B Larsson
Biographic Data
| ID | 13561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Larsson |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | Larsson |
| SIGNATURE | LARSSON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8454-2891 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Programmes, Actor–Networks, and Discretion
This study explores the Swedish Enforcement Authority’s decision-making process to unpack the bureaucratic production chain and the roles of tools and artefacts. The aim is to explore and describe the organization of decisions, with a focus on the ‘programming’ of the decision-making process, the actors, and their discretion in relation to tools and programmes. This process allows the analysis to move beyond conventional approaches that criticize…
A comparative analysis of farmers' attitudes toward animal welfare in Ukraine and Azerbaijan
The aim of this study was to understand farmers' views on animal welfare in Ukraine and Azerbaijan, and to identify key issues in general and in each country. A questionnaire with 14 questions was used to survey 58 farmers from Ukraine and 71 farmers from Azerbaijan. Data were collected regarding farm production characteristics, farmers' perception of animal welfare, and what farmers identified as the most important animal welfare issues. A mixed…
Social status qualifiers
This study contributes to our understanding of what lifestyle factors affect the social status of women and men in contemporary postmaterialist societies. We examine the dimensions and determinants of social status qualifiers among Swedish people using a survey of 1,650 Swedish respondents who ranked the importance of 14 qualifiers for the social status of a woman and a man. The analysis showed surprisingly strong similarities in what factors aff…
Digital disruption diversified-FinTechs and the emergence of a coopetitive market ecosystem
This article analyses the development of FinTech companies in relation to traditional banks in four countries: Denmark, Estonia, the Netherlands and Sweden. Based on approaches drawn from the sociology of markets and field theory, we analyse and theorize about empirical data from secondary sources, official documents and 38 interviews with key actors. Whereas digital technologies have been commonly depicted as a source of disruption for establish…
Social stratification of physical activity. An exploration into how logics of practice affect participation in movement culture
Background Researchers have long studied the social stratification of physical activity patterns in terms of ‘determinants’ of physically active lifestyles. In this article, we set out to explore how Bourdieu’s concept logic of practice can be used as an intermediating analytical tool to promote understanding rather than the calculation of human participation in movement culture.Theoretical framework The logic of the practice is similar to the lo…
‘You see similarities more than differences after a while’. Communities of Practice in European industrial relations. The case of the hospital European Sectoral Social Dialogue
This article looks at the hospital European Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee (SSDC) through a Community of Practice (CoP) theoretical lens. Based on a 2‐year project, qualitative in‐depth interviews at the European level and in five Member states, and participant observation of the hospital SSDC, we propose a shift from traditional institutional and resource‐based accounts and provide a learning and knowledge‐focused understanding of this speci…
Governing Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in a Changing Climate
Background Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global crisis with long-term and unpredictable health, social and economic impacts, with which climate change is likely to interact. Understanding how to govern AMR amidst evolving climatic changes is critical. Scenario planning offers a suitable approach. By envisioning alternative futures, stakeholders more effectively can identify consequences, anticipate problems, and better determine how…
What's the point of European Sectoral Social Dialogue? Effectiveness and polycontexturality in the hospital and metal sectors
Drawing on pragmatism and systems theory, this article analyses how participants in the European Sectoral Social Dialogue in the metal and hospital committees understand its effectiveness. We find that the participants have a broad understanding of effectiveness compared with the European Commission and existing research. Participants do not dismiss the importance of direct effects on working conditions in member states but downplay it in compari…
Duties to Distrust
This article examines a general trend towards the ‘decentring’ of the policing of economic and white-collar crime in Sweden in recent decades. As a theoretical point of departure, we discuss how the ‘decentred policing’ concept can link the theoretical approaches of regulation and policing studies. We then analyse five empirical cases in which private actors have been given duties and incentives to report others’ crimes, in order to give a detail…
Discretion in the “Backyard of Law”
This article explores discretion in welfare professional work. The aim is to analyse what room for discretionary decision-making that exist in case handling of debt relief at the Swedish Enforcement Authority (SEA). The analysis is guided by a conceptual distinction between structural and epistemic aspects of discretion, as well as between substantive and procedural aspects. The data comprises official and internal SEA documents, interviews with …
Transnational Trade Union Action in Europe
Research on European trade unionism has discussed whether the tendency towards ‘union diplomacy’ has meant that that unions are largely disinterested in mobilizing members and pursue contentious action at the European level. Other studies have identified activities that suggest an Europeanization of political mobilization, in demonstrations and strikes and in cooperation with NGOs and social movements. The present paper analyzes attitudes towards…
Conclusions
In this book we set out to investigate the ongoing transformations of the Swedish welfare state against the background of its twentieth-century development. We started by depicting an important event taking place in the early 1990s, when the centre-right government declared that they would implement a 'system shift'. The neoliberal ideology inspiring this shift had already influenced the Social Democratic government's mid-1980s economic policy, i…
Transformations of the Swedish Welfare State
In the early 1990s the Swedish welfare system was struck by capital flight and a national financial crisis creating severe problems for the Swedish economy. This crisis became the final blow to Swedish welfare policies as we once knew them, that is, based on Keynesian economic policies and a politically coordinated market economy with active labour market measures aimed at full employment, industrial restruc-turing and maximal economic growth; a …
The Cosmopolitanization of Childhood
This article discusses one particular aspect of the cosmopolitanization of childhood by analyzing children’s ‘eco-edutainment’ books, giving advice on how to save the world from environmental catastrophe. Its purpose is to analyze how such books articulate and spread ‘eco-knowledge’, encouraging children to become environmentally aware world citizens. The analysis shows that these books urge children and pre-teens not only to become self-discipli…
Accounting for Personal Overindebtedness
This paper aims to describe and understand the accounts given in applications for debt relief/adjustment in relation to the 'question situation' that overindebted person stand before in their encounters with Swedish authorities. The analysis is based on the sociology of accounts and is made against the background of previous research on overindebtedness in the Nordic countries. The paper shows that the accounts given by debtors include examples o…
Becoming a Winner But Staying the Same
This article discusses how large lottery winnings are experienced and used by the winners. The study draws on a survey of 420 Swedish winners, which is analyzed against the background of previous research from the USA and Europe. The analyses show that winners are cautious about realizing any dreams of becoming someone else somewhere else. This result contradicts theories suggesting that identities are being liquefied by the commercially driven c…
Bringing Environmentalism Home
This article discusses children as contributors to sustainable ecological development. The aim of the article is to develop a framework for researching two questions: What are the prerequisites for children to become responsible environmentalists? What actual and potential influence do children have on their family's consumption? Three theoretical perspectives are elaborated in relation to relevant empirical research: children as cosmopolitan act…
Revisorn och den institutionaliserade misstron
The auditor and the insitutionalization of distrust: the professionalization of external auditing in SwedenThis paper addresses professionalization with a focus on trust, rather than on issues of power and competition. It contains a conceptual analysis of trust/confidence, as well as a case study of the professionalization of external auditing in Sweden. The conceptual analysis discusses the “time-binding” aspect of trust/confidence, and the sign…
Unpacking Professional Trust - Dimensions of Trust in Swedish Auditors' Client Relations
This paper studies client trust in professionals, theoretically and empirically. The theoretical elaboration, founded on general sociological theories of trust, aims to distinguish different dimensions of trust - personal, impersonal, and process trust - and to explicate the stabilizing identities and control mechanisms on which they are based: persons, roles, programs and values. The empirical case study concerns what aspects of trust, and what …
Patrolling the corporation—the auditors’ duty to report crime in Sweden
Neo-liberalism and polycontextuality
This article gives an account of the interpretative conflicts and re-regulative initiatives that followed the Swedish banking crisis in the 1990s. The analysis is based on systems theory and theories of governance conceptualizing steering and self-regulation. It shows the polycontextuality of the conflicts over the crisis, and how the re-regulation articulated central aspects of neo-liberal government, as conceptualized in terms of governance. Th…
Social network and activities in relation to mortality from cardiovascular diseases, cancer and other causes
OBJECTIVE--The aim was to examine the relationship between social network and activities and causes of death. DESIGN--The study was a prospective cohort study of middle aged men examined in 1973 and followed for 12 years. SETTING--Gothenburg, Sweden. SUBJECTS--The subjects were 769 60 year old and 220 50 year old men who had participated in a health examination. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS--Main outcome measures were mortality from cardiovascul…
Prospective Study of Social Influences on Mortality
Distribution of adipose tissue and risk of cardiovascular disease and death
A longitudinal population study of 1462 women aged 38-60 was carried out in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1968-9. In univariate analysis the ratio of waist to hip circumference showed a significant positive association with the 12 year incidence of myocardial infarction, angina pectoris, stroke, and death. The association with incidence of myocardial infarction remained in multivariate analysis and was independent of age, body mass index, smoking habit,…
Abdominal adipose tissue distribution, obesity, and risk of cardiovascular disease and death
In a prospective study of risk factors for ischaemic heart disease 792 54 year old men selected by year of birth (1913) and residence in Gothenburg agreed to attend for questioning and a battery of anthropometric and other measurements in 1967. Thirteen years later these baseline findings were reviewed in relation to the numbers of men who had subsequently suffered a stroke, ischaemic heart disease, or death from all causes. Neither quintiles nor…
Social network and activities in relation to mortality from cardiovascular diseases, cancer and other causes
OBJECTIVE--The aim was to examine the relationship between social network and activities and causes of death. DESIGN--The study was a prospective cohort study of middle aged men examined in 1973 and followed for 12 years. SETTING--Gothenburg, Sweden. SUBJECTS--The subjects were 769 60 year old and 220 50 year old men who had participated in a health examination. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS--Main outcome measures were mortality from cardiovascul…
Bringing Environmentalism Home
This article discusses children as contributors to sustainable ecological development. The aim of the article is to develop a framework for researching two questions: What are the prerequisites for children to become responsible environmentalists? What actual and potential influence do children have on their family's consumption? Three theoretical perspectives are elaborated in relation to relevant empirical research: children as cosmopolitan act…
Duties to Distrust
This article examines a general trend towards the ‘decentring’ of the policing of economic and white-collar crime in Sweden in recent decades. As a theoretical point of departure, we discuss how the ‘decentred policing’ concept can link the theoretical approaches of regulation and policing studies. We then analyse five empirical cases in which private actors have been given duties and incentives to report others’ crimes, in order to give a detail…
Transnational Trade Union Action in Europe
Research on European trade unionism has discussed whether the tendency towards ‘union diplomacy’ has meant that that unions are largely disinterested in mobilizing members and pursue contentious action at the European level. Other studies have identified activities that suggest an Europeanization of political mobilization, in demonstrations and strikes and in cooperation with NGOs and social movements. The present paper analyzes attitudes towards…
Becoming a Winner But Staying the Same
This article discusses how large lottery winnings are experienced and used by the winners. The study draws on a survey of 420 Swedish winners, which is analyzed against the background of previous research from the USA and Europe. The analyses show that winners are cautious about realizing any dreams of becoming someone else somewhere else. This result contradicts theories suggesting that identities are being liquefied by the commercially driven c…
The Cosmopolitanization of Childhood
This article discusses one particular aspect of the cosmopolitanization of childhood by analyzing children’s ‘eco-edutainment’ books, giving advice on how to save the world from environmental catastrophe. Its purpose is to analyze how such books articulate and spread ‘eco-knowledge’, encouraging children to become environmentally aware world citizens. The analysis shows that these books urge children and pre-teens not only to become self-discipli…
Digital disruption diversified-FinTechs and the emergence of a coopetitive market ecosystem
This article analyses the development of FinTech companies in relation to traditional banks in four countries: Denmark, Estonia, the Netherlands and Sweden. Based on approaches drawn from the sociology of markets and field theory, we analyse and theorize about empirical data from secondary sources, official documents and 38 interviews with key actors. Whereas digital technologies have been commonly depicted as a source of disruption for establish…
Unpacking Professional Trust - Dimensions of Trust in Swedish Auditors' Client Relations
This paper studies client trust in professionals, theoretically and empirically. The theoretical elaboration, founded on general sociological theories of trust, aims to distinguish different dimensions of trust - personal, impersonal, and process trust - and to explicate the stabilizing identities and control mechanisms on which they are based: persons, roles, programs and values. The empirical case study concerns what aspects of trust, and what …
Patrolling the corporation—the auditors’ duty to report crime in Sweden
Distribution of adipose tissue and risk of cardiovascular disease and death
A longitudinal population study of 1462 women aged 38-60 was carried out in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1968-9. In univariate analysis the ratio of waist to hip circumference showed a significant positive association with the 12 year incidence of myocardial infarction, angina pectoris, stroke, and death. The association with incidence of myocardial infarction remained in multivariate analysis and was independent of age, body mass index, smoking habit,…
Abdominal adipose tissue distribution, obesity, and risk of cardiovascular disease and death
