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- Burneva, Petya, 1986-
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The Future that is my Present : Temporariness and Insecurity in Swedish Academia
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis explores the question of what it means to be a temporary academic worker in the business studies discipline in Sweden. It presents how academics’ temporariness translates into insecurity and how they respond to it. The research is conducted using an open design, reflexive framework, and an abductive approach. It offers a narrative presentation of the lived experiences of temporariness and a critical interpretation of the multiplicity of the translation of those experiences into insecurity, as well as the responses to it. The rich empirical narrative offers a glimpse into the variety of lived experiences of the temporary academic workers and the multitude of opportunities for social action. It advances an understanding of the relationship of different individual, collective, organisational, and professional aspects with the lived experience of temporariness and temporariness as insecurity and as precarious work. It is argued that temporary academic work can be experienced as job field insecurity – the concern of involuntary exit from the professional field that is fuelled by challenges to professional identity, membership, and organisational citizenship; epistemic uncertainty; social and financial uncertainty, lack of alternatives; and the permeating imperatives for individual responsibility, self-improvement, and forward-living. The work discusses different ways in which the subjectivities of insecurity are navigated. It is argued that temporary academic work can be experienced as precarious work in certain circumstances, but also that some elements of the profession can be invoked in order to challenge precarious subjectivities.
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Civilsamhället och asylpolitiken, del 1 : Vittnesseminarium om Påskuppropet och Flyktingamnesti 2005
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I ett demokratiskt samhälle spelar ett levande och aktivt civilsamhälle en avgörande roll. Men vad krävs för att civilsamhället ska lyckas bidra till förändring av politiken? Vilka kampanjstrategier är framgångsrika för att få politiker att lyssna? Hur stor roll spelar den allmänna politiska debatten för vilka kampanjkrav som lyckas? Vilken roll spelar mediers bevakning och informationskanaler för civilsamhällets organisering och politiska påverkansmöjligheter?Denna rapport innehåller utskriften av ett tre timmar långt vittnesseminarium som hölls den 22 mars 2018 på Södertörns högskola där sex företrädare för de civilsamhällsorganisationer som tillsammans drivit kampanjerna Flyktingamnesti 2005 och Påskuppropet 2004–2005 diskuterar och berättar om sitt arbete. Rapporten ger nya infallsvinklar på svensk migrationspolitik och civilsamhällets roll i den, både i ett historiskt och nutida perspektiv.
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Civilsamhället och asylpolitiken, del 2 : Vittnesseminarium om civilsamhällets engagemang för uppehållstillstånd för ensamkommande flyktingungdomar, 2015-2018
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Denna rapport innehåller en utskrift av ett vittnesseminarium som hölls på Södertörns högskola den 8 november 2018 om det civilsamhällsengagemang som ägde rum åren 2015–2018 till förmån för ensamkommande ungdomar, främst från Afghanistan. Det är en fortsättning på temat migrationspolitiken och civilsamhällets roll där det första seminariet handlade om Påskuppropet och Flyktingamnesti 2005.Vid seminariet vittnade sex representanter från olika delar av civilsamhället om sitt engagemang för de ensamkommande ungdomarna och om händelseförloppet som ledde till stiftandet av den tillfälliga gymnasielagen. Dessutom beskrevs och diskuterades vilken roll sociala medier spelade för civilsamhällets organisering under den aktuella perioden.
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- Gullberg, Cecilia, et al.
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Doing the Right Things or Doing Things Right? Exploring the Relationship Between Professional Autonomy and Resources in Volunteering
- 2022
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Ingår i: Resourceful Civil Society. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783030990060 - 9783030990091 - 9783030990077 ; , s. 243-268
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter chronicles the organizing efforts of a group of Swedish medical professionals who volunteered on an ad hoc basis to provide health care for refugees in the fall of 2015. We show how different types of resources both enabled and constrained the autonomy of the professionals as they moved under the aegis of established civil society organizations and, as such, became bureaucratized. In the autonomous organizational setting, material resources were central, and professionals negotiated among themselves to establish working norms and guidelines for the acquisition and usage of resources. In the bureaucratized setting, with little to no room for negotiation, human resources were central, and regulations were imposed on the volunteering professionals by the civil society organizations.
