M M Bergman
Biographic Data
| ID | 28943 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M M Bergman |
| GIVEN NAMES | M M |
| FAMILY NAME | Bergman |
| SIGNATURE | BERGMAN M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Basel |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4059-5833 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 242 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Governing urban sustainability transitions through participatory urbanism in post-industrial South Bend, Indiana
Urban sustainability transitions require cities to combine political leadership and commitment, long-term planning, experimentation, stakeholder engagement, and adaptive governance. Research in transition management (TM) has largely focused on early-stage niche experimentation or long-term transition, offering limited insight into how municipalities govern transitions once emerging practices are embedded within institutional frameworks. This arti…
Transformative innovation beyond economics and technology. Insights from practice, policy, and research in Switzerland
Innovation for sustainability transformation in Switzerland is constrained by the predominant focus on market-driven technological innovation, while social innovation receives insufficient support
Acceptability and perceived feasibility of the KaziKidz health promotion intervention among educators and caregivers in schools from South Africa
ISRCTN15648510, registered on 17/04/2020
Innovation for sustainability transformation
The 2024 saguf annual conference will explore fields of tension that must be addressed to build up enabling framework conditions for innovation for sustainability transformation
Auf dem Weg zu einer neuen Strategie
Die saguf macht Nachhaltigkeitstransformation zu ihrem zentralen Thema, engagiert sich für transformatives Forschen und Lernen in der Wissenschaft und intensiviert den Dialog mit der jungen Generation
Innovations for the sustainability transformation
How can we understand, analyze and design innovations for the sustainability transformation? The newly formed saguf working group INSIST explores the links between sustainability, innovation and transformation in theoretical, empirical and practical respects. The focus is to move away from a technicist framework of ecological modernization to a more reflexive and inclusive concept of transformative innovation
Ein Blick zurück nach vorn
Knapp 100 Teilnehmende trafen sich zum 50-jährigen Jubiläum der saguf. Die Vorträge und Diskussionen betonten den reichhaltigen Erfahrungsschatz der saguf in der Umweltund Nachhaltigkeitsforschung und gaben vielfältige Impulse für zukünftige Entwicklungen
Jahre saguf
Die saguf nimmt ihr 50-jähriges Bestehen zum Anlass, den Blick zurück nach vorne zu richten und nach Herausforderungen und Perspektiven für ihre Rolle in der Nachhaltigkeitstransformation zu fragen
What Do We See When Looking at China’s Engagements in Africa? An Analysis of Mainstream Academic Perspectives
Since China initiated the Go Out (走出去战略) policy in 1999, its increasing presence and influence in Africa have led to controversial debates among scholars. This article systematizes the different perspectives on the relationship between Africa and China in the contemporary academic literature, and how these debates differ from representations of Africa’s relations with Western actors. Based on Content Configuration Analysis, the results indicate t…
Wir müssen eine nachhaltige Gesellschaft aufbauen ‐ wobei die Wissenschaft gefordert ist“
Inwiefern wirken sich die Folgen der Covid-19-Pandemie auf die nachhaltige Entwicklung aus? Welchen Beitrag kann die saguf zu den SDGs leisten? Diese und andere Fragen diskutiert Manuela Di Giulio mit Manfred Max Bergman und Michael Stauffacher ‐ dem neuen und dem scheidenden Präsidenten der saguf
Technological change and sociocultural models in China
China’s mobility turn has created the world’s largest public rail system, contributing extensively to citizens’ economic, social, and spatial mobility. Concurrently, this technological transformation has introduced many opportunities for individuation, which could potentially challenge the social, collectivistic, and Confucian foundations of China’s sociocultural and political ideology. While the notion that ‘mobility produces culture’ is readily…
Developing the business-society nexus through corporate responsibility expectations in India
Purpose The Government of India dramatically altered the dynamic between business and society when it introduced the Companies Act 2013, which mandated firms to expend at least 2 per cent of average net profits on corporate responsibility (CR) programmes. This reconfiguration of social value creation may serve as a template for a closer and participatory relationship between the private sector and government in emerging economies and beyond. This…
Zwischen Wunsch und Realität
Dieser Artikel hat zum Ziel, den Einfluss von signifikanten Anderen auf Wunschberufe und tatsächlich ausgeübte Berufe von jungen Frauen zu untersuchen. Junge Frauen zwischen Jahrgang 1983 und 1989 wurden bezüglich ihrer Wunschberufe und ihren tatsächlich ausgeübten Berufen interviewt. Mittels qualitativer Inhaltsanalyse wurden vier Gruppen von Akteuren identifiziert, die unterschiedliche Einflüsse auf die jungen Frauen ausübten. Die Resultate zei…
