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- Aramo-Immonen, Heli, 1964-, et al.
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Clustering the IMP thought : Searching roots and diversities in IMP research
- 2018
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Ingår i: 34th Annual Industrial Marketing & Purchasing Conference KEDGE Business School, Marseille, France, 4-7 September 2018.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- IMP research is often treated as an empirical perspective describing complexities of repeated business-to-business exchanges and their embeddedness. While building on some common understandings and concepts, this paper asks: How homogeneous is the IMP research? This paper uses cluster analysis to capture the roots and various sub-groups of IMP research as means to depict the question of homogeneity (i.e. a core focus in the research) or heterogeneity (i.e. using references from other fields or specific to sub-fields) of the IMP thought. In this scientific work in progress paper we introduce how we design to use bibliographical methods in order to harvest data from an extensive amount of IMP-related articles written from the 1970’s onwards. In this first attempt to reveal IMP we used overall 294 articles yielded to 10,615 co-citation relationships. A threshold of minimum number of citations of a cited reference was set to five (5) to capture such references that have been cited in multiple publications. We introduce visual mapping of defined subject area clusters and as an example we describe shortly clusters. Perhaps not surprisingly our findings suggest that IMP research is not so homogenous, with at least four clear clusters of IMP-research each utilizing different key referenfernces.
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- Cheung, Zeerim, et al.
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An Analytically Structured History Approach Using a Relational Database
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- We present an analytically structured history approach using a relational database to bridge the methodological divide between history and management and organizational research. Extensive digitized archival sets with rich metadata and analytical structures form the core of the database. The approach provides multiple methodological strengths. First, source transparency is established by linking all steps of the coding and analysis to the sources in the database. Second, the approach enables real-time research collaboration and constant comparison of the coding and analysis of sources. Third, the always available and searchable database enables the researcher to easily move back and forth from sources to narrative construction and theorizing. Due to this efficiency gain, research can be based on extensive archival datasets enabling rigorous conceptual development. The approach responds to the call for methodological openness and disclosure when conducting historical analyses. Additionally, the approach enables the development of contextually grounded explanations and theories that respond to the criticism that management and organizational research is ahistorical. Thus, the approach fulfills the requirement for the dual integrity of historical veracity and conceptual rigor.
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- Cheung, Zeerim, et al.
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Environment Effects in Organizational Form Emergence : The Origin of Two For-Profit Stock Exchanges
- 2017
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study sets out to advance our understanding on how organization environments induce highly embedded actors to take up new organizational forms. We conduct comparative historical study of two stock exchanges, Stockholm and Helsinki stock exchange, that became first and second in the world to take up the for-profit organizational model in 1993 and 1995 respectively. We use a large set of digitized archival data from the two settings to analyse organization environment incidents that developed in the two local settings and the organizational activities of the two stock exchanges. We found that external effects were moderated by local effects inducing organizational misfit to accumulate. Most interestingly we found that these environment-organization effects were exacerbated by peer interaction, joint exploratory work for a joint Nordic exchange, cross listings by firms, brokers starting operating at both stock exchanges, and regulatory harmonization work. This peer interaction induced analog competition and convergent guidelines for the new organizational form. Our contribution is to provide a nested model of environment effects on organization emergence and expose peer effects as previously unrecognized organization environment effects.
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- Cheung, Zeerim, et al.
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Peer Interaction and Pioneering Organizational Form Adoption: A tale of the first two for-profit stock exchanges
- 2022
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Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications (UK and US). - 1741-3044 .- 0170-8406. ; 43:8, s. 1223-1246
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Building on a historical case study on the first two stock exchanges to adopt the now globally dominant for-profit organizational form, the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 1993 and the Helsinki Stock Exchange in 1995, we argue that interaction among socially proximate peers contributes to pioneering organizational form adoption within an industry, particularly when such forms are introduced by established organizations. Peer interaction can induce a search for technically efficient organizational forms through the sharing of collective experiences, the establishment of collective assumptions, and a joint search for solutions. Together, these factors contribute to the legitimization of novel organizational forms in the local setting before the adoption of the first instantiation of those forms. We propose a context-sensitive multilevel model of peer-interaction-induced pioneering organizational form adoption that considers shared macro environmental drivers, idiosyncratic local environmental drivers, and peer interaction as central social mediators between the two. © The Author(s) 2021.
