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- Algehed, Jessica, et al.
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Innovationsplattformar för hållbara och attraktiva städer
- 2024
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In: Innovationsplattformar för hållbara attraktiva städer : nya sätt för kommuner att styra, leda och organisera utvecklingsarbete i samverkan /Jessica Algehed & Christian Jensen (red.).. - Lund : Nordic Academic Press. - 9789189361867
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- Algehed, Jessica, et al.
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Kommuners arbete med innovation
- 2024
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In: Innovationsplattformar för hållbara attraktiva städer : nya sätt för kommuner att styra, leda och organisera utvecklingsarbete i samverkan /Jessica Algehed & Christian Jensen (red.).. - Lund : Nordic Academic Press. - 9789189361867
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- Algehed, Jessica, et al.
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Staden som arena för innovation i samverkan
- 2024
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In: Innovationsplattformar för hållbara och attraktiva städer - Nya sätt för kommuner att styra, leda och organisera utvecklingsarbete i samverkan. - Lund : Nordi Acadmic Press. - 9789189361867
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- Jensen, Christian, 1963
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Förändra förvaltningen och förvalta förändringen
- 2024
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In: Innovationsplattformar för hållbara och attraktiva städer - nya sätt för kommuner att styr, leda och organisera utvecklingsarbete i samverkan. - Lund : Nordic Academic Press. - 9789189361867
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- Eneqvist, Erica, et al.
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Legitimacy in municipal experimental governance: questioning the public good in urban innovation practices
- 2022
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In: European Planning Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0965-4313 .- 1469-5944. ; 30:8
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Urban experiments, living labs and testbeds have emerged as influential approaches to governing cities around the world. Experimental governance allows stakeholders to trial possible futures and to embrace creativity and innovation in the pursuit of sustainability goals. Experiments are often conducted through triple helix partnerships that favour informal and distributed actions. This is a significant departure from traditional urban development processes that are informed by well-defined processes executed by public authorities to ensure the public good and are legitimated by citizens. In this paper, we investigate this tension between experimental governance and public sector legitimacy by focusing on experimental practices in two Swedish municipalities, Stockholm and Gothenburg. We gathered data through a desk-based study, participant observations and semi-structured interviews with municipal actors to investigate the input, throughput and output legitimacy of municipalities in experimental governance. The findings indicate that municipalities emphasise actions and results from experiments, while de-emphasising reflection and attention to democratic procedures and protection of the public good. The focus on legitimacy reveals the fragmented and instrumental practices of experimental governance and a deficit in organizational capacity with potential detrimental impacts on legitimacy.
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- Algehed, Jessica, et al.
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Stadslinbana i Göteborg - Att i samverkan initiera och förankra en mångbottnad idé om kollektivtrafik och framtidens stad
- 2020
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Göteborgs stadslinbana är ett ambitiöst projekt som har haft i uppdrag att utreda, projektera, bygga och driftsätta Sveriges första urbana linbana i kollektivtrafik. Arbetet med stadslinbanan har genomförts i nära samverkan mellan Göteborgs Stad, Västtrafik och Västra Götalandsregionen sedan 2011, då idén om en linbana över Göta älv initierades som ett medborgarförslag med anledning av Göteborgs kommande 400-årsjubileum. Arbetet med stadslinbanan har under åren tagit olika former, från att vara av mer utforskande karaktär till att bli ett av Göteborgs största infrastrukturprojekt med en utredningsbudget på över 100 miljoner kronor. Under våren 2019 beslutade dock Västtrafik att inte fortsätta planeringsarbetet. Hösten 2019 fattade trafikkontoret motsvarande beslut, efter att ha undersökt hur en förenklad, billigare stadslinbana skulle kunna utformas. Istället utreds alternativa kollektivtrafiklösningar för stadslinbanans föreslagna stäckning, exempelvis i form av ytterligare färjor, samt busstrafik. Anledningen var att de kostnadsuppskattningar för linbaneanläggningen som hade arbetats fram avvek alltför kraftigt från den tidigare beslutade kostnadsramen. Projektet Göteborgs Stadslinbana är därmed i skrivandets stund pausat i väntan på fortsatt politisk behandling. I denna rapport analyseras de utmaningar som projektet Göteborgs stadslinbana och dess beslutsorganisation har haft att hantera. Analysen baseras på drygt ett års följeforskning av projektet, med start hösten 2018. Forskningen bygger på ett stort antal intervjuer med projektdeltagare och intressenter, medverkan på olika