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- Eriksson, Erik, et al.
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Field, Formalisation, and Alienation : Entering the Field and Building Rapport During Social Distancing
- 2024. - 1
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Ingår i: Biographical Perspectives on Lives Lived During Covid-19 : Global Narratives and International Methodological Innovations - Global Narratives and International Methodological Innovations. - : Springer Cham. - 2523-3432 .- 2523-3424. - 9783031544446 - 9783031544422 ; 11, s. 301-321
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Over-indebtedness—a situation in which individuals are unable to pay their expenses and debts get out of control—is increasing among young adults in Sweden, and predictions suggest that the problem will escalate after the COVID-19 pandemic. In this chapter we draw on our experience of initiating an ethnographic study of over-indebtedness among young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, when opportunities to act in the field were severely limited. Even under normal circumstances, we anticipated that it might be challenging to find and recruit young people experiencing financial difficulties due to social stigma, and that this process would require careful methodological measures. When approaching such a field, the ability to build rapport and trust is crucial to gaining access. However, the social restrictions introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic precluded many of the traditional ways of reaching out (in)to the field. The field itself, as we had imagined it, with its institutions and physical social spaces, had changed drastically, forcing us to rethink how to approach the field. Following these experiences, we elaborate on the unarticulated preconceptions about ‘the field’ and relationship building that we had taken for granted. We discuss how the social distancing that characterised the pandemic fostered alienation and formalisation of the field, making it difficult to build trust in ethnographic fieldwork. However, even as we emphasise the importance of face-to-face social interactions in initiating ethnographic research, our experience shows that other procedures are viable, and sometimes more formal and impersonal means of contact may even be preferable.
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- Eriksson, Erik, et al.
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Skuldtyngd – Unga vuxna och skuldens dimensioner : Policy Brief #3, jan 2024. Tema social exkludering
- 2024
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Annan publikation (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Skuldtyngd är ett fyraårigt forskningsprojekt som startade 2021 i samarbete mellan Lunds universitet och Göteborgs universitet. Projektet är finansierat av Forte och studerar skuldsättningsproblem bland unga vuxna i åldern 18 till 25 år. Centralt för projektet är att förstå skuldsättningen ur ungas eget perspektiv, liksom att studera skuldsättning som ett komplext socialt och relationellt fenomen som utspelar sig i en specifik samhällskontext.För att sprida lättillgänglig kunskap publiceras ett policy brief varje år under de fem år som projektet pågår. I detta tredje policy brief beskrivs hur överskuldsättning på olika sätt bidrar till social exkludering.
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- Eriksson, Erik, 1977-, et al.
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The ‘service turn’ in a new public management context : a street-level bureaucrat perspective
- 2024
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Ingår i: Public Management Review. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1471-9037 .- 1471-9045. ; 26:7, s. 2014-2038
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- It is increasingly argued that public management should build on a service logic instead of the prevailing manufacturing logic of New Public Management (NPM). Drawing from three cases in Swedish public healthcare, key features of a service logic such as value creation, co-production, and collaboration are prominent in formal documents and everyday talk. However, the 67 interviews in this study reveal that the service logic ideal is practically unreachable in a context impregnated by NPM. Instead, we suggest that street-level bureaucrats often need to address service logic expectations (public values, relationship-building, etc.) using an NPM logic (measurements, control, etc.).
