Brita Hermelin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3861792 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brita Hermelin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brita |
| FAMILY NAME | Hermelin |
| SIGNATURE | HERMELIN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Linköping University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2404-0624 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 29 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2027 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The trajectories of regional governance for spatial planning – a case study from Sweden
How local policy for sustainable development considers transport
Urban areas play a central role in climate mitigation, and transport constitutes one of the most challenging sectors in the transition towards sustainable cities. This paper explores how local urban policy incorporates ambitions for sustainable transport by analysing political steering documents in four Swedish second-tier cities: Uppsala, Linköping, Örebro, and Västerås. The study examines annually ratified ‘Budget and plan’ documents from 2012 …
Smart Specialisation in Swedish Regions as a Governance Tool for Societal Transformation
This article investigates how smart specialisation strategies (S3) in the Swedish regions are evolving to align with the European Green Deal (EGD) and its transformative ambitions for sustainable development. Drawing on a content analysis of 14 S3 strategies from seven regions across two EU programme periods (2014–2020 and 2021–2027), the study explores the integration of EGD focus areas and cross-sectoral transformative goals. The analysis revea…
Place-based development interventions through sparsely populated municipalities in Sweden – governance setting and geographical conditions
The aim of this article is to understand how the agency of municipalities in local development work is conditioned through governance setting and geographical context. The article presents an empirical study about local development work through sparsely populated municipalities in Sweden, within the context of the implementation of a state programme. The conclusions prove, first, how the multi-level governance relations of the state programme imp…
Municipalities
Comparative case study of 3 types of regions in Finland, Norway, and Sweden. • Regional types are small and peripheral, entrepreneurial and regional centres. • Identifies conditions at regional & national level impacting municipalities’ agency. • Local governments are important for bringing EU closer to citizens. • Identifies the need to clarify mandates of municipalities in place-based approaches. Even though place is associated with the local, …
Developing city-regional governance capacity
In recent decades, city-regions have received growing attention as spaces for governance and policymaking. As an expression of the rescaling of the state, city-regional governance structures are often discussed as bottom-up alternatives to top-down institutional reforms. We have observed that, while studies of governance challenges in city-regions have often focused on broad issues like regional development, branding, or innovation, there is limi…
Rescaling public transport planning in Sweden
This paper aims to contribute to a qualitative understanding of rescaling and its impact on planning strategies and governance relations across scales. By investigating the effects of rescaling for the old scale 'left behind' - through the case of public transport planning in Sweden - this paper illustrates how rescaled tasks continue to engage the scale 'left behind' (and is a source of 'tensions'), long after a rescaling process has taken place…
A local governance initiative for climate mitigation
The aim of this paper is to contribute with an understanding of the governance capacity of local public actors to be place leaders for local collaborative initiatives aimed at addressing climate mitigation, and how this agency is embedded within place-specific institutional conditions. The research design is a single case study of a climate mitigation initiative in the city of Uppsala in Sweden. The discussion based on the empirical results highl…
Decentralised cooperation between industries and local governments in a statist skill-formation system
The scholarly debate about cooperation between different stakeholders in Vocational Education and Training has primarily focussed on the national level, and much less on local and regional levels. This article aims to contribute to our understanding of the conditions and mechanisms of decentralised cooperation in VET systems, through a comparative case study of two partnerships between local government and industry at two industrial schools in Sw…
Transport and Mobility Planning for Sustainable Development
This special issue aims to contribute to the research debate on how transport and mobility are intertwined with wider social systems and structures. Given the fundamental impact of transport on liv
Local development policy in a societal crisis
This paper analyses local development policy by investigating how this worked during a crisis situation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic from spring 2020, with major effects on the economy. This empirical study covers local government in Sweden. The results reveal two major findings. First, that decentralized dialogues between local government and industry, being a key facet for local growth policy, were exposed to challenges in striking a balance…
Decentralised development policy
