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- Benner, Mats, et al.
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Beyond Neoliberalized Research : From Auditing to reflexive Governance
- 2023
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In: Universities under Neoliberalism : Ideologies, Discourses and Management Practices - Ideologies, Discourses and Management Practices. - New York : Routledge. - 9781032159294 - 9781003246367 ; , s. 10-25
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- For many years, universities represented the ultimate outpost for professional autonomy in Western democracies. Despite little insight into the professional practices of scholars or administrators, governments provided the academic profession with extensive discretion, including the freedom to regulate qualifications for positions, terms for promotion, quality standards, goals, performance indicators and financial budgets. This freedom has become increasingly conditioned and strained during recent decades. Governments have commissioned universities to act like corporations to compete for funding, questioned established goals and performance indicators and enforced new market-based ideas in new governance models. These ideas, commonly described as “New Public Management,” include reforms to promote “academic excellence”, relevance of research outputs to policy-makers and practitioners, and high numbers of graduated students. In all, this has challenged the professional autonomy that previously was taken for granted and resulted in a changing professional practice at universities, largely inspired by a business ethos. Increasingly, however, governments have started to investigate alternative governance and leadership models, providing increased autonomy to the local levels and building on the intrinsic motivation of publicly employed professionals. This chapter describes and discusses Swedish experiences from a new approach to quality enhancement at universities, aiming to reduce the need for external control and strengthen the academic profession, while at the same time meeting external expectations with regard to transparency and performance. In its ideal form, the approach exemplifies, we argue, a shift from a top-down approach to quality assessment, to a trust-based bottom-up process, building on the judgement of academic professionals themselves.
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- Berggren, Sofia, et al.
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ProQ-dependent activation of Salmonella virulence genes mediated by post-transcriptional control of PhoP synthesis
- 2024
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In: mSphere. - : American Society for Microbiology. - 2379-5042. ; 9:3
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Gastrointestinal disease caused by Salmonella enterica is associated with the pathogen's ability to replicate within epithelial cells and macrophages. Upon host cell entry, the bacteria express a type-three secretion system encoded within Salmonella pathogenicity island 2, through which host-manipulating effector proteins are secreted to establish a stable intracellular niche. Transcription of this intracellular virulence program is activated by the PhoPQ two-component system that senses the low pH and the reduced magnesium concentration of host cell vacuoles. In addition to transcriptional control, Salmonella commonly employ RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) and small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) to regulate gene expression at the post-transcriptional level. ProQ is a globally acting RBP in Salmonella that promotes expression of the intracellular virulence program, but its RNA repertoire has previously been characterized only under standard laboratory growth conditions. Here, we provide a high-resolution ProQ interactome during conditions mimicking the environment of the Salmonella-containing vacuole (SCV), revealing hundreds of previously unknown ProQ binding sites in sRNAs and mRNA 3 ' UTRs. ProQ positively affected both the levels and the stability of many sRNA ligands, some of which were previously shown to associate with the well-studied and infection-relevant RBP Hfq. We further show that ProQ activates the expression of PhoP at the post-transcriptional level, which, in turn, leads to upregulation of the intracellular virulence program.
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- Bergvall, Anders, 1981, et al.
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Basic Theory of Electron Transport Through Molecular Contacts
- 2016
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In: Handbook of Single-Molecule Electronics. - 9789814463393 ; , s. 31-78
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In this chapter, we will introduce a basic theoretical description of coherent electron transport through low-dimensional junctions and molecular devices. The description introduced is based on quantum transport theory using a tight-binding description of molecules and lead materials. We apply this theory in a few worked examples on junctions based on graphene and carbon nanotubes and on molecular-superconducting hybrid junctions.
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- Björk, Elisabeth, et al.
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Fibre-based strength aids for increased board stiffness
- 2019
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In: PaperCon 2019. - : TAPPI Press.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- A pilot scale study has been made of the concept of adding fibre-based strength agents (fines enriched (FE)-pulp or highly refined (HR)-pulp) in a board middle ply containing chemithermomechanical bleached pulp (CTMP) in order to increase bending stiffness of the board while maintaining Z-strength. It has been demonstrated that the bending stiffness of a sheet consisting of a top ply and a CTMP based middle ply could be improved by increasing the CTMP fraction and preventing Z-strength loss via addition of a fibre based strength agent. Compared with the reference pulp, both Z-strength and bulk increased for three of the compositions, namely 65% CTMP with 5% strength agent of either FE or HR type and 85% CTMP with 10% HR-pulp. FE-pulp was found to be more efficient than HR-pulp concerning bending stiffness improvement. While the highly-refined fibres of the strength agents had a negative effect on the drainage resistance and press dryness, an increased share of CTMP increased the press dryness linearly. FE-pulp and HR-pulp had the same impact on press dryness. Press solids could be improved by approximately 2% without significantly reducing the bulk by increasing press loads.