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- Eriksson, Per-Erik
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How clients choose procurement strategies and organizational control systems in the Swedish housing sector
- 2024
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Ingår i: Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction. - : Emerald Publishing. - 1366-4387 .- 1759-8443.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: This paper aims to examine how different contextual contingency factors and organizational goals influence construction clients’ decision-making when procuring contractors in the housing sector. More specifically, it investigates how clients’ choice of procurement strategies and organizational control systems is contingent upon various contextual factors and organizational goals.Design/methodology/approach: It is based on an explorative interview study of clients and contractors in the Swedish housing sector underpinned by a review of organizational control literature.Findings: The client's knowledge and resources, as well as project complexity and uncertainty, are the most important contextual contingency factors, while property management and sustainable development are the most important organizational goals that housing clients consider when designing procurement strategies.Research limitations/implications: The paper contributes to the understanding of how construction clients choose procurement strategies, by providing new insights into effects of the mentioned contextual contingency factors and organizational goals on clients’ choice of control systems through their procurement strategies.Practical implications: Property owners who continuously procure housing projects with sustainability requirements and high degrees of complexity and uncertainty should develop knowledge and resources related to their client role, to enable the design and implementation of appropriate procurement strategies.Originality/value: Novel aspects of the paper are the demonstration of the value of a holistic approach, considering both contextual contingency factors and organizational goals, when selecting control systems and explicit discussion of how the client's knowledge and resources influence possibilities to implement different control systems.
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- Gill, Peter, Professor emeritus, 1949-, et al.
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Anti-bullying programme-tweaking based on prevalence estimates at school- and classroom-level in a Swedish municipality
- 2024
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Anti-bullying programme-tweaking based on prevalence estimates at school- and classroom-level in a Swedish municipalityResearch topic/aimEstimated prevalence of bullying depends on the measurement strategies involved (Bjereld, Augustine & Thornberg, 2020). While the Nordic Countries, in international comparisons, have had lower prevalence estimates, rates in Sweden have shown increased prevalence in recent years (op.cit.). Differences in measurement methods also reflect differing conceptualisations of bullying.Theoretical frameworkAt least nine bully types have been described (Goldbach, Sterzing & Stuart, 2018). When “low frequency involvement” has been included, accumulated prevalence rates of up to 70% have been posited (op.cit.). In countries with lower prevalences of bullying, between-school differences are also lower (Johansson, Myrberg & Toropova, 2022). The present study uses a well-tried estimate of school-children’s exposure to intentional degrading treatment and bullying victimisation (Flygare, Gill & Johansson, 2013).Methodological designThe analysis undertaken seeks to replicate an earlier population study (all 4th to 9th grade school-children in a Swedish municipality). In that study (Gill, Simonsson & Matton, 2017), data at school- and classroom-level for boys and girls, deemed post hoc to be victims of bullying, at two measurements within the school-year (October 2016, and March 2017), were used to “paint a picture” of the intervention challenge. The intervention programme (“Gävlemodellen”, Gill, et al., 2016) was offered to municipal schools for voluntary participation in 2013. An initial group of 6 municipal schools expanded to include all schools within the municipality by 2016/17. The present study will follow-up the 2016/2017 population study, targeting all 7200 pupils, in 29 schools, distributed among 280 classrooms. The analysis will complement the VR-financed (2023) research project “Associations between the social climate in school, classroom and school class, peer victimization, bullying and student engagement over time” (Thornberg, 2023). Specifically, patterns of distribution of victims, at 6-year-follow-up, will be compared with a view to possible revisions and developments in the intervention design.Expected conclusions/findingsThe measure used to estimate bullying is indirect and does not use an a priori prescriptive definition. Pupils are asked if certain things have happened to them, “in the last couple of months” (teased, hit, pushed, excluded, nasty messages on social media etc. Pupils are then asked for their perception of why the event (or events) occurred. Respondents are categorized (discrete measure), as bullied (victims) or not (see Flygare, Gill & Johansson, 2013, and Swedish National Agency for Education, 2011 for details). Descriptive statistics will demonstrate the importance of not basing bullying prevention on a “general case”. Victimhood varies over time, by gender, and within and between schools. The goal is to explore how differences between the 29 schools and between classrooms within schools (from no victims to gender specific clusters) can be used for “program tweaking” the intervention strategy.Relevance to Nordic educational researchReduced bullying prevalence in Nordic countries creates new intervention challenges. Lessons and challenges from population data in a Swedish municipality can have relevance for all 1053 Nordic municipalities.
