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- Bergquist, Ann-Kristin, et al.
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Sustainability and Shared Value in the Interwar Swedish Copper Industry
- 2016
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Ingår i: Business history review. - : Cambridge University Press. - 0007-6805 .- 2044-768X. ; 90:2, s. 197-225
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study of the Swedish-based mining company Boliden examines the proactive strategies it adopted to deal with the potential for severe environmental problems associated with the establishment of its large copper smelter in the 1920s. The article demonstrates how international networks, personal experience, and knowledge transfer from the U.S. copper industry help to explain the importance given to environmental issues by the Swedish industrialists. It is suggested that the main explanation for the proactive stance of the Swedish managers is that they perceived excessive pollution as working against creating a profitable and sustainable business. This case provides compelling evidence that firms pursuing an agenda focused on earning profits can still deliver environmental innovation and value to the local community, compatible with the concept of creating shared value.
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- Bergquist, Ann-Kristin, et al.
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Sustainability and Shared Value in the Interwar Swedish Copper Industry
- 2016
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Ingår i: Business history review. - : Cambridge University Press. - 0007-6805 .- 2044-768X. ; 90:2, s. 197-225
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study of the Swedish-based mining company Boliden examines the proactive strategies it adopted to deal with the potential for severe environmental problems associated with the establishment of its large copper smelter in the 1920s. The article demonstrates how international networks, personal experience, and knowledge transfer from the U.S. copper industry help to explain the importance given to environmental issues by the Swedish industrialists. It is suggested that the main explanation for the proactive stance of the Swedish managers is that they perceived excessive pollution as working against creating a profitable and sustainable business. This case provides compelling evidence that firms pursuing an agenda focused on earning profits can still deliver environmental innovation and value to the local community, compatible with the concept of creating shared value.
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- Bergquist, Magnus, et al.
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A meta-analysis of field-experiments using social norms to promote pro-environmental behaviors
- 2019
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Ingår i: Global Environmental Change. - : Elsevier BV. - 0959-3780. ; 59
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Highlights • We conducted a meta-analysis on field-experiments using social norms to encourage pro-environmental behaviors. • Results of 91 field-experiments (N=227′730) revealed a positive main effect of social norms on pro-environmental behaviors compared to no-treatment control conditions. • Moderation analysis found that social norms induced implicitly were more influential than social norms induced explicitly and that social norms tended to be more influential in individualistic countries than in collectivistic countries.
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- Bergquist, Magnus, 1983, et al.
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Contest-based and norm-based interventions: (How) do they differ in attitudes, norms, and behaviors?
- 2019
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Ingår i: Sustainability. - : MDPI AG. - 2071-1050. ; 11:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Setting up a contest is a popular means to promote pro-environmental behaviors. Yet, research on contest-based interventions is scarce while norm-based interventions have gained much attention. In two field experiments, we randomly assigned 79 apartments to either a contest-based or a norm-based electricity conservation intervention and measured kWh usage for 2 and 4 weeks, respectively. Results from both studies showed that contest-based interventions promote intensive but short-lived electricity saving. In Study 1 apartments assigned to a norm-based intervention showed more stable electricity saving (low intensity and long-lasting). Study 2 did not replicate this finding, but supported that participants in the norm-based intervention also engaged in non-targeted behaviors. These results emphasize the importance of identifying how different intervention techniques may activate different goals, framing both how people think about and act upon targeted pro-environmental behaviors.
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- Bergquist, Magnus, 1983, et al.
