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An ecology of ideas permeating science, higher education, and society : Essays for Kerstin Sahlin
- 2024
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Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This book is a dedication to Kerstin Sahlin, delving into the world of ideas and tracing their journey through the realms of science, higher education, and society. With collective efforts of Kerstin’s colleagues and friends, the book explores the multifaceted aspects of dominant ideas in science and higher education, unraveling their global trends and pro-found influences on universities and beyond. Structured into four comprehensive themes – critical remarks on global trends shaping universities and academic institutions; exploration of intricate relationships between the sciences and society; collegiality and governance of academic institutions; and the impact of global ideas in the public sector – the volume echoes Kerstin’s pioneering research on the translation, editing, and dissemination of popular ideas and management concepts. It also showcases her recent work on the ecology of ideas in science and higher education. This book stands as a testament to Kerstin’s enduring legacy, acknowledging her profound influence on our understanding of contemporary developments in society as well as in academia.
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- Anderson, Lakin
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Tensions in Transdisciplinary Research : A study of a climate research group
- 2023
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In a time of sustainability predicaments and ‘grand challenges’, transdisciplinarity has been put forward as an approach through which researchers can engage with societal transformation for a better world. This study examines tensions that arise in the on-the-ground efforts of researchers to establish and manage a transdisciplinary research group within a Norwegian university. Tensions have been of interest in both studies of science and studies of organizations. Scholars have inquired into the ways in which tensions between interrelated, divergent demands influence the work of scientific knowledge production and organizational life. Transdisciplinary research groups, centers and institutes are proliferating, yet studies of the tensions and challenges they face at the micro-level remain nascent. Drawing on intermittent fieldwork over a two-year period, this dissertation analyses a local case in which climate and energy researchers took a transdisciplinary approach in establishing a “societally engaged” research group and research center in a social sciences department. Key questions are: which tensions do they encounter? How do they respond to them? The study makes use of concepts on tensions and paradox developed in organization and management studies to inform discussions on challenges in inter- and trans-disciplinary research in practice. The case study identifies, illustrates, and analyses several tensions salient for researchers: between the need for both consolidation and interrelation; between the need to grow and formalise the group while also maintaining its closeness and values; between ideas of researchers’ relationship to societal change as both distant and engaged; and between the need to maintain academic autonomy while providing usefulness to non-academic actors. Various responses to these tensions are identified and explored, including defending against, and actively embracing them. The findings allow for rethinking transdiscipclinary research in practice, with implications for research managers, practitioners, and policy makers.
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- Brunsson, Nils, 1946-, et al.
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Constructing competition for status : sports and higher education.
- 2021
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In: Competition. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. ; , s. 93-111
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The likelihood and forms of competition for status—or any other good—are dependent on how the good is allocated in society, and such allocation may, in turn, be strongly influenced by organizational efforts. We discuss the ways by which status allocation is organized in the fields of sports and higher education and analyse how and why certain forms of organization aid in constructing competition. Using the case of higher education, we show how actorhood, relationships, and status scarcity have been organized for a specific entity, the university. We argue that desire for status is more difficult to create by organizational efforts, and such desire may be difficult to justify within an organization. We end the chapter by discussing strategies for organizations competing for status and the risks that such strategies involve.
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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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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)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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Det ostyrda universitetet? : Perspektiv på styrning, autonomi och reform av svenska lärosäten
- 2017. - 1
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Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Universitet och högskolor, liksom andra organisationer, förväntas vara både styrbara och rationella för att möta samhällets och näringslivets krav på kunskap, tillväxt och innovation. Senare års reformer inom den högre utbildningen, främst den så kallade autonomireformen, har formaliserat denna bild av universiteten som självstyrande organisatoriska enheter. I den pågående styrningsdiskussionen är det makten över universitetens funktion och ordning som står på spel. Men vad innebär det att vara självständig och rationell, och hur tar det sig uttryck inom dagens moderna universitet? I denna antologi diskuterar tolv forskare inom företagsekonomi och statskunskap vad självständighet betyder och hur svenska universitet och högskolor organiserar sig för att vara självständiga och rationella organisationer. Svaret söker de genom att empiriskt spåra och analysera några av de organisatoriska uttrycken för självständighet och frihet på dagens svenska lärosäten. Därmed lyfts frågan om styrning av universitet bortom enskilda reformagendor och styrförsök. Författarna undersöker både svårigheterna att styra universitetens olika verksamheter genom policy och övergripande reformer, och de problem som det innebär att tänka sig universitet som i någon mån ostyrda. Kapitlen bygger på forskning om kollegialitet och linjestyrning, mätsystem och utvärderingar för intern organisering, liksom den ökade betydelsen av kommunikation och PR för att visa enhetlighet och sammanhållning mot externa intressenter. Med empiriskt grundad analys ger boken viktiga bidrag till diskussionen om universitetens organisation och styrning, idag och i framtiden. Redaktörerna Linda Wedlin och Josef Pallas är docenter i företagsekonomi vid Uppsala universitet.
