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Sedan det moderna forskningsuniversitetet såg dagens ljus för två hundra år sen har forskning och vetenskap gjort bevisligen världen bättre. Kunskap, kreativitet, kritik och kollegialitet har utgjort nyckel till denna exempellösa framgång. Akademins framgång har dock inte vilat på en demokratisk-politisk logik som genomsyrar dagens samhälle, utan på en parallell och alldeles egen verklighet där forskarna i sitt sökande har drivits av sitt engagemang och sin nyfikenhet. När denna anda får råda inom vetenskapen blir det också bra för samhället i stort. Men i dagens projektsamhälle med sina krav på en kortsiktig resultatleverans framstår akademins sätt att fungera som provocerande. Hur kunde det bli så och vad gör vi åt det? I denna bok söker ett antal engagerade forskare, tidigare universitetsrektorer och ämbetsmän svar på dessa frågor. De är förskräckta över en utveckling där djup kunskap, vildsint kreativitet, kritiska samtal och kollegialt ansvar kastas på sophögen, denna utveckling får inte fortsätta! Då rycker vi undan mattan för mänskliga framsteg och ett civiliserat samhälle. Vi måste försvara de värden som akademin står på sedan lång tid tillbaka - inte för att de är traditionella, utan för att de är de modernaste vi har.
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Lars Engwall, professor emeritus i företagsekonomi vid Uppsala universitet, har under lång tid deltagit i den forskningspolitiska debatten genom inlägg i dagspressen.
I denna bok samlas 36 artiklar som han publicerat mellan 1988 och 2023. I sex tematiska kapitel diskuteras i tur och ordning universitetens statliga styrning, deras interna styrning, deras finansiering, utbildningen av nya forskare, forskarnas karriärvägar samt kulturvetenskapernas särskilda villkor.
Avslutningsvis presenteras ett antal slutsatser om önskvärda framtida åtgärder. »Boken är en ytterligt intressant samling texter som ger en samtidshistorisk överblick av universitetspolitiska frågor.
"Artiklarna, just genom att de spänner över flera decennier, fungerar som en varningsflagg för vikten av att värna akademiska institutioner som demokratins infrastruktur." (Lars Strannegård, rektor för Handelshögskolan i Stockholm)
Lars Engwall har i sin forskning ägnat sig åt studier av organisationer av olika slag, såsom dagstidningar, banker och universitet. Han har varit ledamot av olika universitetsorgan, forskningsfinansiärer och lärda sällskap samt deltagit i internationella forskningssamarbeten.
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This volume makes an important contribution to the growing literature on management consulting. It brings together international contributors from a wide variety of backgrounds and draws on recent empirical research from a diverse range of countries, consultancy firms, and client companies. The analysis focuses on three key areas.The first part of the book looks at the emergence and development of the consulting industry in different countries and time periods. The interplay between national systemic context and outside influences is stressed, and the efforts of consultants to become recognized as 'legitimate' knowledge carriers by their clients is highlighted, in competition -- and sometimes cooperation -- with other suppliers of management knowledge, notably academia.The volume goes on to consider the generation, management, and validation of consulting knowledge by consultancy organizations and management gurus, showing how these activities are influenced not only by the consultancies' own characteristics in terms of size, structure, and national origin, but also by the (national and cultural) context in which they are operating, and by the role of 'gatekeepers', such as book publishers or journalists.The third part of the book focuses on the nature and dynamics of the consultancy-client relationship, focusing especially on the ways in which consultants convince managers of the need to hire outside advisors; on the reaction of those concerned in the client organization towards the consultants' recommendations; and on the methods used by the consultants to overcome the possible reluctance and resistance from within the organization.From a more theoretical point of view, the chapters in this volume also show that research on management consulting has to take into account different levels of analysis: the consulting industry as a whole and its position relative to other knowledge providers such as academia; the specific consultancy organization and its relationships with internal and external sources of knowledge; and the particular consultancy project and notably the interplay between the consultants and the various stakeholders within and outside the client organization.
