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- Andersson, Ida, 1982-
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Geographies of Place Branding : Researching through small and medium sized cities
- 2015
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Place branding is commonly conceptualized with a focus on big cities, such as London, New York and Singapore, building from concepts and models from mainstream branding theory. In contrast to such conceptualizations, this thesis focuses on place branding in small and medium-sized cities. The present thesis aims to study place branding from a geographical perspective. It starts with debates theoretical and empirical understandings of place branding; what it is and how it is affecting the places where it is introduced. The thesis develops and argues for a perspective of territoriality and relationality to place branding discussing concepts, methods and empirical approaches to carry out place branding research using geographical perspectives. Empirically, this thesis focuses on in-depth studies of place branding in small and medium-sized cities in Sweden. By analyzing the development of place branding over the course of time, nuances and aspects of both territorial and relational origin emerge, situating place branding practices within a wider spatial contextualization. Four individual papers are presented, which taken together contribute to the aim of the thesis. Paper 1 introduces the place branding research field in geography and how it has developed; Paper 2 investigates the phenomena of flagship buildings located in small cities and towns; Paper 3 discusses the relationship between policy tourism and place branding; and Paper 4 analyzes how local environmental policies are affected by green place branding. The thesis demonstrates the complex and continuously interchangeable spatial structures and place contexts that create and re-produce the geographies of place branding. Here, research models and methodological examples are presented to illustrate how place branding can be studied from a geographical perspective and thus improve theoretical understandings of place branding.
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- Geissinger, Andrea, et al.
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Digital entrepreneurship and field conditions for institutional change - Investigating the enabling role of cities
- 2019
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In: Technological Forecasting and Social Change. - : Elsevier BV. - 0040-1625 .- 1873-5509. ; 146, s. 877-886
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Digital entrepreneurship may result in institutional turbulence and new initiatives are frequently blocked by vested interest groups who posit superior financial and relational resources. In this paper, we explore the role of cities in facilitating digital entrepreneurship and overcoming institutional resistance to innovation. Drawing upon two historical case studies of digital entrepreneurship in the city of Stockholm along with an extensive material on the sharing economy in Sweden, our results suggest that cities offer an environment that is critical for digital entrepreneurship. The economic and technological diversity of a city may provide the field conditions required for institutional change to take place and to avoid regulatory capture.
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- Hermelin, Brita, et al.
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How green growth is adopted by local policy – a comparative study of ten second-rank cities in Sweden
- 2018
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In: Scottish Geographical Journal. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1470-2541 .- 1751-665X. ; 134:3-4, s. 184-202
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The 1992 Rio Earth Summit represented a crucial point in time at which the key role of the local level for sustainable development was importantly endorsed. However, since this UN summit, ideals about how to design local sustainable development have changed significantly. This paper investigates how local policy in ten second-rank cities in Sweden has adopted decoupling arguments and endorsed green growth concepts established through international governance communities. Using content analysis of politically ratified steering documents in these cities, the main findings suggest that local strategising related to the policy goals of green growth is mainly related to energy efficiency. Derived from the decoupling argument, one factor behind shallow integration of green growth into municipal policy is that green growth could be considered a political and contested concept. The fact that there has been limited implementation of this framework across the investigated municipalities prompts reflections on how the results could be explained by institutional ‘match’ or ‘mismatch’ between local institutional environments for policy interventions and the green growth concepts promoted by international communities. The adoption of green growth concepts requires local authorities to broaden their commitment for interventions in interactions with industry and business.
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- Andersson, Ida, 1982-
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'Green cities' going greener? : Local environmental policy-making and place branding in the 'Greenest City in Europe'
- 2016
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In: European Planning Studies. - : Routledge. - 0965-4313 .- 1469-5944. ; 24:6, s. 1197-1215
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A growing number of cities around the world have taken advantage of their green image of the purpose of place branding. In the research literature, it is suggested that these practices are motivated by place-based competition over financial and social capital, combined with more holistic motives of sustainable urban development. However, although an increasing number of green cities are engaged in place branding, few studies have researched the impact of place branding on environmental policy-making in a city, building up to the question: how is local environmental policy-making affected by green place branding? Addressing this issue, this paper critically investigates how the continuity of local environmental policy-making is affected by place-branding practices. To tackle this task, the paper firstly develops an analytical framework aiming to understand how green cities emerge and become famous based on their policy-making. Secondly, using that framework, this paper present an in-depth case study of a city branding itself as the 'Greenest City in Europe'. Drawing on the growing body of work on green cities, this paper investigates the 'understudied' practice of using policy for the purpose of place branding as well as the impact of place branding 'on the environment'.
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- Bodin Danielsson, Christina, et al.
