Mikael Holmqvist – författare & böcker

Djursholm : Sveriges ledarsamhälle

Häftad, Svenska, 2024

283 kr

Mikael Holmqvists banbrytande studie om Djursholm, ett samhälle med en unik förmåga att upphöja sina invånare till ledare, är ett pionjärverk om makt. Den handlar om hur ett sådant samhälle skapas, vidmakthålls och påverkar hela Sverige i en social, moralisk och politisk bemärkelse.

Mikael Holmqvist, som intervjuat ett stort antal boende och arbetande i Djursholm och genomfört omfattande fältstudier under flera års tid, är ledarskapsforskare och professor i företagsekonomi vid Stockholms universitet.Här är några av de många lovord boken fått i pressen:

"...ett centralverk om maktens sociologi." - Åsa Linderborg, Aftonbladet

"Mikael Holmqvists verk är ett ymnighetshorn, fullspäckad av intressanta uppgifter och roliga detaljer..."- Jan Ekelund, Dagens Nyheter

"Boken innehåller allt man kan tänkas vilja veta om Djursholm som 'elitens och ledarnas boplats'."- Ingegerd Backlund, Norrtelje Tidning

"Mikael Holmqvists tegelsten Djursholm framstår som årets klart viktigaste (där kom det!) i sin genre." - Jens Liljestrand, Expressen

Handels : maktelitens skola

AvMikael Holmqvist

4

Pocket, Svenska, 2019

89 kr

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Vart Holmqvist vänder sig ser han hur näringslivets ideal och värderingar genomsyrar Handels. ( ) Det här är en kolossalt nyttig bok. Det är sällsynt med täta analyser av högskolans värld. Sverker Sörlin, Dagens Nyheter

Efter sin omtalade studie av Djursholm riktar Mikael Holmqvist nu strålkastarljuset mot Handelshögskolan i Stockholm. Handels. Maktelitens skola är den första inträngande analysen av denna institution, där inte bara den ekonomiska makteliten utbildas och fostras, utan även den politiska. Skolan grundades 1909 av det svenska näringslivet och är alltjämt ett privat universitet, men finansieras också av offentliga medel. Handelshögskolan utmärks av sin mycket selektiva antagning, och är det närmaste man kan komma en elitskola på universitetsnivå i Sverige. Vilka studenter är det som kommer in på Handels och hur formas de för framtida maktpositioner? Vilka är förutsättningarna för fri och oberoende forskning och undervisning när näringslivet leder verksamheten? Och hur påverkar denna skola det vidare samhället i en social, moralisk och politisk bemärkelse?

Mikael Holmqvist är docent i sociologi och professor i företagsekonomi vid Stockholms universitet, utbildad i Sverige och Frankrike. Han har varit återkommande gästforskare vid Cornell University och Stanford University i USA. Hans forskning handlar om arbete, makt och organisation. Holmqvists uppmärksammade bok Djursholm. Sveriges ledarsamhälle utkom 2015.

Sällan har väl en bok legat så rätt i tiden som Handels ( ). För berättelsen om Handelshögskolan i Stockholm är just en berättelse om näringslivets växande status i Sverige. Johan Anderberg, Expressen

I sin bok om Handelshögskolan visar företagsekonomen och författaren Mikael Holmqvist hur Sveriges maktnobless formas, fostras och reproduceras. Henrik Malm Lindberg, Uppsala Nya Tidning

Handels är ett övertygande underlag för att slå näven i bordet. Inte vara lika fogliga mot ekonomismens beslutsfattare som de är mot näringslivet. Fler borde hålla ett kritiskt örnöga. Annelie Jordahl, Sydsvenskan

Mikael Holmqvists nya studie ger en fascinerande inblick i det slutna system som Handelshögskolan i Stockholm utgör. Boken är lika kritisk som initierad ( ). Rikard Flyckt, Jönköpingsposten

