The aim of this article is to study how the ideas of a sustainable society have developed and adapted to Swedish politics. It starts with the assumption that new ideas have a greater possibility to make a difference if they adapt to the political culture, and if important actors make the ideas...

This paper analyses strategic foresight (omvärldsanalys) in Swedish government authorities and asks questions on the scope, rationale and drivers, organisation, functions, results and content in reports, methods and theories, and importance. The answers to these questions pinpoint the...

The way the labour market functions is a crucial factor in any analysis of the Swedish model. Full employment contributed to the growth of what were probably the two most important institutions in this model: centralised negotiations between the social partners and, secondly, the Rehn-Meidner...

I framtiden kan vi förvänta oss brist på arbetskraft. Den demografiska utvecklingen i denna fråga tycks obönhörlig. Hur stor denna arbetskraftsbrist kan tänkas bli är dock omdebatterat, liksom vilka konsekvenserna kan tänkas bli. I Sverige har vi emellertid mycket kunskap om hur...

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My object in this paper is to examine what arguments unions and employers have presented regarding labour immigration and other immigration from a labour market perspective. My starting point is that both sides have interests to protect, and the aim is to examine these interests. A further aim,...

This paper discusses and aims to explain the emergence of foresight activities in Swedish government authorities, including environmental scanning and analysis, futures studies and other activities trying to detect and analyse change in the surroundings of the organisation. To explain the...

The aim of this paper is to present some findings from a study on the development of competition policy in Sweden since 1945. The comprehensive questions are about the view on knowledge in competition policy, the trust to the Swedish model, the change of the model and what has replaced it, and...

This report discusses various aspects of telework and virtual organization based on international research. Visions of a future, where a large proportion of the workforce is working on a distance from the office, have been around since the 1970s. However, telework has not received the extent...