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- Gullberg, Cecilia, et al.
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Inscriptions without boundaries : how action at a distance is enabled on social media
- 2021
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Ingår i: Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 0951-3574. ; 34:9, s. 57-79
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of inscriptions on social media in enabling action at a distance. The purpose is addressed by investigating how and by what mechanisms inscriptions on social media can shape action at a distance.Design/methodology/approach: We conduct a qualitative analysis of the Facebook page of a crowdfunded grassroots initiative, where the founders and their stakeholders interact.Findings: We identify two mechanisms by which inscriptions on social media can shape action at a distance: a flow of micro-level inscriptions and a joint stabilisation of inscriptions. By signalling achievement, creating a sense of closeness and highlighting powerful explanations, these mechanisms guide what action at a distance is taken and by whom. Action thereby becomes a mutual exercise between centres of calculation and distant peripheries, highly intertwined with the stability of inscriptions. The two mechanisms indicate the importance of the boundaryless nature of the inscriptions in shaping action at a distance.Originality/value: Our findings indicate new forms of inscriptions and, consequently, of novel conditions for action at a distance. These insights add to the literature on Web 2.0 and accounting, which has mainly revolved around the relationship between centres of calculation and distant peripheries that act upon each other rather than around the inscriptions that enable such action.
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- Gustafsson, Nils, et al.
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Medborgerligt engagemang på sociala medier
- 2022
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Ingår i: Engagemangets gestaltningar : Insatser i och utanför civilsamhället - Insatser i och utanför civilsamhället. - 9789144143071 ; , s. 271-306
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Vi lever i en tid som präglas av sociala mediers växande betydelse inom en lång rad områden, inte minst när det gäller medborgerligt engagemang. I detta kapitel skissar vi en översiktsbild av olika sätt att tänka kring sociala medier och medborgerligt engagemang, och ger också en kort inblick i vad medborgarundersökningen berättar om engagemang på sociala medier. Medborgerligt engagemang i sociala medier spelar en viktig roll för samhället. De sociala medierna utgör en infrastruktur för kommunikation och organisering som har blivit självklar inom många områden. De gör det lättare att engagera sig som individ i nätverk utan att ingå i formella organisationer. Samtidigt pekar forskning på att denna mer lösliga organisationsform kan leda både till snabbare och mer omfattande mobilisering, och till en begränsad uthållighet i engagemanget.
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- Gustafsson, Nils, et al.
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Medborgerligt engagemang på sociala medier
- 2022
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Ingår i: Engagemangets gestaltningar. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144143071 ; , s. 271-306
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Gustafsson, Nils, et al.
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Social media and civil society organizations : Exploring the institutionalization of positive emotional vocabulary
- 2018
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper explores how positive emotional vocabulary used on social media potentially alters rationalized and institutionalized ways to manage and account for civil society organizations. Based on a study of Swedish civil society, our initial findings indicate that these changes entail: 1) a replacement of previous forms of engagement based on shared negative experiences or contentious politics by strong positive emotional content, both in terms of management and accounting 2) the increasing importance of emotional language competence in terms of the usage of positive emotional vocabulary to manage both staff, board members, and volunteers 3) the increased possibility to express and be open about emotional states in the workplace, which is perceived as both enabling and challenging for managers. In sum, the paper points to an inflation in the usage of positive emotional vocabulary in established civil society organizations, indicating an emerging institutionalization process of positive emotional vocabulary as a means to organize civil society.
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- Gustafsson, Nils, et al.
