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- Brorström, Björn
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Förord
- 2010
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In: Vetenskap för profession. - : Högskolan i Borås. - 1654-6520. - 9789185659579 ; :11, s. 5-6
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Mitt i skogen en bra bit ifrån allfarvägarna bedrivs en mycket omfattande handels- och affärsverksamhet. Konsumenter dras till Ullared och Gekås för att göra storköp och för att fynda varor av olika slag. Ullared och Gekås är ett fenomen som väcker nyfikenhet och frågan är varför det har blivit på detta viset? Vad är det för speciellt med Gekås och Ullared som förklarar att affärsverksamheten blivit så framgångsrik och fortsätter att utvecklas?
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- Ekström, Karin M, et al.
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Ägarna har inte förstått glasbruken
- 2012
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In: Dagens industri. - : Dagens industri AB. - 0346-640X. ; :2012-10-09
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Journal article (pop. science, debate, etc.)
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- Johansson, Björn
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Att slåss för erkännande : en studie i gatuvåldets dynamik
- 2001
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The aim of this thesis is to give a contribution to the knowledge of why people use violence against each other in public places. In more specific terms the thesis examines mechanisms that generates violent actions by reference to what happens in the situated transaction between the offender and the victim, and to the ways in which the urban environment create opportunities for violent actions. In the thesis I address some overall questions to mark of different dimensions of the studied phenomenon. The questions pay attention to: 1) the relation between the physical and social dimensions of the urban environment and the ways in which the urban environment creates opportunities for violent crimes; 2) why the offenders seek themselves to certain places and the symbolic meaning those places has, and; 3) what happens in the situated transactions between the offender and the victim. My methodological approach is multistrategic. The main components of the approach are qualitative interviews, studies of court orders, statistics and geographical studies. I interviewed respondents that have been punished for different crimes of violence committed in public places in the city centre of Örebro. The interviews were complemented with a case study of court orders over street related crimes of violence committed in the same area, and with a statistic and a geographical analyses over where, when and by whom the crimes were committed. The analyses of the ways in which the urban environment creates opportunities for violent crimes reveals some necessary conditions of physical, social and cultural character, i.e. properties of the urban environment that creates good opportunities for street related violence to occur. I started with a statistical examination of where, when and by whom different crimes of violence were committed. With the empirical regularities as a starting-point I began to analyse the urban environment with the help of Bill Hillier’s (1996) concept of virtual community. The analysis reveals that the city centre context of Örebro offer good opportunities for encounters and movements as it contains of several squares and main passages with an open character and good opportunities for orientation. Thus, the physical design of the city centre form a potential for violence to occur. After that I focused on border controls and the potential for violence they include. The importance of border controls were examined in several ways and it was concluded that the border controls contain different dimensions that contribute to the production of violent actions in different ways. This was followed by an examination of the use of the public spaces from the perspective of territoriality and the potential for violence that territories include. It was concluded that the city centre contains of several territories belonging to different categories, and that a distinction could be made between territories established on spontaneous grounds as well as territories established as a result of the activities that exists in a certain area. The analyses of the situated transactions reveal several mechanisms that contribute to the production of violent actions. The analyses started with a statistical examination of the offenders, the victims and the situations that results in violence. With this as a starting-point I began to examine the situated transactions with reference to what happens in the transactions. I found that different kinds of disturbances constitute the initial cause of the process in which an interaction exceeds to violence. Other important aspects that were revealed were the importance of respect and honour for the production of violence and that a distinction could be made between different kinds of violence depending on how the disturbances are interpreted and what it is directed towards. Furthermore, I examined the importance of emotions and social bonds for the production of violence as well as the ways in which different kinds of strategies of action find expression in the situated transactions in public places. Finally the situated transaction were examined from a ritualistic perspective were I found that different kinds of violations of the ritual objects as well as different dimensions of power and status are important for the understanding of the street related violence.
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- Brorström, Björn, et al.
