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- Hoff Rudhult, Maria
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SIDA VID SIDA? : Svenska företag i biståndsverksamheten, 1946–2013
- 2023
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This thesis studies how the way private businesses were viewed came to affect their participation, and thus role, in Swedish development aid activities in the 1946-2013 period. The role is here viewed in terms of the relationship between “the public” and “the private”. The relationship between public and private activities, as well as the distinction between them, is mutable, and needs to be understood within the framework of a specific context. This, in turn, means that these relationships between the state, in the form of public activity, and the businesses, in the form of private activity, constitute the more comprehensive research problem of the thesis. The analytical strategy of the thesis is based on a discourse theoretical approach, discursive institutionalism, to study how development aid, based on the ideal of “solidarity”, was formulated, established and upheld as an area of policy, focusing especially on the role that was concurrently created for Swedish private businesses. The application of a genealogical approach in the reading of political texts as well as archival material, reports and evaluations, makes visible how the businesses have been part of the Swedish developmental aid activities during practically the entirety of the time period studied, and that this has not been openly accounted for in the public political material. The study shows that upholding the ideal of the “solidarity-based” politics regarding development aid was enabled by applying different logics of action to different parts of the development aid activity. This is made clear by the political ability to involve businesses in development aid activities without having to expressly renounce the position of solidarity. The result of the thesis also shows that the ideal of “solidarity” influenced both the preconditions for distinctions between public and private, and how views of businesses as illegitimate or legitimate actors in development aid activity changed over time.
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- Edlund, Peter, 1986-, et al.
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Society on board? : External board members and the embedding of Swedish higher education organizations in society, 1998-2016
- 2022
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In: Studies in Higher Education. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 0307-5079 .- 1470-174X. ; 47:8, s. 1551-1565
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Boards in higher education organizations (HEOs) play multiple roles. While they govern, boards are also expected to embed HEOs in society. Indeed, recent higher education reforms in Europe have emphasized the embedding role of HEO boards more than their governing role. But, although these reforms are widespread, we still know little about the ways in which boards are affected by ambitions of embedding HEOs. The aim of our paper is to explore how such ambitions are expressed through HEO board nominations and compositions. We address this aim by turning to Sweden, whose higher education system has, during the past three decades, undergone recurrent reforms that emphasize the embedding role of boards at public HEOs. Our study builds on a longitudinal dataset of external HEO board members' positions, employers, and simultaneous board seats, collected for 1998, 2007, and 2016 so as to accompany Swedish reforms. We find that external board members, over time, embedded HEOs in expanding and sprawling networks of ties to organizations from the public, private, and civil society sectors. Our findings push the literature beyond its focus on private sector ties by showing how governmental reforms lead HEOs to embed among public and civil society organizations as well.
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- Engwall, Lars, 1942-, et al.
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A Field Approach to Corporate Governance
- 2018
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In: Corporate Governance in Action. - New York : Routledge. - 9781138285668 - 9781315268859 ; , s. 25-41
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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- Engwall, Lars, 1942-, et al.
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Conclusions
- 2018
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In: Corporate Governance in Action. - New York : Routledge. - 9781138285668 ; , s. 185-198
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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- Engwall, Lars, 1942-, et al.
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Governance Relations
- 2018
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In: Corporate Governance in Action. - New York : Routledge. - 9781138285668 ; , s. 163-183
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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- Engwall, Lars, 1942-, et al.
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Resituating Corporate Governance
- 2018
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In: Corporate Governance in Action. - New York : Routledge. - 9781138285668 ; , s. 1-24
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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- Eriksson-Zetterquist, Ulla, et al.
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Introduction : Revitalizing Collegiality: Restoring Faculty Authority in Universities
- 2023
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In: Research in the Sociology of Organizations. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 0733-558X. ; 87, s. 1-26
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Collegiality is often discussed and analyzed as a challenged form of governance, a form of working that used to function well in universities prior to the emergence of contemporary and modern forms of governance. This seems to suggest that collegiality used to dominate, while other forms of governance are now taking over. The papers in volume 86 of this special issue support the notion of challenged collegiality, but also show that for the most part, nostalgic notions of “the good old days” are neither true nor helpful if we are to revitalize academic collegiality. After examining whether a golden age of collegiality ever existed, we discuss why collegiality matters. Exploring what are often described as limitations or “dark sides” of collegiality, we address four such “dark sides” related to slow decision-making, conflicts, parochialism, and diversity. This is followed by a discussion of how these limitations may be handled and what measures must be taken to maintain and develop collegiality. With a brief summary of the remaining papers under two headings, “Maintaining collegiality” and “Revitalizing collegiality,” we preview the rest of this volume.
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- Jönsson, Lars-Eric, et al.
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Institution
- 2011
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Book (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Institution ger 250 miljoner träffar på sökmotorn Google. I vilka sammanhang används detta slitstarka ord och vilka betydelser bär det på? I den här boken undersöks institutioner som platser, rum och organisationer samt begreppets vetenskapliga utveckling och användning. Institutioner representerar ofta socialt tvång, beständighet över tid och reglering av aktörers handlande.
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- Power, Michael, et al.
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Reputational Risk as a Logic of Organizing in Late Modernity
- 2009
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In: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 30:03-feb, s. 301-324
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Research review (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper argues that it is useful to regard 'reputational risk' as a pervasive logic of organizing and organizational attention. First, we suggest that the risk management agenda has expanded from its roots in technical analysis to become a cornerstone of good governance and responsible actorhood. We illustrate this claim in the context of English universities. Second, we suggest that this expansion in the reach and significance of risk management has increased organizational orientations to reputational risk and to more defensively and legalistically framed forms of asset management, Specifically, organizations are responding to the growth of external bodies which evaluate and rank, and thereby generate reputational risk. In the context of universities, we argue that this leads both to specific transformations in organizational practices in response to ranking systems, and also to an increased generalized concern with reputational risk, which is a symptom of late modern insecurity.
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- Sahlin-Andersson, Kerstin, 1954-, et al.
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Collegiality Washing? New Translations of Collegial Practices
- 2023
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In: Research in the Sociology of Organizations. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 0733-558X. ; 87, s. 157-180
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Over the past few decades, university reforms in line with management and enterprise ideals have been well documented. Changes in the ideals underlying the missions of universities have led to changes in their modes of governing and organizing, which in turn drive further transformation of their missions. One set of reforms in Swedish higher education has been the dissolution of collegial bodies and procedures. At the same time, in recent years, we have witnessed an increased interest in collegiality and a reintroduction of collegial bodies and procedures. New translations of collegiality appear not only in how universities are organized, but also in other core aspects of research and higher education. We review examples of peer reviewing, research assessment, and direct recruitment of professors and ask: Can these new translations of collegiality be understood as a revitalization of collegiality, or is it – to draw a parallel with greenwashing – rather a matter of collegiality-washing?
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- Sahlin, Kerstin, 1954-, et al.
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Ideology and Institutions : Introduction
- 2009. - 1
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In: Institutions and Ideology. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 9781848558663 ; , s. 1-15
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)
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- Sahlin, Kerstin, professor, 1954-
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International Relations theory
- 2016
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In: Handbook on Theories of Governance. - : Edward Elgar Publishing. ; , s. 126-138
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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