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- Edlund, Peter, 1986-, et al.
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Prizes and the organization of status
- 2019
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In: Organization outside organization. - Cambridge UK : Cambridge University Press. - 9781108474986 ; , s. 62-83
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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- Engwall, Lars, 1942-, et al.
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A Field Approach to Corporate Governance
- 2018
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In: Corporate Governance in Action. - New York : Routledge. - 9781138285668 - 9781315268859 ; , s. 25-41
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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- Engwall, Lars, 1942-, et al.
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Business Studies and Management Ideas
- 2019
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In: Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 9780198794219
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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- Engwall, Lars, 1942-, et al.
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Conclusions
- 2018
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In: Corporate Governance in Action. - New York : Routledge. - 9781138285668 ; , s. 185-198
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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- Engwall, Lars, 1942-, et al.
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Governance Relations
- 2018
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In: Corporate Governance in Action. - New York : Routledge. - 9781138285668 ; , s. 163-183
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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- Engwall, Lars, 1942-, et al.
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Resituating Corporate Governance
- 2018
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In: Corporate Governance in Action. - New York : Routledge. - 9781138285668 ; , s. 1-24
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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- Engwall, Lars, 1942-, et al.
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The myth of the global market for business education
- 2023
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In: Debating the Business School Legitimacy. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783031127243 - 9783031127274 - 9783031127250 ; , s. 167-180
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Business education has long been a very successful segment of higher education; the number of institutions offering such education has multiplied many times over. This has led to efforts by these institutions to differentiate themselves by means of international rankings and accreditations. As a result, it is widely believed that markets for business education are global. This chapter questions this idea by identifying the limits of global labor markets for education. Even in times of strong internationalization, most students—particularly in non-English speaking countries—stay in their home country for both education and work. Therefore, most business schools, taking advantage of internationally developed knowledge, should focus on providing business education that prepares students for successful careers in their home country. They should also prepare their students for a global world by adding to their curricula languages other than English as well as history, literature, and other subjects from the humanities.
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- Engwall, Lars, 1942-, et al.
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Who is to blame? : Evaluations in Academia Spreading through Relationships among Multiple Actor Types
- 2022
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In: Social Science Information. - : Sage Publications. - 0539-0184 .- 1461-7412. ; 61:4, s. 439-456
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We draw on a general model of the governance of organizations to analyze the dynamics among various actor types given the present ubiquity of evaluations in and around universities. Regulators demand evaluations to assess the return on taxpayers’ money. Market actors, particularly publishers of academic journals, promote different metrics, including citation scores and impact factors. Scrutinizers, such as media companies, professions, auditors, and nongovernmental organizations, create further evaluations by developing university rankings, accounting systems, and investigative reports. There are also initiatives for evaluations inside universities: vice chancellors, department heads, and other academic leaders launch voluntary internal assessments, and researchers assist regulators, market actors, and scrutinizers throughout their evaluations. We conclude that multiple actors are responsible for the current evaluation regime in academia, and that none of them is responsible alone. Rather, it is in the dynamic relationships among actors at different levels that we find the strongest processes driving a seemingly ever-increasing number of evaluations in contemporary academia.
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- Hägg, Ingemund, et al.
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Standards for quality? : A critical appraisal of the Berlin Principles for international rankings of universities
- 2013
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In: Quality in Higher Education. - London : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1353-8322 .- 1470-1081. ; 19:3, s. 326-342
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article discusses the principles developed to assure the quality of international ranking practices for higher education, the so-called Berlin Principles, and the role given to them in the higher education community. While the principles are generally regarded as proper quality assurance principles, they are problematic both in their content and form. This study examines the process leading up to the principles as well as their use, thereby highlighting some legitimacy problems with these principles and the potential impact this may have on the further development of the higher education field. The study is based on official documents and published material.
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- Laudel, Grit, et al.
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Cold atoms - Hot research : High risks, high rewards in five different authority structures
- 2014
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In: Organizational Transformation And Scientific Change. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 9781783506835 - 9781783506842 ; , s. 203-234
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Bose-Einstein condensation is a scientific innovation in experimental physics whose realisation required considerable time and resources. Its diffusion varied considerably between and within five countries that were comparatively studied. Differences between countries can be explained by the variation in the national communities' absorptive capacities, while within-country differences are due to the impact of authority relations on researchers' opportunities to build protected space for their change of research practices. Beginning experimental research on BoseEinstein condensation required simultaneous access to the university infrastructure for research and to grants. The former is largely limited to professors, while the latter made researchers vulnerable to the majority opinion and decision practices of their national scientific community.
