For those eager blog readers out there without a life – I sincerely apologize for the long summer delay. Intercontinental moves, sailboats and dissertations have taken their toll, but no despair: I am crafting a macro cultural analysis that explains what really ails the Swedish military forces – and how lessons from organizational demography and turnarounds in the telecom sector can help public decision makers to rebuild this important national institutions.
In the meanwhile I offer some summer temptations:
1. Why research has been wrong about the reasons for Entrepreneurs to sell their firms – all explained here in our new paper awarded the best paper prize from the Entrepreneurship Division at the Academy of Management Meeting in Anaheim, California. Slides on the talk are aom-exit.
2. The best places to live in the world from Monocle.com. No-one could be surprised to see Scandinavia on top and unfortuntately neither is it a surprise to see Stockholm is constantly lagging behind Copenhagen due to Xenophobia. Portland and Minneapolis (!) are the first US city ever to make the list (not counting Honolulu), but is anyone surprised Germany as the rising star with 3 cities in the top compared to obvious top-notch places such as Canada, Australia and Japan? Yes, nerdy, and of course extremely subjective. But the ranking of cities is a multi-billion dollar business – and an increasingly accepted area of research.
…and finally this email (in Swedish) that I recently submitted to the IT department:
From: Karl Wennberg
Sent: den 30 juli 2008 11:42
To: IT Support
Subject: byte ned till office XP?
Hej IT Support!
Jag är supertacksam för datorn ni räddade åt mig men även om jag lärt mig leva i någon form av respektfullt krigsstillestånd med Vista (något kärleksförhållande blir det aldrig) så har jag beslutat mig för att jag måste separera från Office XP. Vi bråkar hela tiden, och dom är ju flera stycken mot mig som ensam användare (Word, Powerpoint…) så det är en ojämn kamp…
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