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This volume makes an important contribution to the growing literature on management consulting. It brings together international contributors from a wide variety of backgrounds and draws on recent empirical research from a diverse range of countries, consultancy firms, and client companies. The analysis focuses on three key areas.The first part of the book looks at the emergence and development of the consulting industry in different countries and time periods. The interplay between national systemic context and outside influences is stressed, and the efforts of consultants to become recognized as 'legitimate' knowledge carriers by their clients is highlighted, in competition -- and sometimes cooperation -- with other suppliers of management knowledge, notably academia.The volume goes on to consider the generation, management, and validation of consulting knowledge by consultancy organizations and management gurus, showing how these activities are influenced not only by the consultancies' own characteristics in terms of size, structure, and national origin, but also by the (national and cultural) context in which they are operating, and by the role of 'gatekeepers', such as book publishers or journalists.The third part of the book focuses on the nature and dynamics of the consultancy-client relationship, focusing especially on the ways in which consultants convince managers of the need to hire outside advisors; on the reaction of those concerned in the client organization towards the consultants' recommendations; and on the methods used by the consultants to overcome the possible reluctance and resistance from within the organization.From a more theoretical point of view, the chapters in this volume also show that research on management consulting has to take into account different levels of analysis: the consulting industry as a whole and its position relative to other knowledge providers such as academia; the specific consultancy organization and its relationships with internal and external sources of knowledge; and the particular consultancy project and notably the interplay between the consultants and the various stakeholders within and outside the client organization.
Reconfiguring Knowledge Production
Changing Authority Relationships in the Sciences and their Consequences for Intellectual Innovation
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
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The governance of the public sciences has profoundly changed since the Second World War, especially with regard to funding structures, the autonomy, and accountability of public research organizations and universities, and the extent to which research is steered towards societal usefulness. Going beyond previous analyses of these changes in science studies, science policy, and higher education studies, this book presents and applies a novel approach that provides an integrated assessment of changes in public science systems and their impact on scientific innovation. Its basic assumptions are (i) that all changes in public science systems (PSS) affect authority relations - the interests and action capabilities of authoritative agencies in science - and (ii) that the authority relations concerning the selection of goals and approaches in research as well as the integration of research results are the channel through which changes in PSS affect the production of scientific knowledge and particularly scientific innovation. This focus on authority relations as the key interface integrating changes in governance and translating them into changes in the production of scientific knowledge is an important innovation because the effects of governance at the performance level of the science system have been largely neglected by other approaches. By demonstrating that changes in authority relations are field-specific and have field-specific effects on knowledge production , and that these field-specific authority relations do indeed affect the conditions for intellectual innovation, the perspective explored in this book challenges science policy studies to 'bring work back in' to the study of the organisation and governance of the sciences.
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Economics in Sweden contains the results of one of the most comprehensive attempts to evaluate research in economics ever undertaken. A team of Swedish and international researchers, including Avinash K. Dixit, Seppo Honkapohja and Robert M. Slow, examined the structure of economics in Sweden and its results. They identified postgraduate education as a key area, and their findings will be of particular relevence at a time when many countries are restructuring their graduate education programme.
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Defining Management charts the expansion of management as an idea and practice from a time when it was limited to churches and households to its current ubiquity, focusing in particular on the role of business schools, consultants, and business media in this process.How did an entire industry develop around business schools, consultants, and business media who are now widely considered the authorities regarding best management practice? This book shows how these actors – on their own and in interaction – became taken-for-granted and gained such definitional power over management and managers, expanded across the globe from often modest and not always respected origins, and impacted, and continue to impact businesses and, increasingly, the broader economic and social context. Building on extant and some new research, the book is unique in bringing together issues and actors that have been examined elsewhere separately.Any student or professional of management interested in the evolution of their field or the rise of business schools, consultants and business media will find this book both novel and thought-provoking.
