The Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (SCORE) is a multi-disciplinary research centre with the aim of initiating, pursuing, and disseminating research on organisational aspects of modern society. The centre is run jointly by the Stockholm School of Economics and Stockholm University. App. thirty researchers  work at SCORE, they are in particular drawn from disciplines of business economics, history, social anthropology, sociology, political science, and ethnology.

Contact Details 

Address:

Stockholm Center for Organizational Research (SU/SCORE)

Stockholm University

Roslagsvägen

S-10691 Stockholm

SWEDEN

Tel.:

+46 8 16 20 00 

Fax.:

+46 8 612 55 80

E-mail:

info@sociology.su.se

Web-page:

www.sociology.su.se

About Göran Ahrne

From Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (SCORE)

Professor Göran Ahrne has with his research unit at the Department of Sociology for a number of years focused on various forms of organisations within social movements. His more recent research addresses the processes for social and organizational change. The aim of the project being to investigate how social change occurs through the interaction of the inertia of old organizations and the potentiality of new organizations: how old organizations because of their inertia paradoxically leave room for social change. The empirical studies of this project include studies of the interaction between different kinds of organizations such as states, families, enterprises and voluntary associations. A particular focus placed on the interaction between states and other organizations.

Göran Ahrne has in recent years edited and co-edited publications on organizations and society, states as organisations, as well as written about organisations, society and globalisation.

Jens Rydgren

From the Department of Sociology, Stockholm University

Jens Rydgren is Associate Professor in Sociology at Stockholm University. He has during the last ten years been studying European populism and right-wing extremism, and he is the author of The Populist Challenge: Political Protest and Ethno-Nationalist Mobilization in France (Berghahn Books, 2003) and From Tax Populism to Ethnic Nationalism: Radical Right-wing Populism in Sweden (Berghahn Books, 2006). He is currently (together with Christofer Edling) coordinating a research project on local elite networks in Swedish municipalities, with the particular focus on how local politics and local business interacts. The role of civil society organizations is an integrated part of this project.