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- Edling, Christofer, et al.
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Representation och integration i lokala eliter
- 2018
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In: Eliter i Sverige : Tvärvetenskapliga perspektiv på makt, status och klass - Tvärvetenskapliga perspektiv på makt, status och klass. - 9789144116365 ; , s. 187-212
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The study applies network analysis to empirically study the integration of local elites in four Swedish municipalities. We focus particularly on the existence of elite fractions, the structural representation of women, and the role of informal ties for integration.
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- Eriksson, Bengt Erik, et al.
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Att studera eliter
- 2018
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In: Eliter i Sverige. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144116365 ; , s. 11-26
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- Hedberg, Bo, et al.
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Learning in imaginary organizations
- 2001
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In: Handbook of organizational learning and knowledge. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 0198295839 - 0198295820 ; , s. 733-752
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- Holmqvist, Cecilia, 1975, et al.
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Critical charge and spin Josephson currents through a precessing spin
- 2012
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In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series. - : IOP Publishing. - 1742-6588 .- 1742-6596. ; 400:2, s. 022027-
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We present a theoretical study of two superconductors coupled over a spin. The spin is treated classically and is assumed to precess with the Larmor frequency due to an external magnetic field. The precession results in spin-dependent Andreev scattering and a non- equilibrium population of the Andreev levels. Charge and spin currents at zero temperature were studied previously [1]. Here, we focus on the critical current as well as the corresponding spin currents at finite temperatures. At finite temperatures, the spin precession can enhance the supercurrent by a population redistribution. The enhancement leads to a modified current- phase relation and a non-monotonous critical current as function of temperature. This non- monotonous behavior is accompanied by a corresponding change in spin-transfer torques acting on the precessing spin and leads to the possibility of using temperature as a means to tune the back-action on the spin.
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- Holmqvist, Cecilia, et al.
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Josephson current through a precessing spin
- 2009
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In: Journal of Physics, Conference Series. - : IOP Publishing. - 1742-6588 .- 1742-6596. ; 150
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A study of the dc Josephson current between two superconducting leads in thepresence of a precessing classical spin is presented. The precession gives rise to a time-dependenttunnel potential which not only creates different tunneling probabilities for spin-up and spin-down quasiparticles, but also introduces a time-dependent spin-flip term. In particular, westudy the effects of the spin-flip term alone on the Josephson current between two spin-singletsuperconductors as a function of precession frequency and junction transparency. The systemdisplays a steady-state solution although the magnitude and nature of the current is indeedaffected by the precession frequency of the classical spin.
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- Holmqvist, Cecilia, 1975, et al.
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Non-equilibrium charge and spin transport in superconducting– ferromagnetic– superconducting point contacts
- 2018
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In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. - : The Royal Society. - 1364-503X .- 1471-2962. ; 376:2125
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Research review (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The conventional Josephson effect may be modified by introducing spin-active scattering in the interface layer of the junction. Here, we discuss a Josephson junction consisting of two s-wave superconducting leads coupled over a classical spin that precesses with the Larmor frequency due to an external magnetic field. This magnetically active interface results in a time-dependent boundary condition with different tunnelling amplitudes for spin-up and -down quasi- particles and where the precession produces spin-flip scattering processes. As a result, the Andreev states develop sidebands and a non-equilibrium population that depend on the details of the spin precession. The Andreev states carry a steady-state Josephson charge current and a time-dependent spin current, whose current–phase relations could be used to characterize the precessing spin. The spin current is supported by spin-triplet correlations induced by the spin precession and creates a feedback effect on the classical spin in the form of a torque that shifts the precession frequency. By applying a bias voltage, the Josephson frequency adds another complexity to the situation and may create resonances together with the Larmor frequency. These Shapiro resonances manifest as torques and, under suitable 2conditions, are able to reverse the direction of the classical spin in sub-nanosecond time. Another characteristic feature is the subharmonic gap structure in the DC charge current displaying an even–odd effect attributable to precession-assisted multiple Andreev reflections. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Andreev bound states’.
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- Holmqvist, Cecilia, 1975, et al.
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Nonequilibrium effects in a Josephson junction coupled to a precessing spin
- 2011
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In: Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. - 2469-9950 .- 2469-9969. ; 83:10
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We present a theoretical study of a Josephson junction consisting of two s-wave superconducting leads coupled over a classical spin. When an external magnetic field is applied, the classical spin will precess with the Larmor frequency. This magnetically active interface results in a time-dependent boundary condition with different tunneling amplitudes for spin-up and spin-down quasiparticles and where the precession produces spin-flip scattering processes. We show that as a result, the Andreev states develop sidebands and a nonequilibrium population which depend on the precession frequency and the angle between the classical spin and the external magnetic field. The Andreev states lead to a steady-state Josephson current whose current-phase relation could be used for characterizing the precessing spin. In addition to the charge transport, a magnetization current is also generated. This spin current is time dependent and its polarization axis rotates with the same precession frequency as the classical spin.
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- Holmqvist, Cecilia, et al.
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Spin-polarized Shapiro steps and spin-precession-assisted multiple Andreev reflection
- 2014
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In: Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. - 2469-9950 .- 2469-9969. ; 90:1
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We investigate the charge and spin transport of a voltage-biased superconducting point contact coupled to a nanomagnet. The magnetization of the nanomagnet is assumed to precess with the Larmor frequency omega(L) when exposed to ferromagnetic resonance conditions. The Larmor precession locally breaks the spin-rotation symmetry of the quasiparticle scattering and generates spin-polarized Shapiro steps for commensurate Josephson and Larmor frequencies that lead to magnetization reversal. This interplay between the ac Josephson current and the magnetization dynamics occurs at voltages vertical bar V vertical bar = h omega(L)/2en for n = 1,2, ... , and the subharmonic steps with n > 1 are a consequence of multiple Andreev reflection (MAR). Moreover, the spin-precession-assisted MAR generates quasiparticle scattering amplitudes that, due to interference, lead to current-voltage characteristics of the dc charge and spin currents with subharmonic gap structures displaying an even-odd effect.
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- Holmqvist, Cecilia, et al.
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Spin-precession-assisted supercurrent in a superconducting quantum point contact coupled to a single-molecule magnet
- 2012
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In: Physical Review B. - 2469-9950 .- 2469-9969. ; 86
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The supercurrent through a quantum point contact coupled to a nanomagnet strongly depends on the dynamics of the nanomagnet's spin. We employ a fully microscopic model to calculate the transport properties of a junction coupled to a spin whose dynamics is modeled as Larmor precession brought about by an external magnetic field and find that the dynamics affects the charge and spin currents by inducing transitions between the continuum states outside the superconducting gap region and the Andreev levels. This redistribution of the quasiparticles leads to a nonequilibrium population of the Andreev levels and an enhancement of the supercurrent which is visible as a modified current-phase relation as well as a nonmonotonous critical current as function of temperature. The nonmonotonous behavior is accompanied by a corresponding change in spin-transfer torques acting on the precessing spin and leads to the possibility of using temperature as a means to tune the back-action on the spin.
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- Holmqvist, Mikael
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Att studera den ekonomiska eliten : problem och utmaningar
- 2018
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 55:1, s. 5-22
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Studying the Economic Elite – Problems and ChallengesThis article presents my experiences of studying Djursholm as Sweden’s ”Leader Community” during 2010 through 2015. I address the relative lack of studies of the economic elite, which is a problem both for the sociological literature, and for public debate. The reason to why relatively few studies have been made of the economic elite, particularly in Sweden, has amongst others to do with a reputation of it as being hard to study, not at least due to this group's often social closure. By proposing examples from my own study, I try to describe how studies of the economic elites can be done with a view of generating more research of this anonymous yet influential group.
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- Holmqvist, Mikael
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Complicating the Organization : A New Prescription for the Learning Organization?
