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- Alvesson, Mats, et al.
(författare)
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Qualitative Interview
- 2008
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Ingår i: International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies. - 1412956242 ; , s. 1342-1344
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Bäckvall, Lisa, 1980-
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The coexistence of family, ownership, and business : Conceptualizing entanglement and business family ownering
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This research engages with the topic of business family ownership through an ethnographically inspired study of business governance-related activities constructed as family members’ business-owning practices relationally and over time. In short, it is about what business families do when owning businesses and how this form of owning can be conceptualized.Corporate governance dominates understandings of ownership and business where ownership is constructed in a particular manner (individualistic, passive, and public) (e.g. La Porta et al., 1999; Robé, 2011). This is also (e.g. Breton-Miller & Miller, 2009; Le Breton-Miller et al., 2011), the theory in use in the family business research field in terms of governance research (e.g. Aguilera & Crespi-Cladera, 2012). Governing in family businesses has also been conceptualized as overlapping spheres of family, ownership, and business/management (Gersick et al., 1997). This study embraces the coexistence of family, ownership, and business/management as entanglement, which is lacking in corporate governance research in general and in family business studies in particular. By extending alternative framings on ownership and family governance (e.g., Brundin et al., 2010; Nordqvist 2016) via firstly an interpretative paradigm and secondly the practice turn, this phenomenon, business family ownership, is thirdly constructed through one of many possible practice theories – social praxeology (Bourdieu & Wacquant, 1992). This theory contributes to create conditions for a renewed understanding of owning as doing within a family business, relationally and over time. Social praxeology not only directs attention to relationality but also to individual and collective embodiment, where the central concepts are capital, field, habitus, and practical sense. Bourdieu’s social praxeology acknowledges a relational ontology and epistemology in his particular version of structuralism interpretivism. In this study it implies that the first and second order structuers are contructed via a reflective field reading.Therefore, the purpose of this thesis is to explore and construct the coexistence of family, ownership, and business/management through a social praxeology reading and conceptualizing the business family ownership, as done together and over time.An ethnographically inspired study (through interviews, shadowing, and participation in corporate events) of business- and governance-related activities (such as company board meetings, top management meetings, and product development meetings) generates an understanding of the entanglement of family, ownership, and business/management during an ongoing change of CEO in a family business. Drawing upon a structural reading in line with Bourdieu’s social praxeology (Bourdieu & Wacquant, 1992), four broad business family ownership practices are constructed: the practice of choosing the next CEO, the practice of calculating, the practice of tasting, and the practice of joking. The first empirical chapter is a reading of capital forms and their structure and distribution within the business family (structures of the first order). In this chapter, the construct of family, along with Bourdieu’s assumptions, is introduced. The second empirical chapter is a reading of both first- and second-order structures, where the family habitus concept is combined with the business dimension in the change of CEO. The third empirical chapter is dominated by the reading of the second-order structures, where the practices of counting, tasting, and joking are constructed as business family owning. These business family ownership practices form an understanding of the entangled nature of a particular family business.This study contributes to generating conditions for understanding business family ownership as private, collective, and transgenerational in contrast to the well-entrenched corporate governance view characterized above. Hence it challenges the dominant views of ownership as property rights that emphasize separateness incorporated in the Gersick et al. (1997) model by instead conceptualizing the coexistence of family, ownership, and management/business as entanglement. Towards a distinction through the conceptualization of entanglement, the family and ownership categories are primarily constructed as a collective subjective corpus operating as structuring structures within a business family field. Business family ownering is a way of governing where the body and its sense reproduce and refine the structures in a family business, forming a specific cultural business family capital. Accordingly, with family habitus, owning turns into ownering. Structuring structure with the particularities of an owner family, relationally inhabited by dominated and dominating agents, forms a business family ownership as ownering, characterized by inertia and relationality.
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- Doublet, Vincent, et al.
