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Sara Brorström
Researcher
Gothenburg Research InstituteProfessor
Department of Business AdministrationAbout Sara Brorström
Research areas
- Organisation , public management, strategy, sustainability
Teaching areas
- Public organisations, strategy, project management, change management
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Strategizing and “strategifying” for the common good: the case of deprived neighborhoods in the Swedish city of
Gothenburg
Sara Brorström, Alexander Styhre
International Public Management Journal - 2024 -
Fast fashion: the rapid layering of management fashions in the Swedish city of
Gothenburg
Sara Brorström, Maria Norbäck
Public Management Review - 2024 -
Managing a grand challenge at the local level: The case of especially vulnerable neighbourhoods in a Swedish
city
Sara Brorström, Alexander Styhre
The Routledge Handbook of Public Sector Accounting - 2023 -
“Tough Love”: The Roles Played by Municipal Housing Corporations for Integration of Newly Arrived Immigrants in Vulnerable
Neighbourhoods
Sara Brorström, Alexander Styhre
Organising Immigrants’ Integration: Practices and Consequences in Labour Markets and Societies - 2023 -
The sustainability shift: The role of calculative practices in strategy
implementation
Sara Brorström
Financial Accountability and Management - 2023 -
Syndicated leadership in urban development projects: the case of the River City Gothenburg
project
Alexander Styhre, Sara Brorström
Construction Management and Economics - 2023 -
The mundanity of cost cutting: The value of small wins in affordable housing
production
Alexander Styhre, Sara Brorström
Scandinavian Journal of Management - 2023 -
Introducing strategic measures in public facilities management organizations: external and internal institutional
work
Ingrid Svensson, Sara Brorström, Pernilla Gluch
Public Management Review - 2022 -
Boundaries of collaboration – the case of a temporary housing complex for refugees in
Sweden
Sara Brorström, Andreas Diedrich
Public Management Review - 2022 -
Power of the Vague: How Vision Statements Have Mobilized Change in Two Swedish
Cities
Sara Brorström, M. Grafstrom, K. T. Hallstrom
Administration & Society - 2022 -
The valuation of housing in low-amenity and low purchasing power city districts: social and economic value entangled by
default
Alexander Styhre, Sara Brorström, Pernilla Gluch
Construction Management and Economics - 2022 -
Awards and prizes as control devices: The case of urban development project
awards
Alexander Styhre, Sara Brorström
Organization - 2021 -
Strategic Responses to Wicked Problems of Heritage Management: Experiences from the West Link Infrastructure Project in Gothenburg,
Sweden
Susanne Fredholm, Maitri Dore, Sara Brorström
Land - 2021 -
Urban development project goals and the role of professional ignorance: ambiguous policy objectives and their
consequences
Alexander Styhre, Sara Brorström
Qualitative research in organization and management - 2021 -
Getting integrative urban regeneration strategies done: Insights from Antwerp and
Gothenburg
Sara Brorström, Jannes Willems
International Review of Administrative Sciences - 2021 -
Plans and situated actions in urban renewal projects: The role of governance devices in realizing
projects
Sara Brorström, Alexander Styhre
Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space - 2021 -
UTMANINGAR VID ORGANISERING AV STADSUTVECKLINGSPROJEKT - Konsten att samordna många intressenter och
målsättningar
Sara Brorström, Pernilla Gluch, Alexander Styhre
2021 -
Från Vision till Portföljkontor – 10 års utveckling av organisationen för
Älvstaden.
