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Workpackage 5: Case Studies Sweden: the
impact of social capital and entrepreneurial drive
WP Leader: Christer Peterson,
Luleå University of Technology, Contact:
christer.peterson[at]ltu.se
Objectives
Identifying and explaining
surprising outcomes in terms of enhanced global market
competitiveness in a peripheral locality dominated by a
subsidiary of a multinational corporation
Investigating the role of
actors, work systems, firms, owners and multilevel
governance systems
Explaining the outcomes of
local actors by exploring the importance of actors’
institutional and cultural resources, like professional
communities, labour market dynamics, welfare and civil
society
Description of work
The Swedish case studies
concern a locality, which industrial characteristics are
designed by MoDo, a multi-national corporation (MNC). A
prosperous development during a century, had turned the
local politicians into Sleeping Beauties, followed by
political neglects of all kind, and by that a stagnating
locality. Further, the MNC was taken over by another MNC,
resulting in that R&D- and other functions were
reorganised into a European matrix. The focus of the
study is the formal and informal institutional and
cultural resources of the locality, and the
entrepreneurs’ drive, in collaboration, which resulted
in investments in intellectual centres of different kind.
Thus, currently the locality has a surprising variety of
knowledge-based services.
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