Papers by Ingalill Holmberg
In the past few years, the quest for responsible and sustainable business has emerged as a major ... more In the past few years, the quest for responsible and sustainable business has emerged as a major theme in academic and practical management discourse. The increasingly intense debate on ethical and social responsible business and the quest for responsible leadership put contemporary business models and current leadership praxis under severe public scrutiny. This paper is written within the framework of a research project that explores the linkages between responsible leadership, sustainable business, innovation, and growth in Swedish-based corporations with a global outreach. The case illustrates how an investment firm is implementing the vision to become the most reputable owner in the industry by leveraging active ownership. The research is based on collaborative case-study approach. The data-collection covers round-table seminars, interviews and documentary material.
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Research Papers in Economics, Nov 20, 2018
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Psychology Press, Apr 5, 2007
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This study sets out to test the assumption that concepts of leadership differ as a function of cu... more This study sets out to test the assumption that concepts of leadership differ as a function of cultural differences in Europe and to identify dimensions which describe differences in leadership concepts across European countries. Middle-level managers (N = 6,052) from 22 European countries rated 112 questionnaire items containing descriptions of leadership traits and behaviours. For each attribute respondents rated how well it fits their concept of an outstanding business leader. The findings support the assumption that leadership concepts are culturally endorsed. Specifically, clusters of European countries which share similar cultural values according to prior cross-cultural research (S. Ronen & O. Shenkar, 1985), also share similar leadership concepts. The leadership prototypicality dimensions found are highly correlated with cultural dimensions reported in a comprehensive cross-cultural study of contemporary Europe (P. B. Smith, S. Dugan and F. Trompenaars, 1996). The ordering o...
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In the past few years, the quest for responsible and sustainable business has emerged as a major ... more In the past few years, the quest for responsible and sustainable business has emerged as a major theme in academic and practical management discourse. The increasingly intensive debate on ethical and socially responsible business initiatives and the quest for (globally) responsible leadership (c.f. instance The Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative and United Nations Global Compact) put contemporary business models and current leadership praxis under severe public scrutiny. This paper describes how responsible business was addressed in a global telco with HQ in Sweden, namely TeliaSonera, subsequently rebranded Telia Company. The case covers a process of nearly four years, beginning in 2013. At the time, the company was in a mode of crisis after allegations in media of bribery in its Eurasian business. The case is based on collaborate research, and the main perspective is ethics and compliance.
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International Studies of Management & Organization, 2015
Abstract The premise of this article is that brands help people create their identities. When ins... more Abstract The premise of this article is that brands help people create their identities. When institutions of higher education engage in explicit branding activities, an appearance-focused brand culture, in which a coherent system of symbols, actions, and meaning, may emerge. This article explores how students in a Swedish business school use the school’s brand for self-branding. The branding processes have implications for student postures toward their university education and the development of their self-conceptualizations. The article presents a theoretical framework for branding and for student self-branding at the studied school, demonstrates how the school is the focal point for this self-branding, identifies the branding vocabulary used at the school, and analyzes how students develop self-conceptualizations in a meaning system infused by branding. The article concludes by posing questions on the significance of self-branding in higher education.
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European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 1999
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Work (Reading, Mass.), 2011
The aim of this cross-sectional exploratory study was to investigate destructive managerial leade... more The aim of this cross-sectional exploratory study was to investigate destructive managerial leadership in the hotel industry in Sweden, Poland, and Italy in relation to psychological well-being among employees. 554 questionnaires were collected from employees in all occupational groups within hotels. The Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ) measured working conditions, particularly iso-strain or high work demands combined with low control and poor social support, and psychological well-being, defined in terms of mental health, vitality, and behavioural stress. Items adapted from the Global Leadership and Organisational Behaviour Effectiveness (GLOBE) research program questionnaire measured autocratic, malevolent, and self-centred leadership styles. Differences in ratings between countries were estimated, as well as the relationship between destructive managerial leadership on an organisation level and employee psychological well-being on an individual level. The relationsh...
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RP Stockholm School of Economics, 2017
In short, the paper describes how responsible business was addressed in TeliaSonera, subsequently... more In short, the paper describes how responsible business was addressed in TeliaSonera, subsequently rebranded Telia Company (Telia), from an ethics and compliance (E&C) perspective. The point of departure is September 2013, when a new board and new executive management are taking charge. The company is in a mode of crisis after allegations during 2012 and 2013 in media of bribery in its business in Uzbekistan.There are ongoing internal investigations into the Telia operations in Eurasia carried out by the English law firm Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF), who at this time reports to the Chair. The case covers a process of three and a half years of hard work, involving people from the very top to the ground, as well as professionals outside of Telia, sustainability managers, ethics and compliance officers, investigators, compliance specialists, lawyers, journalists and regulators.