möten inom projektet och tillgång till centrala projektdokument. Forskningen visar att arbetet med stadslinbanan har präglats av stora osäkerheter. Det beror till stor del på att linbanor i urban miljö är en ny kollektivtrafiklösning som inte har prövats i Sverige tidigare. Ytterligare ett starkt skäl är att projektets organisatoriska inramning har präglats av den komplexitet som uppstått genom flernivåstyrning, samverkan och multipla målbilder gällande tidsramar, förväntade kostnader och önskade kvaliteter. Rapporten lyfter fram lärdomar inom tre områden för medverkande parter att arbeta vidare med. Det handlar om vikten av att: • utveckla gränsöverskridande styr- och ledningssystem för stora infrastrukturprojekt • hitta sätt att belysa och inkludera det breda värdeskapande som infrastrukturprojekt genererar i beslutsfattandet • utveckla arbetssätt som möjliggör ett medvetet risktagande och lärande kring innovativa lösningar för hållbar kollektivtrafik och stadsutveckling. (Detta är ofta svårt inom ramen för rådande projektmodeller för infrastrukturinvesteringar, och förutsätter därför att nya lösningar ges en bredare inramning som utvecklingsprojekt betraktat.) Syftet med följeforskningen har varit att analysera projektet och arbetet med stadslinbanan, för att därigenom stärka processen och bidra till medverkande organisationers lärande. Forskningen har genomförts av en forskargrupp med kompetens inom organisation och management, finansiell ekonomi och innovationsledning i nära samarbete med projektledare och projektägare på Göteborgs trafikkontor och Västtrafik.
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- Algehed, Jessica, et al.
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Innovation + stadsutveckling = sant?
- 2019
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In: Innovation och stadsutveckling – en forskningsantologi om organiseringsutmaningar för stad och kommun. - Borås : Stema. - 9789189049086
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- Sandoff, Anders, 1965, et al.
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The Business of Creating Attractive, Sustainable and Accountable Cities - A New Narrative for Economic Growth
- 2019
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In: Clute International Conferences, Maui, Hawaii, 1-5 jan 2019.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This paper compiles and analyses observations, arguments, and trends in the field of sustainable urban development, with a specific focus on collaborative innovation and how this, in many western countries, outlines a new narrative for economic growth. It tries to merge cities´ aspiration of being attractive, business interests of providing solutions to societal challenges and development of testbeds through multilevel innovation support schemes. All over the western world, there is an increasing interest in using cities as test beds or living labs for addressing societal challenges and developing solutions. Through real-life test and demonstration, cities and businesses hope for better products and services, accelerated market development and cost-effective solutions to sustainability challenges. The paper explains why attractiveness has become a central goal for cities and how urban infrastructures play a role in addressing both social and environmental challenges and business development simultaneously. Together with national and international industry strategies and support schemes, this forms a new growth narrative. Although a potentially potent strategy, it puts pressure on municipalities to balance the double ambition of sustainable urban development and business development with public administrative core values.
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- Jensen, Christian, 1963, et al.
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Policy implementation in the era of accelerating projectification: Synthesizing Matland's conflict-ambiguity model and research on temporary organizations
- 2018
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In: Public Policy and Administration. - : SAGE Publications. - 0952-0767 .- 1749-4192. ; 33:4, s. 447-465
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- It has become increasingly common to use the project as a form of organization when implementing public policies. Previous research has identified political, administrative and organizational motives behind this trend towards more project-based organizations within the public administration. The problem is that project-based organization carries inherent problems and special challenges when these projects are supposed to be implemented in permanent agencies and organizations. The purpose of this paper is to identify problems and challenges that public administrations face when ‘the project organization’ is used as a structural form of organization in implementing different kinds of public policies. The article takes its starting point in the policy implementation research and especially in Matland’s conflict-ambiguity model. This research tradition is complemented by a review of research on temporary organizations, which draws attention to some inherent and significant characteristics of project organizations, that is the concepts of entity, relationship and time. Our analysis shows that the use of project organization puts special demands on the players involved, and if these are not taken into account, there is a high risk that projects designed to bring about social change will not produce the effects that policymakers and citizens expect.