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Unity in defence : honeybee workers exhibit conserved molecular responses to diverse pathogens
- 2017
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Ingår i: BMC Genomics. - : BIOMED CENTRAL LTD. - 1471-2164. ; 18
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Organisms typically face infection by diverse pathogens, and hosts are thought to have developed specific responses to each type of pathogen they encounter. The advent of transcriptomics now makes it possible to test this hypothesis and compare host gene expression responses to multiple pathogens at a genome-wide scale. Here, we performed a meta-analysis of multiple published and new transcriptomes using a newly developed bioinformatics approach that filters genes based on their expression profile across datasets. Thereby, we identified common and unique molecular responses of a model host species, the honey bee (Apis mellifera), to its major pathogens and parasites: the Microsporidia Nosema apis and Nosema ceranae, RNA viruses, and the ectoparasitic mite Varroa destructor, which transmits viruses.Results: We identified a common suite of genes and conserved molecular pathways that respond to all investigated pathogens, a result that suggests a commonality in response mechanisms to diverse pathogens. We found that genes differentially expressed after infection exhibit a higher evolutionary rate than non-differentially expressed genes. Using our new bioinformatics approach, we unveiled additional pathogen-specific responses of honey bees; we found that apoptosis appeared to be an important response following microsporidian infection, while genes from the immune signalling pathways, Toll and Imd, were differentially expressed after Varroa/virus infection. Finally, we applied our bioinformatics approach and generated a gene co-expression network to identify highly connected (hub) genes that may represent important mediators and regulators of anti-pathogen responses.Conclusions: Our meta-analysis generated a comprehensive overview of the host metabolic and other biological processes that mediate interactions between insects and their pathogens. We identified key host genes and pathways that respond to phylogenetically diverse pathogens, representing an important source for future functional studies as well as offering new routes to identify or generate pathogen resilient honey bee stocks. The statistical and bioinformatics approaches that were developed for this study are broadly applicable to synthesize information across transcriptomic datasets. These approaches will likely have utility in addressing a variety of biological questions.
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- Helin, Jenny, 1972-, et al.
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Process is how process does
- 2014
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Ingår i: <em>Oxford handbook of process philosophy in organization studies</em>. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 9780199669356 ; , s. 1-16
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Hjorth, Daniel, et al.
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Entrepreneurship and the Creation of Organization
- 2022
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- When re-imagining, re-thinking, and re-writing entrepreneurship in this book, the authors have come to the conclusion that the concept that describes it most precisely is one that signifies a process that includes imagining, seductively describing, playfully organizing, political agility in navigating common sense, and business sensibility before possible commerce.This book develops a process theory of entrepreneurship by exploring how key concepts in such a theory – affect, desire, assemblage – allow us to think about entrepreneurship differently. This makes a significant contribution to bridging the fields of entrepreneurship and organization studies. Using literature and literary characters and their stories as main sources, entrepreneurship research is here revitalized, and the result provides students of entrepreneurship processes with new conceptual opportunities. The book is also a contribution to a multi-disciplinary research tradition in social sciences more broadly where humanities is a key “conversation partner”.Undergraduates in entrepreneurship, PhD students, and entrepreneurship and organization scholars will find this to be a refreshing renewal of research into entrepreneurship and the creation of organization.
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- Holt, Robin, et al.
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Plågsam fascination för kategorier
- 2018
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Ingår i: Uppsala Nya Tidning. - Uppsala.