- 2009
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In: Management Learning. - : SAGE Publications. - 1350-5076 .- 1461-7307. ; 40:3, s. 275-287
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- As a result of their learning techniques, organizations tend to generate dominant behavior of either exploitation or exploration making a balanced attention to them hard to achieve. But how can the process through which this undesirable phenomenon develops be made more complicated? Largely this problem remains a neglected one in organizational learning theory. It is important to better understand how organizations can take measures to reduce the pathological effects that learning breeds. In this article I explore the idea of 'complicating the organization' in order to constrain organizations from becoming swiftly locked in learning behavior of excessive exploitation or exploration. I suggest that contemporary organizations should complicate their learning through various interorganizational collaborations. In interorganizational learning activities, organizations have the potential to learn slowly because of being poorly focused in their attention to their experiences. Hence, they may remain open to reflect upon their current operations. They will be learning, but not in a too simpleminded and myopic way by reducing the speed through which competency traps of exploitation and exploration develop.
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- Holmqvist, Mikael
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Consecrating and Desecrating Elite Communities : Fearing and Dealing with Social Deviance in Sweden's Wealthiest Neighborhood
- 2022
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In: Cultural Sociology. - : SAGE Publications. - 1749-9755 .- 1749-9763. ; 16:3, s. 358-378
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this article I report observations from an ethnographic study of a Swedish economic elite community, including interviews with residents and service staff, and participant observations in various social contexts stretching over a period of five years that can contribute to an understanding of how elite communities respond to potential social deviance among its members, such as feelings of insufficiency and stress, thus trying to avoid any 'desecration' of their social and cultural capital. Specifically, I examine how the practices through which desecration is avoided, for example the exclusion of unwanted members, interplay in the further consecration of the communities, thus maintaining and strengthening elites' status and standing, Studying the problems and difficulties experienced by elites in their neighborhood settings, and how they try to manage them, is potentially an important step forward to better analyze and understand the way powerful groups in contemporary society maintain and strengthen their privileges and power.
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- Holmqvist, Mikael, 1970-
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Consecration and meritocracy in elite business schools : The case of a Swedish student union
- 2023
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In: British Journal of Sociology. - 0007-1315 .- 1468-4446. ; 74:4, s. 531-546
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Sociologists theare paying increasing attention to the business and financial elites that control today's global economy; indeed, there's a great need to understand who these elites are, what they do, and what makes m tick, as individuals, and as a class. But we also need to understand how the economic elites aremade in the current social and economic system, and one significant way of doing this, is by examining elite business schools, that is, the institutions that aim to train and prepare people to assume important leadership and decision-making positions in business, finance and related sectors of critical importance to the management of modern capitalism. Based on the notion of consecration, I empirically examine how the student union of Sweden's premier business school, The Stockholm School of Economics, offers its members a learning environment partly separated from the school, and how this semi-independent organization contributes to making undergraduate students socially, morally and esthetically meritorious for elite jobs in primarily management consulting and finance; a process that is largely shaped by corporate actors that participate formally and informally in the student union activities. The paper contributes to the sociological literature on business schools and higher education and elites, both theoretically through the twin notions of meritocracy and consecration, and empirically through its unique focus on student union activities in an elite business school setting.
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- Holmqvist, Mikael
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Corporate social responsibility as corporate social control : The case of work-site health promotion
- 2009
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In: Scandinavian Journal of Management. - : Elsevier BV. - 0956-5221 .- 1873-3387. ; 25:1, s. 68-72
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In the past decades work-site health promotion has become an increasingly popular strategy through which corporations and other employers are said to exercise social responsibility. Not only does this practice promise better health and wellbeing for employees; it can also contribute to generating sustainable and responsible organizations. As with all organizational activities we need, however, critically analyze the potential risks for single individuals and societies alike with comprehensive health promotion programs. Any activity of corporate social responsibility (CSR) can potentially be seen as an expression of organizational control through which all the more aspects of an organization's environment come to be enacted by the organization in a way favorable to the organization's aims and perspectives. By clothing an activity as ""socially responsible"", and more specifically as ""health promotion"", organizations may accomplish an essential task in a very sublime and efficient way: that of managing its environment in terms of desired and appropriate human behaviors. This unanticipated consequence of health promotion deserves attention in order to even better understand the potentials and pitfalls of modern CSR.
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- Holmqvist, Mikael, 1970-
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Corporations' Invisible Hand in Higher Education : Teaching at Business Schools and the Making of Employable Students.