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- Sandoff, Anders, 1965, et al.
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Staden som arena för innovation - En studie av transformativ kapacitet, kommunens roll och Vinnovas påverkan
- 2018
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Städer har under de senaste decennierna fått en delvis annan betydelse än tidigare och betraktas i allt större utsträckning som både en källa och en lösning till dagens ekonomiska, miljömässiga och sociala utmaningar. Därmed pekas städer ut som en viktig arena och aktör för samhällets utveckling. Städer har av flera även bedömts komplettera eller i vissa fall till och med ta över mycket av den initiativkraft, förmåga och ansvar som tidigare varit så tydligt förknippat med nationalstaternas olika uppgifter. Förståelse för städers roll, kapacitet och utmaningar att bedriva samhällsutmaningsdriven innovation är därmed central för vår kunskap om förutsättningarna för en hållbar samhällsutveckling. Trots detta är kunskaps-området relativt outforskat. Den här studien undersöker hur Vinnovas insatser har bidragit till att utveckla svenska städers förmåga att arbeta med systeminnovationer för en hållbar samhällsutveckling. Ambitionen är att bidra till en konceptuell förståelse för hur statligt innovationsstöd påverkar städers arbete med komplexa samhällsutmaningar och vilka möjligheter och svårigheter som dagens utformning av statliga innovationsinsatser innebär på lokal nivå. Därmed tillför studien ett aktörsperspektiv på de mer sektors- och systemorienterade teoribildningar som delvis legat till grund för Vinnovas satsningar under senare år. Effektanalyser är en central del i Vinnovas policylärande. Genom fördjupade analyser av olika insatser, dess effekter och effektmekanismer nås viktiga policyinsikter för vidareutveckling av Vinnovas insatser. Föreliggande effektanalys avses bidra till Vinnovas förståelse för i vilken utsträckning våra insatser har betydelse för utveckling av staden som bärare och arena för systeminnovation, det vill säga systemförändring för att möta samhällsutmaningar.
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- Algehed, Jessica, et al.
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A municipality wide innovation strategy – decreasing or increasing the wickedness of urban sustainability challenges?
- 2017
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In: 21st International Research Society on Public Management Conference, Budapest, 19-21 April, 2017.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Cites across the world are facing a range of multi-faceted urban challenges – wicked problems – such as increasing polarization and social exclusion, requirements to build environmentally friendly housing and infrastructure, involve and manage a wide span of stakeholder interests (i.e. businesses and citizens), while managing limited resources prudently. At the same time, many cities are understood as motors of national economic development, cultural exchange and knowledge generation. Thus, cites are at the same time seen as the solution to their own emerging challenges. This in turn puts a larger focus on local government within cities as important agents of change, which can be seen not at least by the fast growing interest for urban issues among multinational companies and the increasing number of national and international agencies steering their agenda and support towards urban issues. “Innovation” and “collaboration” are two major process responses to complex urban challenges that are currently being suggested by local government in many cities, as well as by private sector stakeholders and national agencies. In general, these new ideas of network governance put an increased pressure on local governments to be more holistic, be able to collaborate with many different stakeholders (and institutional logics), be more flexible, act fast, and show more visible leadership. However, due to organizational limitations, legal structures and lack or human and financial resources most local government are truly challenged by this new role. In response to the discourse mentioned above the two largest cites in Sweden, Stockholm and Gothenburg, are currently developing comprehensive innovation strategies as a way to strategically manage the growing demand for innovative urban solutions. The scope of the innovation strategy in Gothenburg, also being the case analysed in this paper, is to develop a joint framework for innovation for the whole range of municipal responsibilities of the City of Gothenburg (i.e. the local government), including everything from social policy, urban planning and strategies for growth and development. The prevailing idea is that collaboration within the local government as such, as well as in relation to external stakeholders within industry, academia and the civil society is a key enabler. Cross-sectorial collaboration and comprehensive innovation strategies might be a reasonable policy response for urban challenges and wicked problems. However, since the difficulty of such transformation process is rarely to introduce new ideas but rather to change the prevailing procedures and established logics, we claim that in order to fully understand the challenges and possibilities of realizing a compressive innovation strategy it is crucial to understand and compare the similarities and differences between the operating logics of the different sectors within the local governmental organization. In this paper we therefore aim to describe and analyse the main factors that facilitate and hinder different sectors within local government to deal with innovation in general and to collaborate internally and externally with different stakeholders in particular. Hereby we want to contribute to a discussion on wickedness vigorously in progress within urban development (Bekkers et al, 2011: Ansell and Torfing, 2014).