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- Rosander, Lilly
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Adhocracy in the Bureaucracy : Practices of implementing collaborative contracting in infrastructure client organizations
- 2024
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The building of infrastructure is a capital and resource-demanding activity, generally carried out in large interorganizational projects. Most infrastructure clients are public entities, implying that contracting processes are governed by public procurement regulations. Many infrastructure projects have high requirements for sustainability, both regarding impact on the local environment and the climate footprint. In addition to this, the construction often takes place in urban areas. To manage this complexity and uncertainty it has, over the past decades, become more common for public clients to apply procurement strategies that aim at fostering a good collaboration and integrate processes between client and contractor. Despite examples of advantages with such collaborative contracting the results vary and the institutionalization of collaborative contracting practices has proven difficult. Additionally, concepts and models vary between contexts and are hard to compare. How clients develop their procurement strategies and project practices, therefore, merits close attention. When the public sector uses procurement as tools to achieve their strategic goals, it is reasonable to analyze such decisions and processes as cases of policy implementation. Still, however, a large part of existing research on procurement of collaborative contracting focuses on a single project. By directing focus toward the organization as a whole, and on the implementation process of procurement strategies in several projects over time, the thesis aims to increase the understanding of how new organizational practices develop at different levels in public project-based organizations.The empirical foundation of the thesis is a longitudinal case study that follows the implementation of a new procurement strategy in the Swedish Transport Administration over seven years. The material includes data from seven projects that all used a two-stage Early Contractor Involvement model (called High collaboration). The case also includes material from the permanent organization, mainly in the Purchasing department. The five papers in the thesis analyze the implementation process from several perspectives, with specific attention to the characteristics of the organization as both public and project-based and how these features influence routines, legitimacy, learning and collaboration at different levels. The study adopts a practice perspective where interviews and observations focus on the actions and experiences of the individuals in the study. The result shows that there is a strong project autonomy, which is reinforced both by the project-based structure and by the public character of the client organization. Subsequently, there are few overarching structures at the central level to develop routines and procurement strategies in collaboration with the projects and suppliers. Thus, project managers have had a great influence on the finalization of project-specific procurement models and experiences has principally been shared between individuals, resulting in large variations between projects and limited organizational learning. Nonetheless, decisions in the permanent organization still influence the conditions at the operational project level, by dedicating resources and focusing attention on the topmanagement priorities. At the central level, collaborative contracting, as a concept has had varying legitimacy over time, and the initial problems in some of the seven projects gained considerable strategic importance by reinforcing such pendulum movements. Legitimacy seeking at higher organizational levels has also contributed to a variation in concepts and models, further complicating structured learning in the field of collaborative contracting.The thesis contributes to the construction management literature by providing deeper insights into why procurement models and collaborative practices vary between projects. Furthermore, the results contribute to project studies by expanding the understanding of how the specific character of public project-based client organizations impacts on learning processes for collaborative contracting. Finally, the thesis is relevant for public procurement research, as well as for practitioners in infrastructure and public procurement, since it provides novel insights into how the project-based nature of anorganization affects implementation and procurement processes.
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- Rosander, Lilly, et al.
