Browsing by Author "Blom, Lovisa"

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Creative Climate a Prerequisite for Supporting an Innovation Culture: A single case study at CEVT
(2018-07-31) Hertzberg, Emilia; Blom, Lovisa; University of Gothenburg/Graduate School; Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School
Innovation is a widely used concept, which is considered as an important factor to remain competitive in an everchanging business environment. Research suggest that creativity is a prerequisite for innovation to occur. Creativity relates to the generation of new and useful ideas, whereas innovation is considered the implementation of those ideas. Meaning that companies must first create or develop an environment that promotes creativity in order for innovation to occur at a later stage. CEVT, that is the research subject for this exploratory case study, has the vision to become ‘World Leading Innovation and Research Centre, Developing cars for a different tomorrow’. Through a qualitative research method performing semi-structured interviews, the research aims to assess the current creative climate at CEVT in order to give recommendations on how the company can support the development of a successful innovation culture. A framework was therefore developed by the authors, which includes seven categories containing different success factors and activities for developing an innovation culture. The findings show that the categories organizational structure and processes, management support and resources have the greatest impact on the current creative climate at CEVT among the categories in the framework. The company demonstrates great potential in fostering a creative climate through its management support. To improve it further, findings suggest that the company should focus on the communication of the strategic direction and alignment of resources for creative activities, to support the innovation culture.
FÖRR ELLER SENARE ÅKER NÅGON DIT - En kvalitativ studie om otillbörliga relationer inom Kriminalvården
(2018-10-01) Blom, Lovisa; University of Gothenburg / Department of Sociology and Work Science; Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för sociologi och arbetsvetenskap
Aims and objectives: The aim of this study is to gain knowledge of how inappropriate relationships within the Swedish Prison and Probation Service are constructed as a social problem in policy, by prison officers and by prison inspectors, which risks are linked to the problem and how the problem is being addressed. Inappropriate relationships between staff and inmates can have serious consequences. Though, there is not much previous research about inappropriate relationships in a Swedish context. Thus, inappropriate relationships within this authority are relevant to study. Method and data: Four focus group interviews with prison officers and three individual interviews with prison inspectors were conducted; in total 25 respondents participated. Interviews were conducted at two different security class 2 prisons with male inmates. Policy documents and guidelines regarding inappropriate relationships are also a part of the empirical material. Results: Prison officers and prison inspectors construct inappropriate relationships between staff and inmates as a social problem of naïve, young, female prison officers and male inmates whom is being manipulative. However, during the interviews, this was redefined as a general-human problem based on emotions. This result differs from what is said in the policy documents and guidelines. In the documents, inappropriate relationships are constructed as a pure security risk, not based on emotions. In the documents, it is also constructed as a risk of damaging the reputation of the Swedish Prison and Probation Service. The result of this study also shows that inappropriate relationships create uncertainty and insecurity in the workgroup. The silent organization leads to rumours being spread, which leads to the fact that stories about inappropriate relationships remains for a long time, and so will the consequences.
The challenges of cross-border co-development within the creative industries - A case study within the video game industry
(2016-10-12) Blom, Lovisa; Johansson, Isabell; University of Gothenburg/Department of Business Administration; Göteborgs universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen