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- Blom, Karen Ann
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Ordinary people, meaningful pasts – Negotiating narratives in public pedagogical spaces of family history research
- 2024
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation examines three family history research experiences as public pedagogical spaces, analysing the narratives presented and participants’ negotiations with these. In the context of enhanced digitalisation and rapidly developing technologies, disturbances in the form of pandemics, hackers, and wars remind us of the instability of the present, raising existential questions and reinforcing the desire to anchor oneself in the past. Despite this growing interest, academic research focusing on family history is sparse. This dissertation project is unique in its focus on a Swedish context, the selection of three specific family history experiences as case studies, and its use of a public pedagogical perspective examining relational learning beyond formal institutions intrinsically woven within the fabric of society.This dissertation uses three case studies as reflections of more extensive experiences of the phenomenon of interest in family history and the past. These include the Swedish family history television series Allt för Sverige’s previous contestants’ narratives, the results from four genetic ancestry testing companies, and participants’ narratives from two Swedish non-formal family history research courses. Analysing these further within this compilation dissertation engages a conceptual framework consisting of Rüsen’s historical narrative typology, Hall’s decoding/encoding model, and Ellsworth’s use of Public Pedagogy as relational and facilitating transitional spaces for knowledge in the making. An emphasis on the process of pedagogy, rather than the product of knowledge, is prominent in this hermeneutic phenomenological study and reflects the concept of Bildung as the cultivation of the whole person.The findings reveal a more complex picture of family historians, history, and family history research experiences than what is often portrayed. Participants deem not only the effervescent or exceptional findings and activities valuable, but the everyday banal is perceived as significant and contributes to the development of understanding and meaning. Moreover, regardless of the physical site of the experience, the infused pedagogical intent is illustrated through participants’ interactions and negotiations. In a field surrounded by rock walls their ancestor built, discovering a relative had only five spoons in a testament, or examining a deep map to trace the movements of ancestors all provide opportunities to juxtapose, confirm, and/or challenge previous knowledge with new information and experiences, reiterating the extensive reach of public pedagogy.Despite narratives presenting conflicting depictions of the past, participants of this study demonstrate agency in their negotiations, resulting in enhanced empathy and enriched historical consciousness. By exploring these family history research experiences as pedagogical spaces, this dissertation provides a more nuanced understanding of the broader field of public pedagogy and contributes new insights from Swedish and participants’ perspectives to the growing body of research on family history. It highlights the potential and benefits of examining the small, seemingly insignificant, everyday items and events. Moreover, it contributes a more comprehensive illustration of the seepage/pervasiveness of public pedagogy as complex and relational.
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- Dahlström, Tobias, et al.
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Bureaucratic corruption, MNEs and FDI
- 2005
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Ingår i: Host country effects of foreign direct investment. - Jönköping : Jönköping International Business School. - 9189164644
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The paper adds to the limited number of studies analysing the relationship between host country corruption and FDI inflows. A model describes the incentives that foreign MNEs and host country bureaucrats have for engaging in corruption and shows how corruption increases the MNE cost of operations in the host country. The model prediction that the costs caused by corruption reduce FDI inflows is verified by regression analysis using panel data. Host country corruption has a significant negative effect on FDI inflows to developing economies but not for developed economies.
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- Dahlström, Tobias
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Causes of corruption
- 2009
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis consists of an introductory chapter and four essays. Although possible to read individually they all analyse the causes of corruption and hence complement each other.The four essays collectively illustrate the complex nature of corruption. Often many interrelated factors work together in causing corruption. Hence, discovering how these factors, individually and together, cause corruption is vital in combating corruption.The first essay helps to explain the path dependency of corruption. It shows that even if the legal system and enforcement level in a corrupt country or organisation is altered to become identical to that in a non corrupt, the level of corruption may not converge.The second essay analyses how the decision making structure influences corruption. It is found that even though the profits of corruption may be monotonically related to changes in the organisational structure the incidence of corruption is not necessarily so.The third essay looks on how corruption may spread between different organisations or countries as they interact with each other, with corrupt/non corrupt behaviour being more likely to be transmitted from successful to nonsuccessful entities than vice versa.The fourth and final essay investigates how the freedom of information can impact on corruption. Looking on both regulatory and technical constraints on information flows, the conclusion is that relaxation of both constraints simultaneously is needed to combat corruption.
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- Dahlström, Tobias, et al.
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Corruption and growth
- 2007
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Konferensbidrag (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- The note adds to the growing body of studies analysing the relationship between corruption and growth. The novelty is that the study cleans the corruption data from the impact of a country’s institutional setting. This enables the authors to verify if it is the absence of corruption and/or the institutional standard of a country that cause growth. The conclusion drawn is that corruption is only a symptom and does not in itself lower the GDP growth rate of a country.