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The populist allure of social media activism: Individualized charismatic authority
- 2020
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Ingår i: Organization. - : SAGE Publications. - 1461-7323 .- 1350-5084. ; 27:3, s. 431-440
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article argues that the type of individualized social media activism that has been conceptualized as ‘connective action’ has affinities to populism, and may have detrimental consequences for democratic procedures and the bureaucratic structures that enable them. We trace the normative allure of individualized digital engagement to the libertarian roots of techno-utopianism and argue that this, in combination with a form of mobilization fueled by digital enthusiasm, has potentially dire democratic and organizational consequences. Digital enthusiasm generated on social media platforms entails self-infatuation, here conceptualized as a form of individualized charismatic authority in the Weberian sense. This individualized form of charismatic authority is fundamentally focused on personalized engagement, and simultaneously interconnected through the technological affordances of social media platforms. If individualized charismatic authority becomes institutionalized as a legitimate and predominant manner of organizing, it may have large-scale implications for societal organizing at large by promoting populism. In sum, we argue that digital enthusiasm not only provides democratic opportunities for protest and contention in civil society, but that the fickleness of the individualized charismatic authority it generates may also put democratic procedures and respect for bureaucratic structures at risk.
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- Gustafsson, Nils, et al.
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The prevalence and durability of emotional enthusiasm : connective action and charismatic authority in the 2015 European refugee crisis
- 2017
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Departing from Bennett & Segerberg’s (2013) notion of personal action frames, this paper investigates how ad-hoc networks tend to allow for a more individualised form for engagement than established organisations, and what the implications are of this individualization. The paper is based on around 90 Swedish Facebook groups and pages, belonging to both established civil society organisations and ad-hoc networks, all aimed at aiding refugees during September-December 2015, containing about 9 000 posts. We analyse the content and frequency of posts, as well as interactions, and the overlap between different groups, especially uncovering differences in organisational dynamics and mobilising power, using qualitative and quantitative content and network analysis. Our study shows that affordances of networked individualism (Castells 2007) and partial organisations (Ahrne & Brunsson 2011) create fast and large-scale mobilisation of individuals, but also creates instable and sensitive mobilisation, resulting in less sustainable organising. Ad-hoc networks harness the need of individuals’ to manifest altruism without requiring long-term or systematic engagement, thus in some ways targeting the needs of the individual online community participants themselves as much as those of the refugees. The paper concludes that ad-hoc networks are more sensitive to "viral" trends in media attention, whereas civil society organisations have a stable level of engagement on a long-term scale. However, both types of organisations have a hard time to sustain large-scale individual engagement for a longer period of time. Whereas many studies concerning the 2015 refugee crisis have focused on hate speech and anti-refugee sentiments, we show that also pro-refugee online activism is heavily dependent on media trends.
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- Gustafsson, Nils, et al.
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The prevalence and durability of emotional enthusiasm: connective action and charismatic authority in the 2015 European refugee crisis
- 2017
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Departing from previous research on digital action networks, this paper approaches the spread and emotional contagion of digital activism slightly differently, looking for it not necessarily inside the social movement itself, but rather outside it. By questioning the implicit assumption that the spread and emotional contagion of digital activism is contained only in the context of social movements, we explore emotional enthusiasm also in the social media engagement of other types of contemporaneous civil society organizations, viewing it as a manifestation of Weber’s concept of charismatic authority. Empirically, we study voluntary engagement and mobilization on Facebook in Sweden during the refugee crisis of the fall of 2015. In a mixed-method content analysis of 59 Facebook groups and pages, we trace the use of emotional markers in posts during the period September-November 2015. Our findings indicate that the prevalence of emotional enthusiasm outside of social movement, and the lack of durability of it both in organizations and in networks, points to the lack of stability that charismatic authority entails. As charismatic authority becomes institutionalized as a legitimate and predominant manner of organizing through social media, this may have large scale implications for societal organizing at large. The paper indicates that emotional enthusiasm in the form of charismatic authority not only provides democratic opportunities for protest and contention, but, given its emotional contagion, may also but democratic procedures and respect for bureaucratic structures at risk.
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- Johannesson, Livia, et al.
