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Djursholm: A study of an executive community

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This project explores the community of Djursholm that is situated some 10km north of Stockholm as an example of an ‘executive community’. A key argument of the project is that the ideals and norms of contemporary ‘executive behavior’ can no longer be sought within the world of professional bureaucracies only. Since August 2010 I have been conducting an ethnographic study of Djursholm. I have approached this community inductively where my theoretical ideas on the construction of executive values-in-use have informed my preliminary research questions. Based on my observations Djursholm appears to be a good environment to explore the phenomenon of executive community in terms of nurturing or resisting an executive culture expressed through such phenomena as responsibility, discipline, organization and order; not only because there is a relatively large number of executives living there but primarily because it appears to be a community that is intensely the subject to the ideology of management.

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  • Holmqvist, Mikael, 2012. "Djursholm: A study of an executive community," Scandinavian Journal of Management, Elsevier, vol. 28(3), pages 257-263.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:scaman:v:28:y:2012:i:3:p:257-263
    DOI: 10.1016/j.scaman.2012.03.007
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