In a prospective study of risk factors for ischaemic heart disease 792 54 year old men selected by year of birth (1913) and residence in Gothenburg agreed to attend for questioning and a battery of anthropometric and other measurements in 1967. Thirteen years later these baseline findings were reviewed in relation to the numbers of men who had subsequently suffered a stroke, ischaemic heart disease, or death from all causes. Neither quintiles nor…
Prospective Study of Social Influences on Mortality
Social network and activities in relation to mortality from cardiovascular diseases, cancer and other causes
OBJECTIVE--The aim was to examine the relationship between social network and activities and causes of death. DESIGN--The study was a prospective cohort study of middle aged men examined in 1973 and followed for 12 years. SETTING--Gothenburg, Sweden. SUBJECTS--The subjects were 769 60 year old and 220 50 year old men who had participated in a health examination. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS--Main outcome measures were mortality from cardiovascul…
Neo-liberalism and polycontextuality
This article gives an account of the interpretative conflicts and re-regulative initiatives that followed the Swedish banking crisis in the 1990s. The analysis is based on systems theory and theories of governance conceptualizing steering and self-regulation. It shows the polycontextuality of the conflicts over the crisis, and how the re-regulation articulated central aspects of neo-liberal government, as conceptualized in terms of governance. Th…
Patrolling the corporation—the auditors’ duty to report crime in Sweden
Revisorn och den institutionaliserade misstron
The auditor and the insitutionalization of distrust: the professionalization of external auditing in SwedenThis paper addresses professionalization with a focus on trust, rather than on issues of power and competition. It contains a conceptual analysis of trust/confidence, as well as a case study of the professionalization of external auditing in Sweden. The conceptual analysis discusses the “time-binding” aspect of trust/confidence, and the sign…
Unpacking Professional Trust - Dimensions of Trust in Swedish Auditors' Client Relations
This paper studies client trust in professionals, theoretically and empirically. The theoretical elaboration, founded on general sociological theories of trust, aims to distinguish different dimensions of trust - personal, impersonal, and process trust - and to explicate the stabilizing identities and control mechanisms on which they are based: persons, roles, programs and values. The empirical case study concerns what aspects of trust, and what …
Bringing Environmentalism Home
This article discusses children as contributors to sustainable ecological development. The aim of the article is to develop a framework for researching two questions: What are the prerequisites for children to become responsible environmentalists? What actual and potential influence do children have on their family's consumption? Three theoretical perspectives are elaborated in relation to relevant empirical research: children as cosmopolitan act…
Becoming a Winner But Staying the Same
This article discusses how large lottery winnings are experienced and used by the winners. The study draws on a survey of 420 Swedish winners, which is analyzed against the background of previous research from the USA and Europe. The analyses show that winners are cautious about realizing any dreams of becoming someone else somewhere else. This result contradicts theories suggesting that identities are being liquefied by the commercially driven c…
Conclusions
In this book we set out to investigate the ongoing transformations of the Swedish welfare state against the background of its twentieth-century development. We started by depicting an important event taking place in the early 1990s, when the centre-right government declared that they would implement a 'system shift'. The neoliberal ideology inspiring this shift had already influenced the Social Democratic government's mid-1980s economic policy, i…
Transformations of the Swedish Welfare State
In the early 1990s the Swedish welfare system was struck by capital flight and a national financial crisis creating severe problems for the Swedish economy. This crisis became the final blow to Swedish welfare policies as we once knew them, that is, based on Keynesian economic policies and a politically coordinated market economy with active labour market measures aimed at full employment, industrial restruc-turing and maximal economic growth; a …
The Cosmopolitanization of Childhood
This article discusses one particular aspect of the cosmopolitanization of childhood by analyzing children’s ‘eco-edutainment’ books, giving advice on how to save the world from environmental catastrophe. Its purpose is to analyze how such books articulate and spread ‘eco-knowledge’, encouraging children to become environmentally aware world citizens. The analysis shows that these books urge children and pre-teens not only to become self-discipli…
Accounting for Personal Overindebtedness
This paper aims to describe and understand the accounts given in applications for debt relief/adjustment in relation to the 'question situation' that overindebted person stand before in their encounters with Swedish authorities. The analysis is based on the sociology of accounts and is made against the background of previous research on overindebtedness in the Nordic countries. The paper shows that the accounts given by debtors include examples o…
Discretion in the “Backyard of Law”
