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- Hoff Rudhult, Maria
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SIDA VID SIDA? : Svenska företag i biståndsverksamheten, 1946–2013
- 2023
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis studies how the way private businesses were viewed came to affect their participation, and thus role, in Swedish development aid activities in the 1946-2013 period. The role is here viewed in terms of the relationship between “the public” and “the private”. The relationship between public and private activities, as well as the distinction between them, is mutable, and needs to be understood within the framework of a specific context. This, in turn, means that these relationships between the state, in the form of public activity, and the businesses, in the form of private activity, constitute the more comprehensive research problem of the thesis. The analytical strategy of the thesis is based on a discourse theoretical approach, discursive institutionalism, to study how development aid, based on the ideal of “solidarity”, was formulated, established and upheld as an area of policy, focusing especially on the role that was concurrently created for Swedish private businesses. The application of a genealogical approach in the reading of political texts as well as archival material, reports and evaluations, makes visible how the businesses have been part of the Swedish developmental aid activities during practically the entirety of the time period studied, and that this has not been openly accounted for in the public political material. The study shows that upholding the ideal of the “solidarity-based” politics regarding development aid was enabled by applying different logics of action to different parts of the development aid activity. This is made clear by the political ability to involve businesses in development aid activities without having to expressly renounce the position of solidarity. The result of the thesis also shows that the ideal of “solidarity” influenced both the preconditions for distinctions between public and private, and how views of businesses as illegitimate or legitimate actors in development aid activity changed over time.
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- Cloete, Nico, et al.
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Outroduction. A research agenda on collegiality in university settings
- 2023
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Ingår i: Research in the Sociology of Organizations. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 0733-558X. ; , s. 187-211, s. 181-211
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Collegiality is the modus operandi of universities. Collegiality is central to academic freedom and scientific quality. In this way, collegiality also contributes to the good functioning of universities’ contribution to society and democracy. In this concluding paper of the special issue on collegiality, we summarize the main findings and takeaways from our collective studies. We summarize the main challenges and contestations to collegiality and to universities, but also document lines of resistance, activation, and maintenance. We depict varieties of collegiality and conclude by emphasizing that future research needs to be based on an appreciation of this variation. We argue that it is essential to incorporate such a variation-sensitive perspective into discussions on academic freedom and scientific quality and highlight themes surfaced by the different studies that remain under-explored in extant literature: institutional trust, field-level studies of collegiality, and collegiality and communication. Finally, we offer some remarks on methodological and theoretical implications of this research and conclude by summarizing our research agenda in a list of themes.
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- Sahlin-Andersson, Kerstin, professor, 1954-, et al.
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Introduction : University Collegiality and the Erosion of Faculty Authority
- 2024
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Ingår i: University Collegiality and the Erosion of Faculty Authority. - Leeds : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 9781804558171 - 9781804558140 - 9781804558164 ; , s. 1-27
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Recent changes in university systems, debates on academic freedom, and changing roles of knowledge in society all point to questions regarding how higher education and research should be governed and the role of scientists and faculty in this. Rationalizations of systems of higher education and research have been accompanied by the questioning and erosion of faculty authority and challenges to academic collegiality. In light of these developments, we see a need for a more conceptually precise discussion about what academic collegiality is, how it is practiced, how collegial forms of governance may be supported or challenged by other forms of governance, and finally, why collegial governance of higher education and research is important.We see collegiality as an institution of self-governance that includes formal rules and structures for decision-making, normative and cognitive underpinnings of identities and purposes, and specific practices. Studies of collegiality then, need to capture structures and rules as well as identities, norms, purposes and practices. Distinguishing between vertical and horizontal collegiality, we show how they balance and support each other.Universities are subject to mixed modes of governance related to the many tasks and missions that higher education and research is expected to fulfill. Mixed modes of governance also stem from reforms based on widely held ideals of governance and organization. We examine university reforms and challenges to collegiality through the lenses of three ideal types of governance – collegiality, bureaucracy and enterprise – and combinations thereof.
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- Sahlin, Kerstin, professor, 1954-
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International Relations theory
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Ingår i: Handbook on Theories of Governance. - : Edward Elgar Publishing. ; , s. 126-138
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