The Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) was founded in Sweden in 1909. With about 1,900 students it collaborates with leading institutions of higher education around the world and in 1999 was the first Swedish university to be fully accredited by the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS). SSE is the Swedish member institution of the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS) and it is the only Nordic representative in the International Consortium for Executive Development Research.

 Research at the Center for Management and Organization addresses management and organisation activities in society, foremost from a stakeholder, board or top executive perspective. Based on both economic and sociological theories, its research covers both institutionally flavoured and action focused approaches.

 Through research, the Civil Society Programme at the Center aims at increasing the understanding of the role and position of civil society and non-profit organisations. In co-operation with Johns Hopkins University, it has demonstrated that these organizations have a profound economic impact on society and that they are perceived as playing an active and crucial role in political processes. The objective of the programme is to enhance knowledge of the impact that these characteristics and dimensions have on the way civil society actors are led and organized. Through its studies of organizations such as the Swedish Red Cross and entities within the Swedish temperance movement, it seeks to improve the understanding of how groups of citizens are organized so as to create meaning and opportunity in their lives.

Contact Details 

Address:

Center for Management and Organization

Economic Research Institute

Stockholm School of Economics

P.O. Box 6501

Sveavägen 65

SE 11383 Stockholm

SWEDEN 

Tel.:

+ 46  08-736 90 00 -

Fax.:

+ 46  08-31 81 86

E-mail:

Filip.Wijkström@hhs.se

Web-page:

www.hhs.se/efi

About Filip Wijkström, National Co-ordinator, Sweden

from Stockholm School of Economics (SSE)

Filip Wijkström, Ph. D , is Director of the Economic Research and Associate Professor He is a researcher at the  Center for Management and Organization and a teacher at the MBA Program at Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden).   He has developed a research programme with focus on civil society leadership and strategy, where he also supervises Ph D students in their research work. At the Center for Management and Organization, Filip Wijkström has taught organization and management theory for undergraduates. He has co-ordinated a team of researchers that founded the scholarly ”Nordic Network for Non-profit and Voluntary Research”. He has co-hosted the Sixth Nordic Research Conference (Stockholm, Sweden) and he has been an invited Researcher at the School of Management at the University of Technology, Sydney (Australia).

 In recent years he has a co-authored and contributed to publications about civil society organisations, social capital and civil society, social economy and the role of civil society organisations with emphasis on Sweden. 

About Johan Hvenmark

from Stockholm School of Economics (SSE)

The core topic of Johan Hvenmark’s PhD project concerns the notion of individual membership within the context of federatively structured Swedish non-profit organizations. Drawing on both organizational and social theory, the study focuses how individual membership can be understood and given meaning both discursively at a top executive level and in relation to social practice of the organizations. In this way he addresses issues such as structure, power and governance.

 Johan Hvenmark has contributed to publications and co-authored chapters regarding management of non governmental organisations, federative organisations and the Red Cross.   He has presented conference papers on employment policies and questions of membership of non-profit organisations.   

About Stefan Einarsson

from Stockholm School of Economics (SSE)

Stefan Einarsson is a PhD student at the Centre for Management and Organisation at the Stockholm School of Economics. Main research interest lies in the field of organisation and management in the civil society. In this regard, he has co-authored two publications on the scope role and visions of foundations in Sweden and on the behind-lying views in the provision of state support towards civil society organisations.  

About Pernilla Hultén

from Stockholm School of Economics (SSE)

Pernilla Hultén is a junior research fellow at the Center for Management and Organization at the Stockholm School of Economics. Main research interests concern the distinctiveness of organizations in the civil society. Several research projects have been undertaken both in a Swedish and in multi-national contexts. The research projects were aimed at examining special characteristics or unique attributes of non-profit or voluntary organizations, as well as how these characteristics contribute to any kind of ”added value” in society. Ms Hultén has co-authored two publications.