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- Norbäck, Maria, 1978, et al.
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Institutional theory
- 2020
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In: Theories and perspectives in business administration / Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist, Magnus Hansson, Fredrik Nilsson (eds).. - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144127088 ; , s. 217-246
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- Pallas, Josef, 1974-, et al.
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Governance of science in mediatized society : media rankings and the translation of global governance models for universities
- 2013
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In: Global themes and local variations in organization and management. - New York : Routledge. - 9780415807609 ; , s. 295-308
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This chapter discusses the concept of mediatization as influencing governing conditions for science and scientific activities in contemporary society. By way of illustrating the increasing prominence and importance of media rankings in promoting global ideas about assessment and evaluation of academic institutions, we suggest that rankings package global governance models and ideals into a mediatized form, entailing, in turn, three forms of translation processes: simplification, standardization, and popularization. These forms of translation have implications not only for the stakeholders’ perceptions of universities and for what ideals and aspirations are incorporated into university governance, but also for the way we understand the processes in which glocalization takes place.
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- Pallas, Josef, 1974-, et al.
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Organizations, Prizes and Media
- 2016
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In: Journal of Organizational Change Management. - 0953-4814 .- 1758-7816. ; 29:7, s. 1066-1082
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- There is a wide range of media prizes that are awarded to businesses, business leaders and entrepreneurs. This is easily verified by a quick browse of the latest editions of the business press such as Fortune, Management Today, Financial Times or The Economist. Although the awarding of prizes to organizations and their representatives is a highly visible phenomenon the analysis of such prizes has hitherto been scant. What role do media prizes play in shaping the view of businesses and organizations? The architecture of a prize and its ensuing winners, distils a concentrated formula of what is commendable for business corporations at a given time. Thus such prizes and awards present a unique opportunity to study the production of norms and ideals for corporate management. Following contemporary research on media and organizations we know that the contexts were these prizes are awarded and reported on rely on the interactions of many organizations, where the initiatives and actions of mass media increasingly get tied into the activities and actions of organizations. In a dialectic relationship between media and business, it is clear that corporations are highly involved in shaping not only their brands and their images, but also the norms and ideals for good business. It has even been argued that it is useful to see the contemporary business enterprises as “edited corporations”, where governance is intimately tied to communication processes and where corporations are shaped in part by images and ideals that are circulated around them. Studying prizes thus allows a further investigation of such management ideals; in particular the processes that bring these ideals into being and allow them spread to wide audiences in and around organizations.
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- Pallas, Josef, Professor, 1974-, et al.
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Slutet på den osynliga vetenskapen? : Tio sätt att öka synligheten – eller låta bli
- 2020
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In: Ledning och (sned-)styrning i högskolan. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144127064 ; , s. 243-268
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Syftet med detta kapitel är att fokusera och resonera kring situationer där förväntningar på – och konsekvenser av – enskilda forskares, lärosätenas och vetenskapssamhällets upptagenhet av att synliggöra vissa och osynliggöra andra delar av sina verksamheter framstår som problematiska. I vår strävan efter att på ett avslöjande och ironiskt sätt reflektera över våra egna, våra kollegors och våra arbetsgivares jakt på synlighet förbehåller vi oss rätten att – baserat på ibland högst personliga erfarenheter och observationer – peka på områden där vi finner synlighet som särskilt viktigt att problematisera. En sådan episodisk och stundvis säkerligen subjektiv och tendentiös bevisföring syftar inte till att kritisera eller peka ut enskilda personer och/eller deras arbetsplatser. Vi är smärtsamt medvetna om att det skulle vara som att kasta sten i glashus. Tvärtom, vi hoppas att vårt problematiserande av synlighet på en personlig nivå eller med hänvisning till specifika situationer kan hjälpa oss att höja blicken och undersöka synlighet som en central aspekt – och även underliggande mekanism – i organisering och styrning av moderna organisationer i allmänhet och universitetet i synnerhet. Men om vårt sätt att närma oss frågan om synlighet i akademin hjälper oss själva och våra läsare att hitta en distans till det egna och andras synliggörande ser vi detta som ett välkommet bidrag.
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- Pallas, Josef, 1974-, et al.