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- Godenhjelm, Sebastian, et al.
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Projects as enabling strategy and restrictive implementation structure – implications for change and innovation in the Public Sector
- 2017
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In: International Research Society on Public Management Conference, Budapest, 2017.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Challenges brought on by both global and domestic developments have increased the need to transform society and the economy by means of new operating models and structures. As a result, the increasing use of temporary governance mechanism such as the proliferation of projects can be regarded as one of the most significant changes within the contemporary public sector. The developments brought forth by an increasing use of projects include both possibilities and challenges. The possibilities, for instance, relate to the assumption that projects are able to operate in complex environments compared to traditional bureaucratic structures. The isolation of issues and focus on outputs makes them attractive tools by which innovations are expected to emerge, and they include an element of order in complex and at times “wicked” environments. Particularly the Nordic countries have witnessed a considerable increase in collaborative structures such as projects, partnerships and networks for facilitating innovation and change. Projects include a strong element of change and have even been referred to as innovative learning organisations. Their ability to cut across organizational boundaries and include relevant stakeholder suggest that they have the necessary preconditions for innovations to emerge. These preconditions not only include the projects´ ability to foster a new way of thinking but also the ability to forget previous knowledge in order to learn something new. The expectation is that the results achieved in projects will be transferred to either other project organisations or more permanent organisations, structures or networks with ease. This paper analyses the extent to which this happens in a public sector context. The use of projects in a public sector are to a great extent embedded in a complex institutional context, which to a great extent rests on a logic paved by permanency, coordination and continuity. There are, however, still considerable ambiguities as for the specific institutional prerequisites favouring a long-term consolidation of innovative actions and impacts, particularly in a public context. While previous research has acknowledged the need to expand traditional theories of temporary organisations, and that the contextual embeddedness and institutional recoupling of the results obtained by projects in the public sector need to be addressed, the key mechanisms for facilitating impacts of public sector project innovations in order to secure the long-term utilization of project innovations remain unclear. The significance of the underlying permanent structure in enabling or hindering the implementation of innovative project results has so far been neglected in both the contemporary project management and the extensive governance debate. The purpose of this paper is to present a theoretical discussion about the challenge of transferring innovative results gains in projects to permanent organisations in a public sector context and how this can be studied. The paper thus falls within the critical project management paradigm and aims to contribute to a more pluralistic understanding of projects beyond traditional project management heritage.
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- Jensen, Christian, 1963, et al.