- 2023
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In: Universities Under Neoliberalism. - New York : Routledge. - 9781032159294 - 9781003246367 ; , s. 49-67
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A critical notion in contemporary neoliberal society is “employability”, i.e., the set of skills, competencies and abilities that make an individual able to compete successfully on national and international labour markets. As is well-known, one of the most important instruments for creating employable persons is higher education, i.e. education offered by universities and similar academic institutions. Universities have for long time been expected to be “relevant” by making students well adapted to societal demands and requirements; in other words, producing “employable students” has always been a critical mission, not only in the narrow, vocational sense but also in the behavioural and aesthetic meaning of the word. As a testimony to this, modern universities have gradually embraced a corporate model for managing its operations, for instance, by implementing “performance management” indicators for evaluating faculty, and by offering students courses that stress the development of social rather than intellectual abilities that are said to be critical for their employability. The corporate ethos that has come to define society more and more has also come to colonize the university world. The market-liberal development of universities can most vividly be seen in the exceptional growth of management education offered by universities or independent business schools, where tomorrow's corporate elites are being educated and trained. In many ways, business schools have come to dominate higher education, not only in terms of the number of students being graduated but also ideologically: business schools seem to offer a version of higher education that is relevant for today's demands and can in this respect be seen as “model institutions”. As a result, the ways business students are constructed and socialized therefore constitute an interesting area of examination. In this chapter, the author critically examines how students at Sweden's premier business school, the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), are made employable for elite jobs in Swedish and international industry. The SSE is Sweden's only private university and is sometimes described as a model institution for how all higher education should be conducted in the country. Relative to other universities in Sweden, the SSE is a “free” institution, without any strong formal bonds to the state, which is said to promote an ability to swiftly adapt to circumstances and offer their students a “timely” education, resulting in a high degree of competitiveness. Indeed, the SSE has close connections to the corporate world that offers the institution guidance in how to promote student employability, and can boost excellent records in making their students attractive to elite employers, even in the public sector.
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- Holmqvist, Mikael
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Creating and upholding an elite community : 'Consecrating exclusion' in Djursholm, Sweden
- 2021
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In: Sociological Review. - : SAGE Publications. - 0038-0261 .- 1467-954X. ; 69:5, s. 956-973
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article addresses a largely neglected area of study in sociology, namely the consecration of people in elite communities. Through the notion of 'consecrating exclusion', I explore how Sweden's foremost elite community Djursholm was founded in 1889, and how its aura and character as an exclusive neighbourhood are maintained today. Data come from historical material and a five-year ethnographic study consisting of field observations, interviews and archival material. I analyse how Djursholm was created as a sanctuary for the economic elite in Sweden and that its foremost purpose has been to socially elevate its residents, making them appear honourable and morally superior. I report how the community has defended its borders by various practices of exclusion, and how Djursholm aims to present itself as a role-model, a 'shining city upon a hill' which is critical to its social standing and status. The study contributes to the sociology of elites in three ways: (a) theoretically through the notion of 'consecrating exclusion', by synthesizing ideas on social and moral distinction with ideas on symbolic boundaries and moral hierarchies; (b) empirically by presenting in-depth qualitative data on the construction and maintenance of a peculiar elite community, noting that few studies have reported data from a neighbourhood designated as 'elite' from the start; and (c) methodologically by drawing on a mix of methods including historical documents, interviews and participant observation in order to examine both historical and contemporary aspects of 'consecrating exclusion'.
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- Holmqvist, Mikael
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Creating the Disabled Person : A Case Study of Recruitment to "Work-for-the-Disabled" Programs
- 2008
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In: Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research. - : Stockholm University Press. - 1501-7419 .- 1745-3011. ; 10:3, s. 191-207
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper reports on how the National Employment Office in Sweden creates the disabled person by recruiting them to work-for-the-disabled programs. As a rule, job applicants who are classified as “disabled” do not consider themselves as such, but they are encouraged to become disabled by adopting the organization's norms, rules and routines, which specify what is expected of them as disabled if they are to be assisted to find a job. Disability is, in other words, a learned social role enacted in a particular organizational context. It is argued that the full implications of a radical constructionist approach to the problem of disability have not yet been tapped in the standard sociological conversation on disability. The potential of society to formally enact anyone as disabled, irrespective of his or her medical and biological condition, raises a number of important social and political questions.