Sara Brorström
2021 -
‘Keeping politicians at arm’s length’: how managers in a collaborative organization deal with the administration–politics
interface
Sara Brorström, Maria Norbäck
International Review of Administrative Sciences - 2020 -
The Strategy Process as a Result of Learning, Questioning, and Performing in a City
Organization,
Sara Brorström
International Public Management Journal - 2020 -
Concretization
Sustainability in City Management and Urban Planning in Gothenburg: From Vague Vision to Social Inclusion
Activities
Petra Adolfsson, Sara Brorström
Dilemmas of sustainable urban development: a view from practice / edited by Jonathan Metzger and Jenny Lindblad. - 2020 -
Stadsutveckling i ”särskilt utsatta områden” — Att leda projekt med många intressenter och
målsättningar
Sara Brorström, Alexander Styhre, Pernilla Gluch
Management of Innovation & Technology - 2020 -
Att riva gränser genom att skapa nya – om samverkan i projektet ”Tillsammans för jobb och integration i
Askimsviken”
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Gränsöverskridande organisering för hållbar
utveckling
Sara Brorström, Heiti Ernits
Innovation och stadsutveckling : en forskningsantologi om organiseringsutmaningar för stad och kommun / Red. Jessica Algehed, Erica Eneqvist, Christian Jensen & Jenny Lööf. - 2019 -
Size matters! Insights from the municipalities of Gothenburg and
Sorsele.
Sara Brorström, Sarah Degerhammar, Kristina Tamm Hallström
The Nordic wave in place branding : poetics, practices, politics, edited by Cecilia Cassinger, Andrea Lucarelli, Szilvia Gyimóthy. - 2019 -
En utmaning att kommunicera
stadsutveckling
Sara Brorström
Tidningen Stadsbyggnad - 2019 -
Det spelar ingen roll vad vi kommunicerar, folk frågar bara om
Västlänken
Sara Brorström
Stadsutveckling & design för motstridiga önskemål. En bok om nödvändigheten av förändring i tanke och handling för sociala hållbarhetsprocesser - 2019 -
Power of the vague – how strategic documents mobilise change in two Swedish
cities
Sara Brorström, Maria Grafström, Kristina Tamm Hallström
EGOS-conference in Edinburgh - 2019 -
Strävan efter att göra bättre, men inte veta hur - en studie om hållbarhetssamordnares vardag och
praktik
Mari Kågström, Sara Brorström
Stadsutveckling & design för motstridiga önskemål. En bok om nödvändigheten av förändring i tanke och handling för sociala hållbarhetsprocesser - 2019 -
Translating sustainable and smart city strategies into performance measurement
systems
Sara Brorström, Daniela Argento, Giuseppe Grossi, Anna Thomasson, Roland Almqvist
Public Money & Management - 2018 -
Putting social sustainability into practice – Close the gap and get lost in
translation
Sara Brorström, Daniela Argento, Giuseppe Grossi
21th International Research Society on Public Management Conference, Edinburgh - 2018 -
How numbers of the future are shaping today: The role of forecasts and calculations in public sector strategic
thinking
Sara Brorström
Financial Accountability and Management - 2018 -
The paradoxes of city strategy practice: Why some issues become strategically important and others do
not
Sara Brorström
Scandinavian Journal of Management - 2017 -
Mellan dröm och verklighet – om hur Älvstaden fylls med
innehåll.
Sara Brorström
2017 -
Attraktiva platser bortom urbanisering och
tillväxt
Sara Brorström, Anders Parment
2017 -
The influence of sustainable and smart strategies on performance measurement systems in a Swedish
city
Sara Brorström, Daniela Argento, Giuseppe Grossi, Anna Thomasson, Roland Almquist
20th International Research Society on Public Management Conference 2016 Hong Kong - 2016 -
The influence of sustainable and smart strategies on performance measurement systems in a Swedish
city”.
Sara Brorström, Daniela Argento, Giusppe Grossi, Almquist Roland, Anna Thomasson
20th International Research Society on Public Management Conference April 13-15, 2016. Hong Kong. - 2016 -
Various sized Municipalities Dealing with Growth Issues: Different Issues but the Same
Solutions?
