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- Broström, Anders, Docent, 1978-, et al.
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Structured relations between higher education institutions and external organisations : opportunity or bureaucratisation?
- 2019
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In: Higher Education. - : SPRINGER. - 0018-1560 .- 1573-174X. ; 78:4, s. 575-591
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper explores the introduction of centrally coordinated initiatives aimed at formalising universities' relationships to external organisations. Such initiatives are referred to as structured relations. Based on a review of nine Swedish Universities, we identify three types of structured relation initiatives (network events, collaboration platforms, partnership agreements). In common for all structured relations identified are that they offer new opportunities to manage external expectations on universities, in particular as regards their ability to demonstrate their commitment to outreach activities. The formalisation of outreach activities challenges the academic tradition of giving individual professors discretionary mandates to enter and manage external relationships. Drawing on a collective action perspective, we analyse the tensions that are generated when universities introduce new elements of support and central coordination of outreach activities. The introduction of structured relations potentially contributes to changing the nature of the university as an organisation.
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- Astebro, Thomas, et al.
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Academic Entrepreneurship : The Bayh-Dole Act versus the Professor's Privilege
- 2019
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In: Industrial & labor relations review. - : SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC. - 0019-7939 .- 2162-271X. ; 72:5, s. 1094-1122
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Is the Bayh-Dole intellectual property regime associated with more and better academic entrepreneurship than the Professor's Privilege regime? The authors examine data on US PhDs in the natural sciences, engineering, and medical fields who became entrepreneurs in 1993-2006 and compare this to similar data from Sweden. They find that, in both countries, those with an academic background have lower rates of entry into entrepreneurship than do those with a non-academic background. The relative rate of academics starting entrepreneurial firms is slightly lower in the United States than in Sweden. Moreover, the mean economic gains from becoming an entrepreneur are negative, both for PhDs originating in academia and for non-academic settings in both countries. Analysis indicates that selection into entrepreneurship occurs from the lower part of the ability distribution among academics. The results suggest that policies supporting entrepreneurial decisions by younger, tenure-track academics may be more effective than are general incentives to increase academic entrepreneurship.
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- Broström, Anders, Docent, 1978-
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Academic breeding grounds : Home department conditions and early career performance of academic researchers
- 2019
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In: Research Policy. - : Elsevier B.V.. - 0048-7333 .- 1873-7625. ; 48:7, s. 1647-1665
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This study investigates how research group characteristics relate to the early career success of PhD candidates who are trained in the group. In particular, I study how the citation impact of early-career PhDs is related to the staff composition and funding of the group. Using data on a cohort of Swedish doctoral graduates in science, engineering, mathematics and medicine, two sets of findings are obtained. First, students who were trained in groups with a lower number of PhD students perform better in terms of academic productivity. From the perspective of research policy, this finding suggests a decreasing return to funding additional PhD student positions allocated to professors who are already maintaining larger research groups. Second, PhD students trained in groups with funding for PhD research that is conditioned by funder influence over the topic of thesis research are more likely to stay in academia. Controlling for career destination, however, PhDs from such groups have lower than average scientific productivity and citation impact. These results suggest that finders of PhD studies face a trade-off between the two different funding objectives of "getting what they want" in terms of research content and fostering successful scholars.
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- Broström, Anders, Docent, 1978-, et al.
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Concluding Discussion : The Past, Present, and Future of Technical Universities
- 2020. - 1
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In: Technical Universities. - Cham : Springer Nature. ; , s. 227-242
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Higher education institutions identified as ‘technical universities’ enjoy considerable status in many countries. Yet studies of boundary negotiations from a range of settings suggest that opportunities to transform into a broader, research-based university often takes precedence over the alternative vision of remaining or moving towards becoming a focused technical university. In this chapter, we discuss alternative explanations for the lacklustre appeal of the latter type of institutional template, and outline a roadmap for how the historical legacy of the technical university may be cultivated.
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- Broström, Anders, Docent, 1978-, et al.