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Translating institutional logic : When the media logic meets professions
- 2016
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In: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 37:11, s. 1661-1684
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper presents results from a case study of media activities in a Swedish governmental agency where we illustrate a) how the media logic is translated and become embedded in the studied agency, and b) how different professional groups inside the organization shape the translation process. Theoretically we do this by re-visiting the notion of translation. Translation theory focuses on the local enactment and embeddedness of institutional models, ideals and practices. Institutional logics literature, on the other hand, focus on the creation and flow of field-level meaning systems. By combining these two theoretical perspectives we are able to form a framework for understanding the local embeddedness and enactment of field-level institutional logics.The result of our study suggests that institutional logics –once they become introduced in a given context– consist of four elements that are interpreted and enacted differently inside organizations. We identify three local, profession-based value systems that shape the translation of media logics, and use this finding to theorize the role of professional value systems in shaping local translation processes.
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| 30. |
- Sahlin, Kerstin, et al.
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In the world of Mercury and Minerva
- 2009
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In: Exploring the worlds of Mercury and Minerva. - Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. - 9789155475451
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- Wedlin, Linda, 1975-
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Crafting Competition : Media rankings and the forming of a global market for business schools
- 2011
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In: Education Inquiry. - Umeå university. - 2000-4508. ; 2:4, s. 563-580
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Rankings are elements of market governance of higher education and research. Despite the growing importance of these systems in global policy-making, little scholarly attention has been paid to the role rankings play as elements of governance. This paper presents an empirical study of the introduction of international rankings in management education and the responses to these developments among European business schools. The paper analyses how rankings have shaped perceptions ofan international market and competition among business schools in this field via two important processes: constructing comparability and thereby consolidating views of the “customer” and the“product” in a perceived global market, and by crafting perceptions and mechanisms for competition among business schools in this field. This suggests that rankings have been important in shaping this field as global and competitive in character, contributing to what is commonly referred to as the increasing “marketisation” of the field.
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- Wedlin, Linda, 1975-, et al.
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Det trötta universitetet?
- 2017. - 1
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In: Det ostyrda universitetet?. - Stockholm/Göteborg : Makadam Förlag. ; , s. 299-326
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- Wedlin, Linda, 1975-
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Going Global : Rankings as rhetorical devices to construct an international field of management education
- 2011
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In: Management Learning. - : SAGE Publications. - 1350-5076 .- 1461-7307. ; 42:2, s. 199-218
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Analysing the introduction of international rankings in the field of management education, this paper aims to understand how and why rankings have proliferated and institutionalized in the field, and with what effects. Building on an emerging stream in institutional theory, I propose that the rankings function as rhetorical devices to construct legitimacy within the field, which actors use to attempt to shape and reform the field as it develops. Rhetorical devices shape meaning, as they are used to justify practices and procedures and shape the means of comparison and assessment. Particularly, I show how the rankings are used by European business schools to attempt to alter perceptions of the field and their own positions within it. As such, rankings take part in the construction of the international field of management education. The result of these processes is also, however, a preservation of status and the principles whereby status is formed in the field. I discuss the implications of these findings for understanding rankings and for institutional theories of fields.
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- Wedlin, Linda, 1975-
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Playing the Ranking Game : Field formation and boundary-work in European management education
- 2004
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- International ranking lists of business schools and MBA programmes have proliferated in the media in recent years. This thesis aims to understand the development of international rankings and the attention they enjoy in the community of European business schools. Furthermore, the study investigates the implications of rankings for the field of European management education. This study builds on text material, interviews, and a mail survey to European business school deans. The primary argument in this thesis is that rankings are arenas for boundary-work and the structuration of fields, and for the ongoing struggle to define and distribute symbolic capital in fields. Rankings are shown to be arenas for forming and re-forming a business school template, and creating and re-creating positions for members of the field. The template and the positions are used to create a stable sense of identity among business schools, and contribute to shaping field boundaries in terms of who is inside an elite group, and about which activities are considered legitimate for business schools. This study shows that the Financial Times rankings are used as arenas by European business schools to redraw boundaries for the field of management education. The proliferation of rankings implies an increase in the number of “judges” that claim the authority to evaluate performances of field members, which threatens the autonomy of the field. The study specifies the role of classifications in the continuous forming of organisational fields, and the identity-formation of individual organisations in the field. Classification systems such as rankings are thus important as arenas for debates, struggles, and boundary-work that contribute to the structuration of organisational fields. The study shows that the development of rankings both confirms and challenges pre-existing perceptions of the boundaries of the field, and contributes to the creation of a market for international management education.
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- Wedlin, Linda, 1975-, et al.
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Quo Vadis European Science?
- 2015
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In: Towards European Science. - Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 978 1 78254 550 7
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- Wedlin, Linda, 1975-, et al.
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Regulators
- 2018
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In: Corporate Governance in Action. - New York/London : Routledge. ; , s. 43-74
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- Wedlin, Linda, 1975-, et al.
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styrning och frihet - en ohelig allians?
- 2017. - 1
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In: Det ostyrda universitetet?. - Stockholm/Göteborg : Makadam Förlag. ; , s. 9-37
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