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Hållbar framtid : en seminarieserie om hållbart företagande
- 2015
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Under 2012 och 2013 genomfördes fyra seminarier under huvudrubriken Hållbartföretagande som ett samarrangemang mellan Borås Tidning och Högskolani Borås. Uppmärksammade och inflytelserika företagsledare och samhällsaktöreri regionen föreläste om sina erfarenheter av verksamhetsutveckling och uppfattningaroch tolkningar av innebörden av begreppet hållbar utveckling. Föreläsningarnaföljdes av paneldiskussioner och frågor och kommentarer från seminariedeltagarna.Seminarierna dokumenterades och följdes upp med personliga intervjuer iform av sju porträtt med fokus på uppfattningar om hållbar utveckling och vilkautmaningarna är för samhälle och företag. De sju beskrivningarna och porträttenhar sedan tillsammans med intryck och observationer vid seminarierna legattill grund för fyra kapitel författade av gruppen bakom seminarieserien. MikaelLöfström, universitetslektor i företagsekonomi, skriver om gränser för hållbartföretagande, Karin M. Ekström, professor i företagsekonomi, om innebördenoch betydelsen av möten, Stefan Eklund, chefredaktör på Borås Tidning, omden digitala människan och Björn Brorström, professor i företagsekonomi, omden egentliga innebörden av hållbar utveckling. Därefter ombads författaren ochjournalisten Göran Greider att skriva ett slutord baserat på samtliga texter ochutifrån egna perspektiv på hållbar utveckling.Alla dessa delar är samlade i rapporten Hållbar framtid. Den publiceras i Högskolani Borås rapportserie Vetenskap för profession, vars syfte dels är att spridakunskap om resultat av pågående och avslutad forskning vid högskolan, dels medverkatill debatt om förhållningssätt till utbildning och forskning och högskolorsoch universitets roll och ansvar för en gynnsam samhällsutveckling.Denna rapport kommer förhoppningsvis att ligga till grund för diskussionerkring innebörden och nödvändigheten av hållbar utveckling i en bred bemärkelse.
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- Ekström, Björn
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A niche of their own : variations of information practices in biodiversity citizen science
- 2022
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In: Journal of Documentation. - : Emerald. - 0022-0418 .- 1758-7379. ; 78:7, s. 248-265
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- PurposeInformation practices become highly complex in biodiversity citizen science projects due to the projects’ large scale, distributed setting and vast inclusion of participants. This study aims to contribute to knowledge concerning what variations of information practices can be found in biodiversity citizen science and what these practices may mean for the overall collaborative biodiversity data production in such projects.Design/methodology/approachFifteen semi-structured interviews were carried out with participants engaged with the Swedish biodiversity citizen science information system Artportalen. The empirical data were analysed through a practice-theoretical lens investigating information practices in general and variations of practices in particular.FindingsThe analysis shows that the nexus of biodiversity citizen science information practices consists of observing, identifying, reporting, collecting, curating and validating species as well as decision-making. Information practices vary depending on participants’ technical know-how; knowledge production and learning; and preservation motivations. The study also found that reporting tools and field guides are significant for the formation of information practices. Competition was found to provide data quantity and knowledge growth but may inflict data bias. Finally, a discrepancy between practices of validating and decision-making have been noted, which could be mitigated by involving intermediary participants for mutual understandings of data.Originality/valueThe study places an empirically grounded information practice-theoretical perspective on citizen science participation, extending previous research seeking to model participant activities. Furthermore, the study nuances previous practice-oriented perspectives on citizen science by emphasising variations of practices.
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- Ekström, Björn
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Developing a rule-based method for identifying researchers on Twitter: The case of vaccine discussions
- 2019
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In: 17th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, ISSI 2019 - Proceedings Volume 2, 2019. - Rom. ; , s. 2618-2619
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This study seeks to develop a method for identifying the occurrences and proportions of researchers, media and other professionals active in Twitter discussions. As a case example, an anonymised dataset from Twitter vaccine discussions is used. The study proposes a method of using keywords as strings within lists to identify classes from user biographies. This provides a way to apply multiple classification principles to a set of Twitter biographies using semantic rules through the Python programming language.
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- Ekström, Björn
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Information practices in biodiversity citizen science
- 2022
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In: LIS and environmental research: what, when, how?: Panel & Open Space by C. Graminius, J. Haider, N. Cardoso, M. Fedorowicz-Kruszewska, B. Ekström and O. Pilerot, 2022.
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