Sara Brorström, Anders Parment
Offentlig förvaltning. Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration - 2016 -
Managing urbanisation at the local
level
Sara Brorström, Parment Anders
20th International Research Society on Public Management Conference 2016 13th-15th April, Hong Kong. - 2016 -
Branding Various-Sized Destinations – A study of Millenials
Attitudes
Sara Brorström, Anders Parment
Global place branding campaigns across cities, regions, and nations / Ahmet Bayraktar and Can Uslay, editors. - 2016 -
Styr oss! Om konsekvenserna av Vision Älvstaden och om prat, handling och
styrgap
Sara Brorström
2016 -
Strategizing sustainability: The case of River City,
Gothenburg
Sara Brorström
Cities - 2015 -
Att förverkliga en vision – det första steget: lärande och
styrbarhet
Sara Brorström
2015 -
Implementing innovative ideas in a city: good solutions on paper but not in
practice?
Sara Brorström
International Journal of Public Sector Management - 2015 -
Styra städer - om strategier, hållbarhet och
politik
Sara Brorström
2015 -
Alla lika alla olika – om att locka människor till
kommunen
Sara Brorström, Anders Parment
Kommunal Ekonomi - 2014 -
Hållbara Kvillebäcken – en studie om innovativa
lösningar
Sara Brorström
2014 -
Open for the world’ and the way there – A city-strategy process in
practice
Sara Brorström
EGOS Colloquium, Rotterdam, The Netherlands July 3–5, 2014. - 2014 -
Problematizing place branding research: a meta-theoretical analysis of the
literature
Sara Brorström, Lucarelli Andrea
Marketing Review - 2013 -
Strategizing sustainability – the case of River City
Gothenburg
Sara Brorström
Gothenburg Public Management Research Seminar. 19-20 november 2013, Göteborg. - 2013 -
Driving Forces and Effects of Urbanization: Implications for Place Branding in Metro and Rural
areas
Sara Brorström, Parment Anders
Place Management and Branding Conference, Manchester UK. - 2013 -
Constituents of place attractiveness among young citizens in metro and rural
areas
Sara Brorström, Parment Anders
Place Management and Branding Conference, Manchester UK. - 2013 -
The city as constituted by numbers – accounting practices shaping the future
city
Sara Brorström
The 10th Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference in Cardiff, Wales. Cardiff University 11-13 July 2012. - 2012 -
Älvstaden – lärdomar från visions- och
strategiprocessen
Sara Brorström
2012 -
Framtidens historia – en studie om visioner, strategier och planer i svenska stora
städer
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Managing Local Identity – an organizational
perspective
Sara Brorström
International Place Branding Conference in Utrecht, Nederland’s. - 2012 -
Dialog Centrala
Älvstaden
Sara Brorström, Joakim Åström
2012 -
Local government actors' making sense of the financial
crisis
Sara Brorström
Offentlig förvaltning. Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration - 2012 -
What’s within a brand? Branding municipalities through
projects”.
Sara Brorström
Nordic Academy of Management conference in Stockholm, Sweden. - 2011 -
Finanskrisen i backspegeln - kris eller inte
kris?
Sara Brorström
2011 -
Hur skapar man kommunal
identitet?
Sara Brorström
Kommunal Ekonomi - 2011 -
Tre typer av
kommunkriser
Sara Brorström, Björn Brorström
Kommunal Ekonomi - 2011 -
Review of Martin Kornberger (2010) “Brand Society, how brands transform management and
lifestyle”
Sara Brorström
Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration - 2011 -
4.3.3 Kommunala satsningar av betydelse. En fråga om identitet, förnuft och
tillfälligheter
Sara Brorström
Andreas Ivarsson (red): Nordisk kommunforskning. En forskningsövesikt med 113 projekt. - 2011 -
Kommunala satsningar av betydelse - en fråga om identitet, förnuft och
tillfälligheter
Sara Brorström
2010 -
Kommuner och förändring: Om ekonomi, moden och
storstadseffekter
Sara Brorström
Samfundsøkonomen - 2010 -
Perspektiv på kommunal
identitet
Sara Brorström
Kommunal ekonomi - 2009 -
Något gammalt, något nytt, något lånat, något blått: perspektiv på kommuner och
identitet
Sara Brorström
2008 -
Något utöver det vanliga: en studie av sex kommunala
projekt
Sara Brorström
2006 -
Något utöver det
vanliga
Sara Brorström
2006