Holmqvist förmedlar djup kunskap om eliterna skola, med ett kritiskt perspektiv, som jag finner högst sympatiskt. Han klär av skolans inre och yttre verksamheter på ett riktigt avslöjande sätt. Lars-Erik Alkvist, Dala-Demokraten

Holmqvists skildring av den självsäkra, handlingsinriktade lilla högskolan på Sveavägen är rolig på det sätt sociologi ofta är: det är ju förbluffande upplysande, hårresande ibland, att ta del av människors självbild. Per Andersson, SVT Kulturnyheterna

Leader Communities

The Consecration of Elites in Djursholm

AvMikael Holmqvist

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

849 kr

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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. Leader Communities is the sociologist Mikael Holmqvist's term for places like Djursholm: the communities where elites choose to live, socialize with other elites, and, most importantly, form families and raise their children into future elites. Such neighborhoods consecrate inhabitants into leaders-that is, they offer their residents a social environment that imbues people with a sense of social and moral elevation. By idealizing their residents, leader communities' allegedly superior lifestyle and character act as a principle of distinction and legitimation.Holmqvist calls this a consecracy-a society that leads by means of its aura, brightness, and radiance, allowing the privileged to pose as a moral vanguard. Leaders are made-not born-by the culture, history, traditions, ceremonies, rituals, and institutions of the place. Based on a comprehensive five-year ethnographic study, this book is a community study of Djursholm in which the author ventures inside the world of the elite to explore the mechanics of social interaction and power. Leader Communities introduces vital new concepts to the study and understanding of contemporary elites and offers a troubling analysis of the moral, social, and political consequences of their aspirations to lead societies.

Leader Communities

The Consecration of Elites in Djursholm

AvMikael Holmqvist

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

284 kr

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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. Leader Communities is the sociologist Mikael Holmqvist's term for places like Djursholm: the communities where elites choose to live, socialize with other elites, and, most importantly, form families and raise their children into future elites. Such neighborhoods consecrate inhabitants into leaders-that is, they offer their residents a social environment that imbues people with a sense of social and moral elevation. By idealizing their residents, leader communities' allegedly superior lifestyle and character act as a principle of distinction and legitimation.Holmqvist calls this a consecracy-a society that leads by means of its aura, brightness, and radiance, allowing the privileged to pose as a moral vanguard. Leaders are made-not born-by the culture, history, traditions, ceremonies, rituals, and institutions of the place. Based on a comprehensive five-year ethnographic study, this book is a community study of Djursholm in which the author ventures inside the world of the elite to explore the mechanics of social interaction and power. Leader Communities introduces vital new concepts to the study and understanding of contemporary elites and offers a troubling analysis of the moral, social, and political consequences of their aspirations to lead societies.

Institutionalization of Social Welfare

A Study of Medicalizing Management

AvMikael Holmqvist

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

281 kr

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Today most countries rely on formally organized welfare programs - in some cases to the extent that they are labeled "welfare states". These programs, which have been constructed over the last decades, make up a larger national and international system of good intentions. Overall, it appears inconceivable to imagine "civilized society" without a comprehensive organizational system of social welfare. Social welfare has become a "holy cow" in many societies; an institutionalized aspect of modern life. But how does the institutionalization of social welfare occur through the concrete activities it enacts; and why does the institutionalization of social welfare appear to be so particularly successful in relation to other institutionalizing phenomena? These are central problems for any sociological analysis of contemporary society’s organization and are the main locus of attention of this book. Holmqvist explores how a social welfare organization becomes a self-evident phenomenon by "medicalizing" its environment: a way of "solving" social problems by viewing and treating them as medical problems. This study generates new understandings of how institutionalization of organizations comes about and contributes fresh insight to the area of social welfare policies.

