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- Berglund, Karin, et al.
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Women's entrepreneurship, neoliberalism and economic justice in the postfeminist era : a discourse analysis of policy change in Sweden
- 2018
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 25:5, s. 531-556
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Since the early 1990s, there has been investment in women's entrepreneurship policy (WEP) in Sweden, which continued until 2015. During the same period, Sweden assumed neoliberal policies that profoundly changed the position of women within the world of work and business. The goals for WEP changed as a result, from entrepreneurship as a way to create a more equal society, to the goal of unleashing women's entrepreneurial potential so they can contribute to economic growth. To better understand this shift we approach WEP as a neoliberal governmentality which offers women 'entrepreneurial' or 'postfeminist' subject positions. The analysis is inspired by political theorist Nancy Fraser who theorized the change as the displacement of socioeconomic redistribution in favour of cultural recognition, or identity politics. We use Fraser's concepts in a discourse analysis of Swedish WEP over two decades, identifying two distinct discourses and three discursive displacements. Whilst WEP initially gave precedence to a radical feminist discourse that called for women's collective action, this was replaced by a postfeminist neoliberal discourse that encouraged individual women to assume an entrepreneurial persona, start their own business, compete in the marketplace and contribute to economic growth. The result was the continued subordination of women business owners, but it also obscured or rendered structural problems/solutions, and collective feminist action, irrelevant.
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- Hård, Ursula, et al.
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Kvinnors företagande : arbetsmarknadsbeteende och organisatorisk lösning
- 2007
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I dagens Sverige lyfts ofta småföretag och entreprenörer fram. Företagandet diskuteras dock ofta separat från både arbetsmarknad och övriga näringslivet. Därmed negligeras att individer växlar mellan att vara sin egen och ha anställning, det vill säga att företagandet ofta är ett sätt för individen att navigera på arbetsmarknaden snarare än drivet av en stark önskan att vara sin egen. Inte heller uppmärksammas att små företag ofta startas och drivs som en direkt konsekvens av stora organisationers strategier - det vill säga företagandet är en organisatorisk lösning på en stor organisations problem, inte uttryck för en individs starka vilja att vara sin egen. I studien ges exempel på företagande av dessa slag. Det första exemplet bygger på Ursula Hårds studier av kvinnor som följt en starta-eget-kurs i en norrlandskommun och det andra på Malin Tillmars studier av företagande i anslutning till den offentliga sektorns omvandling. Det första fallet är ett exempel på företagande som arbetsmarknadsbeteende, det sistnämnda på företagande som organisatorisk lösning. Företagandet som skapat, och skapare av, genussystemet är tydligt i fallen och diskuteras i studien.
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- Hermansson, Cecilia, 1962-, et al.
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The impact of financial literacy and financial interest on risk tolerance
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance. - : Elsevier B.V.. - 2214-6350 .- 2214-6369. ; 29
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We investigate and compare the effects of financial literacy and financial interest on risk tolerance, evaluating not only at the means, but also the whole distribution. We use a unique sample of 12,156 Swedish bank customers combining bank-register data with survey data. Results show that both financial literacy and financial interest are associated with higher risk tolerance. They further show that the impact of financial interest is significantly higher than the impact of financial literacy. Differences are also observed across the distribution. Quantile regressions show that financial interest has its greatest association at the medium-to-high range of risk tolerance, whereas financial literacy shows its greatest association at the lower range of risk tolerance. Findings contribute to the literature on risk tolerance, specifically pointing to the relevance of the noncognitive trait; interest, to individuals’ risk tolerance.
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- Berglund, Karin, 1967-, et al.
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Conceptualising feminist resistance in the postfeminist terrain
- 2023
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Ingår i: Gender in Management. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 1754-2413 .- 1754-2421. ; 38:2, s. 183-199
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: In this paper, women entrepreneurs are seen as leaders and women leaders as entrepreneurial, making both groups an easy target of postfeminist expectations, governed by calls to embody the entrepreneurial self. Acknowledging that the entrepreneurial self has its roots in the universal, rational and autonomous subject, which was shaped in a male form during the Enlightenment, the purpose of this study is to conceptualise feminist resistance as a process through which the autonomous subject can be de-stabilised. Design/methodology/approach: Empirically, this study draws on an extensive research project on women's rural entrepreneurship that includes 32 in-depth interviews with women entrepreneurs in rural Sweden. This study interpreted expressions of resistance from the women by using an analytical framework the authors developed based on Jonna Bornemark's philosophical treatise. Findings: Feminist resistance unfolds as an interactive and iterative learning process where the subject recognises their voice, strengthens their voice and beliefs in a relational process and finally sees themselves as a fully fledged actor who finds ways to overcome obstacles that get in their way. Conceptualising resistance as a learning process stands in sharp contrast to the idea of resistance as enacted by the autonomous self. Research limitations/implications: This study helps researchers to understand that what they may have seen as a sign of weakness among women, is instead a sign of strength: it is a first step in learning resistance that may help women create a life different from that prescribed by the postfeminist discourse. In this way, researchers can avoid reproducing women as "weak and inadequate". Originality/value: Through the re-writing of feminist resistance, the masculine entrepreneurship discourse including the notion of the autonomous self is challenged, and a counternarrative to the postfeminist entrepreneurial woman is developed. Theorising resistance as a learning practice enables a more transforming research agenda, making it possible to see women as resisting postfeminist expectations of endless competition with themselves and others.
