Morris Fred
Biographic Data
| ID | 111633 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Morris Fred |
| GIVEN NAMES | Morris |
| FAMILY NAME | Fred |
| SIGNATURE | FRED M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2108-0973 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Making apps, owning data
This study tells the story of two public transport authorities (PTA) in Sweden who developed their own apps. Although this might seem trivial and far-detached from the critical issues discussed in organization studies, this story raises questions of great relevance for this field, namely how digital sovereignty is organized. Digital sovereignty refers to governments trying to take or regain power and control over “the digital,” which a small grou…
Organising integrated urban mobility
Multimodal integration is currently being discussed as a way to challenge the dominance of automobility by providing attractive alternatives to private car ownership. Combining critical organisation studies with a mobilities perspective, this article maps actions taken towards integrated urban mobility in two Swedish cities over the course of a year and explores how these actions shape the roles and identities of the actors involved. The results …
Translating reform-the rise and fall of social investment practices in Swedish local government
This article explores the rise and fall of social investment (SI) practices in Swedish local government to examine how public-sector reforms are enacted-and undone-in practice. While SI initially promised more preventive, evidence-based and cost-efficient welfare, its local implementation through SI Funds (SIFs) reveals a more complex story. Based on a decade of ethnographically informed research, the study traces how SI was popularized in the ea…
Productive resistance in public sector innovation – introducing social impact bonds in Swedish local government
This article contributes to debates on public sector innovation by empirically analysing and conceptually unpacking organizational resistance. It is based on research following the attempts to launch a particular public sector innovation, Social Impact Bonds (SIB), in Swedish local government. Drawing on the literature on productive resistance, the analysis shows how a range of different actors, from consultants and investors to local civil serva…
Promoting public sector innovation
A strong and prevailing innovation imperative is sweeping across the public sector and despite a growing literature on public sector innovation (PSI), the actors driving these processes tend to end up in the background of analysis. Based in an analytical framework of narrative theory and organization studies, and the efforts to introduce Social Impact Bonds (SIB) in Sweden as empirical case, the aim of this article is to unpack and analyze the ne…
Local government projectification in practice – a multiple institutional logic perspective
During the last couple of decades, we have witnessed a proliferation of the project as an organizational solution in sectors as diverse as IT, housing, social services, education and culture. Despite a growing interest in the phenomenon, we know surprisingly little of how processes of public sector projectification unfold in practice, especially at local government level. This article uses an institutional logic perspective to illustrate and argu…
Re-compartmentalizing local policies? The translation and mediation of European structural funds in Sweden
The local governments of EU member countries are attracted to the possibility of receiving EU funding. However, as the governance structures of EU funds are complex and dynamic, municipalities are increasingly drawing on the knowledge and resources of ‘EU experts’ who mediate and provide project support. This article contributes to our understanding of how EU cohesion policy is translated through EU projects, with a specific focus on the processe…
Entering Cultural Communities
Training cultural brokers
1986). Training cultural brokers: Practicing theory in anthroplogy. Ethnos: Vol. 51, No. 3-4, pp. 246-258
Local government projectification in practice – a multiple institutional logic perspective
During the last couple of decades, we have witnessed a proliferation of the project as an organizational solution in sectors as diverse as IT, housing, social services, education and culture. Despite a growing interest in the phenomenon, we know surprisingly little of how processes of public sector projectification unfold in practice, especially at local government level. This article uses an institutional logic perspective to illustrate and argu…
Re-compartmentalizing local policies? The translation and mediation of European structural funds in Sweden
The local governments of EU member countries are attracted to the possibility of receiving EU funding. However, as the governance structures of EU funds are complex and dynamic, municipalities are increasingly drawing on the knowledge and resources of ‘EU experts’ who mediate and provide project support. This article contributes to our understanding of how EU cohesion policy is translated through EU projects, with a specific focus on the processe…
Translating reform-the rise and fall of social investment practices in Swedish local government
This article explores the rise and fall of social investment (SI) practices in Swedish local government to examine how public-sector reforms are enacted-and undone-in practice. While SI initially promised more preventive, evidence-based and cost-efficient welfare, its local implementation through SI Funds (SIFs) reveals a more complex story. Based on a decade of ethnographically informed research, the study traces how SI was popularized in the ea…
Training cultural brokers
1986). Training cultural brokers: Practicing theory in anthroplogy. Ethnos: Vol. 51, No. 3-4, pp. 246-258
Training cultural brokers
1986). Training cultural brokers: Practicing theory in anthroplogy. Ethnos: Vol. 51, No. 3-4, pp. 246-258
Entering Cultural Communities
Re-compartmentalizing local policies? The translation and mediation of European structural funds in Sweden
The local governments of EU member countries are attracted to the possibility of receiving EU funding. However, as the governance structures of EU funds are complex and dynamic, municipalities are increasingly drawing on the knowledge and resources of ‘EU experts’ who mediate and provide project support. This article contributes to our understanding of how EU cohesion policy is translated through EU projects, with a specific focus on the processe…
Local government projectification in practice – a multiple institutional logic perspective
During the last couple of decades, we have witnessed a proliferation of the project as an organizational solution in sectors as diverse as IT, housing, social services, education and culture. Despite a growing interest in the phenomenon, we know surprisingly little of how processes of public sector projectification unfold in practice, especially at local government level. This article uses an institutional logic perspective to illustrate and argu…
Productive resistance in public sector innovation – introducing social impact bonds in Swedish local government
This article contributes to debates on public sector innovation by empirically analysing and conceptually unpacking organizational resistance. It is based on research following the attempts to launch a particular public sector innovation, Social Impact Bonds (SIB), in Swedish local government. Drawing on the literature on productive resistance, the analysis shows how a range of different actors, from consultants and investors to local civil serva…
Promoting public sector innovation
A strong and prevailing innovation imperative is sweeping across the public sector and despite a growing literature on public sector innovation (PSI), the actors driving these processes tend to end up in the background of analysis. Based in an analytical framework of narrative theory and organization studies, and the efforts to introduce Social Impact Bonds (SIB) in Sweden as empirical case, the aim of this article is to unpack and analyze the ne…
Making apps, owning data
This study tells the story of two public transport authorities (PTA) in Sweden who developed their own apps. Although this might seem trivial and far-detached from the critical issues discussed in organization studies, this story raises questions of great relevance for this field, namely how digital sovereignty is organized. Digital sovereignty refers to governments trying to take or regain power and control over “the digital,” which a small grou…
Organising integrated urban mobility
Multimodal integration is currently being discussed as a way to challenge the dominance of automobility by providing attractive alternatives to private car ownership. Combining critical organisation studies with a mobilities perspective, this article maps actions taken towards integrated urban mobility in two Swedish cities over the course of a year and explores how these actions shape the roles and identities of the actors involved. The results …
Translating reform-the rise and fall of social investment practices in Swedish local government
This article explores the rise and fall of social investment (SI) practices in Swedish local government to examine how public-sector reforms are enacted-and undone-in practice. While SI initially promised more preventive, evidence-based and cost-efficient welfare, its local implementation through SI Funds (SIFs) reveals a more complex story. Based on a decade of ethnographically informed research, the study traces how SI was popularized in the ea…
Political science (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Community Development and Social Impact (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Public sector (3 works)