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- Finnveden, Göran, et al.
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The Climate Framework for Higher Education Institutions in Sweden
- 2022
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In: World Sustainability Series. - Cham : Springer International Publishing. - 2199-7373 .- 2199-7381. ; , s. 189-204, s. 189-204
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In this nation-wide initiative, the Higher Education sector in Sweden has created a Climate Framework to serve as the basis for climate strategies at individual Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The Climate Framework is the product of 38 HEIs with the aim of contributing to both national and international commitments to reach the 1.5 °C target. Although several universities in different countries have made similar commitments, this unique initiative brings the whole sector in a country together under a common aim. Higher education institutions have a central role in efforts to combat climate change. An important task is to contribute through teaching and research, but HEIs also need to contribute by reducing the impact of their own operations. The HEIs that have signed the framework consider the climate to be a crucial and prioritized issue and will take action in line with national and international targets and allocate resources for it. The Climate Framework includes a commitment and a guideline document that list several key areas for climate impact from HEIs. This paper will describe the process for developing the Climate Framework as well as the framework itself.
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- Eliasson, Kent, et al.
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Determinants of net migration to rural areas, and the impacts of migration on rural labor markets and self-employment in rural Sweden
- 2015
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In: European Planning Studies. - Abingdon : Routledge. - 0965-4313 .- 1469-5944. ; 23:4, s. 693-709
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Across most of Europe, the countryside seems to show a polarized development in which large districts are depopulating, while certain areas, mainly around big- and mid-sized cities, are increasing in population. The latter development is often described in concepts of “rural gentrification” and “rurbanization”, symbolizing a transformation of rural communities to communities with urban values and lifestyles. Most studies of the effects of these processes have focused on social and cultural consequences, as e.g. the displacements of lower-income households with higher-income residents and of rural culture and values with urban ones. This paper examines the phenomenon from another perspective, namely the effects of the “rurbanization” processes on countryside’s labour markets and economic life. This paper aims at analysing the determinants of net migration to rural areas in general and to different types of regions, and the impacts of inmigration on rural labour markets, self-employment and other socio-economic conditions in Sweden for the period of 2003–2005. We find that net migration into rural areas increases with the size of adjacent local and regional centres, whereas net migration decreases with the average commuting distance of workers in the rural areas. When comparing in-migrants to rural areas with rural area stayers, our results indicate that the former has lower incomes, a lower employment ratio and a lower degree of entrepreneurial activities. These differences could—at least partly—be explained by the fact that rural area stayers were on average 6 years older than rural area inmigrants, i.e. the two groups were in different stages of their life cycles.
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- Malmi, Teemu, et al.
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Culture and management control interdependence : An analysis of control choices that complement the delegation of authority in Western cultural regions
- 2020
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In: Accounting, Organizations and Society. - : Elsevier Ltd. - 0361-3682 .- 1873-6289.
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This study examines the influence of cultural regions on the interdependence between delegation of authority and other management control (MC) practices. In particular, we assess whether one of the central contentions of agency theory, that incentive contracting and delegation are jointly determined, holds in different cultural regions. Drawing on prior literature, we hypothesise that the MC practices that operate as a complement to delegation vary depending on societal values and preferences, and that MC practices other than incentive contracting will complement delegation in firms in non-Anglo cultural regions. Using data collected from 584 strategic business units across three Western cultural regions (Anglo, Germanic, Nordic), our results show that the interdependence between delegation and incentive contracting is confined to Anglo firms. In the Nordic and Germanic regions, we find that strategic and action planning participation operate as a complement to delegation, while delegation is also complemented by manager selection in Nordic firms. Overall, our study demonstrates that cultural values and preferences significantly influence MC interdependence, and suggests that caution needs to be taken in making cross-cultural generalisations about the complementarity of MC practices.
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- Rickne, Annika, et al.
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Innovation Governance in an Open Economy : Shaping Regional Nodes in a Globalized World
- 2012
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Book (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In an increasingly globalised world, paradoxically regional innovation clusters have moved to the forefront of attention as a strategy for economic and social development. Transcending international success cases, like Silicon Valley and Route 128, as sources of lessons, successful high tech clusters in niche areas have had a significant impact on peripheral regions. Are these successful innovation clusters born or made? If they are subject to planning and direction, what is the shape that it takes: Top down, bottom up or lateral?
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- Yuheng, Li, et al.