This article investigates how the international wave of decentralisation of development policy, promoted through ideals of place-based policy, becomes practice through development interventions made by municipalities in Sweden. Based on an extensive empirical study across Swedish municipalities, the article contributes with knowledge about how the decentralisation of development policies is formed through a combination of shared and relatively he…
Regional governance in second-tier city-regions in Sweden
This study focuses on the formation and institutional changes of governance for regional development in three second-tier city-regions in Sweden. It explains the spatial relations of such institutional change. It integrates concepts from historical institutionalism in a spatial approach and investigates the path dependency of institutional change. This involves conceiving the mechanism of feedback effects and institutional changes of layering, co…
Mobilising for change in vocational education and training in Sweden – a case study of the ‘Technical College’ scheme
In this article, we analyse a recent industry-driven initiative in Sweden for the organisation and operation of Vocational Education and Training. In the context of a statist and school-based system for VET, this is an initiative which seems to be an example of an anomaly in the present system. The initiative is called the Technical College scheme and is a certification scheme for upper secondary school education in technology. The aim of this ar…
The rise of the hybrid domain. Collaborative governance for social innovation
The rise of the hybrid domain. Collaborative governance for social innovation." Regional Studies, 52(1), pp. 156–157
Work practice among advanced producer service firms – project work in space-time
This article is an explorative investigation of a sample of advanced producer service (APS) companies located in Stockholm (the capital and main urban centre of Sweden). The discussion is centred on aspects of work practice and how this is conditioned by space-time constraints. These space-time constraints refer to coupling, authority and capability constraints which are concepts framed in a time-geography approach. Although time-geography is pri…
The making of the gourmet restaurateur - masculine ideology, identity and performance
In recent decades, there has been growing interest in renowned gourmet restaurants, and increased awareness about how food is prepared, presented and served. A small and select group of chefs have thereby gained prestigious positions and high-profile images as restaurateurs. Most of these restaurateurs are men. The research question this article sets out to study is: How is the identity and ideology of masculinity imbued into the subjectivity and…
Intermediary activities and agendas of regional cleantech networks in Sweden
A vision of cleantech has been implemented on an international scale with financial assistance, new organizations and programmes. Given the wider contexts of political and commercial promotion, this article investigates management and governance of eight cleantech networks operating in different regions in Sweden. The aim of this article is to explore how an integrated approach based on network theories of economic sociology and a regional develo…
Service Economy, Geography of
Asian inward and outward FDI. New challenges in the global economy
The re-entrance of Asia into the international economy is the point of departure for the book titled ‘Asian Inward and Outward FDI’ and edited by Claes Göran Alvstam, Harald Dolles and Patrik Ström. The background of this book is the 28th Euro-Asia Management Studies Association (EAMSA) conference held in 2011 at the Centre for International Business Studies of the University of Gothenburg’s (Sweden) School of Business, Economics and Law. The mai…
Transnational Spaces ‘From Above’ – The Role of Institutions in Promoting Highly Skilled Labour Migration from I ndia to S weden
The global network economy involves intensive interactions and flows between places. In this paper, we define a theoretical framework of labour migration in the global economy in which we propose the importance of transnational spaces ‘from above’ and how formal organisations develop networks for migration processes. This theoretical framework is employed on an empirical study that investigates the increasing flows of highly‐skilled labour migrat…
New Geographies of Work
This paper describes and analyses the geography of work, i.e., the spatial patterns in where paid work is done. The geography of work may diverge from the geography of employment when paid work is done at the premises of client organizations, during commuting, on business trips, on external meetings, at home or at other places. The particular patterns in the geography of work depend on a number of factors, possibilities and constraints. The paper…
Producer service firms in globalising cities
Spaces of flows have become basic processes and elements in the development of space economies and cities. The objective in this study is to understand spaces of flows of advanced producer services. This article focuses on advertising firms in the geographical context of Sweden and Stockholm. The analysis considers advertising activities in the context of globalisation and post-modern economies. The empirical data for this article are derived fro…
Creative industries, spatiality and flexibility
At the beginning of the 1990s, film production in Sweden was heavily centralised in Stockholm. Today, film production in Sweden has decentralised to include three regional film production centres located far from the capital region. The article aims to understand this decentralised location pattern, focusing on the aspects of flexible film work and film workers. The implications of the regionalisation of film production in Sweden for film workers…
The urbanization and suburbanization of the service economy