Effects of self-esteem and stress on self-assessed health
The Century of Migration and the Contribution of Mixed Methods Research
Swiss youths, migration and integrative sport
This paper critically interrogates widespread assumptions pertaining to the integrative function of sporting involvement in Switzerland. It focuses specifically on young people living in a culturally diverse area and how they make use of discursive variations of the integrative sport text. Interview material draws attention to four main sub-texts that frame sport as: a pedagogical tool, a site of interpersonal exchange, a method of catharsis, and…
The Interplay between Educational Achievement, Occupational Success, and Well-Being
Bildung – Arbeit – Erwachsenwerden
Geschlechterungleichheiten im intergenerationalen Bildungstransfer in der Schweiz
Die öffentliche Diskussion um geschlechtsspezifische Ungleichheiten hat sich - parallel zur Reduktion struktureller Benachteiligungen von Frauen - in den letzten Jahren stark gewandelt. Während traditionell die geringere Bildungs- und Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen in den Blick genommen wurde, ist nun der geringere Bildungserfolg von Jungen - im Hinblick auf Bildungsabschlüsse, Schulnoten oder Leistungstests - zum viel beachteten Thema geworden. Z…
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Mixed Methods Research and Design
Mixed methods research and design (MMRD) deservedly continues its ascent in the social and related sciences. Its popularity has generated a critical mass of theoretical and empirical contributions, which has infiltrated and influenced many important research fields, particularly in education, health, and evaluation. Despite its wide recognition, also from government agencies and various national and private funding bodies, and despite its success…
The Politics, Fashions, and Conventions of Research Methods
The results of an empirical study of any set of phenomena, whether investigating structures, processes, or combinations thereof, are influenced by the theoretical framework as well as the research methods employed. This text examines the influence of research methods on how phenomena under investigation are conceptualized, defined, measured, and interpreted. It will be argued that qualitative, quantitative, and, by extension, mixed methods resear…
On Concepts and Paradigms in Mixed Methods Research
Development and Consequences of Referendum Campaigns in Switzerland, 1981‐1999
Since the early 1990s, new forms of referendum campaigns have emerged in the Swiss political arena. In this paper, we examine how referendum campaigns have transformed in Switzerland, focusing on a number of features: their intensity, duration and inclusiveness (i.e., the variety of actors involved). These features are assumed to change in the long run in response to societal changes and in the short run as a function of variations in elite suppo…
Advances in Mixed Methods Research
The importance of specificity in occupation‐based social classifications
Purpose This paper aims to present reasons why social classifications which use occupations should seek to adopt “specific” approaches which are tailored to the country, time period and gender of the subjects under study. Design/methodology/approach The relative motivations for adopting a specific approach to social classifications are discussed and theoretical perspectives on specificity and empirical evidence on the contribution of specific app…
Motility
Social and territorial structures form intricate relations that transcend a social stratification or spatial focus. Territorial features and geographic displacements are structuring principles for society, as societal features and social change effect the structure and use of territory. Based on our examination of the conceptual and theoretical links between spatial and social mobility, we propose a concept that represents a new form of inequalit…
On Concepts and Paradigms in Mixed Methods Research
The Interplay between Educational Achievement, Occupational Success, and Well-Being
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Mixed Methods Research and Design
Mixed methods research and design (MMRD) deservedly continues its ascent in the social and related sciences. Its popularity has generated a critical mass of theoretical and empirical contributions, which has infiltrated and influenced many important research fields, particularly in education, health, and evaluation. Despite its wide recognition, also from government agencies and various national and private funding bodies, and despite its success…
A Theoretical Note on the Differences Between Attitudes, Opinions, and Values
This theoretical note examines the concepts attitude, opinion, and value. It is argued that such acquired behavioral pre‐dispositions are re‐lated but have different conceptual foci and tend to address different phenomena. Although it is important to recognize their interconnected‐ness, their indiscriminate use is likely to lead to messy theoretical ar‐guments and misleading interpretations of empirical findings. This ar‐ticle discusses key‐aspec…
The importance of specificity in occupation‐based social classifications