Managing Healthy Organizations

Worksite Health Promotion and the New Self-Management Paradigm

AvMikael Holmqvist,Christian Maravelias

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

458 kr

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During the past two decades, corporate management has come to take an active role in health promotion programming for employees, offering health education, screenings, therapy, and even leisure initiatives. However, little attention has been given to how contemporary worksite health programs in fact blur the traditional distinction between work and private life. This has resulted in that little research on the other side of the work-health nexus: how employers factor health considerations into workforce management and productivity control. With the advancement of "work-site health promotion" in contemporary organizations, Holmqvist and Maravelias argue that this narrow focus, and the typical uncritical standpoint towards initiatives which are taken in the name of employees’ health, is inadequate. At a more fundamental level, the advancement of work-site health promotion may be a sign of a new or altered corporate health ethic: in contrast to the old corporate health ethic that was narrow and specific to the workplace, the new corporate health ethic appears to judge the ‘whole employee’ and especially what the whole employee may become; the risks one faces and the abilities one has to shoulder the responsibility for developing into a real corporate value. The authors suggest that health experts’ work is closely aligned with problems relating to the general management of organizations. Through a focused appraisal of this central albeit neglected occupational group in management studies, this book tries to explore and understand in some depth situations and experiences that are of general interest and concern in our society.

Managing Healthy Organizations

Worksite Health Promotion and the New Self-Management Paradigm

AvMikael Holmqvist,Christian Maravelias

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

1 417 kr

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During the past two decades, corporate management has come to take an active role in health promotion programming for employees, offering health education, screenings, therapy, and even leisure initiatives. However, little attention has been given to how contemporary worksite health programs in fact blur the traditional distinction between work and private life. This has resulted in that little research on the other side of the work-health nexus: how employers factor health considerations into workforce management and productivity control. With the advancement of "work-site health promotion" in contemporary organizations, Holmqvist and Maravelias argue that this narrow focus, and the typical uncritical standpoint towards initiatives which are taken in the name of employees’ health, is inadequate. At a more fundamental level, the advancement of work-site health promotion may be a sign of a new or altered corporate health ethic: in contrast to the old corporate health ethic that was narrow and specific to the workplace, the new corporate health ethic appears to judge the ‘whole employee’ and especially what the whole employee may become; the risks one faces and the abilities one has to shoulder the responsibility for developing into a real corporate value. The authors suggest that health experts’ work is closely aligned with problems relating to the general management of organizations. Through a focused appraisal of this central albeit neglected occupational group in management studies, this book tries to explore and understand in some depth situations and experiences that are of general interest and concern in our society.

Institutionalization of Social Welfare

A Study of Medicalizing Management

AvMikael Holmqvist

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

650 kr

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Today most countries rely on formally organized welfare programs - in some cases to the extent that they are labeled "welfare states". These programs, which have been constructed over the last decades, make up a larger national and international system of good intentions. Overall, it appears inconceivable to imagine "civilized society" without a comprehensive organizational system of social welfare. Social welfare has become a "holy cow" in many societies; an institutionalized aspect of modern life. But how does the institutionalization of social welfare occur through the concrete activities it enacts; and why does the institutionalization of social welfare appear to be so particularly successful in relation to other institutionalizing phenomena? These are central problems for any sociological analysis of contemporary society’s organization and are the main locus of attention of this book. Holmqvist explores how a social welfare organization becomes a self-evident phenomenon by "medicalizing" its environment: a way of "solving" social problems by viewing and treating them as medical problems. This study generates new understandings of how institutionalization of organizations comes about and contributes fresh insight to the area of social welfare policies.

Disabling State of an Active Society

AvMikael Holmqvist

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

2 197 kr

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Across the traditional welfare states of Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada there has been increasing emphasis on 'activation' by the unemployed as a tool for fighting unemployment. The core idea of activation programmes is the integration and empowerment of jobseekers through active work-related measures rather than passive income support. However, the empirical evidence of the efficacy of activation programmes is far from conclusive and there have been no systematic studies of the effects of activation programmes on the lives of the unemployed people who come into contact with them. This book is based on a detailed ethnographic study of the highly praised Swedish rehabilitation organization Samhall. The result is a key volume for those working and studying within welfare, poverty, disability and special needs.