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- Holmqvist, Mikael
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Disabled People and Dirty Work
- 2009
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In: Disability & Society. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0968-7599 .- 1360-0508. ; 24:7, s. 869-887
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Based on a longitudinal case study of the work offered by a Swedish sheltered work organization that can be regarded as ‘dirty’, in the sense that it stigmatizes those people that do it, in this paper I analyze how ‘dirty work’ can be seen as an important yet so far neglected source of the social construction of disability. Specifically, the aim of the paper is to suggest how an individual can become a ‘disabled person’ by doing dirty work. By working on ‘tainted tasks’ people (irrespective of their mental or physical condition) may come to be regarded and even officially labeled as ‘disabled’, i.e. incapacitated and impaired for any ‘normal’ and ‘clean’ character of work.
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- Holmqvist, Mikael
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Djursholm : A Study of an Executive Community
- 2012
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In: Scandinavian Journal of Management. - : Elsevier BV. - 0956-5221 .- 1873-3387. ; 28:3, s. 257-263
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This project explores the community of Djursholm that is situated some 10 km north of Stockholm as an example of an ‘executive community’. A key argument of the project is that the ideals and norms of contemporary ‘executive behavior’ can no longer be sought within the world of professional bureaucracies only. Since August 2010 I have been conducting an ethnographic study of Djursholm. I have approached this community inductively where my theoretical ideas on the construction of executive values-in-use have informed my preliminary research questions. Based on my observations Djursholm appears to be a good environment to explore the phenomenon of executive community in terms of nurturing or resisting an executive culture expressed through such phenomena as responsibility, discipline, organization and order; not only because there is a relatively large number of executives living there but primarily because it appears to be a community that is intensely the subject to the ideology of management.
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- Holmqvist, Mikael
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Economics as symbolic capital : The consecration of elite business schools
- 2022
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In: Theory and society. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0304-2421 .- 1573-7853. ; 51:3, s. 435-455
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Ever since the first elite business schools were founded in Europe and the United States during the late 1800s and early 1900s, they have enjoyed an intimate relationship with economics. Despite some notable analyses of economics' importance for the successful institutionalization of business schools, an understanding of the relation between economics and elite business schools requires further development. As such, this paper focuses on 'economics as symbolic capital' for the consecration of business schools as elite settings, with particular emphasis on the symbolic aspects of economics' cultural and social capital. Consecration can be seen as critical to the institutionalization of elite business schools; in contrast to the primary focus of previous studies on the material significance of economics in business schools, my chief concern is the discipline's symbolic power and importance for business schools' status as elite institutions in many countries today. Data from a study on Sweden's elite business school, The Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), were based on both historical and contemporary sources, including archival material, biographies, statistics, participant observations, and interviews with faculty and students. The SSE is one of the world's oldest elite business schools where economics has played a critical role ever since its establishment; the SSE's economics faculty has a unique relation to the ultimate source of capital for contemporary global economics, namely, The Nobel Prize in Economics, which exerts a significant influence on the discipline's general standing and status today.
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- Holmqvist, Mikael, 1970-
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Elite Business Schools : Education and Consecration in Neo-liberal Society
- 2022
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Book (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Social scientists are paying increasing attention to the business and financial elites: There’s a great need to understand who these elites are, what they do, and what makes them tick, as individuals but also as a class. By examining elite business schools, the institutions that train and prepare people to assume important leadership and decision-making positions in business, finance and related sectors, we may also learn how the economic elites are made. A key argument in this book is that elite schools are known to create powerful groups in society, offering them the intellectual and analytical means to act as leaders, but, most importantly, the social, moral and aesthetic skills that are deemed necessary to exercise power; in all essential respects elite schools consecrate people. By dominating much of higher education today, and by doing so in a way that creates and reproduces a market-based organization and control of society, elite business schools represent certain interests and ideologies that affect the lives of most people. In understanding how the modern economy is run, elite business schools, therefore, represent critical study objects.This book, based on an in-depth study of the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), offers a sociological analysis of the world of elite business schools. Specifically, this book examines the consecration of SSE’s students from a number of perspectives and in a number of situations, focusing on student union activities, school culture, faculty behavior, teaching, courses and alumni events, noting the symbolic importance of economics and particularly the school’s unique relation among the world’s business schools to the Nobel Prize.The book addresses the topics with regards to the sociology of elites, management education and organizational studies and will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students also interested in business history, higher education studies, and sociology of education.
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- Holmqvist, Mikael, 1970-, et al.