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Defining Management charts the expansion of management as an idea and practice from a time when it was limited to churches and households to its current ubiquity, focusing in particular on the role of business schools, consultants, and business media in this process.How did an entire industry develop around business schools, consultants, and business media who are now widely considered the authorities regarding best management practice? This book shows how these actors – on their own and in interaction – became taken-for-granted and gained such definitional power over management and managers, expanded across the globe from often modest and not always respected origins, and impacted, and continue to impact businesses and, increasingly, the broader economic and social context. Building on extant and some new research, the book is unique in bringing together issues and actors that have been examined elsewhere separately.Any student or professional of management interested in the evolution of their field or the rise of business schools, consultants and business media will find this book both novel and thought-provoking.
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Recent decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion of management education and practice. At the same time, the formalization of management practice has allowed for a widespread diffusion of management ideas across sectors and continents. This book provides an up-to-date summary of the development, refinement, and diffusion of managerial ideas, adding detail and explanation to commonly held conceptions about the explosion of management knowledge. The contributors contend that management ideas do not flow automatically but are actively shaped and transformed by knowledge carriers—business schools, consultancies, and the media. Drawing on data from worldwide empirical studies, the chapters analyze how such carriers are organized, how they act and react, and how they shape and reshape knowledge. The book places the development and diffusion of management knowledge in a wider environmental and historical context and offers stimulating comparisons of European and American management traditions. The combination of theory and practice will make this book a valuable resource for courses dealing with management, organizational and institutional theory, and globalization.
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Recent decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion of management education and practice. At the same time, the formalization of management practice has allowed for a widespread diffusion of management ideas across sectors and continents. This book provides an up-to-date summary of the development, refinement, and diffusion of managerial ideas, adding detail and explanation to commonly held conceptions about the explosion of management knowledge. The contributors contend that management ideas do not flow automatically but are actively shaped and transformed by knowledge carriers—business schools, consultancies, and the media. Drawing on data from worldwide empirical studies, the chapters analyze how such carriers are organized, how they act and react, and how they shape and reshape knowledge. The book places the development and diffusion of management knowledge in a wider environmental and historical context and offers stimulating comparisons of European and American management traditions. The combination of theory and practice will make this book a valuable resource for courses dealing with management, organizational and institutional theory, and globalization.
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Over time we have seen large corporations, in many cases with multinational operations, begin to play an increasingly significant role in modern society. This in turn has put the governance of these corporations into focus.Against this background, Corporate Governance in Action helps provide a framework for examining corporate governance through a focus provided by external pressures on large corporations. It also brings together the approach of economics and finance with theories in organization studies, such as aspects of resource dependency theory. This framework takes into consideration not only the market relations of modern corporations but also their dependence on regulators and different kind of scrutinizers.This thoughtful book is a complete research guide that provides a new understanding and applicable framework for advanced students, academics and researchers in the area of corporate governance and the related disciplines.
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During the 1980s and 1990s, organisations have undergone both regulation and deregulation. This set of papers written by a distinguished selection of international experts examines the nature of regulation, its evolution in particular sectors and its impact on social and economic equality. It draws on social theory concerned with the nature of regulation and order in modern societies as well as providing as a series of detailed analyses of particular forms of regulatory regimes in national and international contexts. This book, first published in 1999, should be of particular interest to management and business researchers, sociologists and political economists concerned with the process of regulation and its impact on organisations and management.
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During the 1980s and 1990s, organisations have undergone both regulation and deregulation. This set of papers written by a distinguished selection of international experts examines the nature of regulation, its evolution in particular sectors and its impact on social and economic equality. It draws on social theory concerned with the nature of regulation and order in modern societies as well as providing as a series of detailed analyses of particular forms of regulatory regimes in national and international contexts. This book, first published in 1999, should be of particular interest to management and business researchers, sociologists and political economists concerned with the process of regulation and its impact on organisations and management.
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The next four chapters deal with the development of universities from medieval times, through the Renaissance, towards the research universities in the nineteenth century in Europe and the United States.
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The next four chapters deal with the development of universities from medieval times, through the Renaissance, towards the research universities in the nineteenth century in Europe and the United States.
