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- Brommesson, Douglas, 1976-, et al.
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“Teach more, but do not expect any applause” : Are Women Doubly Discriminated Against in Universities’ Recruitment Processes?
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Academic Ethics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1570-1727 .- 1572-8544. ; 20:3, s. 437-450
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Studies repeatedly find that women and men experience life in academia differently. Importantly, the typical female academic portfolio contains less research but more teaching and administrative duties. The typical male portfolio, on the other hand, contains more research but less teaching and administration. Since previous research has suggested that research is a more valued assignment than teaching in academia, we hypothesise that men will be ranked higher in the peer-evaluations that precede hirings to tenured positions in Swedish academia. We analyze 861 peer review assessments of applicants in 111 recruitment processes in Economics, Political Science, and Sociology at the six largest Swedish universities. Our findings confirm that the premises established in previous research are valid in Sweden too: Women have relatively stronger teaching merits and men relatively stronger research merits, and also that, on balance, research is rewarded more when applicants are ranked by reviewers. Accordingly, male applicants are ranked higher compared to female applicants.
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- Bammer, G., et al.
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Expertise in research integration and implementation for tackling complex problems: when is it needed, where can it be found and how can it be strengthened?
- 2020
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Ingår i: Palgrave Communications. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2055-1045. ; 6
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Expertise in research integration and implementation is an essential but often overlooked component of tackling complex societal and environmental problems. We focus on expertise relevant to any complex problem, especially contributory expertise, divided into 'knowing-that' and 'knowing-how.' We also deal with interactional expertise and the fact that much expertise is tacit. We explore three questions. First, in examining 'when is expertise in research integration and implementation required?,' we review tasks essential (a) to developing more comprehensive understandings of complex problems, plus possible ways to address them, and (b) for supporting implementation of those understandings into government policy, community practice, business and social innovation, or other initiatives. Second, in considering 'where can expertise in research integration and implementation currently be found?,' we describe three realms: (a) specific approaches, including interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, systems thinking and sustainability science; (b) case-based experience that is independent of these specific approaches; and (c) research examining elements of integration and implementation, specifically considering unknowns and fostering innovation. We highlight examples of expertise in each realm and demonstrate how fragmentation currently precludes clear identification of research integration and implementation expertise. Third, in exploring 'what is required to strengthen expertise in research integration and implementation?,' we propose building a knowledge bank. We delve into three key challenges: compiling existing expertise, indexing and organising the expertise to make it widely accessible, and understanding and overcoming the core reasons for the existing fragmentation. A growing knowledge bank of expertise in research integration and implementation on the one hand, and accumulating success in addressing complex societal and environmental problems on the other, will form a virtuous cycle so that each strengthens the other. Building a coalition of researchers and institutions will ensure this expertise and its application are valued and sustained.
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- Kullberg, Christian, Professor, 1957-, et al.
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Förståelse, bedömningar och hjälpinsatser : Socialarbetares arbete med män som våldsoffer
- 2015
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This report outlines the background to, and presents the results from the Crime Victim Compensation and Support Authority funded project "Social Workers' understanding of men as victims of crime". The project aimed at describing and analyzing how social workers understand and work with male victims of violence. More precisely, the research has focused on how social workers describe men's vulnerability and how they understand men's needs for assistance, what assistance that is provided and the way the constellations of perpetrators and victims of different gender and contexts in which the violence occurs in affect the understanding of male victims of violence. The study has also been devoted to the question of whether the Support Centers for young crime victims in Sweden provide different types of and different amount of help to young men and women afflicted of violence. The project was conducted in three substudies.The results from substudy 1 show that more young men than women seek support from the Support centers studied. Men predominate in number of cases and in the different categories of crime. The results also show that young men on average receive less assistance over a shorter average duration than young women. This applies irrespective of the category of offense that the vulnerability applies to. Furthermore, the young men, compared to the women, proportionally receive fewer interventions characterized as support and a greater proportion of interventions in the form of information. The results also show that the young men are referred on for further action to a lesser extent than is the case for women.The results from substudy 2 show that social workers tend to focus on whether, and to what extent, young men who are victims of violence themselves have behaved provocatively before the violence incident and if they have put themselves in a social situation that could be interpreted as having contributed to an escalation of the violence they have been subjected to. The results from substudy 2 also show that social workers talk about the men as active in the violent situations they have been involved in and dwell on the extent to which the young men's own actions have contributed to the violence. The results also show that young men who are victims of violence are described as "reluctant" victims who are trying to cope with their situation on their own without the involvement of professional or other helper. The young men are also described as reluctant to talk about their feelings.The results of substudy 3 show that social workers believe that young men, when they become victims of violence, risks losing their sense of autonomy, initiative and decisiveness, that is, attributes that are often linked to the dominating cultural image of masculinity. Furthermore, the results show that social workers estimate that men's practicing of their masculinity, but also the response that men who are traumatized get from society, creates difficulties for them to get help. The results from substudy 3 also shows that attributes and actions that can be connected to the masculinity of young men's, as well as a lack of such attributes and actions are considered to be adequate explanations for the violence the men has suffered. When it comes to violence in public places it is the masculinity that explains the violence and its escalation. When it comes to domestic violence it is the lack of expected male attributes and actions that are used as explanations for the violence that have occurred.The discussion is devoted to the question of how the results should be understood based on the concepts of self-performance, interpretation, negotiation and categorizations, and the consequences the results obtained should have for gender sensitive social work given to abused men.