This article explores discretion in welfare professional work. The aim is to analyse what room for discretionary decision-making that exist in case handling of debt relief at the Swedish Enforcement Authority (SEA). The analysis is guided by a conceptual distinction between structural and epistemic aspects of discretion, as well as between substantive and procedural aspects. The data comprises official and internal SEA documents, interviews with …
Transnational Trade Union Action in Europe
Research on European trade unionism has discussed whether the tendency towards ‘union diplomacy’ has meant that that unions are largely disinterested in mobilizing members and pursue contentious action at the European level. Other studies have identified activities that suggest an Europeanization of political mobilization, in demonstrations and strikes and in cooperation with NGOs and social movements. The present paper analyzes attitudes towards…
Duties to Distrust
This article examines a general trend towards the ‘decentring’ of the policing of economic and white-collar crime in Sweden in recent decades. As a theoretical point of departure, we discuss how the ‘decentred policing’ concept can link the theoretical approaches of regulation and policing studies. We then analyse five empirical cases in which private actors have been given duties and incentives to report others’ crimes, in order to give a detail…
What's the point of European Sectoral Social Dialogue? Effectiveness and polycontexturality in the hospital and metal sectors
Drawing on pragmatism and systems theory, this article analyses how participants in the European Sectoral Social Dialogue in the metal and hospital committees understand its effectiveness. We find that the participants have a broad understanding of effectiveness compared with the European Commission and existing research. Participants do not dismiss the importance of direct effects on working conditions in member states but downplay it in compari…
Governing Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in a Changing Climate
Background Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global crisis with long-term and unpredictable health, social and economic impacts, with which climate change is likely to interact. Understanding how to govern AMR amidst evolving climatic changes is critical. Scenario planning offers a suitable approach. By envisioning alternative futures, stakeholders more effectively can identify consequences, anticipate problems, and better determine how…
Social stratification of physical activity. An exploration into how logics of practice affect participation in movement culture
Background Researchers have long studied the social stratification of physical activity patterns in terms of ‘determinants’ of physically active lifestyles. In this article, we set out to explore how Bourdieu’s concept logic of practice can be used as an intermediating analytical tool to promote understanding rather than the calculation of human participation in movement culture.Theoretical framework The logic of the practice is similar to the lo…
‘You see similarities more than differences after a while’. Communities of Practice in European industrial relations. The case of the hospital European Sectoral Social Dialogue
This article looks at the hospital European Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee (SSDC) through a Community of Practice (CoP) theoretical lens. Based on a 2‐year project, qualitative in‐depth interviews at the European level and in five Member states, and participant observation of the hospital SSDC, we propose a shift from traditional institutional and resource‐based accounts and provide a learning and knowledge‐focused understanding of this speci…
Social status qualifiers
This study contributes to our understanding of what lifestyle factors affect the social status of women and men in contemporary postmaterialist societies. We examine the dimensions and determinants of social status qualifiers among Swedish people using a survey of 1,650 Swedish respondents who ranked the importance of 14 qualifiers for the social status of a woman and a man. The analysis showed surprisingly strong similarities in what factors aff…
Digital disruption diversified-FinTechs and the emergence of a coopetitive market ecosystem
This article analyses the development of FinTech companies in relation to traditional banks in four countries: Denmark, Estonia, the Netherlands and Sweden. Based on approaches drawn from the sociology of markets and field theory, we analyse and theorize about empirical data from secondary sources, official documents and 38 interviews with key actors. Whereas digital technologies have been commonly depicted as a source of disruption for establish…
Programmes, Actor–Networks, and Discretion
This study explores the Swedish Enforcement Authority’s decision-making process to unpack the bureaucratic production chain and the roles of tools and artefacts. The aim is to explore and describe the organization of decisions, with a focus on the ‘programming’ of the decision-making process, the actors, and their discretion in relation to tools and programmes. This process allows the analysis to move beyond conventional approaches that criticize…
A comparative analysis of farmers' attitudes toward animal welfare in Ukraine and Azerbaijan
The aim of this study was to understand farmers' views on animal welfare in Ukraine and Azerbaijan, and to identify key issues in general and in each country. A questionnaire with 14 questions was used to survey 58 farmers from Ukraine and 71 farmers from Azerbaijan. Data were collected regarding farm production characteristics, farmers' perception of animal welfare, and what farmers identified as the most important animal welfare issues. A mixed…
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Business (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Medicine (5 works)