Daniel Ericsson- Professor
- Professor at Linnaeus University
Daniel Ericsson
- Professor
- Professor at Linnaeus University
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Introduction
I am particularly interested in understanding how creativity is constructed in society, and in exploring different ways of writing within the social sciences, drawing inspiration from, among others, Umberto Eco’s semiotics, Erich Auerbach’s ideas on narrative styles, and Raymond Queneau’s playful poetry. I am currently studying several initiatives within the art and cultural sector to establish new forms of organized practices.
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August 2022 - present
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Crumbling social institutions, disintegrating structures, and a profound sense of uncertainty are the signs of our time. In this book, this contemporary crisis is explored and illuminated, providing narratives that suggest how the notion of hope can be leveraged to create powerful methods of organizing for the future. Chapters first consider theore...
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The purpose of the paper is to present a constructionist framework for reflection upon time in organizational change processes. The framework directs attention towards (1) institutionalized ideas on organizational change processes anchored in different theoretical epochs, (2) institutionalized norms and virtues that govern the development o...
Inspired by the alternative ethnographic tradition, the aim of this article is to contribute with an approach to organizational ethnography informed by the radical imperative to encounter and understand the Other in his/her complex otherness and difference. The approach is conceptualised in terms of alterethnography, and it is outlined as a way of...
In this chapter, it is argued that the discourse on entrepreneurship contributes to the formation of a colonizing war machine that not only conquers all those not in favour of entrepreneurship but also installs a fetishist relation towards entrepreneurship. The arguments stem from a Marxist reading of the rise and fall of the company Boo.com, and i...
In this paper, we advance the conversation about management education by outlining a future scenario of management teaching in which art is employed as a method, learning goal, and methodology. The scenario is informed by our personal experiences of teaching management and art expressed in terms of three design principles for management education:...
The Netflix rom-com series Emily in Paris revolves around Emily Cooper, who has been assigned by her Chicago-based employer to work for Savoir, a subsidiary marketing agency in Paris. In this paper, Emily in Paris is approached as a showcase of cultural entrepreneurship, and the existentialist reading of the series reveals a distinct symbolic unive...
In this introductory chapter, a debate is instigated about the different ontological assumptions that scholars in the fields of management and organization make about themselves, and the consequences and implications these assumptions have in practice. In this regard, the debate is positioned in relation to one of the major conversation topics with...
For many, the question who do we think we are? connotes a very specific moral, the Law of Jante: You are not to think that you are anything special. As formulated by the Danish-Norwegian author Aksel Sandemose in A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks (1933/2010), this law was once a satirical description of the social norms that Sandemose meant governed th...
Art, Culture & Entrepreneurship (ACE) is an online, open access, peer-reviewed journal and platform powered by Linnaeus University Press. The journal is devoted to the study of art and cultural entrepreneurship, i.e. initiatives within the art and cultural sector to establish new forms of organized practices. The journal in this sense strives for a...
Revision is deeply rooted in academic norms and values regarding the importance of critical reflection and transparency of arguments, and not the least regarding the notion of research as a collective accomplishment. Over the last couple of decades, however the practice of revision has increasingly become interwoven with the institutionalized acade...
In this text, our aim is to outline the scaffolding we believe is needed to build and shape the future role of the University. This scaffolding is an assemblage of three different strategies we have found to be fruitful in our attempt to present narratives for a better future: engagement with the arts, the development of sociological imagination, a...
In this chapter the ongoing reconfigurations of the cultural and creative sectors, in which the dichotomy between producers and consumers is being repealed, and new prosumer (dis)positions are being installed, is explored through the Foucauldian lens of ‘technologies of the self’. According to Foucault, ‘technologies of the self’ are epistemologica...
To highlight the ‘in-between’ aspects of organizational ethnography an alternative approach to traditional organizational ethnography is explored: inter-ethnography. This approach serves to destabilize the traditional notion of organizational ethnography as an individual and subjectivist project, as well as to escape the notion of a static field po...