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- Foote, J., et al.
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Systemic evaluation of community environmental management programmes
- 2021
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Ingår i: European Journal of Operational Research. - : Elsevier. - 0377-2217 .- 1872-6860. ; 288:1, s. 207-224
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Community environmental management (CEM) involves the facilitation of community partnerships, local dialogue, consultation and participative decision-making. This is increasingly seen as a solution to some of the more complex environmental issues faced by regulatory authorities. Anecdotal evidence suggests that CEM programmes have much potential, but the evaluation of them is problematic, and there is a need for more robust evidence of their effectiveness. This paper reports on the development of a new CEM evaluation approach (inspired by soft systems methodology, developmental work research and systemic intervention), which was trialled with a New Zealand regional council. The approach shows promise in addressing common evaluation bottlenecks and helping stakeholders to develop causal narratives that more fully account for the complex relationship between community participation and environmental outcomes. However, while the local participants in the CEM initiative acted on the evaluation findings, they hoped that it would stimulate wider organisational change, and this did not happen. Project reflections, informed by institutional theory, reveal that the logics of 'participation' and 'community' implicit in the findings were appropriate for local participants, but non-participating regional council stakeholders read the findings with different logics, and therefore the evaluation failed to communicate the necessity for wider change. The reflections highlight a previously unrecognised evaluation bottleneck. While the CEM evaluation methodology has the potential to be adapted for other contexts, if wider organisational change is required, care must be taken to anticipate the different institutional logics of stakeholders who might be unfamiliar with, or even hostile to, CEM. (c) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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- Gregory, Amanda J., et al.
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Stakeholder identification and engagement in problem structuring interventions
- 2020
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Ingår i: European Journal of Operational Research. - : Elsevier. - 0377-2217 .- 1872-6860. ; 283:1, s. 321-340
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper addresses the under-researched issue of stakeholder identification and engagement in problem structuring interventions. A concise framework is proposed to aid critical reflection in the design and reporting of stakeholder identification and engagement. This is grounded in a critical-systemic epistemology, and is informed by social identity theory. We illustrate the utility of the framework with an example of a problem structuring workshop, which was part of a green innovation project on the development of a technology for the recovery of rare metals from steel slag. The workshop was initially going to be designed to surface stakeholder views on the technology itself. However, it became apparent that a range of other strategic issues concerning the future of the site were going to impact on decision making about the use of steel slag. It therefore became important to evolve the agenda for the problem structuring, and this is where the critical-systemic approach made a difference. It enabled the workshop to be reframed as a community-based event looking at how the former steelworks site could be developed for new purposes. Evaluation of this problem structuring intervention revealed significant stakeholder learning about the issues needing to be accounted for, and a range of possible options for the development of the steelworks site were explored. The paper ends with a discussion of the utility of social identity theory for understanding the processes and outcomes of the workshop, and reflections are provided on its implications for operational research practice more generally.
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- Höglund, Linda, 1972-, et al.
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Entrepreneurship a Managerial Tool for Renewal : The Case of the Swedish Public Employment Service
- 2018
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Ingår i: IRSPM Conference in Edinburgh 11-14 of April. Panel 38. Strategic management and public service performance in the New Public Governance Era. - : IRSPM - International Research Society in Public Management.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this paper is to study how strategic and entrepreneurial processes develop in a public-sector organization. We do this through the theoretical lens of Strategic Entrepreneurship (SE). Previous literature on SE practices have identified a number of organizational aspects – such as culture, structure, and leadership – that are important to manage in order to benefit from new opportunities and strategic actions. So far, there is little knowledge about SE practices in the public sector and its possible consequences. There are also few qualitative studies within SE. When more qualitative features of SE are attained, it can provide a better understanding of the phenomenon of entrepreneurship in established organizations and SE. In line with this, our study is based on a longitudinal and qualitative process approach focusing on the work of the Swedish Public Employment Services (SPES) efforts to realize its new strategy through entrepreneurial processes. The results showed that there are several tensions between previous culture, leadership and structure in relation to entrepreneurial processes. We have contributed to previous literature by focusing on the organizational aspects of these tensions and the SE practices of balancing strategic management and entrepreneurship. Our results also show how entrepreneurial processes become the solution to strategic management problems in the public sector and a managerial tool for renewal.