This article highlights cities and urban regions as the focal point of the growth and geography of post‐industrial and postmodern service activities. Based on an empirical study of Sweden's capital city region, it illustrates the presence of multiple patterns as far as the structure and geography of urban economic development are concerned. Using statistical data for all employees in Stockholm and its surrounding region in 1993 and 2002, the serv…
The urbanization and suburbanization of the service economy
This article highlights cities and urban regions as the focal point of the growth and geography of post‐industrial and postmodern service activities. Based on an empirical study of Sweden's capital city region, it illustrates the presence of multiple patterns as far as the structure and geography of urban economic development are concerned. Using statistical data for all employees in Stockholm and its surrounding region in 1993 and 2002, the serv…
Regional governance in second-tier city-regions in Sweden
This study focuses on the formation and institutional changes of governance for regional development in three second-tier city-regions in Sweden. It explains the spatial relations of such institutional change. It integrates concepts from historical institutionalism in a spatial approach and investigates the path dependency of institutional change. This involves conceiving the mechanism of feedback effects and institutional changes of layering, co…
Transnational Spaces ‘From Above’ – The Role of Institutions in Promoting Highly Skilled Labour Migration from I ndia to S weden
The global network economy involves intensive interactions and flows between places. In this paper, we define a theoretical framework of labour migration in the global economy in which we propose the importance of transnational spaces ‘from above’ and how formal organisations develop networks for migration processes. This theoretical framework is employed on an empirical study that investigates the increasing flows of highly‐skilled labour migrat…
Work practice among advanced producer service firms – project work in space-time
This article is an explorative investigation of a sample of advanced producer service (APS) companies located in Stockholm (the capital and main urban centre of Sweden). The discussion is centred on aspects of work practice and how this is conditioned by space-time constraints. These space-time constraints refer to coupling, authority and capability constraints which are concepts framed in a time-geography approach. Although time-geography is pri…
The organizational and territorial changes of services in a globalized world
Research on the service industries has changed radically over the past few decades. Not only has work proliferated, but service research has further developed towards a deeper and more nuanced understanding of particular categories of services activities. However, as most research has focused on large and often densely populated economies, and on large multinational corporations, there is a risk that processes and phenomena relevant to more perip…
A local governance initiative for climate mitigation
The aim of this paper is to contribute with an understanding of the governance capacity of local public actors to be place leaders for local collaborative initiatives aimed at addressing climate mitigation, and how this agency is embedded within place-specific institutional conditions. The research design is a single case study of a climate mitigation initiative in the city of Uppsala in Sweden. The discussion based on the empirical results highl…
Decentralised development policy
This article investigates how the international wave of decentralisation of development policy, promoted through ideals of place-based policy, becomes practice through development interventions made by municipalities in Sweden. Based on an extensive empirical study across Swedish municipalities, the article contributes with knowledge about how the decentralisation of development policies is formed through a combination of shared and relatively he…
The making of the gourmet restaurateur - masculine ideology, identity and performance
In recent decades, there has been growing interest in renowned gourmet restaurants, and increased awareness about how food is prepared, presented and served. A small and select group of chefs have thereby gained prestigious positions and high-profile images as restaurateurs. Most of these restaurateurs are men. The research question this article sets out to study is: How is the identity and ideology of masculinity imbued into the subjectivity and…
Recruitment procedures in the construction of labour market relations the ethnic divide in sweden
In seeking to better understand the processes involved in the structuring of regional labour markets, an interview study has been conducted which focuses on recruitment procedures in private firms and public sector organizations in the Stockholm region, Sweden. The analysis discusses some of the effects of recruitment procedures used by the investigated firms and organizations, especially in terms of how new employees are selected and how these p…
Location of Professional Business Services
The location pattern of advanced professional business services is a matter of interest among scholars in economic geography and neighbouring disciplines. This article considers location factors in the context of a conceptual discussion as well as a Swedish case- study. The conclusions suggest that there are reasons to reevaluate the relative importance of dif- ferent location factors. Although the factor of proximity to clients (the market) is i…
Location of Professional Business Services