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Den politiska debatten om ett tredje kön har återupptagits. Frågan lyftes redan under Pride 2015 av Centerpartiets ungdomsförbund. Efter en motion (2017/18:750) av Alexandra Völker och Azadeh Rojhan Gustafsson har nu en majoritet av den svenska riksdagen beslutat att tillsätta en utredning gällande ett tredje biologiskt-juridiskt kön. Kanhända har uppmärksamheten kring icke-binär estetik, Gudsbejakelse i hen-form, samt medial debatt om könssegregerade toaletter, bidragit till denna utveckling.Vi anser dock att debattens fokus på en biologisk-juridisk kategori för icke-binära negligerar möjligheten till en mer allmän frigörelse från normerande könskategorier. Debatten kretsar begränsat kring vad vi tillsammans ska få lov att konstruera socialt. Är det en separation av två kön eller gränsdragningar mellan tre olika könstillhörigheter?Elisabeth Sandlund förklarar exempelvis under en debatt i SVT:s Aktuellt (2018-01-18) att det är alldeles för komplicerat att erbjuda människan mer än två kategorier. Hon säger att ”det inte är så enkelt att urskilja den gruppen” som inte identifierar sig som man eller kvinna. Hon tycker snarare att vi ska ”hjälpa ungdomar att landa i den könsidentitet” som de har fått tillskriven vid födseln. Sandlunds hypotes är att erbjudandet om en tredje könskategori skulle skapa förvirring och ökad depression i gemen. Slutsatsen av hennes konservatism är att fantasin ska hämmas, tankar styras och valvånda minimeras. Det diffusa är för henne och många andra störande.Antagligen kommer den politiska debatten och de mediala bråken även att begränsas till denna ytliga problematik – ska människan erbjudas två eller tre kategorier i framtiden? Vilket är farligast och skapar mest depression? Det är en fråga som osar rädsla för osäkerhet och fascination för idogt kategoriseringsarbete och motbjudande strukturering.Vi förstår mycket väl att de människor som varken kan eller vill bli biologiskt-juridiskt kategoriserade som kvinna eller man verkligen ser fram emot en legitim kategori att tillhöra. Det kommer förhoppningsvis att resultera i förlösande sociala effekter och förenkla en efterlängtad frigörelse för många. Vi vill däremot lyfta en bredare problematik. Den som handlar om människans underliga vilja till att kategorisera över huvud taget. En vilja och förmåga till kategorisering som har förfinats och utvecklats, på olika sätt, vid olika tidpunkt, och på olika platser. Gärna med hjälp av alfabetet, som dock är begränsat. Denna vilja att placera in i fack har varit särskilt stark gällande kön och en styrning av egenskaper. Just nu verkar kategoriseringsarbetet åtminstone frodas, och det under antagandet att en social ”identitet” är något som individen i ett upplyst samhälle verkligen måste fastställa. Annars blir den osäker och mår dåligt.Kulturkritikern Slavoj Zizek har däremot vänt på detta med osäkerhet i samband med den accelererande debatten om könssegregerade toaletter. Med hjälp av politiskt inkorrekt humor säger han att han själv, utan samma identitetsproblematik som icke-binära, har tvivlat på sin tillhörighet till manskategorin. ”Do I really have the right to enter GENTLEMEN? Am I really a man? ” [Har jag verkligen rätt att gå in på herrarnas? Är jag verkligen en man?]. Med denna retorik belyser ?i?ek problemet att icke-binära inte är ensamma om att störas av den rådande könskategoriseringen. Om vi tror på Zizek så kan en existentiell oro alstras hos vem som helst som ställs inför inrutade könskategorier. Vill jag verkligen uppfylla de beteenden och de förväntningar som följer med en viss kategori som jag ständigt tillskriver mig själv? Att pressa fram sin valda kategoritillhörighet genom röstläge och rollspel är inte alltid så lätt. Det krävs ett visst egenarbete för att uppfylla kategorier, vilka de än är. I motsats till Sandlund så tycker Zizek alltså att det är positivt att alla ställs inför tvivel om sin egen könstillhörighet. Där människans kamp med kategorierna tydligt uppenbaras i irritation över vissa toalettskyltar, vilket har belysts tidigare i UNT (2016-02-17, 2016-02-22). Att tillåta sig själv att vara osäker och inte behöva kategorisera in det diffusa kan vara frigörande.Zizeks resonemang leder därför till en mer grundläggande fråga än den som handlar om icke-binäras identitetsproblematik: vad är det för slags handling som utförs när man själv tillskriver sig en viss könstillhörighet under livets gång? När behöver vi inte endast tre sociala gränsdragningar, utan när blir gränsdragningar oväsentliga? Och till den komiskt nog mest provokativa frågan – den som fungerar som ett lackmuspapper på hela den här debatten – när blir alla lika fria att fundera på sin användning av färgglatt nagellack? Den frågan biter verkligen på viljan att dominera genom att kategorisera.Alternativet till två och tre kategorier har även föreslagits – en kategori. Det är en post-human kategori där människa-maskin-natur sammanslås till en enhet och alla erbjuds en protes för graviditet. Det är först då som könskategorier blir irrelevanta, heter det. Vår position ligger dock inte heller i en sådan polariserad debatt, utan vi vill lite lätt knuffa debatten om frigörelse framåt. Bort från en negativ syn på valvånda och depressioner, mot en möjlighet för alla att engagera sig i en produktiv kritik av sitt dagliga kategoriseringsarbete. Det är en kritisk inställning som bejakar människans förmåga att tänka mer, och inte mindre.