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- Höglund, Linda, 1972-, et al.
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Hur utmanar styrningen det strategiska arbetet? : En studie av strategisk ledning och styrning i Region Stockholm åren 2017 – 2019
- 2020
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Denna studie utgör slutrapporten av ett treårigt forskningsprojekt som genomförts i Region Stockholm under åren 2017 – 2019. Projektet är finansierat inom ramen för ett strategiskt samarbete mellan Region Stockholm och Stockholms universitet. Syftet med studien är att bidra med ökad förståelse om strategisk ledning och styrning i offentlig verksamhet utifrån teorier om hur långsiktiga samhällsvärden skapas. För att undersöka detta empiriskt har följande forskningsfrågor varit vägledande:· Hur styrs Region Stockholm?· Hur utmanar styrningen det strategiska arbetet i Region Stockholm?Den första forskningsfrågan handlar om hur Region Stockholm styrs i praktiken och den andra de utmaningar som kan uppstå när styrning och strategiskt arbete möter varandra i praktiken. Vi vet från tidigare forskning att all styrning kommer med konsekvenser som på olika sätt utmanar det strategiska arbetet. Det är detta vi har intresserat oss för i denna rapport. Det empiriska materialet är omfattande och består av två huvudsakliga delar – en dokumentstudie och en intervjustudie. För att tolka och analysera de empiriska resultaten har vi gått igenom tidigare forskning om strategisk ledning och styrning i offentlig verksamhet med fokus på teorier om hur långsiktiga samhällsvärden skapas. Teorigenomgången avslutas med att ett analytiskt ramverk formuleras vilket tar avstamp i den strategiska triangeln som är uppbyggd utifrån tre noder – samhällsvärde och mål, den auktoriserande instansen och den operativa verksamheten. Dessa tre noder behöver förstås i relation till varandra för att den offentliga organisationen ska kunna uppnå en god strategisk position som bidrar till och skapar hållbara samhällsvärden. Detta betyder att om det finns en välfungerande strategi ska det finnas ett flöde mellan de tre noderna eftersom alla noder är ömsesidigt beroende av varandra. Våra resultat visar att den allt mer standardiserade styrningen i regionen, det ökade fokuset på kvantitativa resultatmått och den allt tydligare politiska styrningen utmanar flödet mellan de tre noderna och därmed också möjligheterna till att skapa långsiktiga samhällsvärden. Våra resultat visar därtill att styrningen på flera sätt utmanar det strategiska arbetet till exempel genom otydlighet i hur verksamheten är organiserad och otydlig ansvarsfördelning, men också genom den stora mängden av styrdokument och styrformer, inkonsekventa målformuleringar, avsaknaden av indikatorer och bristande tillit mellan tjänstemän på olika nivåer, samt mellan politiker och tjänstemän.Avslutningsvis presenterar vi några frågor som Region Stockholm, och andra offentliga verksamheter, kan behöva ställa sig i relation till strategisk ledning och styrning i offentliga verksamheter. Vi berör bland annat frågan om vilken nivå den strategiska ledningen och styrningen ska läggas på? Om "one size fits all” är rätt väg att gå? Om det finns ett ökat behov av att styra samverkan? Samt om långsiktighet i det strategiska arbetet är en (o)möjlighet i offentlig sektor?
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- Höglund, Linda, 1972-, et al.
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The impact of types of trust in the public sector : a case study approach
- 2019
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Ingår i: International Journal of Public Sector Management. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 0951-3558 .- 1758-6666. ; :2, s. 247-263
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to study how different types of trust develop and change over time in the collaboration between an organization and its board.Design/methodology/approachThis paper is a response to a recent call to apply the concept of trust in understanding the collaboration between a public organization, its board, and other stakeholders. Here, the authors study a single case, and based on a longitudinal in-depth case study method covering the period of 2003–2015, the authors have conducted 27 interviews, including the CEO and all the board members.FindingsThe authors introduce and advance the concept of trust in the public sector literature on board work. This paper shows that trust is complex and multidimensional at different units of analysis. The types of trust discussed in this paper are cognitive, affective, contractual, competence, and goodwill. Different types of trust are developed to make the collaboration between a governed organization and its board to work.Research limitations/implicationsBecause this paper uses the case study method and only studies one single case, the findings of this paper might be questioned on the issue of generalization.Originality/valueThe authors conceptualize and adopt trust as a multidimensional, dynamic concept, and with different units of analyses, capture the nature of the collaboration between a public organization and its board, and its complexity.
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