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- Karlsson, Susanna, 1976, et al.
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Language policy as ‘frozen’ ideology: exploring the administrative function in Swedish higher education
- 2020
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In: Current Issues in Language Planning. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1466-4208 .- 1747-7506. ; 21:1, s. 67-68
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article examines Language Policy documents within higher education institutions in Sweden. Its main focus is on how national language policies and policies for internationalization of the higher education are reinterpreted as local language policy. The analysis of ideologies surrounding the prescribed language(s) in meetings of decision making bodies in fifteen local Language Policy documents reveals how a monolingual national language policy is negotiated to accommodate an internationalized multilingual workplace. When the multilingual context of the internationalized university intrudes on the nationally oriented context of public administration, which favors Swedish as a default language, there are two solutions to be found in the language policy documents. (1) a temporary or permanent shift towards an internationally oriented monolingual context by allowing the use of another language, favoring English, or (2) a temporary or permanent shift towards parallel language-informed practices. Restrictive measures are found to construct situations where participation is made possible for non-regular non-Swedish-speaking members, while permissive measures provide inclusion for regular non-Swedish-speaking members, too.
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- Karlsson, Tom, 1979, et al.
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Higher Education Marketization: a Case of Language and Colliding Interests
- 2021
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In: Public Organization Review. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1566-7170 .- 1573-7098. ; 21, s. 69-83
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article examines how market interests and state regulations come into play as policy makers engage in establishing language primacy within higher education (HE). More specifically, the focus concerns issues of internationalization within a multi-lingual context, manifested in language policies (LP). LPs are constructed in order to sort out which language to give primacy. Findings demonstrate how HE is balancing between invoking markets obfuscated through internationalization whilst simultaneously restricting market effects through state regulations. The promulgation of certain languages supports and weakens market and state interests. This article contributes to research and practice in HE, presenting future obstacles and challenges.
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- Karlsson, Tom, 1979, et al.
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Marketization of Higher Education
- 2021
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In: Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. - Cham : Springer. - 9783319318165
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Higher education is usually conceptualized as being autonomous from market and state interventions. Academic scholars have been free to organize and realize educational content on their own terms. One reason for this lies in the academic freedom, which safeguards the pursuit of knowledge and a right to educate students on such knowledge. Increasingly, higher education has been subjected to global trends of internationalization. This implies the construction of a global agenda for facilitating student and staff mobility in order to increase student employability across borders and instigate a comparability of different degrees. An effect of internationalization is that competition has been introduced in higher education, leading to changing pedagogical practices and understandings of higher education is. Drawing from economic theory, it can be argued that internationalization transforms higher education from a public to a private good, making it susceptible to market powers. This process can be labeled marketization, meaning that higher education becomes a service as any other.
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- Karlsson, Tom, 1979, et al.
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Martketization of Higher Education
- 2021
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In: Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance / Editors: Ali Farazmand. - Cham : Springer International Publishing. - 9783319318165 ; , s. 1-9
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- Firtin, Cemil Eren, et al.
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Avsnitt 14: New Public Management 2
- 2023
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In: Förvaltningspodden.
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- För mycket resultatmätning och "redovisnifiering" kan leda till problem med styrningen av den offentliga sektorn, samtidigt så tycks bara mätandet öka. Hur kan det vara så? Vad finns det för fördelar med resultatmätning, och vad vore alternativen? Medverkande: Eren Firtin, Henrik Sandgren och Tom Karlsson.
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- Firtin, Cemil Eren, et al.
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(Re)descriptions of medical professional work: exploring accounting as a performative device within an emergency unit health-care context : Exploring accounting as a performative device
- 2020
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In: Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management. - 1096-3367. ; 32:2, s. 159-176
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Abstract Purpose This article addresses issues of calculation and economization in contemporary public organizations. In particular, it investigates how choices of organizing emergency health-care have been affected by accounting as a performative device. Special attention has been paid to how accounting brings about performative consequences in shaping the medical profession and its context. Design/methodology/approach The article employs qualitative research methods and draws its analysis on empirical data from in-depth interviews at an emergency health-care unit in Sweden. Findings It is demonstrated how accounting, in the form of calculations of treatment time and number of patients, enables performative consequences for medical professional work. It is also demonstrated how the use of accounting engages (re)descriptions of practices and roles, creates accounts of patients, and helps to sustain such (re)descriptions. Accounting terms (such as efficiency and control) have been reframed into medical terminology (such as health-care quality and security), ensuring and retaining (re)described medical professional work in terms of practices and emerging roles. Originality/value This article contributes to (1) the literature on accounting practices within health-care contexts by demonstrating a case where the accounting ideas and practices of medical professionals are coexistent and interwoven and (2) the increasing body of literature focusing on accountingization by showing how emerging calculative technologies carry performative power over medical professional work through formative (re)descriptions.
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- Funck, Elin, et al.
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Governance innovation as social imaginaries: challenges of post-NPM
- 2023
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In: Public Management Review. - 1471-9037 .- 1471-9045.
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The effects of NPM have been criticized for decades and we are now seeing how alternative, post-NPM, governance innovations emerge. What joins these innovations is the critique against NPM and the ambition to provide new ways of governing public organizations. From a critical stance, we engage in a discussion of governance innovations from the perspective of social imaginaries and analyse post-NPM from dystopian and utopian viewpoints. We argue that the main legitimacy for post-NPM lies in it demonizing NPM, whereas a more fruitful way forward would entail incorporating elements of NPM to create a holistic governance model for the future.
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