A New Professional Landscape: Entangled Institutional Logics in Two Swedish Welfare Professions

The professional guardian: a new type of non-institutional administrator.

Institutional Environment and New Firm Formation in Swedish Regions

This paper uses an institutional approach to investigate the relationship between the regional institutional environment and regional new firm formation. The importance of perceived attitudes regarding private enterprises, local taxes, political majority, the size of the government sector and perceived rules and bureaucracy on new firm formation in 286 Swedish municipalities are investigated. T...

Transformation and Restructuring: A New Institutional Landscape for Higher Education

The origins of the current institutional structure of the higher education system can be traced to the geopolitical imagination of apartheid’s master planner, Hendrik Verwoerd, and his reactionary ideological vision of “separate but equal development”. This was given effect through the enactment in 1959 of the Universities Extension Act, which far from extending access to higher education on th...

Toward a model of institutional scholarship in health professions education.

Using an expanded definition of scholarship that goes beyond the scholarship of discovery (research) to include the scholarship of integration, the scholarship of application, and the scholarship of teaching, this article explains interrelationships among these scholarship types in health professions and specifically dental education. Such interrelationships can lead to meaningful expansion of ...

Regional Institutional Environment and Swedish Regional New Firm Formation

This paper uses an institutional approach to investigate the relationship between the regional institutional environment and regional new firm formation. The importance of perceived attitudes regarding private enterprises, local taxes, political majority, the size of the government sector and perceived rules and bureaucracy on new firm formation in 286 Swedish municipalities are investigated. T...