Stockholm Center for Civil Society Studies - SCCSS

10/02/2021

"Is it tomorrow yet? How the pandemic changes Europe, Key note speak by Ivan Krastev, March 2nd, 2 pm CET"

Dear all, the NGO Academy at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (one of the major business schools in Europe) forwards information about an upcoming virtual event they are hosting on March 2nd.

As part of our academic network, the Stockholm Center for Civil Society Studies is both happy and proud to share their invitation below. Participation is free of charge.

/Filip Wijkström, SCCSS, Stockholm School of Economics

“Is it tomorrow yet? How the pandemic changes Europe” - NGO Academy Keynote with Ivan Krastev

What are the consequences of the pandemic that will set the course of the world in the coming years? Loss of vision is characteristic of every pandemic: we do not see the disease until it arrives, and when it does, we do not understand what is happening either. The paradoxes that COVID-19 has brought to light regarding globalization: international cooperation, authoritarianism, social cohesion and the European project.

The event will take place on March 2nd, 2021 from 2 pm until 3.30 pm (CET). You can register here free of charge.

Best regards, Martin Mehrwald, The NGO Academy

Reinhard Millner

We are honored to announce a keynote and moderated discussion with CEE expert and thought leader Ivan Krastev.

27/01/2021

På Ledarskapsarenan den 4:e februari presenterar centrets forskare nya data och fördjupade analyser av den svenska ideella sektorns omfattning och utveckling i Sverige. Än finns det någon dag kvar för att anmäla sig om du är intresserad.

LedarskapsArenan – mötesplatsen för civilsamhällets ledare – kommer att hållas torsdagen den 4 februari, 2021. Arenan äger rum 8:45–16:00 och denna gång möts vi i Zoom. Mötesplatsen genomförs i år i samarbete med forskarna på Stockholm Center for Civil Society Studies vid Handelshö...

22/10/2020

Erik Sjöstrand appointed Managing Director at IDEELL ARENA!

We are both happy and proud to congratulate Dr. Erik Sjöstrand to his new position as Managing Director (verksamhetschef) at IDEELL ARENA, effective as of January 1st, 2021.

Erik has for a long time been a core member of the faculty at our research center at SSE. After successfully defending his PhD dissertation at SSE in 2018, Erik has been working with us as researcher in a number of studies, for example in a study of the governance of welfare in the Church of Sweden and in another on the transnational governance of the university field.

We also congratulate IDEELL ARENA for an exellent choice! We are of course sad to see Erik leave us, but we look forward to continued close cooperation in our joint strive to help IDEELL ARENA provide civil society with the most recent and relevant research available.

/Filip Wijkström, Stockholm Center for Civil Society Studies

Ideell Arena har den stora glädjen att presentera Erik Sjöstrand som ny verksamhetschef. – Erik har en bakgrund som matchar den kravprofil styrgruppen ställde upp inför rekryteringen. Han är en del av civilsamhället samtidigt som han som forskare har studerat delar av civilsamhället ingåen...

17/09/2020

Start för årets omgång av Fenix-programmet!

Programmet för strategiskt ledarskap i ideella organisationer tog sin början i måndags för att sedan fortlöpa under ett år. Filip Wijkström inledde med att presentera hur sektorn förändras och hur dess relation till övriga sektorer just nu omförhandlas. Erik Sjöstrand från centret är programledare tillsammans med Katarina Gustafsson från IDEELL ARENA. Medverkade gjorde även David Falk som tar över Eriks programledarroll från och med nästa omgång.

Dagarna bjöd på spännande och entusiastiska diskussioner om civilsamhällets roll och vilket ledarskap som efterfrågas och behövs i denna förändring.

Vi ser fram emot fortsättningen!

06/08/2020

Key note lectures by Marie-Laure Djelic (social darwinism) and Helmut K. Anheier (Dahrendorf Quandrum and Rodrik Trilemma)

Below please find two keynotes delivered and recorded at the EGOS - European Group for Organizational Studies session conducted virtually this summer in our EGOS Standing Working Group on Civil Society matters:

https://www.egosnet.org/swgs/current_swgs_SWG_03

We hope that these Youtube clips will serve as a valuable resource for civil society practitioners and scholars alike.

This is also a reminder to interested researchers that we will meet again next summer (2021) in Amsterdam, and this time we hope meet irl and face-to-face. Please visit EGOS web page for updates and deadlines.

/Best, Filip Wijkström Stockholm Center for Civil Society Studies - SCCSS

Marie-Laure:
https://youtu.be/BUQy5TmZOCU

Helmut:
https://youtu.be/NF9Rg6i18w0

This video features a keynote speech by Marie-Laure Salles-Djelic entitled „Civil Society Organizing and Beyond – Bringing Social Darwinism Back In”. It was ...