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Projektledning i offentliga organisationer - Om att genomföra förändring i välfärdssektorn
- 2017
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Book (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Projekt som organisationsform har blivit allt vanligare inom den offentliga sektorn och därmed också inom välfärdssektorns kärnområden: vården, omsorgen och skolan. Att organisera i projekt utlovar en början och ett slut och däremellan nyskapande, experimenterande och entreprenörskap. Det utlovar såväl ordning och kontroll som frihet och gränsöverskridande. I boken presenteras fyra typer av projekt som är vanligt förekommande i offentlig sektor: förändringsprojekt, försöksprojekt, samverkansprojekt och uppdragsprojekt. Men framför allt får läsaren verktyg för att kunna förstå omgivningens avgörande betydelse för projektets genomförande och resultat. Boken innehåller mångas konkreta exempel. Projektledning i offentlig sektor vänder sig till alla som vill ha en djupare förståelse för villkoren att bedriva projekt i offentliga organisationer. Den är lämplig att använda på alla nivåer av akademiska utbildningar och för de som ägnar sig åt organisationsutveckling.
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- Williamsson, Jon, 1978, et al.
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Complementing the conceptual toolbox for sustainable transition – defining the business logic concept.
- 2017
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In: 8th International Sustainability Transitions Conference, Gothenburg, 18-21 June 2017..
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Researchers and practitioners frequently rely on models and analytical concepts in order to understand the world around them. Two concepts from the field of business strategy research, the industry value chain and the business model, are at the center of attention in relation to the transition towards sustainable business practices (cf. Markard et al. 2012; Boons et al. 2013). The industry value chain, i.e. supply chain, has for example been presented as a tool that is useful when developing inter-firm collaboration that may support a more equal distribution of costs and value among actors involved in the production process (Vurro et al. 2009). The business model has been declared as playing a key role in the commercialization process, taking sustainable technology from concept to market and facilitating the technological transformation towards a more sustainable society (Bocken et al. 2014). Both concepts portray important aspects of business management and it is fairly common to see them being used together in discussions about innovation and change. The concepts also have implications in relation to each other. For example, in a competitive market setting each firm is supposed to have a business model to generate value (Teece 2010). This implies that each firm active in an industry value chain must have a business model. Consequently, these two concepts are powerful analytical tools that both frame the object of study (i.e. the firm and the value chain) and influence perceptions of other analytical concepts. Much of business related research conducted on sustainability deals with the question of organizational change and particularly obstacles to such change (Benn et al. 2014). Both the value chain and the business model facilitate change towards sustainability, but since their analytical focus is on the business or a particular value chain, they often fail to address the general logic behind the way business is conducted in a particular sector or industry. Key factors in relation to managerial decision making such as industry structure, policy setting and management traditions are missing. Currently there is no commonly accepted analytical concept that could provide an anchor point for comparison, covering such a broad span of factors. We believe that such a concept would increase the usefulness of the other two by identifying business-specific reasons for why transition does happen or not. In this paper we propose that the concept of ‘business logic’ may fill this role. We suggest that ‘business logic’ can be used to describe what characterizes the general understanding of an industry on issues such as production technology, value creation, regulation and stakeholder relationships. The ‘business logic’ may be conceptualized as a description of a number of factors and conditions, providing a starting point for understanding an established business and its conditions for change. One important difference between the ‘business logic’ and the other two concepts is its focus on structural circumstances that define the conditions for their content and evolution. Hence, the ‘business logic’ can be seen as a description of critical success factors that a business model or value chain should manage successfully. The business logic establishes the contours within which a manager may expect business models and value chains to function. Consequently, as the business logic changes so does the space within which business models and value chains evolve. The business logic concept thus represents a general logic for change in relation to both concepts. The paper aims to explore analytical weaknesses with the value chain and business model concepts in relation to sustainable transition and present the ‘business logic’ concept as a facilitating tool when working with this issue. The paper is based on a literature review coupled with selected representative cases that support key arguments presented in the paper.
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- Williamsson, Jon, 1978, et al.
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Innovation between municipality and market: Re-imagining the self, the other and the link in-between.
- 2017
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In: NFF 2017, 23 -25 August 2017, Bodø Norway..