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The vision behind the CASL strategic agenda is to help make leadership a strategic resource for i... more The vision behind the CASL strategic agenda is to help make leadership a strategic resource for innovation and growth in Sweden. The point of departure is that theSwedish leadership modelis presently based in values and practices that promote leadership as a strategic resource. However, it is necessary to develop and strengthen this strategic resource so that the model is not only consistent with international standards but also meets the ever-increasing forces of global competition. One major challenge is to successfully navigate the transition from industrial thinking as the dominant business logic to various business logics that build on individual competence, specific knowledge and relationships. In these logics, various interactions (e.g., in projects, networks, alliances, etc.) are crucially important for the development of valuable activities and processes. The work process of the strategic agenda necessarily involves a number of stakeholders and collaborative partners (e.g.,...
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The Work of ManagersTowards a Practice Theory of Management, 2012
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Leadership, 2010
This article examines leadership in practice through an investigation of how 62 managers (includi... more This article examines leadership in practice through an investigation of how 62 managers (including project leaders), competing in a cutting-edge environment, perceive and describe the characteristics of everyday leadership. Based on the common notion of fragmentation in managerial work, as well as the unfortunate lack of understanding of how managerial work relates to the overall work processes of the organization, the article addresses the integrated job of managing (e.g., see Barley and Kunda, 1992; Hales, 1986, 1999; Mintzberg, 1994). In this study, everyday leadership is uncovered as a sense-making process consisting of three sets of activities – interpretations, constant adjustments and formulations of temporary solutions. Another striking feature of everyday leadership is that, to a considerable extent, it is event-driven. We therefore suggest that everyday leadership, as an event-driven activity rather than an intention-driven activity, should focus on skills such as improvisation and the ability to tune in.
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1.3 Background The network society was born when the Internet revolution struck the world little ... more 1.3 Background The network society was born when the Internet revolution struck the world little more than a decade ago. In December 1993, the European Commission requested a report, referred to as the Bangemann report 2, for its meeting in June 1994 in Corfu on the ...
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Management Learning
Taking a managerial position involves not only taking on managerial tasks and responsibilities bu... more Taking a managerial position involves not only taking on managerial tasks and responsibilities but also developing an identity as manager. Recent work on manager learning thus proposes that identity work is a significant part of learning to become manager. This work has, however, rarely focused on first-time managers and, despite the emphasis on process, has rarely examined identity work over time. Against this background, we present a longitudinal study of six newly appointed managers. Adopting a Ricoeurian perspective, we construct "small stories" to explore how they made sense of themselves and how to relate to others in light of new experiences in their everyday lives as nascent managers. The study provides insight into the process through which they were learning to become managers. Specifically, it highlights how the manager's identity work oscillated over time by pointing to the ongoing dialectic between continuity and change, progress and standstill , knowing and not-knowing, and excitement and despair.
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Learning to become manager: The identity work of first time managers, 2019
Taking a managerial position involves not only taking on managerial tasks and responsibilities bu... more Taking a managerial position involves not only taking on managerial tasks and responsibilities but also developing an identity as manager. Recent work on manager learning thus proposes that identity work is a significant part of learning to become manager. This work has, however, rarely focused on first-time managers and, despite the emphasis on process, has rarely examined identity work over time. Against this background, we present a longitudinal study of six newly appointed managers. Adopting a Ricoeurian perspective, we construct "small stories" to explore how they made sense of themselves and how to relate to others in light of new experiences in their everyday lives as nascent managers. The study provides insight into the process through which they were learning to become managers. Specifically, it highlights how the manager's identity work oscillated over time by pointing to the ongoing dialectic between continuity and change, progress and standstill , knowing and not-knowing, and excitement and despair.
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Leadership , 2010
This article examines leadership in practice through an investigation of how 62 managers (includi... more This article examines leadership in practice through an investigation of how 62 managers (including project leaders), competing in a cutting-edge environment, perceive and describe the characteristics of everyday leadership. Based on the common notion of fragmentation in managerial work, as well as the unfortunate lack of understanding of how managerial work relates to the overall work processes of the organization, the article addresses the integrated job of managing (e.g., see Barley and Kunda, 1992; Hales, 1986, 1999; Mintzberg, 1994). In this study, everyday leadership is uncovered as a sense-making process consisting of three sets of activities — interpretations, constant adjustments and formulations of temporary solutions. Another striking feature of everyday leadership is that, to a considerable extent, it is event-driven. We therefore suggest that everyday leadership, as an event-driven activity rather than an intention-driven activity, should focus on skills such as improvisation and the ability to tune in.
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company as responsible and sustainable. The purpose of the study is to develop theoretical concepts in order to better understand the role of leadership in sus-tainable business.