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The relation between office type and workplace conflict : A gender and noise perspective
- 2015
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In: Journal of Environmental Psychology. - : Elsevier BV. - 0272-4944 .- 1522-9610. ; 42, s. 161-171
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This exploratory study aimed to investigate the impact of the office design on workplace conflicts, with a special attention to noise in the office. A gender perspective was applied. The sample consisted of 5229 employees from the Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health 2010 (SLOSH), working in different office types. In the multivariate analysis office type was used as the explanatory variable with adjustments for age, supervisory position and labour market sector. Analysis stratified for gender was used. Among women a significant impact of office type per se on workplace conflicts was found, but not among men. For women several office types differed significantly from the cell-office with regard to prevalence of conflicts during the past two years, but for men only the combi-office differed from the cell-office. Noise had an impact on workplace conflicts, but is not the only explanatory factor since the effect of office type remained also after adjustment for noise in multivariate analyses. Other environmental factors inherent in the office type might thus explain the occurrence of conflicts.
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- Boström, Magnus, 1972-, et al.
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Global multi-stakeholder standard setters : how fragile are they?
- 2013
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In: Journal of Global Ethics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1744-9626 .- 1744-9634. ; 9:1, s. 93-110
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Worldwide we see the rise of new non-state, ‘multi-stakeholder’ organizations setting standardsfor socially and environmentally responsible practices. A multi-stakeholder organization builds on the idea of assembling actors from diverse societal spheres into one rule-setting process, thereby combining their resources, competences, and experiences. These processes also allow competing interests to negotiate and deliberate about their different concerns in globalpolitical and ethical matters. This paper analyzes multi-stakeholder dynamics within three global standard setters: the Forest Stewardship Council, the Marine Stewardship Council, andthe work of the International Organization for Standardization on social responsibility (ISO26000). Although the multi-stakeholder organizational form facilitates the establishment oftransnational non-state authority, this very structure could also result in fragility. The key aim of this paper is to elaborate on this fragility with specific focus on how participatoryaspects within a multi-stakeholder context both contribute to and destabilize the authority of the multi-stakeholder organization. The paper contributes theoretically to current discussionsabout transnational governance in the making, and more specifically it adds nuance to thediscussion about the fragility of non-state authority as well as a critical perspective to the literature on multi-stakeholder arrangements.
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- Boström, Magnus, 1972-, et al.
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Social sustainability requires social sustainability procedural prerequisites for reaching substantive goals
- 2015
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In: Nature and Culture. - : Berghahn Books. - 1558-6073 .- 1558-5468. ; 10:2, s. 131-156
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The synergies and trade-offs between the various dimensions of sustainable development are attracting a rising scholarly attention. Departing from the scholarly debate, this article focuses on internal relationships within social sustainability. Our key claim is that it is diffi cult to strengthen substantive social sustainability goals unless there are key elements of social sustainability contained in the very procedures intended to work toward sustainability. Our analysis, informed by an organizing perspective, is based on a set of case studies on multi-stakeholder transnational sustainability projects (sustainability standards). This article explores six challenges related to the achievement of such procedures that can facilitate substantive social sustainability. Three of these concern the formulation of standards and policies, and three the implementation of standards and policies. To achieve substantive social sustainability procedures must be set in motion with abilities to take hold of people's concerns, frames, resources, as well as existing relevant institutions and infrastructures.
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- Forsell, Håkan, 1968-
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Property, tenancy & urban growth in Stockholm & Berlin, 1860-1920
- 2006. - 1
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Book (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The study explores the cultural and political meanings attributed to house property ownership in Berlin and Stockholm during the course of the modern city building process and urbanisation in the late 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. The purpose of the study is to contribute to the understanding of the economic practice, and how individuals and markets are embedded in social norms and political and legal structures, to sustain the dynamics of development. The study focuses the social, political and legal integration and activity of the house owners to master the changes of the real estate and housing market from the mid 19th century to the First World War. The investigation is divided into three parts. Part one analyses the local political development. In Berlin the house owners were guaranteed at least half of the seats in the City parliament from 1808 to 1918 according to a house owners’ privilege-clause. In Stockholm property owning was merely considered as an object of private means with no political privileges attached to it. During the 19th century, the house owners’ associations in both cities were strongholds for economic liberalism. But in Berlin a paternalistic and corporate logic also defined other official assignments that the house owners had to perform. In Stockholm on the other hand the house owners became subjected to the economic modernisation of the city governance. Part two considers the role of the house owners in the city building process. The house owners obtained an increasingly weaker economic position on the real estate market in relation to other actors, such as mortgage institutions, banks and land companies. The erection of large tenement-houses became the symbol of the irresponsible and profit-seeking small property-investor. The emergence of a social reform movement also meant that the economic order for housing was subjected to recurrent demands on state regulations and active political measures of the City administration to provide cheap land and dwellings for the working class. Part three analyses the rental market and how the relationship between landlords and tenants relatively late became subjected to social political legislation. Despite the reformation of the rent-laws in the early 20th century, the house owners, in their role as landlords, could safeguard their superiority to the tenants as the principle of freedom of contract remained largely untouched my the legislative authorities, at least until the domestic crises of the First World War. Private ownership was the cut-off point for eventually all institutional, legal and political adjustments in the early 20th century, and more definitely so during and after the war. The thesis analyses how the house owners in both cities had different preconditions to handle the changes of the social and economic order and the emergence of new political priorities.
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