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Contests versus norms: Implications of contest-based and norm-based intervention techniques
- 2017
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Ingår i: Frontiers in Psychology. - : Frontiers Media SA. - 1664-1078. ; 8
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- © 2017 Bergquist, Nilsson and Hansla. Interventions using either contests or norms can promote environmental behavioral change. Yet research on the implications of contest-based and norm-based interventions is lacking. Based on Goal-framing theory, we suggest that a contest-based intervention frames a gain goal promoting intensive but instrumental behavioral engagement. In contrast, the norm-based intervention was expected to frame a normative goal activating normative obligations for targeted and non-targeted behavior and motivation to engage in pro-environmental behaviors in the future. In two studies participants (n = 347) were randomly assigned to either a contest- or a norm-based intervention technique. Participants in the contest showed more intensive engagement in both studies. Participants in the norm-based intervention tended to report higher intentions for future energy conservation (Study 1) and higher personal norms for non-targeted pro-environmental behaviors (Study 2). These findings suggest that contest-based intervention technique frames a gain goal, while norm-based intervention frames a normative goal.
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- Bergquist, Magnus, 1983, et al.
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Experiencing a severe weather event increases concern about climate change
- 2019
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Ingår i: Frontiers in Psychology. - : Frontiers Media SA. - 1664-1078. ; 10
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Climate change is primarily driven by human-caused greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and may therefore be mitigated by changes to human behavior (Clayton et al., 2015; IPCC, 2018). Despite efforts to raise awareness and concern about climate change, GHG emissions continue to rise (IPCC, 2018). Climate change seems to be at odds with the immediate, present threats to which humans are adapted to cope (Gifford et al., 2009; Schultz, 2014; van Vugt et al., 2014). In contrast to immediate dangers, climate change is typically abstract, large scale, slow and often unrelated to the welfare of our daily lives (e.g., Ornstein and Ehrlich, 1989; Gifford, 2011). But there are moments when the consequences of climate change are readily apparent, such as extreme weather events. In the current paper, we examine the impact of personal experience with an extreme weather event, and the impact of this experience on beliefs about climate change, and intentions to take actions that can help prepare for and mitigate the consequences of climate change.
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- Bergquist, Magnus, 1960-, et al.
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From e-government to e-governance : social media and public authorities legitimacy work
- 2017
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). - 9789892076553 ; , s. 858-872
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Social media increasingly condition how public authorities build legitimacy when engaging with citizens. In this paper we report on a study of the increasing use of and exposure to social media and social networking platforms in two Swedish public authorities, the Social Insurance Agency (SIA) and the police force. Although formally grounded on the same civic principles, the two authorities have significantly different approaches to social media as a way to generate internal and external legitimacy. SIA has mainly implemented an e-government approach to rationalize services to become more efficient and customer oriented, by using social media as one of several media channels. The police force, however, adopted an e-governance approach to build legitimacy through interaction and reflexive discussion between government and citizens as a way to create transparency and nuance citizens’ attitude towards the police force. Building on a two-dimensional public government/governance framework, we reflect on how the two studied authorities’ social media practices shape and are shaped by different governing practices in their legitimacy work.
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- Bergquist, Magnus, 1983, et al.
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Minding the gap: Influence of distance between own behavior and social norms on energy conservation intentions
- 2015
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Ingår i: 11th Biennial Conference on Environmental Psychology, Groningen 2015.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Two studies examined if influence of social norms are affected by distances between one’s own behavior and others behavior (norm distance). In the first experiment, including norm distance, feedback unit (kwh, SEK) and perceived importance, hypotheses were derived based on social comparison theory. Results from experiment 1 (n = 104) showed that distal norm distance elicited greatest energy conservation intentions in the norm alignment (i.e. congruent descriptive and injunctive norms) condition. Feedback unit did not affect the influence of norm distance; however, an interaction was found, suggesting that the influence of feedback unit on energy conservation intentions interacts with perceived importance of energy conservation. Finally, importance of energy conservation intentions showed a main effect of energy conservation intentions. Experiment 2 (n = 122) showed that the influence of aligned norm distance on energy conservation intentions followed a positive linear trend. Although influenced by unpredicted gender interactions, experiment 2 supported that norm distance and frequency of descriptive norms are separate processes, and replicated the main effect of importance of energy conservation. Taken together, these results suggest an effect of norm distance in normative influence. This effect seems to be better explained by heuristic processing rather than social comparison processes.
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