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Rural Household Income in Transitional China : Spatio-Temporal Disparity and Its Interpretation
- 2015
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In: China. - : National University of Singapore. - 0219-7472 .- 0219-8614. ; 13:2, s. 151-168
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article aims to investigate the evidence of spatio-temporal disparity in rural household income at the provincial level in China during the 1978-2007 period. A research framework is developed to study the transitional processes of decentralisation, marketisation, urbanisation and globalisation. By computing the Moran's I index and using the spatial regression model, the findings indicate a highly clustered, spatio-temporal disparity in rural household income across the eastern, central and western regions in China during the post-reform era. Rural household income tends to be higher in the eastern provinces in comparison to inland provinces. This disparity is attributed to the impacts from the institutional, economic, social and external transitions that become increasingly significant in the recent decades in China.
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- Engström, Rebecka Ericsdotter, et al.
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Succeeding at home and abroad: accounting for the international spillovers of cities’ SDG actions
- 2021
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In: npj Urban Sustainability. - : Springer Nature. - 2661-8001. ; 1:1
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Cities are vital for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), but different local strategies to advance on the same SDG may cause different ‘spillovers’ elsewhere. Research efforts that support governance of such spillovers are urgently needed to empower ambitious cities to ‘account globally’ when acting locally on SDG implementation strategies.
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- Gordon, P., et al.
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Agglomeration and clusters near and far for regional development : A critical assessment
- 2020
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In: Regional Science Policy & Practice. - : Blackwell Publishing Ltd. - 1757-7802.
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The aim of the paper is to elaborate the popular concept of spatial clusters in a broader regional development context. Are regional clusters natural and emergent? Do we understand how and why? Does the concept necessarily imply nearness? How much? How little? Is there a role for policy makers? This contribution offers an up-to-date critical perspective.
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- Karlsson, Charlie, et al.
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Social Capital, Innovativeness, and the New Economic Geography
- 2021. - 2nd ed.
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In: Handbook of Regional Science. - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Nature. ; , s. 1397-1412
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This chapter discusses the relationship between, on the one hand, the knowledge economy’s social capital and innovativeness and, on the other hand, the new economic geography, which mainly is valid for the manufacturing economy. The discussion ends up in a proposition for a “new economic geography 2 model, " in which the knowledge producing sector and its relations to other sectors are modeled in a framework of two or more regions. The overarching mechanisms and results are similar in the two models: cumulative causation create and enhance regional disparities, but the processes are partly different. It may seem somewhat paradoxical that the industrial specialization, which is a result of the original new economic geography model, in the new model is replaced by “specialization in diversification, " but the knowledge economy’s specialization is “subtle” and diverse - and, as it seems, with subsectors related to and dependent on each other. This is all a reflection of the proposition that social capital and innovativeness play a much larger role for growth and development in the knowledge economy than they did in the manufacturing economy.
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- Kourtit, K., et al.
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A roadmap for a new mindset in regional science : The regional science academy
- 2015
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In: Revista Brasileira de Gestão e Desenvolvimento Regional. - : Universidade de Taubate. - 1809-239X. ; 11:4, s. 27-36
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This contribution argues that the great many spatial challenges of our world and the emerging spatial dynamics call for new modes of thinking on regional science research. The creation of a Regional Science Academy may be helpful in meeting this novel demand. The much needed radical and new perspective on the future of our space economy is illustrated by a concise challenging exposition on the consequences of the ongoing ‘New Urban World’ which might eventually turn into a ‘Post-Urban World’. The Regional Science Academy may be instrumental in developing such ideas.
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- Naldi, Lucia, 1974-, et al.
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Amenities and new firm formation in rural areas
- 2021
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In: Journal of Rural Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0743-0167 .- 1873-1392. ; 85, s. 32-42
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Building on the neo-endogenous rural development model and the resource-based view of the firm, this paper investigates the role of place-based amenities for new firm formation. Empirically, we employ a full-population dataset encompassing new firms in Sweden from 2009 to 2016, combined with geocoded datasets with the spatial distribution of nature- and culture-based amenities. The results show that local amenities are indeed important factors in determining the rate of new firm formation. Estimating the model across urban and rural neighborhoods show that amenities are relatively more important in explaining new firm formation in rural areas as compared to urban. As such, our study contributes to the literature on diversification of the economies of rural areas by pointing at the important role that place-based amenities may play for an entrepreneurially-driven development of less developed and/or rural areas.
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