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- Eriksson, Klas, et al.
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A revised perspective on innovation policy for renewal of mature economies – Historical evidence from finance and telecommunications in Sweden 1980–1990
- 2019
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Ingår i: Technological forecasting & social change. - : Elsevier. - 0040-1625 .- 1873-5509. ; 147, s. 152-162
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- What is the role of innovation policy for accomplishing renewal of mature industries in Western economies? Drawing upon an unusually rich dataset spanning 9752 digitized archival documents, we categorize and code decisions taken by policymakers on several levels while also mapping and quantifying the strategic activities of both entrant firms and incumbent monopolists over a decade. Our data concerns two empirical cases from Sweden during the time period 1980–1990: the financial sector and the telecommunications sector. In both industries, a combination of technological and institutional upheaval came into motion during this time period which in turn fueled the revitalization of the Swedish economy in the subsequent decades. Our findings show that Swedish policymakers in both cases consistently acted in order to promote the emergence of more competition and de novo entrant firms at the expense of established monopolies. The paper quantifies and documents this process while also highlighting several enabling conditions. In conclusion, the results indicate that successful innovation policy in mature economies is largely a matter of strategically dealing with resourceful vested interest groups, alignment of expectations, and removing resistance to industrial renewal.
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- Eriksson, Klas, et al.
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Introducing the inverted Icarus paradox in business history : Evidence from David and Goliath in the Swedish telecommunications industry 1981–1990
- 2024
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Ingår i: Business History. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0007-6791 .- 1743-7938.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Previous research in business and management history has identified the Icarus paradox, which describes how organisations may fall due to overconfidence and hubris. We build upon previous research on paradoxes in business history and introduce the notion of an inverted Icarus paradox. Using rich archival sources coded in a relational database, we show how an entrant firm, Comvik, outmanoeuvred an established government monopoly in the non-market domain from 1980 to 1990, despite inferior resources and a weak market position. The government monopoly Televerket faced an inverted Icarus paradox; it could not leverage its strengths and political connections as they were stuck in a David versus Goliath narrative where public opinion was more sympathetic to the entrant firm Comvik.
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- Eriksson, Klas, et al.
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Public-Steering and Private-Performing Sectors : Success and Failures in the Swedish Finance, Telecoms, and City Planning Sectors
- 2022
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Ingår i: Questioning the Entrepreneurial State. - Cham : Springer. - 9783030942755 ; 53, s. 299-315
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Mariana Mazzucato embraces state-directed public/private investment in innovation to achieve goals that society as a whole would benefit from. The idea is that the state should direct and the private sphere perform the innovation needed. We argue that this view is biased toward successful examples of innovation created by public sector steering and the private sector performing. Generally, vested interests are created by these kinds of public-steering–private-performing innovations, which hinder or malinvest resources through their interests or information problems when market forces are put out of play. We present examples that explore the process of two successful deregulation cases and one failed case to highlight differences in the processes leading to the different outcomes; the most important being the existence of institutional entrepreneurs acting as typical change agents in the successful cases and the lack thereof in the failed example. These cases highlight the importance of both passive incumbents and proactive entrants for enabling institutional change. We contrast these examples with the public-steering and private-performing framework.
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- Fleischer, Julia, et al.
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The State as a Marketizer vs. the Marketization of the State: Two Organizational Models of Public Sector Corporatization
- 2024
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Ingår i: Public Organization Review. - : SPRINGERNATURE. - 1566-7170 .- 1573-7098.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Governments engage in corporatization by creating corporate entities or reorganizing existing ones. These corporatization activities reflect an interplay between political agency and environmental pressures, including (changing) notions of state-market relations. This paper discusses two ideal-typed organizational models of corporatization: the state as a marketizer and the marketization of the state. Whereas the first emphasizes the role of political design and agency in corporatization, the second emphasizes the role of (actors in) the environment for corporatization. Both models are assessed across five corporatization episodes in Norway and Sweden, where we also demonstrate the interplay between political agency and environmental pressure.
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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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Ingår i: Technological Forecasting and Social Change. - : Elsevier BV. - 0040-1625 .- 1873-5509. ; 146, s. 877-886
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)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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- Geissinger, Andrea, 1987-, et al.