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- Dahlström, Tobias
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Detection of corruption
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- One often mentioned reason for why it seems very hard to change the amount of corruption in an economy is that those enforcing the laws might also be corrupt. It seems as if the general belief is that if this problem of law enforcement is solved, combating corruption will be as easy to do in heavily corrupt economies as in less corrupt economies. The paper investigates this often implicit assumption by testing two similar propositions; first whether the amount of people being corrupt in a country has any effect on the probabilityof getting caught given the same legal system and enforcement. Second,whether it is harder to influence the probability of detection in a country with a high level of corruption than in a country with a low level of corruption given the same legal system and enforcement level. This is done in two ways; first through an analysis of a simple case and then through numerical simulation of a more extensive case. It is shown that the number of people being corrupt has both a direct negative impact on the likelihood of getting detected as well as an indirect negative impact, since it lowers the positive marginal effect that an increase in the degree of enforcement has on the probability of detection.
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- Dahlström, Tobias
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Detection of corruption
- 2006
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Ingår i: FUR 2006.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- One often mentioned reason for why it seems very hard to change the amount of corruption in an economy is that those enforcing the laws might also be corrupt. It seems as if the general belief is that if this problem of law enforcement is solved, combating corruption will be as easy in heavily as in less corrupt economies. The paper investigates this often implicitly assumed reasoning by testing two similar propositions; first whether the amount of people being corrupt in a country has any effect on the probability of getting caught given the same legal system and enforcement. Second, whether it is harder to influence the probability of detection in a country with a high level of corruption than in a country with a low level of corruption given the same legal system and enforcement. This is done in two ways; first through an analysis of a simple case and then through numerical simulation of a more extensive case. It is shown that the number of people being corrupt have both a direct negative impact on the likelihood of getting detected as well as an indirect negative impact since it lowers the positive marginal effect that an increase in the degree of enforcement has on the probability of detection.
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- Dahlström, Tobias
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Detection of corruption
- 2008
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Ingår i: Economic corruption. - New York : Nova Science Publishers. - 1604561602
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- One often mentioned reason for why it seems very hard to change the amount of corruption in an economy is that those enforcing the laws might also be corrupt. It seems as if the general belief is that if this problem of law enforcement is solved, combating corruption will be as easy in heavily as in less corrupt economies. The paper investigates this often implicitly assumed reasoning by testing two similar propositions; first whether the amount of people being corrupt in a country has any effect on the probability of getting caught given the same legal system and enforcement. Second, whether it is harder to influence the probability of detection in a country with a high level of corruption than in a country with a low level of corruption given the same legal system and enforcement. This is done in two ways; first through an analysis of a simple case and then through numerical simulation of a more extensive case. It is shown that the number of people being corrupt have both a direct negative impact on the likelihood of getting detected as well as an indirect negative impact since it lowers the positive marginal effect that an increase in the degree of enforcement has on the probability of detection.
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- Dahlström, Tobias
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Globalisation and corruption - Learning how to become less corrupt
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- When countries do business with each other, be it through trade or investments, they expose themselves to foreign culture, behaviour and values (cultural traits). Previous research has shown that exposure to foreign cultures entails possible transmission of cultural traits. This paper demonstrates that when countries interact, domestic corruption may be influenced by the level of corruption in a foreign country. The empirical assessment of a panel of countries produces evidence that there indeed exists transmission of corruption between countries that interact. However, this transmission seems to be one directional going from rich to poor countries.
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- Dahlström, Tobias, et al.
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Power and decision making
- 2006
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Ingår i: 2oo6 Hawaii International Conference on Business.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper aims at giving a micro-foundation to the phenomenon of corruption, focusing on intra-organisational corruption. Internal corruption (intra-organisational corruption and internal corruption will be used interchangeably) is defined as the use of power granted in an organisation to enrich oneself. Two additional restrictions are applied as to further limit the definition of corruption. For an act to be labelled as corruption it has to consist, of at least, two parties who actively agree on the transaction without the threat of illegal violence or other types of illegal punishments. Further the transaction has to be a two way transfer where both receive a revenue. Thus we do not consider extortion or theft as corruption, while embezzlement or insider trading could be classified as corruption dependent on the situation.
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- Dahlström, Tobias, et al.
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Power corrupts
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Deviating from the standard corruption literature the focus of this paper is on private corruption instead of bureaucratic corruption. We model an organisation's decision making process in two dimensions, complexity and concentration, and explore how these dimensions affect the existence and extent of corruption in an organisation. As expected, the decision making process affects corruption. However, changes of the decision making process do not necessarily have a monotonic influence on corruption.
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