The location pattern of advanced professional business services is a matter of interest among scholars in economic geography and neighbouring disciplines. This article considers location factors in the context of a conceptual discussion as well as a Swedish case- study. The conclusions suggest that there are reasons to reevaluate the relative importance of dif- ferent location factors. Although the factor of proximity to clients (the market) is i…
Naming New York
Recruitment procedures in the construction of labour market relations the ethnic divide in sweden
In seeking to better understand the processes involved in the structuring of regional labour markets, an interview study has been conducted which focuses on recruitment procedures in private firms and public sector organizations in the Stockholm region, Sweden. The analysis discusses some of the effects of recruitment procedures used by the investigated firms and organizations, especially in terms of how new employees are selected and how these p…
Creative industries, spatiality and flexibility
At the beginning of the 1990s, film production in Sweden was heavily centralised in Stockholm. Today, film production in Sweden has decentralised to include three regional film production centres located far from the capital region. The article aims to understand this decentralised location pattern, focusing on the aspects of flexible film work and film workers. The implications of the regionalisation of film production in Sweden for film workers…
The urbanization and suburbanization of the service economy
This article highlights cities and urban regions as the focal point of the growth and geography of post‐industrial and postmodern service activities. Based on an empirical study of Sweden's capital city region, it illustrates the presence of multiple patterns as far as the structure and geography of urban economic development are concerned. Using statistical data for all employees in Stockholm and its surrounding region in 1993 and 2002, the serv…
The organizational and territorial changes of services in a globalized world
Research on the service industries has changed radically over the past few decades. Not only has work proliferated, but service research has further developed towards a deeper and more nuanced understanding of particular categories of services activities. However, as most research has focused on large and often densely populated economies, and on large multinational corporations, there is a risk that processes and phenomena relevant to more perip…
Producer service firms in globalising cities
Spaces of flows have become basic processes and elements in the development of space economies and cities. The objective in this study is to understand spaces of flows of advanced producer services. This article focuses on advertising firms in the geographical context of Sweden and Stockholm. The analysis considers advertising activities in the context of globalisation and post-modern economies. The empirical data for this article are derived fro…
New Geographies of Work
This paper describes and analyses the geography of work, i.e., the spatial patterns in where paid work is done. The geography of work may diverge from the geography of employment when paid work is done at the premises of client organizations, during commuting, on business trips, on external meetings, at home or at other places. The particular patterns in the geography of work depend on a number of factors, possibilities and constraints. The paper…
Transnational Spaces ‘From Above’ – The Role of Institutions in Promoting Highly Skilled Labour Migration from I ndia to S weden
The global network economy involves intensive interactions and flows between places. In this paper, we define a theoretical framework of labour migration in the global economy in which we propose the importance of transnational spaces ‘from above’ and how formal organisations develop networks for migration processes. This theoretical framework is employed on an empirical study that investigates the increasing flows of highly‐skilled labour migrat…
Service Economy, Geography of
Asian inward and outward FDI. New challenges in the global economy
The re-entrance of Asia into the international economy is the point of departure for the book titled ‘Asian Inward and Outward FDI’ and edited by Claes Göran Alvstam, Harald Dolles and Patrik Ström. The background of this book is the 28th Euro-Asia Management Studies Association (EAMSA) conference held in 2011 at the Centre for International Business Studies of the University of Gothenburg’s (Sweden) School of Business, Economics and Law. The mai…
Intermediary activities and agendas of regional cleantech networks in Sweden
A vision of cleantech has been implemented on an international scale with financial assistance, new organizations and programmes. Given the wider contexts of political and commercial promotion, this article investigates management and governance of eight cleantech networks operating in different regions in Sweden. The aim of this article is to explore how an integrated approach based on network theories of economic sociology and a regional develo…
The rise of the hybrid domain. Collaborative governance for social innovation
The rise of the hybrid domain. Collaborative governance for social innovation." Regional Studies, 52(1), pp. 156–157
Work practice among advanced producer service firms – project work in space-time
This article is an explorative investigation of a sample of advanced producer service (APS) companies located in Stockholm (the capital and main urban centre of Sweden). The discussion is centred on aspects of work practice and how this is conditioned by space-time constraints. These space-time constraints refer to coupling, authority and capability constraints which are concepts framed in a time-geography approach. Although time-geography is pri…