Purpose This paper aims to present reasons why social classifications which use occupations should seek to adopt “specific” approaches which are tailored to the country, time period and gender of the subjects under study. Design/methodology/approach The relative motivations for adopting a specific approach to social classifications are discussed and theoretical perspectives on specificity and empirical evidence on the contribution of specific app…
The Century of Migration and the Contribution of Mixed Methods Research
Bildung – Arbeit – Erwachsenwerden
The Politics, Fashions, and Conventions of Research Methods
The results of an empirical study of any set of phenomena, whether investigating structures, processes, or combinations thereof, are influenced by the theoretical framework as well as the research methods employed. This text examines the influence of research methods on how phenomena under investigation are conceptualized, defined, measured, and interpreted. It will be argued that qualitative, quantitative, and, by extension, mixed methods resear…
Development and Consequences of Referendum Campaigns in Switzerland, 1981‐1999
Since the early 1990s, new forms of referendum campaigns have emerged in the Swiss political arena. In this paper, we examine how referendum campaigns have transformed in Switzerland, focusing on a number of features: their intensity, duration and inclusiveness (i.e., the variety of actors involved). These features are assumed to change in the long run in response to societal changes and in the short run as a function of variations in elite suppo…
Pauvreté, exclusion et territoires dans les sociétés modernes
Poverty, exclusion and territories, The limits of international approaches International experts have long used income indicators or financial resources as a basis for defining social poverty. The introduction of national, regional, or urban variables is reducing the relevance of models aggregated around economic values. Besides the increasing integration of cultural factors, scientific representations of poverty now converge towards contextualiz…
A Theoretical Note on the Differences Between Attitudes, Opinions, and Values
This theoretical note examines the concepts attitude, opinion, and value. It is argued that such acquired behavioral pre‐dispositions are re‐lated but have different conceptual foci and tend to address different phenomena. Although it is important to recognize their interconnected‐ness, their indiscriminate use is likely to lead to messy theoretical ar‐guments and misleading interpretations of empirical findings. This ar‐ticle discusses key‐aspec…
Pauvreté, exclusion et territoires dans les sociétés modernes
Poverty, exclusion and territories, The limits of international approaches International experts have long used income indicators or financial resources as a basis for defining social poverty. The introduction of national, regional, or urban variables is reducing the relevance of models aggregated around economic values. Besides the increasing integration of cultural factors, scientific representations of poverty now converge towards contextualiz…
Motility
Social and territorial structures form intricate relations that transcend a social stratification or spatial focus. Territorial features and geographic displacements are structuring principles for society, as societal features and social change effect the structure and use of territory. Based on our examination of the conceptual and theoretical links between spatial and social mobility, we propose a concept that represents a new form of inequalit…
Media Review
Multimethod Research and Mixed Methods Research
Advances in Mixed Methods Research
The importance of specificity in occupation‐based social classifications
Purpose This paper aims to present reasons why social classifications which use occupations should seek to adopt “specific” approaches which are tailored to the country, time period and gender of the subjects under study. Design/methodology/approach The relative motivations for adopting a specific approach to social classifications are discussed and theoretical perspectives on specificity and empirical evidence on the contribution of specific app…
Development and Consequences of Referendum Campaigns in Switzerland, 1981‐1999
Since the early 1990s, new forms of referendum campaigns have emerged in the Swiss political arena. In this paper, we examine how referendum campaigns have transformed in Switzerland, focusing on a number of features: their intensity, duration and inclusiveness (i.e., the variety of actors involved). These features are assumed to change in the long run in response to societal changes and in the short run as a function of variations in elite suppo…
On Concepts and Paradigms in Mixed Methods Research
Geschlechterungleichheiten im intergenerationalen Bildungstransfer in der Schweiz
Die öffentliche Diskussion um geschlechtsspezifische Ungleichheiten hat sich - parallel zur Reduktion struktureller Benachteiligungen von Frauen - in den letzten Jahren stark gewandelt. Während traditionell die geringere Bildungs- und Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen in den Blick genommen wurde, ist nun der geringere Bildungserfolg von Jungen - im Hinblick auf Bildungsabschlüsse, Schulnoten oder Leistungstests - zum viel beachteten Thema geworden. Z…
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Mixed Methods Research and Design