Organization and management studies have in many ways been influenced by the past decades’ many post-positivist turns, making ideas on objectivity, deduction, linearity, reliability, validity, and generalized truth claims somewhat outdated. On the one hand, the postmodernist notion of fragmented knowledge has gained a strong foothold, and on the ot...
‘Know yourself’ is the fundamental knowledge principle in the modern world, which superseded, and was once interwoven with, the (now forgotten) Graeco-Roman principle of ‘Take care of yourself.’ In Foucault’s analysis of the different hermeneutical ‘truth games’ played out through history by human beings trying to understand themselves, certain tec...
En rad olika idéer om vad forskning är och hur forskning bör bedrivas florerar på universitet och högskolor. En del av dessa idéer känns så självklara att de inte ens behöver diskuteras. På så sätt utgör de myter – inte för att de är falska, så som begreppet myt ibland används i vardagligt tal, utan för att de rymmer samma slags osynliga förklaring...
Entreprenörskap på kulturens område är ett fenomen präglat av motstridigheter och paradoxer. Ekonomiska realiteter ställs mot konstnärliga och kreativa ambitioner – och kontrasteras mot sociala och ideologiska förväntningar. Vad kännetecknar de organisatoriska processer som gör detta entreprenörskap möjligt, men som samtidigt också begränsar det? V...
Being critical within academia is a matter of the utmost importance. It could be regarded as the primary means of scientific production as well as a scientific end in itself, but it could also be conceptualized as a necessary scientific condition in the sense that science without it probably would not qualify as science at all. With reference to th...
In the City of Malmö, social entrepreneurship initiatives are being proposed to reduce health inequalities among citizens. How do these initiatives acquire legitimacy? Taking a narrative turn, I suggest that social entrepreneurship in theory and practice is shaped by the narrative styles of Homer and the Old Testament and that building the legitima...
Ever since Vincent de Gournay (1712–59), the French economist, complained about the spirit of laws in France, ‘an illness … which bids fair to play havoc with us’ and diagnosed this illness as bureau-mania and bureaucracy, the bureaucrat has been a contested character (Albrow, 1970 pp. 17 ff). In the nineteenth century polemicists and novelists suc...
Denna bok är produkten av ett samarbete mellan Polisen och Ekonomihögskolan
vid Växjö Universitet. I två omgångar (2004-2005 respektive 2007) har sammanlagt
34 högre chefer från Polisen deltagit i magisterprogrammet Ledarskap för
Kvalitet och Strategisk Förändring och det som här redovisas i artikelform är
några av de uppsatser som dessa deltagare...
Den Grundläggande Organisationsteorin utgör i mångt och mycket ett slags självspelande piano: Blickarna riktas per automatik mot myndighetssfärerna och de större internationella industri- och tjänsteföretagen. De perspektiv som an-läggs är få till antalet och mer eller mindre självskrivna. Och de problemområ-den som fokuseras är rätt så förutsägbar...
Under det senaste decenniet har entreprenörskapsforskningen konsoliderats till att bli ett självständigt forskningsfält. Ett stort antal professurer i entreprenörskap har inrättats, forskningsanslagen ökar, speciella entreprenörskapsutbildningar och forskarnätverk bildas och alltfler avhandlingar produceras i ämnet.
I många avseenden går denna aka...
Ledarskap tar sig en mängd olika uttryck varav många faller utanför den traditionella ledarskapsforskningens blickfång. Ledarskap utövas på osedda arenor och av misskända aktörer, och det utövas ofta utan att det föreligger någon djupare medvetenhet därom. I mångt och mycket är därför ledarskap o(av)sett, på en och samma gång både osett och oavsett...
Som för avläggande avekonomie doktorsexamen vid Handelshögskolan i Stockholm framläggs för offentlig granskning fredagen den 18 maj 2001, kl 13.15, i sal Ruben, Handelshögskolan, Saltmätargatan 13-17.
In managerial discourse the concept of creative leadership has acquired buzzword status in recent years. For instance, the number of articles written on the subject published in Swedish business papers has more than doubled since 1993; an increasing number of seminars on creative leadership are held at executive programs and trade fairs; text-books...