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Elite Communities and Polarization in Neoliberal Society : Consecration in Australia's and Sweden's Wealthy Neighbourhoods
- 2023
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In: Critical Sociology. - : SAGE Publications. - 0896-9205 .- 1569-1632. ; 49:4-5, s. 767-782
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- 'Elite communities' are the areas where the wealthy, and even 'superrich', live, socialize and raise their children as future economic and financial elites; they are the places where a few lead socially and economically privileged lives. Earlier studies have concentrated on the inner dynamics of these settings, focusing on the way residents are constructed and socialized as elites through their social, communicative and aesthetic abilities that are perceived as exemplary in contemporary neoliberal society. In this paper, we broaden the perspective, by exploring how these areas contribute to polarization, that is, how they generate distinctions based on money, morals and manners that are peculiar to neoliberalism's idealization of 'entrepreneurship', 'self-management', 'leadership' and the pursuit of an 'active lifestyle'. Our data come from two major ethnographic studies: one conducted between 2010 and 2015 of Sweden's wealthiest community, Djursholm, that is populated by the country's business and financial elites; the other conducted between 2016 and 2019 of three of Australia's most prestigious and economically privileged suburbs, Toorak (Melbourne), Mosman (Sydney) and Cottesloe (Perth).
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- Holmqvist, Mikael, 1970-
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Elite Reproduction and Power in the Neoliberal Era : The Image-Making of King Carl XVI Gustaf as 'Sweden's Leader'
- 2024
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In: Cultural Sociology. - 1749-9755 .- 1749-9763.
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- One group of elites that often escapes attention among sociologists are royals, who seem to be regarded as uninteresting and irrelevant study objects for the analysis of elites' reproduction and power in contemporary society. Still, as suggested by, for instance, the death of the British Queen Elizabeth II in 2022 and the installation of the Danish King Frederik X in 2024, royals enjoy extraordinary attention among the general public and media, which testifies to their potentially important social, moral and political functions and roles. Based on an extensive examination of the longest reigning monarch in the world today, the Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf, I suggest how he, through media, has been constructed as 'Sweden's leader'; by idealizing such neoliberal virtues as activity, entrepreneurship, positive thinking, self-management and similar expressions of 'leadership'. A key concept for my analysis of the fabrication of the King is 'image-making', which derives from Ervin Goffman's work on the 'presentation of self'. Essentially, the King aspires to be seen as a role model in contemporary Sweden, a country that has become all the more market-oriented during the last 50 years, which is critical to understanding his legitimacy, and hence ability to exercise power.
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Experiential learning processes of exploitation and exploration within and between organisations : an empirical study of product development
- 2003
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- This paper empirically examines the relationship between exploitation and exploration in intra- and interorganisational learning processes. Exploitation is about creating reliability in experience and thrives on productivity and refinement. Exploration is about creating variety in experience and thrives on experimenting and innovating. Specifically, the paper explores four learning processes: (a) How intraorganisational exploitation generates interorganisational exploration; (b) how interorganisational exploration generates intraorganisational exploitation; (c) how interorganisational exploitation generates intraorganisational exploration; and (d) how intraorganisational exploration generates interorganisational exploitation. The empirical data consists of two case studies of organisational learning in product development processes of one Scandinavian and one American software producer and their respective interorganisational collaborations with business partners. The findings show how exploitation can be a cause for exploration, and vice versa, that moreover may transcend learning levels. The mechanisms by which such dynamics are generated are discussed. Overall, the framework as proposed in the paper further develops existing theories on organisational learning, by proposing how exploitation and exploration are empirically interlaced within and between organisations.
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Identity Regulation in Neo-liberal Societies : Learning to Behave as an ‘Occupationally Disabled’ Individual in Sweden
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In: Organization. - : Sage Publications. - 1350-5084 .- 1461-7323. ; 20:2, s. 193-211
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- This article studies the formation and regulation of individual identities among a group of people who after long periods of unemployment are put in a specialized work program for so called ‘occupationally disabled’ individuals. In contrast to its official aim to activate and rehabilitate participants back to the labour market, the study suggests that the work program constitutes the participants as passive and unable to meet the criteria of employability on the labour market. The term ‘occupationally disabled’ emerges not as a medical label referring to already existing, inner characteristic of the individuals concerned, but as an identity that they take on as they pass through the work program. The article contributes to existing research of the formation and regulation of individual identities in organizations in two regards: first, by showing how medicine participates in the formation and regulation of individual identities in organizations, and second, by relating the formation and regulation of individual identities to broader societal issues concerning neoliberal government. Our study suggests that there is a tendency in neo-liberal societies to combine medical and economic expertise into a ‘medico-economic discourse’ within which issues concerning individuals’ activity and agency are transformed into matters of illness and disability. That is, whereas active and self-governing individuals are governed as parts of a high-performing segment of the working population, our study suggests that passive and dependent individuals tend to be governed not just as parts of a low performing segment of the working population, but also as a disabled segment.