Mixed methods research and design (MMRD) deservedly continues its ascent in the social and related sciences. Its popularity has generated a critical mass of theoretical and empirical contributions, which has infiltrated and influenced many important research fields, particularly in education, health, and evaluation. Despite its wide recognition, also from government agencies and various national and private funding bodies, and despite its success…
The Politics, Fashions, and Conventions of Research Methods
The results of an empirical study of any set of phenomena, whether investigating structures, processes, or combinations thereof, are influenced by the theoretical framework as well as the research methods employed. This text examines the influence of research methods on how phenomena under investigation are conceptualized, defined, measured, and interpreted. It will be argued that qualitative, quantitative, and, by extension, mixed methods resear…
Bildung – Arbeit – Erwachsenwerden
Swiss youths, migration and integrative sport
This paper critically interrogates widespread assumptions pertaining to the integrative function of sporting involvement in Switzerland. It focuses specifically on young people living in a culturally diverse area and how they make use of discursive variations of the integrative sport text. Interview material draws attention to four main sub-texts that frame sport as: a pedagogical tool, a site of interpersonal exchange, a method of catharsis, and…
The Interplay between Educational Achievement, Occupational Success, and Well-Being
Zwischen Wunsch und Realität
Dieser Artikel hat zum Ziel, den Einfluss von signifikanten Anderen auf Wunschberufe und tatsächlich ausgeübte Berufe von jungen Frauen zu untersuchen. Junge Frauen zwischen Jahrgang 1983 und 1989 wurden bezüglich ihrer Wunschberufe und ihren tatsächlich ausgeübten Berufen interviewt. Mittels qualitativer Inhaltsanalyse wurden vier Gruppen von Akteuren identifiziert, die unterschiedliche Einflüsse auf die jungen Frauen ausübten. Die Resultate zei…
Effects of self-esteem and stress on self-assessed health
The Century of Migration and the Contribution of Mixed Methods Research
Developing the business-society nexus through corporate responsibility expectations in India
Purpose The Government of India dramatically altered the dynamic between business and society when it introduced the Companies Act 2013, which mandated firms to expend at least 2 per cent of average net profits on corporate responsibility (CR) programmes. This reconfiguration of social value creation may serve as a template for a closer and participatory relationship between the private sector and government in emerging economies and beyond. This…
Wir müssen eine nachhaltige Gesellschaft aufbauen ‐ wobei die Wissenschaft gefordert ist“
Inwiefern wirken sich die Folgen der Covid-19-Pandemie auf die nachhaltige Entwicklung aus? Welchen Beitrag kann die saguf zu den SDGs leisten? Diese und andere Fragen diskutiert Manuela Di Giulio mit Manfred Max Bergman und Michael Stauffacher ‐ dem neuen und dem scheidenden Präsidenten der saguf
Technological change and sociocultural models in China
China’s mobility turn has created the world’s largest public rail system, contributing extensively to citizens’ economic, social, and spatial mobility. Concurrently, this technological transformation has introduced many opportunities for individuation, which could potentially challenge the social, collectivistic, and Confucian foundations of China’s sociocultural and political ideology. While the notion that ‘mobility produces culture’ is readily…
What Do We See When Looking at China’s Engagements in Africa? An Analysis of Mainstream Academic Perspectives
Since China initiated the Go Out (走出去战略) policy in 1999, its increasing presence and influence in Africa have led to controversial debates among scholars. This article systematizes the different perspectives on the relationship between Africa and China in the contemporary academic literature, and how these debates differ from representations of Africa’s relations with Western actors. Based on Content Configuration Analysis, the results indicate t…
Innovations for the sustainability transformation
How can we understand, analyze and design innovations for the sustainability transformation? The newly formed saguf working group INSIST explores the links between sustainability, innovation and transformation in theoretical, empirical and practical respects. The focus is to move away from a technicist framework of ecological modernization to a more reflexive and inclusive concept of transformative innovation
Ein Blick zurück nach vorn
Knapp 100 Teilnehmende trafen sich zum 50-jährigen Jubiläum der saguf. Die Vorträge und Diskussionen betonten den reichhaltigen Erfahrungsschatz der saguf in der Umweltund Nachhaltigkeitsforschung und gaben vielfältige Impulse für zukünftige Entwicklungen
Jahre saguf
Die saguf nimmt ihr 50-jähriges Bestehen zum Anlass, den Blick zurück nach vorne zu richten und nach Herausforderungen und Perspektiven für ihre Rolle in der Nachhaltigkeitstransformation zu fragen
Sociology (18 works) · Political science (16 works) · Social science (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Humanities (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Evaluation and Performance Assessment (5 works) · Management science (5 works)