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How to blame and make a difference: perceived responsibility and policy consequences in two Swedish pro-migrant campaigns
- 2021
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Ingår i: Policy Sciences. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0032-2687 .- 1573-0891. ; 54, s. 41-62
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we explore the assumption that blame-attribution can be an effective rhetorical strategy for non-elite interest groups who want power holders to be attentive to their demands. Through a qualitative analysis of two pro-migrant campaigns led by grassroot activists in Sweden, one taking place in 2005 and the other in 2017, we offer a nuanced empirical examination of non-elite initiated blame-games. We show how perceived responsibility influences these blame-games, and explore which policy consequences might emanate from them. We demonstrate that blame-making, under certain conditions, can be a successful strategy to gain policy influence, but that this strategy is conditioned by the complexity and transparency of the institutional arrangements of accountability within the policy sector. The focus on non-elite blame-making in order to change policies enables us to contribute to the theoretical discussion on the relationship between anticipatory and reactive forms of blame-avoidance behaviours, and to discuss the democratic implications of blame-games in both shorter and longer time perspectives. One implication of this study is that successful non-elite blame-making at one point in time actually can lower the chances of successful blame-making in the future.
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- Sorgenfrei, Simon, Docent, et al.
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Mångreligiositet och sekularitet i svenskt polisväsende, vård, skola och offentlig förvaltning : en forskningsöversikt
- 2021
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Under de senaste decennierna har Sverige genomgått stora demografiska och politiska förändringar. Tillsammans har dessa inneburit att Sverige idag samtidigt är ett av Europas mest sekulariserade och mest mångreligiösa länder. Den snabba demografiska förändring Sverige har genomgått har ställt många inför nya, stora och i vissa fall skyndsamma kunskapsbehov samtidigt är forskningen om situationen delvis eftersatt. I denna rapport identifieras hur den nya situationen relaterar till det lagstadgade uppdrag som svenskt polisväsende, vård, skola och offentlig förvaltning har. Den forskning som gjorts inom dessa områden sammanfattas och de viktigaste forskningsbehoven identifieras.
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- Turunen, Jaakko, 1978-, et al.
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Organizing service delivery on social mediaplatforms? : Loosely organized networks, co-optation, and the welfare state
- 2020
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Ingår i: Public Management Review. - : Routledge. - 1471-9037 .- 1471-9045. ; 22:6, s. 857-876
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- Recent crisis situations have witnessed a growing number of loosely organised networks (LONs) that deliver welfare services and employ social media platforms to coordinate their actions. Focusing on the 2015 ‘refugee crisis’ in Sweden, we explore the role of LONs in Swedish resilience policy. In the absence of standardised heuristics characteristic of established organizations, the LONs refer to social media for generating a common stance on the policy problem and their relation to the state. The study indicates challenges in governing LONs, showing that although a LON may become co-opted by the state, this co-optation may lead to its demise.
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- Turunen, Jaakko, 1978-, et al.
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Transnationell offentlig förvaltning
- 2022
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Ingår i: Förvaltningen i samhället. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144165431 ; , s. 77-88
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Tyllström, Anna, 1981-, et al.
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De virala experterna : Legitimitetsbaser på sociala medieri början av covid-19-pandemin
- 2023
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Lyssna på experterna” är ett ofta upprepat mantra, men vad detta innebär är inte alltid självklart. Covid-19-pandemin synliggjorde svårigheterna i att få tag i och tillämpa expertkunskaper. Pandemins första skede präglades av stor efterfrågan på information. Många sökte sig då till sociala medier, där tidigare okända individer snabbt blev betrodda med att ge råd – de virala experterna.I denna rapport analyserar vi 272 Facebookinlägg, författade av 136 individer, som delades flitigt under våren 2020. Vi kartlägger inläggens egenskaper och författarnas bakgrund, men också vilken legitimitetsbas, dvs. svaret på frågan ”varför ska ni lyssna på mig?”, som författarna åberopat.De virala experterna har vitt skilda bakgrunder, men deras inlägg visar alla tecken på anpassning till en ny social medielogik, där budskap får mer legitimitet om de använder känslomässigt och förenklande språk, bildmaterial och hashtaggar. Personlig erfarenhet eller bara stor tilltro till det egna omdömet är också mer förekommande legitimitetsbaser på sociala medier, jämfört med den teoretiska expertkunskap som brukar underbygga expertuttalanden i etablerade medier.Viral expertis kan vara en demokratisk tillgång: oväntade aktörer kan engagera sig i det offentliga samtalet och gör att nya röster blir hörda. Traditionella experter kan, genom att anpassa budskap till den sociala medielogiken, också nå ut med viktiga budskap till publiker som annars inte skulle lyssnat. På så sätt kan man stärka forskningskommunikationens genomslag. Men viral expertis kan också utgöra en fara för demokratin. När gängse mekanismer för att värdera experters legitimitet sätts ur spel, riskerar förvirring uppstå och komplicera spridningen av korrekt information, särskilt i krisers initiala skeden där osäkerheten är stor.