Internationalization in Higher Education and Research
Perspectives, Obstacles, Alternatives
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
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The first part – Perspectives on Internationalization – provides critical reflections on internationalization, on the globally distributed European-American university and on the impact of rankings.
Internationalization in Higher Education and Research
Perspectives, Obstacles, Alternatives
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
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The first part – Perspectives on Internationalization – provides critical reflections on internationalization, on the globally distributed European-American university and on the impact of rankings.
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Företagsekonomi är i dag ett efterfrågat ämne vid universitet och högskolor över hela världen. Dess begrepp och principer tillämpas i allt fler organisationer, oavsett huvudman. Den här boken sätter företagsekonomin i ett nytt ljus, och visar hur ämnet sedan slutet av 1800-talet har nått dagens ställning genom ett samspel mellan företag, akademiska institutioner, konsulter och media.Fenomenet företagsekonomi ger en övergripande bild av hur företagen inte bara styrs av politik och marknad utan också av olika slags granskare. I boken visas hur företags verksamhet grundas på ett samspel mellan olika aktörer i fysiska och finansiella flöden. Företagsekonomiska angreppssätt har blivit viktiga verktyg i detta samspel, för att lösa problem och för att på bästa sätt hantera begränsade resurser.
Det ostyrda universitetet? : perspektiv på styrning, autonomi och reform av svenska lärosäten
Häftad, Svenska, 2017
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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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Corpus linguistics in Sweden: Pioneers and their context first presents the early international development for corpus linguistics and the institutional and disciplinary conditions for research on the subject in Sweden. Accounts of the first generationsof Swedish innovators in the 1960s then demonstrate the significance of the international scholarly development and external funding for their success. An analysis of the international development of the researsh field points to two well-defined clusters: one consisting of scholars with a background in language studies and another with scholars of cognitive science and psychology with an interest in language acquisition and language loss. Moreover, the study shows the increasing institutionalization of the field over time through the foundation of professional associations and journals.
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Lars Engwall har varit professor i företagsekonomi vid Uppsala universitet sedan 1981 och har under ett drygt halvt sekel verkat inom den akademiska världen. I denna bok visar han hur förutsättningarna för forskning och undervisning har förändrats sedan han i början av 1960-talet började studera samhällsvetenskap vid Stockholms universitet. Då var antalet studenter få och studievalet fritt. Genom den expansion som följde fick de som fortsatte sina akademiska studier stora möjligheter både inom och utom universiteten. Boken ger en inblick i en professors mångfacetterade verksamhet. Det har varit fråga om att rekrytera och handleda doktorander, att initiera nya forskningsprogram nationellt och internationellt samt att som ledamot ingå i universitetsorgan, forskningsfinansiering och akademier. Därmed kan han i boken skildra möten med många intressanta personligheter.
Av boken framgår också att egen forskning utgör ett viktigt inslag i en professors arbete. För Lars Engwalls del har det varit fråga om att synliggöra förutsättningarna och problem i dagstidningar, banker och universitet. Vidare har han tillsammans med andra studerat hur akademiska institutioner, konsulter och media har spridit företagsekonomiska idéer samt hur moderna organisationer styrs genom ett samspel mellan reglerare, marknadsaktörer och granskare.
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Det talas mycket om utvärdering i den offentliga sektorns organisationer. Många dras in i de allt synligare, vanligare och komplexare utvärderingsprocesserna. Denna bok handlar om hur utvärderingar görs, hur de används och om de kan möta alla förväntningar som ställs på dem. Kan man t.ex. styra med hjälp av utvärderingar? Vad kan man lära av dem? Vilka effekter får de? Utvärderandets legitimitet, rituella aspekter och negativa sidor lyfts fram. Roller och relationer diskuteras. Boken vänder sig till alla som kommer i kontakt med utvärderingar i sitt arbete eller av ren nyfikenhet. Den manar till eftertanke inför framväxande och alltmer spridda utvärderingsideal.