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Innovation is often postulated as panacea for a diverse number of organizational and societal ailments. While innovation is often hailed in the private sector the public sector is less familiar with the concept, even though innovation is far from rare within that context. Currently there is tentative work conducted by the Swedish government to establish competence around innovation in municipal organizations. Innovation does entail change and in the case of municipal innovation support it implies a pursuit of transformation in relation to not only the attitudes and behaviors of public and private actors but also change in the terms that regulate the relationship between them. Since the public and private realms are driven by different normative value sets the question of what it is that should change is contentious. The problem of assigning change is thus a key issue that the involved individuals have to manage in relation to their own institutional realities. The purpose of this paper is to explore how members of a municipal innovation project and a governmental agency infuse meaning into the idea of innovation for sustainable and attractive cities by discussing change in themselves, their organization, their counterparts and the relation between them. The study shows how the sensemaking conducted by the interlocutors relies on reimagining “the other” in a game of representation in which the sensemaker postulates often conflicting needs and desires of the private and the public. Despite presenting the project as a success, particularly in relation to individual and organizational learning about innovation and sustainability, the project members experienced considerable dissonance when trying to manifest innovation as change in ways of organizing and behaving. In the end the initial goals of innovation that required a high degree of change were mitigated so that they conformed to existing institutional agendas. This was done in order to maintain or build alliances that could survive beyond the limited timeframe of the project. In order to remain innovative the obligation to change shifted away from the self, the other and their relationship, i.e. change in behavior and organizing, towards the physical space that these actors cohabited. This way of defusing change by shifting the focus of innovation was elevated as a way to manifest success outwards but was internally seen as somewhat of a failure. The study shows the danger of using innovation as a driving idea behind change without a strong connection between project members and parent organizations.
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- Williamsson, Jon, 1978, et al.
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Municipal innovation support and business model influence – The case of municipal innovation platforms.
- 2017
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In: Business Model Conference, Venice, Italy.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This study explores how municipal innovation support structures, called innovation platforms, function in relation to business development and what potential there is for innovation platforms to influence business models. The study followed four innovation platforms over a period of two and a half year and is based on interviews with platform stakeholders. The results indicate that the platforms work with norm setting to filter and influence the business model innovation of platform clients. More exactly the platforms rely on the use of formal and informal tools and activities to directly and indirectly support and select between clients. The results from the study also indicates a directionality in the support of particular clients based on their characteristics. Clients with established business models, i.e. incumbent firms, were comfortable with the more formal and direct support and gradually moved towards less formal and indirect support in order to interact with clients with potential solutions to their challenges and with a higher degree of flexibility in relation to the configuration of their business models. From the more informal and indirect side clients that suited the platform themes would be approached by platform staff and guided by platform material towards more formal ways of support. The study highlights the need for further research into the influence of open innovation structures on business model innovation for both incumbents and new ventures.
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- Williamsson, Jon, 1978, et al.
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Organizing for innovation between municipality and market: Knowing the where and when but missing the what and how.
- 2017
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In: NFF 2017, 23 -25 August 2017, Bodø, Norway..
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The spread of ideas stemming from the wave of market liberalization that swept the western world during the decades before the millennium has led to considerable changes in how the public sector acts on innovation and envisions the relation between the private and public sectors. Especially in the Nordic countries the realization that the municipality can facilitate demand driven innovation and steer value creation in specific directions has meant that municipalities have been re-conceptualized as potential engines for innovation. Innovation is commonly not thought of as something that is part of the municipal agenda. Consequently there is the potential for considerable cognitive dissonance among individuals active in municipal organizations that strive to incorporate innovation into the organizational agenda. Attempting to both boost innovation locally and foster innovation within the municipality organization four Swedish municipalities engaged in a two and a half year long project with the aim of establishing so called innovation platforms for sustainable and attractive cities. The content that each municipality filled these platforms with was to an extent decided by the governmental call that initiated the work with the platforms. As a consequence the location and the timeframe was defined however the call introduced the bidders to a language and conceptual world that to a large degree was new in that specific context. It was therefore up to both the creators of the call and the bidders who won to find out what this new phenomenon, i.e. a municipal innovation platform, actually would mean both for the municipalities, their stakeholders and the government. Through an at first hesitant process of organization building each group created platform specific goals, alliances and work routines that were considered as useful in building and maintaining these new organizations. The study indicates that the value of innovation platforms does not manifest itself through what could be termed a rationalistic usefulness derived from the platforms’ organizational form or location, somewhere on the border between municipality and private sector, but rather from the collective learning experience that these projects offered to individuals and organizations. Through the imagining and enactment of key concepts linked to the platforms the individuals and organizations accrued knowledge and different forms of capital that were used both in the everyday management of the platforms and as a basis to build future projects on.