Elite Business Schools

Education and Consecration in Neoliberal Society

AvMikael Holmqvist

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

2 074 kr

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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.

Elite Business Schools

Education and Consecration in Neoliberal Society

AvMikael Holmqvist

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

570 kr

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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.

Universities under Neoliberalism

Ideologies, Discourses and Management Practices

AvMats Benner,Mikael Holmqvist

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

1 924 kr

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The COVID-19 pandemic, the surge of populism, the climate crisis and many other destabilizing factors in our time, all point at the expectation of trustworthy knowledge and reliable organization devoted to knowledge production and dissemination. However, universities remain enmeshed in economic liberalization and ensuing cultural struggles where their funding, governance and practices reflect market imprints – even academic ideals such as originality, or social ideals such as relevance have been transformed into measurable units and thereby risk losing their historical sway. This predicament is the focus of this book.The book explores the rise of neo-liberalization in academic system in a highly unlikely place: Sweden, a country with a strong social democratic tradition and a long history of state regulation of higher education. As an advanced welfare state with a powerful labour movement and a large public sector, market ideals and practices have been carefully curtailed historically. This notwithstanding, a neoliberal university model has evolved there, reshaping notions of academic identities, institutional directions and notions of quality. This edited collection will be of value to researchers, academics and students with an interest in organizational studies, governance, management, higher education, sociology and politics.

Universities under Neoliberalism

Ideologies, Discourses and Management Practices

AvMats Benner,Mikael Holmqvist

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

585 kr

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The COVID-19 pandemic, the surge of populism, the climate crisis and many other destabilizing factors in our time, all point at the expectation of trustworthy knowledge and reliable organization devoted to knowledge production and dissemination. However, universities remain enmeshed in economic liberalization and ensuing cultural struggles where their funding, governance and practices reflect market imprints – even academic ideals such as originality, or social ideals such as relevance have been transformed into measurable units and thereby risk losing their historical sway. This predicament is the focus of this book.The book explores the rise of neo-liberalization in academic system in a highly unlikely place: Sweden, a country with a strong social democratic tradition and a long history of state regulation of higher education. As an advanced welfare state with a powerful labour movement and a large public sector, market ideals and practices have been carefully curtailed historically. This notwithstanding, a neoliberal university model has evolved there, reshaping notions of academic identities, institutional directions and notions of quality. This edited collection will be of value to researchers, academics and students with an interest in organizational studies, governance, management, higher education, sociology and politics.

Disabling State of an Active Society

AvMikael Holmqvist

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

733 kr

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Across the traditional welfare states of Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada there has been increasing emphasis on 'activation' by the unemployed as a tool for fighting unemployment. The core idea of activation programmes is the integration and empowerment of jobseekers through active work-related measures rather than passive income support. However, the empirical evidence of the efficacy of activation programmes is far from conclusive and there have been no systematic studies of the effects of activation programmes on the lives of the unemployed people who come into contact with them. This book is based on a detailed ethnographic study of the highly praised Swedish rehabilitation organization Samhall. The result is a key volume for those working and studying within welfare, poverty, disability and special needs.

neoliberal monarch

Sweden’s leadership king

AvMikael Holmqvist

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

1 120 kr

Kommande

In this well-researched and thought-provoking book, sociologist Mikael Holmqvist, an expert on elites, business, and power, offers a convincing argument for why we need to take royals seriously. Through his many speeches, media interviews and public appearances the king consecrates such corporate ideals as entrepreneurship, individual responsibility, positive thinking, healthy lifestyle, productivity, and self-management, thus contributing to legitimizing neoliberalism in society at large. By awarding them prestigious royal medals, inviting them to lavish state dinners, and offering them exclusive networking with other elites, the king also promotes the standing and status of neoliberalism’s architects and leaders: the corporate and financial elites. This is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand the power of monarchies and royals in contemporary market society.