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Getting paid for doing good : Employee working conditions as a source of supplier competitive advantage in the market for B2B cleaning services
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This paper investigates the willingness of buyers in a business-to-business setting to pay a price premium for services embedded with prosocial value. We theorize that such willingness is contingent on buyer characteristics in the form of explicit and implicit institutionalisation of ethics, and buyer vertical integration. We furthermore argue that when competing against an offer that is embedded with guarantees against corporate irresponsibility (“do-no-harm”), the appeal of an offer that is focused on more ambitious ethics (“do-good”) will be subject to considerable price sensitivity. However, a supplier with a prosocial orientation can increase the appeal of its offer by leveraging associations between prosocial value and the quality of its products and services. In an experimentally oriented study of purchasing activity in the Swedish market for cleaning services, we find support for these arguments.
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- Broström, Anders, Docent, 1978-, et al.
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Negotiating meritocracy and gender equality across organisational spaces : the case of a tenure track system
- 2024
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In: Higher Education. - : Springer Nature. - 0018-1560 .- 1573-174X.
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this article, we study how meritocratic systems and gender equality concerns are negotiated across different organisational spaces in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Based on a case study of the organising of a tenure track system in a Swedish university, we suggest that the intersection of meritocratic processes and gender equality work can be analysed as a set of negotiated orders in these spaces. This fragmentation may imply problems for advancing gender equality agendas in relation to established notions of meritocracy but may also imply opportunities for change as existing organisational spaces can be reconstructed or new ones created. Our notions of fragmentation and negotiated orders thereby suggest that the current situation is both stable and legitimate and that re-negotiations need to involve reconstructions of the various spaces and not only interventions into them.
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- Broström, Anders, Docent, 1978-, et al.
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Service development accounts for an even smaller share of European R&D investments than we may think
- 2021
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In: Journal of Technology Transfer. - : Springer Nature. - 0892-9912 .- 1573-7047. ; , s. 1256-1267
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- n academic research on private R&D investments, sectoral differences are generally analyzed on the basis of firms’ classification according to systems such as the American NAICS and the European NACE industry classification systems. The same classification principles are applied in many countries and regions when aggregating R&D statistics to the level of industries, for example by the EU’s statistical office Eurostat. We report evidence suggesting that the share of R&D associated with development of service-oriented products or with service activities is systematically lower than the share of R&D conducted by service sector firms. Results from a survey run in Sweden shows that the revenue streams in a significant share of R&D-performing service sector firms (as classified according to NACE) are dominated by sales of physical products (e.g. factoryless goods producers). An even larger share report that a majority of their R&D is directed towards development of physical products rather than service products (e.g. consultancy companies acting as external R&D departments for their clients in manufacturing industries). These findings imply that the share of R&D investments focusing on service-oriented activities is even lower than traditional statistics suggest.
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- Broström, Anders, Docent, 1978-, et al.
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The Knowledge Economy, Innovation and the New Challenges to Universities
- 2021
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In: Innovation: Organisation and Management. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1447-9338 .- 2204-0226. ; 23:2, s. 145-162
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Research review (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Universities face new challenges in the knowledge economy, due to two underlying transformations. One is that universities have increasingly developed from bodies of professorial self-governance bodies towards a status as ‘complete’ organisational actors, able to develop and deploy organisation-level strategies. A second is that by becoming key players in the knowledge economy and responding to stakeholder expectations, universities also have taken on new missions in addition to teaching and research. We propose that a series of new challenges arise from interrelations between universities’ internal organisational dynamics and changes in their external relationships. Moreover, we outline the contributions to this special issue, each of which address a specific question through their respective conceptual discussion and/or in-depth examination of these challenges. We conclude with recommendations for future research on the roles of universities in the knowledge economy and for innovation. Specifically, we propose that future research should simultaneously tackle vital issues about governance of universities and their activities, while also further developing extant empirical work on the microfoundations of academic knowledge production and career dynamics.
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