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- Holmqvist, Mikael, et al.
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Identity regulation in neo-liberal societies
- 2013
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In: Organization. - : SAGE Publications. - 1350-5084 .- 1461-7323. ; 20:2, s. 193-211
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article studies the formation and regulation of individual identities among a group of people who after long periods of unemployment are put in a specialized work program for so called ‘occupationally disabled’ individuals. In contrast to its official aim to activate and rehabilitate participants back to the labour market, the study suggests that the work program constitutes the participants as passive and unable to meet the criteria of employability on the labour market. The term ‘occupationally disabled’ emerges not as a medical label referring to already existing, inner characteristic of the individuals concerned, but as an identity that they take on as they pass through the work program. The article contributes to existing research of the formation and regulation of individual identities in organizations in two regards: first, by showing how medicine participates in the formation and regulation of individual identities in organizations, and second, by relating the formation and regulation of individual identities to broader societal issues concerning neoliberal government. Our study suggests that there is a tendency in neo-liberal societies to combine medical and economic expertise into a ‘medico-economic discourse’ within which issues concerning individuals’ activity and agency are transformed into matters of illness and disability. That is, whereas active and self-governing individuals are governed as parts of a high-performing segment of the working population, our study suggests that passive and dependent individuals tend to be governed not just as parts of a low performing segment of the working population, but also as a disabled segment.
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- Holmqvist, Mikael
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Leader Communities : The Consecration of Elites in Djursholm
- 2017
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Book (peer-reviewed)abstract
- All around the world there are elite suburban communities: Palo Alto, California, and Greenwich, Connecticut, in the U.S.; Paris's Neuilly; and Oxshott outside London. These wealthy suburbs are home to the economic and social elites who work in the world's global cities. Stockholm's suburb Djursholm is one such place. It is full of large houses, winding lanes, and is surrounded by a beautiful landscape. Its residents prize physical fitness, healthy eating, fine art, and education. Despite Sweden's reputation for egalitarianism, Djursholm is representative of global mechanisms of privilege and its perpetuation.
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- Holmqvist, Mikael, 1970-
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Learning in imaginary organizations : creating interorganizational knowledge
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In: Journal of Organizational Change Management. - 0953-4814 .- 1758-7816. ; 12:5, s. 419-438
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- Organizations are increasingly dependent on various forms of partnerships to developand to perform. These organizational partnerships may become potential learning arenas,broadening the learning capacities of the alliances involved. Thus far, the literature on learning inorganizations has chiefly been concerned with how traditional and integrated organizations learn.Consequently, a unit of analysis has not been developed to highlight how a collection of actors maylearn and create value. To address this issue, I will discuss how ``imaginary organizations'' canprovide an arena for actors to build knowledge on a joint basis. This type of partnership formsmetasystems that integrate various partner organizations in order to share resources, poolcompetencies, and gain flexibility. As an empirical illustration, learning processes within theimaginary organization of Scandinavian PC Systems (SPCS) are described.
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Management in the “neo-paternalistic organization” : The case of worksite health promotion at Scania
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In: Scandinavian Journal of Management. - : Elsevier BV. - 0956-5221 .- 1873-3387. ; 34:3, s. 267-275
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- This paper proposes a qualitative study of Work Site Health Promotion (WHP) at the large Swedish producer of trucks and buses, Scania. While the concept of WHP implies that it is employees’ improved health at work that is strived for, we suggest that its main area of intervention is neither the work environment, nor what employees do at work, but employees’ lifestyles. To capture the potential of WHP for the management of organization, we introduce the concept of “neo-paternalistic organizational control.” By this term we want to draw attention to how WHP shares paternalistic approaches’ tendency of disregarding the professional-private divide, while also drawing attention to how this extra-professional control dimension is at once less intrusive and more discriminatory than what is traditionally referred to as paternalism in the literature on managerial control.
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