neoliberal monarch

Sweden’s leadership king

AvMikael Holmqvist

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

344 kr

Kommande

In this well-researched and thought-provoking book, sociologist Mikael Holmqvist, an expert on elites, business, and power, offers a convincing argument for why we need to take royals seriously. Through his many speeches, media interviews and public appearances the king consecrates such corporate ideals as entrepreneurship, individual responsibility, positive thinking, healthy lifestyle, productivity, and self-management, thus contributing to legitimizing neoliberalism in society at large. By awarding them prestigious royal medals, inviting them to lavish state dinners, and offering them exclusive networking with other elites, the king also promotes the standing and status of neoliberalism’s architects and leaders: the corporate and financial elites. This is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand the power of monarchies and royals in contemporary market society.

Del 37 - Research in the Sociology of Organizations

Managing ‘Human Resources’ by Exploiting and Exploring People’s Potentials

AvMikael Holmqvist,Andre Spicer

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

1 364 kr

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Organizations are under constant pressure to be ambidextrous. They must be able to exploit existing processes, routines and systems at the same time as they must engage in exploration through playfulness, relaxed control and experimentation. We know little about the human costs and challenges of ambidexterity. In this volume we explore the impact of ambidextrous organizations on individuals' working lives. The authors analyze how employees are required to follow routines at the same time as they are expected to break these routines. They also explore how the individual dilemmas of ambidexterity play out in the lives of precarious work, online communities, management consultants, workers in the automotive industry, and consumers of pop-management books in the US. The result is a rich and fascinating picture of individuals whose working lives are made up of a continued tension between the quest to be exploitative and explorative.

Kungen : Sveriges ledare

AvMikael Holmqvist

2

Inbunden, Svenska, 2023

279 kr

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Efter de två omtalade böckerna Djursholm och Handels, kommer nu Mikael Holmqvists tredje bok om Sveriges eliter: Kungen – Sveriges ledare.

2023 har Carl XVI Gustaf suttit på tronen i 50 år. Baserat på ett rikt och omfattande forskningsmaterial undersöker Mikael Holmqvist hur kungen kan förstås som ”Sveriges ledare”, utifrån nutida sociala och politiska utgångspunkter.

En central fråga är hur kungen profileras som statschef, och hur en viss image av honom har skapats. Holmqvist visar på hur kungens profil i hög grad är ett resultat av dagens marknadsekonomiska samhälles krav och förväntningar, där näringslivets eliter har kommit att bli vår tids ledare och symboler för framgång.

Genom sina aktiviteter, tal och uttalanden som landets statschef, förkroppsligar och symboliserar kungen det marknadsekonomiska samhället, där begreppet ”ledarskap” är centralt för hur han framställs, det vill säga idealiserandet av allas vår förmåga att vara aktiva, engagerade, företagsamma, entreprenöriella, och att tänka positivt.

"Mikael Holmqvist lyckas säga något genuint intressant om kungahuset."Dagens Nyheter

"För en gångs skull görs en systematisk analys av kungens agerande utifrån ett maktperspektiv, inte ett reportage för nöjesläsning om kungafamiljens väl och ve."Jonas Sjöstedt, Arbetet

"Petter Larsson har läst sista delen i en mästerlig trilogi om den svenska eliten."ETC

"Undersökningen är en djupt seriös och mycket omfattande studie. Genom den har Mikael Holmqvist åtgärdat en hel del av det som han själv har efterlyst."Norrbottens-Kuriren

Hälsans styrning av arbetet

AvKarin Johannisson,Mikael Holmqvistm. fl.

Häftad, Svenska, 2006

376 kr

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Denna antologi utmanar etablerade sanningar i dagens undervisning, forskning och debatt om relationen mellan arbete och hälsa. Utifrån aktuell forskning analyserar författarna kritiskt hälsoinriktade aktiviteter i arbetsliv och samhälle och deras betydelse för människors yrkes- och privatliv. Läs en debattartikel i DN om ett av bokens ämne. "Erkänn ditt arbetshandikapp annars förlorar du a-kassan"

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