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- Andersson, Jenny
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Ghost in a Shell : The Scenario Tool and the World Making of Royal Dutch Shell
- 2020
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Ingår i: Business history review. - : Cambridge University Press. - 0007-6805 .- 2044-768X. ; 94:4, s. 729-751
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines the history of the Royal Dutch Shell scenarios, from the first horizon scan exercise in 1967. It proposes that forward-looking scenarios were integrated in planning at Shell as tools for managing uncertainty in global time and space relations of oil after 1967. Specifically, the article proposes that Shell strategically used the scenarios to respond to arguments, emanating both from OPEC and from the Club of Rome, of oil as a limited resource. Shell used the scenarios to create images of a future oil market dominated by innovation, creativity, and sustainable solutions.
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- Andersson-Skog, Lena, 1959-
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In the shadow of the Swedish welfare state : women and the service sector
- 2007
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Ingår i: Business history review. - 0007-6805 .- 2044-768X. ; 81, s. 451-470
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The twentieth-century history of the Swedish welfare state and public-service sector is critical to understanding the changing role of women in Sweden, as the expansion of the country's service production, beginning in the 1960s, has been mainly the result of welfare-state policies. Yet women's self-employment and wage work in the service industry has been neglected as an economic factor in both traditional economic and business-history accounts and in historical studies of gender. Some suggestions are made for future explorations of the Swedish service sector as it operates in the shadow of the welfare state.
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- Bergquist, Ann-Kristin, et al.
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Beyond Planetary Limits! : The International Chamber of Commerce, the United Nations, and the Invention of Sustainable Development
- 2023
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Ingår i: Business history review. - : Cambridge University Press. - 0007-6805 .- 2044-768X. ; 97:3, s. 481-511
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines the role of business interests in shaping the structures of global environmental governance between the United Nations (UN) Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972 and the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio in 1992. It demonstrates how the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) managed to establish itself as a key partner for the UN while articulating a neoliberal vision that emphasized the market mechanism and business self-regulation as sources of environmental governance. The article provides empirical evidence that the ICC institutionalized business self-regulation in environmental governance and contributed to the very definition of the concept of sustainable development as we know it today.
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- Bergquist, Ann-Kristin, et al.
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Creating Value Out of Waste : The Transformation of the Swedish Waste and Recycling Sector, 1970s–2010s
- 2023
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Ingår i: Business history review. - : Cambridge University Press. - 0007-6805 .- 2044-768X. ; 97:1, s. 3-31
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines the growth of the waste and recycling sector in Sweden since the 1970s and seeks to identify the conditions for market growth and underlying business dynamics. The article identifies a slow growth pattern at aggregate level in the 1970s, while a major shift toward higher growth rates took place only in the mid-1990s. Resembling the findings of existing studies of German and US industry counterparts, Swedish recycling companies grew larger in the 1970s and more knowledge-intensive from the 1980s. Our study concludes that the growth of the Swedish recycling industry has been driven not only by government policies addressing household waste but even more so by large manufacturing firms that have increasingly demanded more complex recycling services over time.
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- Bergquist, Ann-Kristin, 1972-, et al.
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Green innovation systems in Swedish industry, 1960-1989
- 2011
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Ingår i: Business history review. - New York : Cambridge University Press. - 0007-6805 .- 2044-768X. ; 85:4, s. 677-698
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Organizational networks had a strong influence on the diffusion of green knowledge within the Swedish pulp-and-paper industry from the mid-1960s to the 1980s. The environmental adaptations made by this industrial sector were not merely the result of a corporate initiative or of the response by firms or industries to environmental regulation. An examination of the innovation-system approach that was used to further the industry’s environmental goals reveals that the knowledge and technology development underpinning the project depended on a network of diverse actors. Within this network, the semi-governmental Institute for Water and Air Protection, working with a consulting company, was a critical generator and intermediary of knowledge. Thus, the success of the project was largely due to the Institute’s balanced relations with government and industry.
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- Bergquist, Ann-Kristin, et al.
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Green Innovation Systems in Swedish Industry, 1960–1989
- 2011
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Ingår i: Business history review. - : Cambridge University Press (CUP). - 0007-6805 .- 2044-768X. ; 85:4, s. 677-698
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Organizational networks had a strong influence on the diffusion of green knowledge within the Swedish pulp-and-paper industry from the mid-1960s to the 1980s. The environmental adaptations made by this industrial sector were not merely the result of a corporate initiative or of the response by firms or industries to environmental regulation. An examination of the innovation-system approach that was used to further the industry's environmental goals reveals that the knowledge and technology development underpinning the project depended on a network of diverse actors. Within this network, the semi-governmental Institute for Water and Air Protection, working with a consulting company, was a critical generator and intermediary of knowledge. Thus, the success of the project was largely due to the Institute's balanced relations with government and industry.
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- Bergquist, Ann-Kristin, 1972-
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Renewing Business History in the Era of the Anthropocene
- 2019
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Ingår i: Business history review. - : Cambridge University Press. - 0007-6805 .- 2044-768X. ; 93:1, s. 3-24
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This special issue is concerned with new approaches in business history to exploration of the role of business in both creating and addressing the mounting environmental crisis that has become apparent over the last half century. Two decades have passed sinceBusiness History Reviewpublished a pioneering special issue on business and the natural environment. The guest editors of that issue, Christine Rosen and Christopher Sellers, called for an “ecocultural approach” to business history and noted that strikingly little attention had been given to the issue of business and the natural environment in the field.
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