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Samverkan i infrastrukturprojekt : Erfarenheter av tvåfaskontrakt i Trafikverket 2015–2023
- 2024
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Trafikverket upphandlade varor, tjänster, och byggentreprenader för nästan 62 miljarder SEK 2022 och har ett uppdrag att särskilt verka för innovation, effektivitet och produktivitet på den svenska anläggningsmarknaden. Som en del i sitt strategiska arbete har Trafikverket tagit fram en kontraktsmodell för ökad samverkan och tidig involvering av entreprenören, något som också har efterfrågats av entreprenadföretagen. Internationellt används ofta begreppet Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) för den här typen av kontrakt, och syftet kan vara att öka möjligheterna att anpassa projektens innehåll till förändrade förutsättningar, få in entreprenörens produktionskunskap i projekteringen eller att alls få anbud på projekt med stora risker.Trafikverkets modell benämns Samverkan Hög med Tidig Entreprenörmedverkan (TEM) och ingår i Trafikverkets övergripande affärsstrategi från 2016 (TDOK 2016:0199). Den baseras på ett tvåfaskontrakt, där entreprenören upphandlas för att i ett första steg gemensamt med beställaren ta fram en teknisk lösning och en riktkostnad, med en option på kontrakt för detaljprojektering och byggande.I den här rapporten redovisar vi resultaten från ett doktorandprojekt som har följt de sju första TEM-projekten i Trafikverket under tiden 2016–2023, baserat på framför allt intervjuer och projektdokumentation. Erfarenheterna från projektens uppstart och tidiga skeden har beskrivits i en omfattande delrapport (Rosander, Kadefors och Eriksson, 2020). Denna slutrapport har ett mer övergripande perspektiv och fokuserar på lärande över tid på projektnivå, organisationsnivå och branschnivå. Sammantaget är erfarenheterna av TEM i fallstudieprojekten huvudsakligen positiva och de intervjuade projektledarna uppfattar att modellen har stor potential och i flera fall har varit avgörande för att kunna genomföra projekten. Man har i varierande grad mött utmaningar, men dessa har framför allt varit relaterade till kontraktsupplägg och tidiga skeden i de första projekten. TEM-modellen har tagits fram i samverkan med branschen och styr inte hur projekten ska arbeta på en mer detaljerad nivå. Även om projektledarna i allmänhet uppskattar sådan frihet ser många ett stort värde i stöd, handböcker, mallar och utbildningar som kan skapa bredare samsyn kring vad samverkan innebär i praktiken. Det har dock saknats en tydlig struktur och tillräckliga resurser inom Trafikverket för att ta vara på projektens erfarenheter och driva sådan systematisk utveckling. Istället har lärandet till stor del skett direkt mellan individer, vilket har resulterat i stora variationer mellan projekt. Tidiga negativa händelser har också fått stor strategisk betydelse medan mer positiva erfarenheter och lösningar inte har uppmärksammats.I rapporten relaterar vi dessa erfarenheter till utvecklingen av samverkansinriktade kontraktsformer i ett längre perspektiv, där ständigt nya modeller och begrepp införs när de tidigare får kritik. I det sista kapitlet formulerar vi ett antal rekommendationer som främst fokuserar på hur Trafikverket kan öka långsiktigheten i förändringsarbete kopplat till nya upphandlingsmodeller. Framför allt behövs då tvärfunktionella strukturer på den permanenta nivån som kan utveckla och erbjuda olika former av stöd i nära samarbete med både projekten och leverantörer.
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- Winkler, Charlotta, 1976-
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Client orchestration for the implementation of energy innovation in construction
- 2024
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis aims to explore value creation from energy innovation in construction through implementation. The construction sector significantly impacts the environment. Buildings’ energy demand for heating and cooling accounts for 20% of annual global greenhouse gas emissions. Innovation is needed to reduce the sector’s contribution to climate change. This thesis focuses on energy-related innovations that reduce our dependency on fossil energy sources. For an innovation to give value, it must be put to use through implementation. In the construction context, the implementation takes place in inter-organisational and temporary project settings where interdependent actors collaborate to create value. The process of innovation implementation is affected by the innovation’s characteristics and the context of its implementation. The more complex the innovation, the more challenges the implementation process might involve.Clients in construction are central when it comes to change, and their ability to adapt to changing factors depends on their innovation capabilities. For the industry to meet climate-related challenges and contribute to the energy transition in the built environment, knowledge of the implementation of energy innovations and clients’ innovation capabilities must be developed.The aim of this thesis was realised by studying the characteristics and challenges of energy innovation implementation and clients’ innovation capabilities to orchestrate the activities required to meet these challenges. The characteristics and related challenges for implementation were explored by studying solar photovoltaic systems installed in the built environment (BEPV) as a case. The study identified several barriers to BEPV implementation and subsequent requirements for client orchestration. Due to a long history of implementing energy innovations, the