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- Sandoff, Anders, 1965, et al.
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Innovationsplattformar för hållbara attraktiva städer
- 2016
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- Samspel mellan lokala aktörer så som näringsliv, kommun och universitet har historiskt sett spelat en viktig roll i utvecklingen av innovationer men det är först relativt nyligen som ansvaret för innovationsstöttande åtgärder aktivt förflyttats till den kommunala nivån. Denna rapport beskriver resultaten från den följeforskningsinsats som varit kopplad till Vinnovasatsningen Innovationsplattformar för hållbara attraktiva städer. Satsningen tar sin utgångspunkt i ett stöd till fyra städer (Göteborg, Malmö, Lund och Borås) att under två år bygga upp en ny form av lokal innovationsstödjande samverkanskapacitet. Studien som rapporten bygger på gick ut på att följa och beskriva utvecklingen av innovationsplattformarnas verksamhet, analysera informationen ur ett innovationsperspektiv samt återföra resultaten till innovationsplattformarna och Vinnova. Syftet var därför att skapa kunskap om innovationsprocesser kopplat till hållbar stadsutveckling och möjliggöra ett fördjupat lärande mellan innovationsplattformarna. Således utgjorde följeforskningsinsatsen en del av de lärprocesser som varit kopplade till plattformarnas utvecklingsarbete. Kopplat till följeforskningen gjordes även en inventering av hur liknande arbete organiserats i andra delar av världen. Sammanfattningsvis indikerar resultaten följande: • Innovationsplattformarna har skapat en ökad lokal kapacitet att bedriva innovationsfrågor inom ramen för hållbar stadsutveckling. • Satsningen har gjort avtryck inte bara i själva plattformen utan även på en kommunal nivå och hos de deltagande organisationerna på ett sådant sätt att det skapats legitimitet för arbetets fortsättning. • Erfarenheterna visar att arbetet med att etablera innovationsplattformarna tagit längre tid och mer resurser i anspråk än vad ursprungligen antogs. Förklaringar till detta har varit utmaningar att etablera samverkansformer och en oerfarenhet med innovationskonceptet som sådant, särskilt avseende hur det skall förstås i en kommunal stadsutvecklingskontext. • Viktiga arbetsområden för innovationsplattformarna har varit att tolka begrepp, bygga kunskap, säkra politiskt kapital och skapa metoder för att förverkliga brett förankrade innovationsprocesser. • Utvecklingen av Innovationsplattformarna har inneburit utmaningar framförallt avseende tolkningen av olika aktörers traditionella roller. Delvis har det inneburit att det kommunala och privata har glidit in i varandras sfärer och utmanat etablerade uppfattningar om ansvar, professioner och ageranden. • Denna utveckling har kommit att utmana existerande rättsliga strukturer och bäddar för framtida spänningar inom den byråkratiska förvaltningskulturen, de kommunala kompetensreglerna och EUs konkurrensrättsliga regler. • Vid en internationell jämförelse framgår att den svenska satsningen på innovationsplattformar nyttjar aktuella och internationellt gångbara arbetssätt men 7 behöver stärkas genom ytterligare kopplingar till innovationssystem på både nationellt och internationellt plan. • Satsningen kan i ett vidare sammanhang ses som en lärplattform inte bara avseende stadsutvecklingsinnovation i samverkan utan även för en ny form av kommunal administrativ logik som bygger på att det kommunala uppdraget till vissa delar definieras och löses genom en bredare samverkan med olika intressenter, s.k. New Public Governance.