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- Middeldorp, Christel M., et al.
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The Early Growth Genetics (EGG) and EArly Genetics and Lifecourse Epidemiology (EAGLE) consortia : design, results and future prospects
- 2019
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Ingår i: European Journal of Epidemiology. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0393-2990 .- 1573-7284. ; 34:3, s. 279-300
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The impact of many unfavorable childhood traits or diseases, such as low birth weight and mental disorders, is not limited to childhood and adolescence, as they are also associated with poor outcomes in adulthood, such as cardiovascular disease. Insight into the genetic etiology of childhood and adolescent traits and disorders may therefore provide new perspectives, not only on how to improve wellbeing during childhood, but also how to prevent later adverse outcomes. To achieve the sample sizes required for genetic research, the Early Growth Genetics (EGG) and EArly Genetics and Lifecourse Epidemiology (EAGLE) consortia were established. The majority of the participating cohorts are longitudinal population-based samples, but other cohorts with data on early childhood phenotypes are also involved. Cohorts often have a broad focus and collect(ed) data on various somatic and psychiatric traits as well as environmental factors. Genetic variants have been successfully identified for multiple traits, for example, birth weight, atopic dermatitis, childhood BMI, allergic sensitization, and pubertal growth. Furthermore, the results have shown that genetic factors also partly underlie the association with adult traits. As sample sizes are still increasing, it is expected that future analyses will identify additional variants. This, in combination with the development of innovative statistical methods, will provide detailed insight on the mechanisms underlying the transition from childhood to adult disorders. Both consortia welcome new collaborations. Policies and contact details are available from the corresponding authors of this manuscript and/or the consortium websites.
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- Raffnsøe, Sverre, et al.
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Editorial
- 2021
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Ingår i: Foucault Studies. - Copenhagen : Copenhagen Business School Press. - 1832-5203. ; :30, s. i-iv
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Shortly after thepublicationin April 2021of thethemedspecial issueFoucault’s History ofSexuality Vol. 4, Confessions of the Flesh, theeditors ofFoucault Studiesareinordinatelypleasedto present thisnon-themed issue containingthree original articles.Thefirstofthesearticles,“Resistance: An Arendtian Reading of Solidarity and Friend-ship in Foucault,” by Liesbeth Schoonheim (KU Leuven, Belgium)compares the accountsof resistance in Arendt and Foucault.While recent scholarship has firmly established thesimilarities betweenthem, in particular with regard tothe diagnosis ofthe dangers of late-modern social processesleading to atomization,totalitarianismandbiological racism,there are alsosignificantdifferences.AlthoughFoucaulthas reflected more extensivelyand rigorously on the shapes and conditions of resistance,thepaper argues that Fou-cault’scomprehensive accountof resistanceomits the encounter with the other,whereasthis encounterwith theunique and unfathomableotherhas been putat the center of po-litical praxis andof acts of resistanceby Arendt.Developing the discussion of resistancein Arendtasshearticulatesitin response to the Shoah,the article claims thatshe providesa concept of solidarity and friendship thatcan bedrawnupon to extend Foucault’s anal-ysis of the transnational solidarity among the governed in fighting for their rights vis-à-vis their governments, as well as tore-articulate andadvancehisunderstandingof friendship.
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- Skoglund, Annika, Docent, 1977-, et al.
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Spatially organizing future genders : An artistic intervention in the creation of a hir-toilet
- 2021
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Ingår i: Human Relations. - : Sage Publications. - 0018-7267 .- 1741-282X. ; 74:7, s. 1007-1032
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Toilets, a neglected facility in the study of human relations at work and beyond, have become increasingly important in discussions about future experiences of gender diversity. To further investigate the spatial production of gender and its potential expressions, we transformed a unisex single-occupancy toilet at Uppsala University into an all-gender or 'hir-toilet'.(1) With the aim to disrupt and expose the dominant spatial organization of the two binary genders, we inaugurated the hir-toilet with the help of a performance artist. We describe and analyse internal and external responses thereto, using Lefebvre's work on dialectics and space. Focusing on how space is variously lived, conceived and perceived, our analysis questions the very rationale of gender categorizations. The results contribute to a renewed critique of binary thinking in the organization of workplaces by extending our understanding of how space and human relations mutually constitute each other.
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