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- Weinryb, Noomi
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Accountable and Thus Legitimate? : A Comparative Study of Philanthropists
- 2020
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Ingår i: Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. - : Sage Publications. - 0899-7640 .- 1552-7395. ; 49:6, s. 1210-1232
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article takes a comparative qualitative approach to explore the intertwined external accountability and legitimacy attempts of independently wealthy philanthropists. By comparing accountability forums and institutional logics stated by philanthropists, it is investigated to whom they are externally accountable and how they legitimate their controversial funding of public goods. The study compares the external accountability and legitimacy attempts of philanthropists with that of public agencies, corporations, and fundraising-dependent nonprofits. Empirically, this is a cross-sectional study of funders supporting human embryonic stem cell research in either California or Sweden. The study shows that it is through local isomorphism, rather than any specific accountability forum or institutional logic, that philanthropists are accountable and thus legitimate their giving. This is in contrast to other types of funders, which are more similar within each form when comparing accountability forums across societies, and more similar within societies in their usage of institutional logics, with certain patterned statements. In addition, philanthropists in both societies are more detached than any other type of funder as regards both specific patient populations and the general electorate. This finding raises questions on what philanthropists’ private funding for public purposes actually entails. © The Author(s) 2020.
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- Weinryb, Noomi, 1980-
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Free to Conform : A Comparative Study of Philanthropists’ Accountability
- 2015
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Those who are very wealthy may also be extremely free. Independently wealthy philanthropists epitomize this type of freedom. They seem to be able to act in whichever way they please, as long as they respect the limits of the law. Their freedom also implies that they do not experience as much accountability as other funders. Considering philanthropists’ ambitions as policymakers, and given their imposition of performance demands on their grantees, their accountability is relevant to investigate. However, there are no comprehensive comparative studies of philanthropists’ accountability, and there is mainly anecdotal evidence of a lack of accountability being derived from their independent wealth.This dissertation is a study of philanthropists’ accountability. I compare their experienced and exhibited accountability to that of other funders within societies, and I also compare philanthropists’ accountability across societies. I investigate whether philanthropists’ independent wealth influences to whom they are accountable, for what they are accountable, and how they are accountable. To learn about these topics, I examine their accountability relationships, their accountability mechanisms, and how they justify their potentially controversial funding of human embryonic stem cell research. Across these dimensions, I study their legal, financial, hierarchical, peer, professional, political, and fiduciary/social accountability. Empirically, I make a cross-sectional comparison of philanthropists to other funders of human embryonic stem cell research within and across three welfare regimes - liberal California, social democratic Sweden, and statist South Korea. I compare the accountability of independently wealthy philanthropists to that of public agencies, corporations, and fundraising dependent nonprofits. The empirical materials include 101 structured interviews with open-ended questions covering 51 funding organizations, as well as questionnaires explored in ANOVA and social network analysis.The study indicates that philanthropists experience and exhibit less accountability than other funders in some ways, in some contexts. By developing and using a framework to analyze their accountability, I show that philanthropists’ accountability is patterned within the societies in which they fund, and it differs greatly across societies. In California, philanthropists enact themselves as free actors, whereas in Sweden they enact a moral identity as funders of science. In South Korea, there is no clear boundary between philanthropic and corporate accountability. My results point to the contextual limits of philanthropists’ accountability. By enacting their moral identity in a way that conforms to local norms, philanthropists simultaneously retain and enable their continued freedom. In terms of their accountability, philanthropists are free to conform, and they become free by conforming.
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- Weinryb, Noomi, et al.
