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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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- Axelsson, Karin, et al.
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Entrepreneurship in a School Setting : Constructing a Generation of Self-Conducted Managers?
- 2015
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Ingår i: 29th RENT conference, 2015. - : EIASM.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: to enhance our understanding of how entrepreneurship is translated into the school setting and possible consequences of its interpretations in regard to citizens and the surrounding society. Design/methodology/approach – We take a discourse approach drawing upon governmentality and the concepts of program and technology. In this paper we have a specific focus on how a programmatic initiative - a strategy for implementing entrepreneurship in schools - is made operable in practice by means of a technology – a competence development initiative - which is something that so far has been scarce in prior research. Findings – The results shows the process of how entrepreneurship gets translated into a new discourse of an entrepreneurial approach, which takes on a broader perspective including a life-long learning, cooperation with the society and democratic values. In this way stretching the program beyond its initial intentions. Moreover, that the entrepreneurial approach could come with unintended consequences that are related to democratic values which the discourse tend to marginalize or exclude. Originality/value of the paper – There has been a lack of studies that focus on the process of how programs of entrepreneurship is translated and made operable in the school setting. We are also questioning what is often taken for granted when it comes to entrepreneurship in schools i.e. what is good for business is good for education and society in large
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- Axelsson, Karin, et al.
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Introducing Entrepreneurship in a School Setting - Entrepreneurial Learning as the Entrance Ticket
- 2015
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Ingår i: The 8th International Conference for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development. - Sheffield : Sheffield University. ; , s. 756-772, s. 756-772
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The prevailing economic world order relies on financial progress and business development, and entrepreneurship is seen as an important means to achieve this. To inspire the development of an entrepreneurial mind-set among citizens, public initiatives through education has improved and consequently entrepreneurship education is booming. Positioning our research within the discussion regarding entrepreneurship as a broader societal phenomenon, our contribution lies within a much less researched context – entrepreneurship in the lower secondary school. In this context we focus on the teachers’ perspective to investigate how they approach entrepreneurship and what they actually do when teaching it. Our results indicate that there has been a change in terminology from entrepreneurship to entrepreneurial learning. Furthermore, there has been a change in practice. The empirics show that an entrepreneurial learning approach includes real-life connected projects, collaboration with the surrounding community and practising entrepreneurial skills. Adding to this, working with entrepreneurial learning has in this context resulted in enhancing the motivation of pupils as well as a changed perspective on teaching and learning. Our theoretical contribution lies within the literature on societal entrepreneurship, providing a conceptual model of entrepreneurship education in lower secondary education which is an attempt to clarify and enrich the discussion the discussion on a definition of entrepreneurship in a school setting.
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- Catasús, Bino, 1962-, et al.
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The Communication of Human Accounts : Examining models of sensegiving
- 2009
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Ingår i: Human Resource Costing and Accounting. - : Emerald. - 1401-338X .- 1758-745X. ; 13:2, s. 163-179
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Abstract:Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to reflect on how sensegiving cues are encapsulated in models of reporting for human resources. This has been by investigating elements, arguments and formats of the models. Design/methodology/approach – This paper focuses on the three discourses of human resource reporting that Jan-Erik Gröjer is a part of. This paper is an appreciation of the importance of Jan-Erik's work in the field of human resource communication as well as an illustration of how ideas and models changes over time.Findings – The paper concludes that: there is no coherent idea of how sensegiving should be made in order to affect the sensemaking processes of human resources, the models emanate from different forms of critiques and the sensegiving cues change accordingly, and accounting for human resources has an ethical dimension.Practical implications – The choice of model for reporting on human resources affects not only the content of the human resource report (the what and how question), but also affected by which arguments are considered as most efficient in the sensegiving process.Originality/value – The paper contributes to the understanding of how sensemaking is dependent on which sensegiving cues bring forward in the accounts of human accounts.
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- Eriksson, Kim, 1990-, et al.
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Strategic management accounting for change and flexibility
- 2024
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Ingår i: The Routledge Handbook of Public Sector Accounting. - : Routledge. - 9781032282510 - 9781003295945 ; , s. 111-123
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In public sector organizations, strategies and management accounting are often developed with the ambition of providing a combination of long-term objectives and short-term evaluations. This combination is sometimes labelled Strategic Management Accounting (SMA). The purpose of this chapter is to enhance our knowledge about SMA in the public sector context. We do this through a qualitative study of the Swedish Public Employment Service, which in 2020 launched a new strategic direction to manage changes in the agency’s environment, along with a balance scorecard (BSC). The research question for this case was: How is the BSC used by a public sector agency as an SMA tool? Our results show that the agency’s operational managers and controllers use the BSC as an SMA tool to create active management and control, while at the same time being reactive with a short-term focus. We address these results in relation to an idea of flexibilization, more specifically the desire to become a flexible agency that can change and adapt to short-term changes.
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- Hasche, Nina, 1974-, et al.
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Intra-organizational trust in public organizations - the study of interpersonal trust in both vertical and horizontal relationships from a bidirectional perspective
- 2021
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Ingår i: Public Management Review. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1471-9037 .- 1471-9045. ; 23:12, s. 1768-1788
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this paper is to enhance our understanding of intra-organizational trust in public organizations by studying interpersonal trust in both vertical and horizontal relationships from a bidirectional perspective. Previous research has focused on trust at a single level of analysis, ignoring influences from other organizational levels, which has led to gaps in our understanding of trust. In addition, few studies take a bidirectional perspective where a trustor is simultaneously a trustee and vice versa. Through a case study, we contributed to filling this gap by studying the antecedents of trust - ability, benevolence and integrity.
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