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- Berglund, Karin Anna Elisabeth, et al.
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Using pictures and artefacts in a PAR process to disclose new wor(l)ds of entrepreneurship
- 2012
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Ingår i: Action Research. - : SAGE Publications. - 1476-7503 .- 1741-2617. ; 10:3, s. 276-292
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Drawing on Freire, this article elaborates on how pictures and artefacts benefit processes of 'prise de conscience' and 'conscientization' among those with powerful voices. Wor(l)d-making was unfolded in the Swedish think-and-do tank, 'the Smithy', emphasizing the intrinsically political nature of promoting 'societal entrepreneurship' (SE). New words for SE were formulated and a more inclusive world was discerned where all had a role, not just as 'helpers', but as equal members of SE practices. Pictures and artefacts enabled hitherto silenced stories to be told and created a common understanding of how SE contrasted with traditional entrepreneurship. When new words were added to entrepreneurship, it was possible to reflect on the actions taken within the Smithy in a deeper sense, not only focusing on actions for the entrepreneurs 'out there', but also initiating self-reflection on the roles all had in the Smithy, or in other settings, to promote SE.
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- Johanson, Ulf, 1944-, et al.
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Ansvarsfull verksamhetsstyrning
- 2012
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Vår bok syftar till att bidra till en diskussion om begreppet verksamhetsstyrning. Boken är inte bara riktadtill den som har ett uttalat ansvar för styrning i egenskap av chef ellerekonom. Målgruppen är vidare än så. Boken riktar sig till alla anställdasom vill påverka organisationens styrning. En särskilt viktig målgruppär de som känner ett spontant avståndstagande till begreppet styrning.Vi hoppas att vår bok ska bidra till refl ektion och debatt. Läs, begrundaoch gör något när det gäller styrningens grundläggande värderingaroch deras innehåll! Debattera, agera och förändra styrningen så attden främjar ansvar! Med den innebörd vi lägger i begreppet kan maninte upphöra att styra. Det sker på ett eller annat sätt oavsett vad mantycker. Det är heller inte önskvärt att sluta styra. På ett eller annat sättmåste vi ta ansvar och styra samt ta ansvar för att styra.
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- Lucarelli, Andrea, et al.
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Continuity and discontinuity in the historical trajectory of the commercialising of cities : storying Stockholm 1900-2020
- 2023
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Ingår i: Business History. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0007-6791 .- 1743-7938. ; 65:8, s. 1390-1416
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines the continuities and discontinuities in the historical trajectory of the commercialisation of places. It outlines a performative approach to understanding how the process of turning cities into commercial products changes in time and space. Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, is used as an illustrative example of the spatio-temporal trajectory of commercialisation during the from 1900 to 2020. By embracing a narrative analysis, the study presents how combinations of business practices (place making, selling, promotion, marketing, and branding) overlap and diverge in the commercialising of Stockholm. This analysis reveals how the process of commercialisation not only represents, but also performs certain narratives. These narratives are expressions of the historically-situated policies and values representing the dominant ideology of a specific period. Narratives unfold spatio-temporal events organised using different practices of commercialisation, thus constructing commercialisation as a circular process in time-space, as opposed to a linear and chronologically-ordered sequence of events.
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- Nilsson, Johan
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Producing consumers : market researchers' selection and conception of focus group participants
- 2020
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Ingår i: Consumption, markets & culture. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1025-3866 .- 1477-223X. ; 23:4, s. 376-389
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article inquires into how market researchers produce a relationship between subjects of study and objects of knowledge in consumer research. The relationship is explored through the routines that a group of market researchers use to select and exclude research subjects. Adding to studies of how market research and other marketing activities establish their objects of knowledge in terms of performing and construction, the article draws attention to how recruitment shapes respondents: research participants are selected through principles beyond clients' recognition of their customers, issues of representativity or resemblance to targeted groups. Selection practices are explored through notes from participant observation and interviews at the research firm studied, as well as the recruitment forms that are used to undertake selection. The assessed recruitment shows researcher concern over identifying respondents useful for producing descriptions of consumers and how common features of a targeted group may be excluded in this production.
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- Röös, Elin, et al.
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Diagnostic, regenerative or fossil-free - exploring stakeholder perceptions of Swedish food system sustainability
- 2023
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Ingår i: Ecological Economics. - : Elsevier B.V.. - 0921-8009 .- 1873-6106. ; 203
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In an analysis of food system sustainability challenges and solutions among Swedish food system actors using Q-methodology, five perspectives were identified. One of the main three perspectives placed the highest priority on reduced meat consumption, food waste, and climate impact in agriculture, but downplayed strategies highlighted in the national food strategy and social aspects, and can be interpreted as a diagnostic climate mitigation-oriented perspective that does not reflect current negotiated policy processes or ‘softer’ values of food. In an alternative regenerative perspective, industrialized large-scale farming and lack of internalization of external costs were regarded as the main problems, and diversity, soil health, and organic farming as the main solutions. Proponents of a third perspective regarded phasing out fossil fuels, increased profitability of companies, increased meat production, and self-sufficiency as high priorities. These contrasting views can be a major barrier to transforming the Swedish food system. However, a number of entry points for change (i.e. aspects highly important for some and neutral for others) were identified, including focusing on healthy diets and increased production of fruit and vegetables. Focusing on these can build trust among stakeholders before moving to discussions about the larger and more sensitive systemic changes needed. © 2022 The Authors
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