23/07/2020

Ny rapport: Utsatta områden, urbanisering, kriminalitet

Aktuell samling texter med intressanta analyser om utsatta områden, urbanisering, kriminalitet mm från forskargrupp knuten till Malmö universitet.

Kanske något som kan intressera fler.

25/06/2020

Civilsamhället och COVID-19

Hej! Idag släpper vi på HHS två nyskrivna artiklar som är av intresse för civilsamhället. Martin Carlsson Wall har en mycket intressant text om idrottsrörelsens utmaningar och agerande under Corona-krisen. I den andra analyserar Ebba Henrekson Erik Sjöstrand, Stig Linde, Marta Reuter och undertecknad Svenska kyrkans arbete. Vi kombinerar teorier om organisatoriskt lärande och slack, och ser detta som en del av samhällets långsiktiga resilience.

Många har hjälpt oss på vägen. TACK! Vi använder data från den stora studie av Svenska kyrkan som vi har arbetat på under flera år, där vi har kunnat intervjua människor aktiva i både stift och församlingar i Västerås stift, Stockholms stift Svenska kyrkan och Göteborgs stift Svenska kyrkan.

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Myndigheten för ungdoms- och civilsamhällesfrågor, MUCF, Svenska ESF-rådet och Västerås stift har i olika faser ställt upp med finansiering. Nu är det dags för oss att börja publicera resultaten. Detta är ett sådant tillfälle. Tack alla.

Välkomna att läsa och ladda ned båda dessa texter – och många fler! Hjälp oss också att sprida länken där ännu fler publiceras under sommaren. Ni kan också själva sätta upp er som prenumeranter för fortlöpande uppdateringar.

/Filip Wijkström, Stockholm Center for Civil Society Studies

UR VÅR ARTIKEL

"The special way to organize and facilitate organizational learning as well as the level of slack easily available seem to set the Church apart from both public-sector bodies and commercial for-profit entities. But in many respects, the Church shares characteristics with other actors in civil society which indicate a unique role for these organizations in the resilience of society during unexpected jolts and sudden emergencies."

Just as companies need to adapt to the new situation, so do civil society organizations.

24/06/2020

Virtual "Home Office" workshop on University Governance

Yesterday we finally had our spring workshop in the UniGov project on Governance of the Transnational University Field funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

Caught by the effects of the coronavirus an earlier planned (non-virtual) workshop was postponed – but we were now still able to conduct it, albeit somewhat later and virtually.

This post is also a great "thank you!" to all the workshop participants that made this both possible and a highly worthwhile workshop. Great discussions on our papers!

Looking forward to next time – hopefully sometimes soon also irl and outside of "home office" space. /Best, Filip Wijkström, SCCSS Stockholm School of Economics

Daniel Semper Marta Reuter Erik Sjöstrand Anna Lundstedt Michael Meyer Achim Oberg Torbjörn Einarsson Lisa Maria Dellmuth

Stockholm School of Economics Library

https://www.researchgate.net/project/Transnational-Governance-of-the-University-Field-RJ-FSK15-10681-The-Travel-Translation-of-Global-Ideas-the-Role-of-Intermediary-Organizations

16/06/2020

I today's release of articles from the SSE COVID-19 Report, Associate Professor Karin Svedberg Helgesson focuses on how business actors become “agents of the state”. She argues that the state needs to enlist the cooperation of businesses and other actors. Read her contribution!

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Research-based perspectives on COVID-19.

15/06/2020

The very first articles are released today from the brand new SSE COVID-19 Report. The faculty at Stockholm School of Economics are sharing their work and views on the topic: Sweden through the crisis, and there will be new article released daily for the coming 2-3 weeks.

Next week we will release the chapter from our Center, on the work by Svenska kyrkan and its many parishes work during the corona crisis. Stay tuned!

Svenska kyrkan

Why did Sweden choose a different path than most countries during the corona crisis? How is the crisis affecting society – from retail and national economy to violence against women? And how can we bridge divides when the pressure is mounting?

A comprehensive new report from a group of researchers affiliated with the Stockholm School of Economics attempts to answer these questions – and many more. Today we publish the first articles from the report Sweden through the crisis, and we'll continue throughout the summer. Stay tuned!

Read more and find the latest articles here: https://www.hhs.se/en/research/sweden-through-the-crisis/

03/06/2020

New PhD scholarship in the History of Nordic Civil Society

Copenhagen Business School now invites applications for a PhD scholarship with a focus on the history of civil society in the Nordic countries since 1800. Deadline for application is June 8, 2020. For more information, visit their web page.

PhD scholarship in the History of Nordic Civil Society Copenhagen Business School (CBS), in collaboration with the University of Oslo (UiO), invites applications for a PhD scholarship with a focus on the history of civil society in the Nordic countries since 1800. The position is part of the