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How do managers get their heads around artificial intelligence? : Extending the network picture discussion
- 2019
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Artificial intelligence (AI) expects to increasingly transform ways in which business is conducted. With change follows a need to question current ways of acting and interacting. Yet, the past becomes the frames through which the future is understood. By drawing on Predictive Brain Theory, which shares the same fundamental underpinnings as the Bayesian brain hypothesis, but uses insights from machine learning and neuroscience, the paper conceptualizes that prospective sense making as a skill to update in-flux network pictures are increasingly required for business managers, which the paper reflects on in the light of AI. The paper provides a novel approach to business managers’ mental capacity in understanding change and in their ability to adapt to structural shifts that require an update on gone-solid assumptions about the business environment, while linking this to AI both as a motor of change, and as challenging the human thought with machine learning.
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- Geissinger, Andrea, et al.
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How do managers get their heads around artificial intelligence? : Extending the network picture discussion
- 2019
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Ingår i: IMP2019: Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) Group Conference 2019, Paris. - Paris : Industrial Marketing and Purchasing Group (IMP). ; , s. 1-7
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Artificial intelligence (AI) expects to increasingly transform ways in which business is conducted. With change follows a need to question current ways of acting and interacting, yet the past becomes the frame through which the future is understood. By drawing on predictive brain theory, which shares the same fundamental underpinnings as the Bayesian brain hypothesis, but uses insights from machine learning and neuroscience, the paper conceptualizes that prospective sense making as a skill to update in-flux network pictures are increasingly required for business managers. The paper provides a novel approach to business managers’ mental capacity in understanding change and in their ability to adapt to structural shifts that require an update on gone-solid assumptions about the business environment, while linking this to AI both as a motor of change, and in challenging human thought with machine learning.
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- Geissinger, Andrea, 1987-, et al.
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Institutional orders in the sharing economy : Community as an answer to the state-market-interlock
- 2018
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Ingår i: Academy of Management Proceedings. - : Academy of Management.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- As the emergence of sharing economy firms changes existing institutional structures and bring forth increasing institutional complexity for firms, regulators and users alike, this paper aims to analyze how the public adhere to institutional orders in resolving emerging controversies associated with the sharing economy. By analyzing four cases of societal controversies concerning the accommodation sharing platform Airbnb in the Swedish market during 12 months between the years 2015-2016, we illustrate the ways in which the public adhered to three main institutional orders of state, market and community in resolving four identified controversies related to prostitution, racism, failure to pay taxes and housing shortage allegedly caused by the firm. In perspective to the ways in which extant literature emphasize state and market as fundamental institutional orders for resolving institutional complexity, our results highlights the role of community as a key institutional order situated in the intersection between the state and the market in the setting of the sharing economy.
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- Gustafsson, Robin, et al.
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Towards an Integrative Digital History Approach in Organization Studies
- 2016
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Ingår i: Academy of Management Proceedings. - : Academy of Management.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recent developments in digitizing of historical data and advances in software tools for structured analysis of digitized historical data, are creating opportunities to unleash previously untapped ways to use historical data. We build on recent suggestions for methodological integration, for outlining an integrative digital history approach, with the methodological rigor to unleash creative synthesis of business history and organization studies. Methodological integration constitutes an inter-meshing of methods that takes place already from the outset of the research process and remains so throughout the collection of sources, interpretation, and analysis. This places at the center a careful research design with a relational database for the collection and digitizing of data, structuring and coding of historical sources, historical interpretation, and analytics to be used. We outline key design issues, steps and processes for an integrative digital history approach. Following, we present the strengths of this approach in comparison to existing ‘analog’ business history and organizational studies methods. We end the paper by discussing future avenues and opportunities for digital history.
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- Laurell, Christofer, 1987-, et al.
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Digitalization and the future of Management Learning : New technology as an enabler of historical, practice-oriented, and critical perspectives in management research and learning
- 2020
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Ingår i: Management Learning. - : Sage Publications. - 1350-5076 .- 1461-7307. ; 51:1, s. 89-108
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- How are historical, practice-oriented, and critical research perspectives in management affected by digitalization? In this article, we describe and discuss how two digital research approaches can be applied and how they may influence the future directions of management scholarship and education: Social Media Analytics and digital archives. Our empirical illustrations suggest that digitalization generates productivity improvements for scholars, making it possible to undertake research that was previously too laborious. It also enables researchers to pay closer attention to detail while still being able to abstract and generalize. We therefore argue that digitalization contributes to a historical turn in management, that practice-oriented research can be conducted with less effort and improved quality and that micro-level data in the form of digital archives and online contents make it easier to adopt critical perspectives.