The making of the gourmet restaurateur - masculine ideology, identity and performance
In recent decades, there has been growing interest in renowned gourmet restaurants, and increased awareness about how food is prepared, presented and served. A small and select group of chefs have thereby gained prestigious positions and high-profile images as restaurateurs. Most of these restaurateurs are men. The research question this article sets out to study is: How is the identity and ideology of masculinity imbued into the subjectivity and…
Mobilising for change in vocational education and training in Sweden – a case study of the ‘Technical College’ scheme
In this article, we analyse a recent industry-driven initiative in Sweden for the organisation and operation of Vocational Education and Training. In the context of a statist and school-based system for VET, this is an initiative which seems to be an example of an anomaly in the present system. The initiative is called the Technical College scheme and is a certification scheme for upper secondary school education in technology. The aim of this ar…
Decentralised development policy
This article investigates how the international wave of decentralisation of development policy, promoted through ideals of place-based policy, becomes practice through development interventions made by municipalities in Sweden. Based on an extensive empirical study across Swedish municipalities, the article contributes with knowledge about how the decentralisation of development policies is formed through a combination of shared and relatively he…
Regional governance in second-tier city-regions in Sweden
This study focuses on the formation and institutional changes of governance for regional development in three second-tier city-regions in Sweden. It explains the spatial relations of such institutional change. It integrates concepts from historical institutionalism in a spatial approach and investigates the path dependency of institutional change. This involves conceiving the mechanism of feedback effects and institutional changes of layering, co…
Decentralised cooperation between industries and local governments in a statist skill-formation system
The scholarly debate about cooperation between different stakeholders in Vocational Education and Training has primarily focussed on the national level, and much less on local and regional levels. This article aims to contribute to our understanding of the conditions and mechanisms of decentralised cooperation in VET systems, through a comparative case study of two partnerships between local government and industry at two industrial schools in Sw…
Transport and Mobility Planning for Sustainable Development
This special issue aims to contribute to the research debate on how transport and mobility are intertwined with wider social systems and structures. Given the fundamental impact of transport on liv
Local development policy in a societal crisis
This paper analyses local development policy by investigating how this worked during a crisis situation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic from spring 2020, with major effects on the economy. This empirical study covers local government in Sweden. The results reveal two major findings. First, that decentralized dialogues between local government and industry, being a key facet for local growth policy, were exposed to challenges in striking a balance…
Rescaling public transport planning in Sweden
This paper aims to contribute to a qualitative understanding of rescaling and its impact on planning strategies and governance relations across scales. By investigating the effects of rescaling for the old scale 'left behind' - through the case of public transport planning in Sweden - this paper illustrates how rescaled tasks continue to engage the scale 'left behind' (and is a source of 'tensions'), long after a rescaling process has taken place…
A local governance initiative for climate mitigation
The aim of this paper is to contribute with an understanding of the governance capacity of local public actors to be place leaders for local collaborative initiatives aimed at addressing climate mitigation, and how this agency is embedded within place-specific institutional conditions. The research design is a single case study of a climate mitigation initiative in the city of Uppsala in Sweden. The discussion based on the empirical results highl…
Developing city-regional governance capacity
In recent decades, city-regions have received growing attention as spaces for governance and policymaking. As an expression of the rescaling of the state, city-regional governance structures are often discussed as bottom-up alternatives to top-down institutional reforms. We have observed that, while studies of governance challenges in city-regions have often focused on broad issues like regional development, branding, or innovation, there is limi…
How local policy for sustainable development considers transport
Urban areas play a central role in climate mitigation, and transport constitutes one of the most challenging sectors in the transition towards sustainable cities. This paper explores how local urban policy incorporates ambitions for sustainable transport by analysing political steering documents in four Swedish second-tier cities: Uppsala, Linköping, Örebro, and Västerås. The study examines annually ratified ‘Budget and plan’ documents from 2012 …
Business (18 works) · Economics (18 works) · Political science (16 works) · Economic geography (14 works) · Geography (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Regional science (9 works) · Corporate governance (8 works) · Regional Development and Policy (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works)