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    • About
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    • Eli F. Heckscher Lectures

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    Assessing the interplay between crowdfunding and sustainability in social media

    PublicationArticle (with peer review)
    Christian Sandström, Christofer Laurell, Crowdfunding, Företagandets villkor, Hållbarhet, Sociala medier, Yuliani Suseno

    Abstract

    This paper aims to assess the degree to which sustainability-oriented dimensions are integrated within the public discourse on crowdfunding in social media. Utilizing Social Media Analytics (SMA), we track discussions on crowdfunding in user-generated content published in social media. Based on an empirical material of 141,754 user-generated content, we identify 308 entries (0.21 percent) explicitly or implicitly relating to sustainability and 80 percent of these 308 entries came from professional actors. In this material, 37 sustainability-oriented campaigns are identified and 26 of them (70 percent) received one entry. Taken together, this paper adds to previous literature by assessing and describing the seemingly minor role played by social media with regards to the interplay between crowdfunding and sustainability.

    Laurell, C., Sandström, C. & Suseno, Y. (2019). Assessing the interplay between crowdfunding and sustainability in social media. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 141, 117-127. DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2018.07.015

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    Laurell, C., Sandström, C. & Suseno, Y.

    Publication year

    2019

    Published in

    Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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    Introducing the inverted Icarus paradox in business history – Evidence from David and Goliath in the Swedish telecommunications industry 1981–1990
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    Eriksson, K.; Lakomaa, E.; Nykvist, R.; Sandström, C.
    Publication year

    2024

    Published in

    Business History, Advance online publication.

    Abstract

    Previous research in business and management history has identified the Icarus paradox, which describes how organisations may fall due to overconfidence and hubris. We build upon previous research on paradoxes in business history and introduce the notion of an inverted Icarus paradox. Using rich archival sources coded in a relational database, we show how an entrant firm, Comvik, outmanoeuvred an established government monopoly in the non-market domain from 1980 to 1990, despite inferior resources and a weak market position. The government monopoly Televerket faced an inverted Icarus paradox; it could not leverage its strengths and political connections as they were stuck in a David versus Goliath narrative where public opinion was more sympathetic to the entrant firm Comvik.

    Learning from Overrated Mission-Oriented Innovation Policies: Seven Takeaways
    Book chapterPublication
    Henrekson, M., Sandström, C., & Stenkula, M.
    Publication year

    2024

    Published in

    Springer Nature.

    Abstract

    This chapter integrates findings from several different case studies on mission-oriented innovation policies (MOIPs) and makes use of the existing literature to briefly describe three other missions: The War on Cancer, homeownership in the United States, and the Swedish Million Program. Together with the analyses in the other chapters of this volume, seven takeaways regarding mission-oriented innovation policies are developed and described: (1) wicked problems cannot be solved through missions, (2) politicians and government agencies are not exempt from self-interest, (3) MOIPs are subject to rent seeking and mission capture, (4) policymakers lack information to design MOIPs efficiently, (5) MOIPs distort competition, (6) government support programs distort incentives and result in moral hazard, and (7) MOIPs ignore opportunity costs. These seven takeaways are illustrated using the cases described in this chapter and elsewhere in this volume.

    The state of the entrepreneurial state: Empirical evidence of mission-led innovation projects around the globe. In Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy (pp. 125–143)
    Book chapterPublication
    Batbaatar, M., Larsson, J. P., Sandström, C., & Wennberg, K.
    Publication year

    2024

    Published in

    In Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy (pp. 125–143). Springer.

    Abstract

    This chapter reviews theoretical rationales for mission-oriented innovation policy and provides an empirical overview of extant 28 papers and 49 cases on the topic. We synthetize varieties of mission formulations, actors involved, and characteristics of missions described as more or less failed or successful. Fifty-nine percent of the studied missions are still ongoing, 33 percent are considered successful, and 8 percent as failures. Sixty-seven percent of the studied missions have taken place in Europe, 24 percent in North America, and 8 percent in Asia. The majority of innovation projects referred to as missions do not fulfill the criteria defined by the OECD. Results suggest that missions related to technological or agricultural innovations are more often successful than broader types of missions aimed at social or ecological challenges. Challenges regarding the governance and evaluation of missions remain unresolved in the literature. We find no case that contains a cost-benefit analysis or takes opportunity cost into account.

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