real estate company of the municipality of Kungsbacka, Eksta Bostads AB, was chosen as a case in which to study client orchestration.This thesis draws on the literature on systemic innovation, innovation implementation, and ecosystem perspectives. The literature on systemic innovation helps us study and understand the implementation of energy innovations. The business ecosystem framework serves as a lens through which to study value co-creation in construction projects, and the innovation ecosystem perspective can be applied to study a client’s innovation capabilities to orchestrate activities for value creation. This thesis offers several contributions. First, it offers insights into systemic innovation implementation in construction by describing the characteristics of systemic energy innovations that display a high complexity requiring collaboration required in both the process and the innovation as such to implement systemic energy innovation in construction. Second, this change leads to the requirement that a client should act as a focal firm to orchestrate collaborative activities beyond project management. Third, this thesis offers empirical evidence that implementing energy innovations involves understanding implementation as part of a larger innovation process, not as an isolated process. Rather, the innovation process is highly dependent on the ecosystem orchestration, which in turn depends on a client’s innovation capabilities. As such, the thesis contributes to the ecosystem orchestration literature by demonstrating that client innovation capabilities enable orchestration that involves activities within and between projects and engagements across industry boundaries. In this way, the thesis builds our knowledge of the innovation process in construction, specifically, that the client is a central actor in realising value creation from innovation. The research shows how a client’s activities contribute to innovation diffusion in the construction industry and that these activities are anchored in a strong long-term strategy and a holistic view of sustainable development. These activities consist of formal and informal working methods and wholehearted engagements at an individual level, at which trust and long-term relationships are essential.Finally, by providing insights into the construction industry’s challenges in contributing to the energy transition in the built environment, this thesis offers policy suggestions regarding changes and adaptations in regulations and building norms to facilitate the implementation of energy innovations in construction projects, and to initiate educational arrangements and identify roles for key actors who can connect innovation development to innovation implementation for value creation.This thesis addresses the United Nations’s goals for sustainable development, specifically goals 7, ‘affordable and clean energy’, and 11, ‘sustainable cities and communities’.
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- Ekholm, David, 1980-, et al.
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Rättighetsarbete med egen erfarenhet som grund
- 2023
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Ingår i: De sociala rättigheternas politik. - Malmö : Gleerups Utbildning AB. - 9789151109855 ; , s. 203-220
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- Eriksson, Erik
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A Market of Lived Experience : User Involvement and the Commodification of Personal Experiences of Mental Illness
- 2023
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Ingår i: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. - 1660-4601. ; 20:14
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Working actively to engage service users in participatory practices is both a policy expectation and a moral imperative for mental health social workers in contemporary Western mental health care. Recent research suggests that such practices of service user involvement are becoming increasingly individualised and driven by market logic. Based on an ethnographic study within a Swedish public psychiatric organisation, this article applies the concept of commodification to examine this trend. By showing how the practice of user involvement takes the form of a market where personal narratives and experiences of mental health problems are bought and sold as commodities, the analysis illuminates how market logic permeates the everyday practice of user involvement. One consequence of this commodification is that user organisations, as well as individual service users, are restricted in their role as independent actors pursuing their own agenda, and instead increasingly act on behalf of the public and as providers of personal experiences. While it is vital that service user perspectives are heard and recognised within mental health services, mental health social workers need to be aware of the risks of commodifying lived experience. When attention is directed to individual experiences and narratives, there is a risk that opportunities to advocate on behalf of the user collective as a whole and speak from a more principled and socio-political standpoint are lost. In addition, the commodification of personal experience tends to rationalise and privilege user narratives that conform to the dominant institutional logic of the mental health organisation, while excluding more uncomfortable and challenging voices, thereby undermining the ability of service users to raise critical issues that do not align with the interests of the mental health organisation.
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