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Från #metoo till #wetoo? : Kan individualiserade problem ha kollektiva lösningar?
- 2018
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Ingår i: Tidskriften Kurage. - 2001-175X. ; 30, s. 40-40
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Forskarna Noomi Weinryb och Nils Gustafsson är fascinerade av massengagemang i sociala medier men menar också att den samhällsförändrande kraften i individers tillfälliga digitala entusiasm är överskattad. Hur meningsfull är egentligen organisering utan organisationer?
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- Weinryb, Noomi, et al.
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Fundraising as a theatrical event
- 2017
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Ingår i: International Journal of Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Marketing. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 1465-4520 .- 1479-103X. ; :4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper introduces and elaborates the notion of fundraising as a theatrical event. By exploring the theatrical setup, as well as social context, of two elite fundraising events that took place at almost the same time and place and for the same cause, the authors disentangle different components that are at play in a fundraising event. The paper shows that a fundraising event needs to align sensory, artistic, and symbolic theatrical levels to convey the desirability of the fundraising cause. In addition, not only the economic but also the social and cultural capitals of the hosts of the event may be of relevance to the fundraising.
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- Weinryb, Noomi, 1980-, et al.
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Rationalizing Science : A comparative study of Public, Industry and Nonprofit Research Funders
- 2018
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Ingår i: Minerva. - : Springer Netherlands. - 0026-4695 .- 1573-1871. ; 56, s. 405-429
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the context of more and more project-based research funding, commercialization and economic growth have increasingly become rationalized concepts that are used to demonstrate the centrality of science for societal development and prosperity. Following the world society tradition of organizational institutionalism, this paper probes the potential limits of the spread of such rationalized concepts among different types of research funders. Our comparative approach is particularly designed to study the role and position of nonprofit research funders (NPF), a comparison that is relevant as NPF could potentially be shielded from such rationalized pressures given their lack of profit gaining motives. By making a qualitative interview-based investigation we are able to describe how research funders rationalize their contributions to society at large, as well as their obligations to the researchers they fund. Four types of research funders are comparedindependently wealthy philanthropists, fundraising dependent nonprofits, public agencies, and industry. We find that NPF, and especially philanthropists, are the least commercially geared type of funder, but that philanthropists also express least obligations to researchers funded. This is in sharp contrast to public research funders who, even more than industry, employ commercially geared rationalizations. We also find that both public and corporate funders express obligations to the researchers they fund. Our results indicate that there are limits to the spread of commercially tinted rationalizations among NPF, but that this does not necessarily mean an increased sense of obligations to the researchers funded, and by extension to the integrity of scientific pursuit.
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- Weinryb, Noomi, et al.
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Stepping Into and Out of the Void : Funding Dynamics of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in California, Sweden, and South Korea
- 2016
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Ingår i: Stem Cell Reviews. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1550-8943 .- 1558-6804. ; 12:1, s. 8-14
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Nonprofit organizations and philanthropists stepped into a funding void caused by controversies over public funding of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research. Based on interviews of 83 representatives of 53 funders, we examine the motivations and accountability structures of public agencies, corporations, fundraising dependent nonprofit organizations and philanthropic organizations that funded hESC research in three jurisdictions: California, Sweden, and South Korea. While non-traditional forms of funding are essential in the early stages of research advancement, they are unreliable for the long timeframes necessary to advance cell therapies. Such funding sources may enter the field based on high expectations, but may exit just as rapidly based on disappointing rates of progress.
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- Weinryb, Noomi, 1980-
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The Policy Paradox of Philanthropy : Accountability Mechanisms, Legitimacy and Policy Influence
- 2009
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- By analyzing philanthropists as policy network actors, the paper investigates contradictory analytical indications for how their lack of accountability mechanisms may affect their ability to influence policymaking. Philanthropists’ lack of accountability mechanisms may enable them to strategically purchase legitimacy, which may increase their policy influence. Paradoxically, philanthropists’ lack of accountability mechanisms may also decrease their democratic legitimacy, which may decrease their policy influence. A model is conceptualized for testing this policy paradox of philanthropy.
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