Industrial Economics and Management
Transforma: Transformative Management
Are you passionate about contributing towards or learning more about the needed conditions for sustainable societal, environmental, and technical transformations? If so, welcome to the research environment Transformative Management – a community of committed researchers interested in cross-disciplinary research and education. Here, we showcase ongoing projects, research findings, teaching engagement and industry collaboration. We invite you to join us as a partner in driving positive change.
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We are rooted in diverse theoretical and methodological approaches with a common interest in the transformation of management as well as management for transformation. With common ground in the area of organization, leadership and business studies, our aim is to cultivate and maintain diversity, united by our shared interest in transformation as both a process and potential. We are interested in individual, organizational, societal, and international levels of analyses.
The purpose with Transforma is to create a research environment for researchers in organization and leadership interested in both social and ecological aspects of sustainability, transformation, change and the management of these. The research environment has its base in Region Mälardalen.
The objectives with Transformative Management research environment are research, teaching, as well as coproduction and dissemination of knowledge for sustainable transformation. Transforma, while initiated by and organizationally situated at the Department of Organization and Management, welcomes collaboration from other disciplines, both within MDU and beyond the university.
Book release
Magnus Hoppe and Anna Uhlin, both esteemed members of Transformative Management, have edited and contributed to the newly released book Academic Misfits: Questioned Belongings in Higher Education. This book is a must-read for researchers, doctoral students, and anyone striving for a more inclusive academic world.
Transforma research articles
- Guest editorial: Change, well-being and meaning in organizations: reflections and recommendations for future research
External link. - Homo Academicus as Becoming Nomad: Reflections Through a Journey of Pregnancy and Motherhood | SpringerLink External link.
- Transition towards and of sustainability—Understanding sustainability as performative
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- The impact of workplace diversity climate on the career satisfaction of skilled migrant employees - Farashah - European Management Review - Wiley Online Library External link.
- Perceived employability of skilled migrants: a systematic review and future research agenda. External link, opens in new window.
- Organizational culture and cultural diversity: an explorative study of international skilled migrants in Swedish firms External link, opens in new window.
- Design Methods and Practices for Research of Project Management. External link, opens in new window.
- Handbook of Engineering Ethics Education, Routledge. (forthcoming 2024)
- Dancing urban waters. A posthuman feminist perspective on arts-based practice for sustainable education External link, opens in new window.
- A posthumanist research agenda on sustainable and responsible management education after the pandemic External link, opens in new window.
- Supporting and studying organizational change for introducing welfare technologies as sociomaterial process External link, opens in new window.
- Materialities of care for older people: caring together/apart in the political economy of caring apparatus External link, opens in new window.
- Wildfire forecasting: between criminal act and unintentional events External link, opens in new window.
- Constructing collaborative communities of researchers in the environmental domain. A case study of interdisciplinary research between legal scholars and policy analysts External link, opens in new window.
- Risk forecast as work practice: between codified and practical knowledge External link, opens in new window.
- Applied Meteorology to Wild Forest Fire Fighting. A Case of Misalignment between Science and Public Service External link, opens in new window.
- Climate change and re-organizing of land use. Flood-control area as network effect External link, opens in new window.
- An updated inquiry into the study of corporate codes of ethics: 2005–2016 External link.
- Educational interventions for sustainable innovation in small and medium sized enterprises External link.
- Power in the development of Circular Business Models: An Actor Network Theory approach External link.
- Material affordances in circular products and business model development: for a relational understanding of human and material agency External link.
- Maira Babri: External link.Putting circular ambitions into action: the case of Accus, a small Swedish sign company External link.
- Towards Entrepreneurship for a Cause: Educating Transformative Entrepreneurial Selves for a Better World External link, opens in new window.
- (working paper). Get into the Wild – Learning to Teach Transformative Leadership.
Ongoing research projects
Project manager: Silvia Bruzzone
Research area: The research group for studies in democracy, power and citizenship (DEM)
Main financing: FORMAS
Climate adaptation related to changing precipitation is prioritized because of the vulnerability this change entails, especially in terms of the risk of flooding. Climate adaptation work has begun, but new ways of working across organizational boundaries are required to involve all stakeholders in this complex work.
SCOSSA - Sector coupling in energy transitions as sociotechnical processes
Project manager: Silvia Bruzzone
Research area: The research group for studies in democracy, power and citizenship (DEM)
Main financing: Energymyndigheten
The objectives of the SCOSSA project is to develop new knowledge on how sector coupling in energy transition is actually done through the development of new sociotechnical practices.
Project manager: Magnus Hoppe
Research area: NOMP-group – New Organisation and Management Practices
The research focus is on what and how educators should teach to make people develop transformative capabilities and build action competence for societal transformation towards sustainability.
Art-based methods for science education and sustainability (ARMESS)
The aim of the project is to mobilize different art-based methodologies to expand contents and methodological awareness on ERS (Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability) education and research at MDU.
Read more about Art-based methods for science education and sustainability (ARMESS)