, and squares as sacred symbols in the old Mayan civilization. The paper also presents one of the oldest forms of mediated communication through moving images, the "moving picture" in Chichin Ilzd, Mexico.
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- Korotov, Sergey, et al.
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Improved Maximum Angle Estimate for Longest-Edge Bisection
- 2021
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Ingår i: International journal of computational geometry and applications. - : World Scientific. - 0218-1959. ; 31:4, s. 183-192
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this note we construct an upper estimate on the maximum angles of triangles generated by the longest-edge bisection algorithms applied to a triangle. This upper bound considerably improves upon one inherited from the well-known minimum angle estimation, thus providing tighter two-sided estimation of the angles generated by bisections. This estimate also guarantees the validity of the maximum angle condition, widely used in finite element analysis and computer graphics.
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- Korotov, Sergey, et al.
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Numerical integration on higher dimensional simplicial and curved finite elements
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Computational Mathematica. - : Eleyon Publishers. - 2456-8686. ; 6:1, s. 296-309
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We present a formula which evaluates lower degree monomials over higher dimensional simplices by means of integration of higher degree monomials over an interval, triangle or tetrahedron. Further, we show how to apply some higher order quadrature formulae on curved elements using a one-to-one mapping from the reference simplicial element to a curved element.Finally, we demonstrate that the non-zero Jacobian does not imply that this mapping is one-to-one.
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