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- Nykvist, Rasmus, 1985-
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Essays on the interaction between regulation and technology : Understanding agency and context through multiple levels of inquiry
- 2021
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A key challenge for implementing pioneering regulatory and technological change includes overcoming regulatory constraints and resistance from vested interest groups in favor of the status quo. This is a compilation dissertation comprising five papers and one covering paper that aims to describe and explain the interaction between agency and context under conditions of combined technological and regulatory change through multiple levels of inquiry. To do this I studied the case of pioneering technological and regulatory changes taking place in and around the Stockholm Stock Exchange (SSE) and Options Mäklarna (OM) between 1978 and 1998. The dissertation explores the dynamics of pioneering change by asking (1) what the conditions enabling pioneering change in the financial exchanges sector are and (2) why the actors in and around the Swedish financial exchanges were able to enact pioneering technological and regulatory change. To answer these questions I created a data set comprising data from various archives and witness accounts from complementary oral history interviews with key actors. I structured this data set around a relational database and analyzed the data using a mix of methods from business history and process study methodology from organization studies.My research indicates that the pioneering regulatory and technological change happened as the result of a combination of several enabling conditions and the agency of the key change agents present at the two financial exchanges, that is, SSE and OM respectively. As such, the dissertation emphasizes multiple perspectives from which the change needs to be understood. The dissertation contributes to extant literature by (1) highlighting the role of cities in providing enabling conditions for digital and institutional entrepreneurship, (2) emphasizing the role of peer interaction in pioneering changes in organizational forms, and (3) introducing the role of joint commitments in achieving a favorable social evaluation. The dissertation further recommends that innovative policymakers help others in favor of change to deal with resourceful vested interest groups.
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- Nykvist, Rasmus, et al.
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“Own it” or “share it” : Transformations of regulatory and community norms in the Swedish housing market
- 2022
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Ingår i: Technological Change and Industrial Transformation. - London : Routledge. - 9780429423550 - 9781138390027
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this chapter, we analyse the historical role of community norms and sharing ideas in the Swedish housing market as part of industrial transformation processes. We compare the emergence of a new organizational form, the housing cooperative, from the 1930s and onwards with the rise of the contemporary digital platform-based sharing economy. In the past, housing cooperatives were used to share the burden of risk between individual citizens, whereas contemporary sharing platforms allow for sharing the burden of ownership in cities with soaring housing prices. We ask if and how the role of community norms and sharing practices have changed over the last century and who was involved in transforming the housing market. We draw on rich historical secondary sources on the development of housing cooperatives as part of the Swedish model as well as on contemporary debate about the impact of sharing economy actors, such as Airbnb, on the Swedish housing market. In drawing on a semantic analysis of official government investigations on the housing cooperatives, we show that community norms have played a vital part in the industrial transformation of the Swedish housing market, indicating that informal institutions endured while formal institutions have gone through major transformations.
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- Öberg, Christina, 1970-, et al.
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Managers, Minds and Machines in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- 2021
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Ingår i: Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol 2021, No 1. - : Academy of Management. ; , s. 13120-
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper explores the connection between mental structures shaped by past events and managerial action targeted to manifest an uncertain future and does so in the light of artificial intelligence (AI). By drawing on predictive brain theory, the paper conceptualizes that prospective sensemaking is increasingly required for managers. To shed light on prospective sensemaking in uncertain times, we draw on the concept of network pictures to conceptualize managers’ sensemaking and consequent actions based on the notion of companies being embedded in a context (network) affecting strategies and their outcome. The network pictures managers form through sensemaking reflect the presence or the past, but what happens when we take the notion of a future that is inherently different from the past as the guiding light for present actions seriously? The paper contributes to research by extending the network picture concept and interlinking it with neuroscience and specifically AI as a motor of change, and as challenging the human thought with machine learning
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