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The entrepreneurial multi-party sustainability initiative of a chemical cluster - Barriers at the interface between subsidiaries and parent companies
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In: EGOS, 7-9 July 2016, Naples.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Multinational enterprises (MNEs) can act as resourceful players in solving global sustainability issues, although the extent to which they are prepared to take responsibility is highly debated. This paper touches upon this issue in the context of the chemical industry. Given its current dependence on fossil fuel feedstocks and the co-production of substantial CO2 emissions, the chemical industry plays an important role in climate change mitigation. Green chemistry, introducing new products and process technologies based on biogenic feedstock, is one of the possible solutions put forward to improve the chemical industry’s sustainability, although mayor challenges yet remain unsolved. Little attention has so far been paid to the relation between headquarters and subsidiaries with respect to sustainability issues. The purpose of this paper is to presents novel insights on the organizational barriers encountered at the interface of subsidiaries and headquarters in relation to an entrepreneurial multi-party sustainability initiative. Subsidiaries can leverage location and engage in initiatives that may generate new technological knowledge and competences, potentially triggering strategic renewal of the MNE. However, in practice, MNEs tend to be skeptical to entrepreneurial efforts in subsidiaries and frequently discourage or hinder such initiatives. This paper reports on a case study of five subsidiaries in a chemical cluster in Sweden, promoting their joint vision for sustainable chemistry with their respective headquarters. The study, covering the first three years of the joint sustainability initiative, shows that the barriers at the interface of subsidiaries and headquarters can be categorized as financial, conceptual, cultural and structural. Studying the consequences of such barriers revealed that limitations were managed in innovative ways. However, advancing green chemistry in the studied companies is a difficult task as long as sustainability initiatives are assessed along the same evaluation criteria as any commercial project within the MNEs. To judge from this study, it is currently highly uncertain whether large multinational chemical firms are prepared to leave business as usual and make concessions to more firmly address global sustainability challenges, green chemistry and sustainability.
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- Bladini, Filip, 1958, et al.
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Planerarens roll i förändring
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In: Tillväxt kräver planering. - Karlskrona : Boverket och Tillväxtverket. - 9789175632940 ; , s. 38-47
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Idag handlar stadsutveckling om komplexa utmaningar där förmågan att hantera frågor om hållbar utveckling sätts på prov. Samverkan inom och mellan olika offentliga kompetensområden, medborgare och näringsliv blir allt viktigare. Men detta ställer också helt nya krav på de förvaltningsprocesser som formar stadsutvecklingen. I det här kapitlet belyser författarna hur planerarnas profession håller på att förändras och pekar på vilka strukturella, organisatoriska och individuella utmaningar som påverkar samverkan med näringslivet.
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Towards green chemistry: the multi-party sustainability initiative of a chemical cluster - Spanning the boundaries between subsidiary and parent company.
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In: EGOS Post-Doctoral & Early Career Scholars Pre-Colloquium Workshop.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Challenges to the legitimacy of the chemical industry, among other reasons, have led the industry to embrace sustainability, although to make significant improvements, innovations that re-conceptualize the industry and its products are required. The chemical cluster on the Swedish west coast engaged in multi-party collaboration, jointly adopting the vision Sustainable Chemistry 2030. The vision states that “In 2030, the west coast will be the hub for the production of sustainable products within the chemical industry. Our business will be based on renewable feedstock and energy, and contribute to a sustainable society.” The realization of the vision not only demands well-developed cooperation between the five cluster firms, new technologies and the removal of several non-technical barriers. Given foreign ownership, also the support of the respective parent company (MNE) is required. This paper reports on a case study of the cluster firms’ efforts to span the boundaries between subsidiary and MNE headquarters with regard to Sustainable Chemistry 2030, investigating the dynamics and barriers at this interface for advancing green chemistry. The preliminary analysis gives at hand that the barriers encountered can be divided into three main categories; cognitive, conceptual and structural barriers. Of highest concern for advancing green chemistry and corporate sustainability more generally is the fact that the cluster’s sustainability initiative is assessed along the same evaluation criteria as any commercial project within each MNE. This gives reasons to question whether and to what extent MNEs in the chemical industry are prepared to contribute to solving global sustainability challenges.
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