Academic Work
Academic Work
2012
Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals
2012: with Anette Hallin: Representation of Space. Uncovering the Political Dimension of Guided Tours in Stockholm.
Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism. Vol. 12, Nr. 1, pp. 1-19.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15022250.2012.655079.
2010: with Lars Strannegård: Unstable Identities. Stable Unsustainability. Sustainable Development. Vol. 18, pp. 119-122.
2010: with Delyse Springett: Corporate Social Responsibility: Discourse, Narratives and Communication. Corporate
Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. Vol. 17, Nr. 2, pp. 63-69.
2009: Corporate Social Responsibility. Management and Methods. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental
Management. Vol. 16, Nr. 4, pp. 185-191.
2009: with Minna Halme: Corporate Social Responsibility and Developing Countries. Corporate Social Responsibility
and Environmental Management. Vol. 16, Nr. 5, pp. 237-249.
2009: with Anders Söderholm: Translation and Inscription in Development Projects. Understanding Environmental and
Health Care-Related Organizational Change. Journal for Organizational Change Management, Vol. 22, Nr 5,
pp. 480-493
2009: with Minna Halme, and Nigel Roome. Corporate Responsibility: Reflections on Context and Consequences.
Scandinavian Journal of Management, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 1-9.
2008: with Magnus Linderström and Malin Mobjörk. "Institutional Entrepreneurship in an Academic Organisation.
Sustainability at Mälardalen University." International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development, Vol. 3,
No. 3/4, pp. 201-216.
2008: with Pontus Cerin. Editorial: The Contribution of Sustainable Investments to Sustainable Development. Progress
in Industrial Ecology, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 161-180.
2006: with Anette Hallin. Slipping into Darkness: A Study of the Role of ICTs in the Making of Stockholm’s Image. Journal
of Urban Technology, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 119-127.
2005: with Lars Strannegård. Design, Life Styles and Sustainability. Aesthetic Consumption in a World of Abundance.
Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 324-336.
2005: with Lars Strannegård. Sustainability and Design. Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp.
269-271.
2004: Stockholm as a Mobile Valley. Journal of Urban Technology, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 87-108.
2002: with Lars Strannegård. The Cocoon. A Travelling Space. Organization, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 829-852.
2001: with Stefan Tengblad: Metaforer som verktyg för ideologisk styrning. Fågel, fisk eller mittemellan? Nordiske
Organisasjonsstudier, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 60-83
2001: with Lars Strannegård and Rolf Wolff: Knowledge Interests in Corporate Environmental Management. Business
Strategy and the Environment, Vol. 10, No. 6, pp. 335-343.
2001: with Pontus Cerin, Who is Rating the Rater? Corporate Environmental Strategy, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 95-97.
2001: with Pontus Cerin, What Does the 'Dow Jones Sustainability Group Index' Tell us? Eco-Management and Auditing,
Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 123-133.
2001: with Lars Strannegård, Loveable Networks. A Story of Affection, Attraction and Treachery. Journal of Organizational
Change Management, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 28-49.
2000: with Ola Bergström, Organizing Sustainable Development. From Diffusion to Translation. Sustainable Development,
Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 167-179.
2000: with Rolf Wolff, Competing With 'Soft' Issues. From Managing the Environment to Sustainable Business Strategies.
Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 143-150.
2000: with Rolf Wolff, Editorial, Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 141-142
2000: with Lars Strannegård and Rolf Wolff, Union-Jacking the Research Agenda. A Study of the Frontstage and
Backstage of Business Strategy and the Environment 1992-1998, Business Strategy and the Environment,
Vol. 9, No. 1, pp.49-61.
1999: Organizing Environmental Control in Temporary Local Organizations, Business Strategy and the Environment,
Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 163-176.
1999: with Rolf Wolff, Eco-Efficiency and Dematerialisation. Scenarios for New Industrial Logics in Recycling Industries,
Automobile and Household Appliances, Business Strategies and the Environment, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 31-45.
1997: Strategies for Environmental Control. A Comparison Between Regulation and Centralized Control in Germany and
Reforms Leading to Decentralized Control in Sweden, Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol. 6, No. 1,
pp. 34-45.
1997: Styrning eller samarbete? Kommunens förändrade roll at kontroll av diffusa utsläpp, Statsvetenskaplig Tidsskrift,
Vol. 99, No. 3, pp. 289-300.
1996: Legislation-Induced Bubble Markets. Driving Forces of Air Pollution Control Technology in the Area of Waste
Incineration, Scandinavian Journal of Management, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 255-273.
1995: with Rolf Wolff, Managing Ecological Competence - Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Challenges. Greener
Management International, Vol. 3, No. 11 (July), pp. 32-48.
A Selection of Previous Editorial Work
2008-2010: Guest Editor, special issue in Sustainable Development. "Sustainability and Identity" (with Lars Strannegård)
2007-2009: Guest Editor, special issue in Corporate Social Responsbility and Environmental Management. "Corporate
Social Responsibility: Management and Methods"
2007-2009: Guest Editor, special issue in Corporate Social Responsbility and Environmental Management "Corporate
Social Responsibility: Discourses, Narratives and Communication"
2007-2009: Guest Editor, special issue in Corporate Social Responsbility and Environmental Management. "Corporate
Social Responsibility and Developing Countries" (with Minna Halme)
2006-2010: Editor, book Corporate Social Responsbility. Challenges and Practices
2007-2009: Guest Editor, special issue in Scandinavian Journal of Management: "Corporate Responsibility: Critical
reflections on thinking and practice, context, content and unintended consequences" (with Minna Halme and
Nigel Roome)
2006-2008: Guest Editor, special issue in Progress of Industrial Ecology: "The Contribution of Sustainable Investments to
Sustainable Development" (with Pontus Cerin)
Books
2010: edited: Corporate Social Responsibility. Challenges and Practices. (Stockholm: Santérus Academic Press Sweden).
2009: edited with Petra Adolfsson and Mikael Jonasson: Guiding and Guided Tours. (Göteborg: BAS Publishers).
2004: with Sten Wikander. BioNova. Building a Biotech Company, (Lund: Studentlitteratur).
2004: with Christopher Rosenqvist. Gratis nyheter. Affärsidéer förverkligas, (Malmö: Liber Ekonomi).
1999: edited with Rolf Wolff, Contemporary Nordic Research in Corporate Environmental Management (Göteborg: BAS).
1998: edited: Miljömanagement. Guld and gröna skogar? (Stockholm: Nerenius & Santérus).
1997: Organising strategies of environmental control. Towards a decentralisation of the Swedish environmental control
repertoire, (Stockholm: Nerenius & Santérus). PhD thesis.
1997: edited with Rolf Wolff, Miljöstrategier - Ett företagsekonomiskt perspektiv, 2nd edition, (Stockholm: Nerenius &
Santérus).
Book Chapters
2010: The Many Faces of Corporate Social Responsibility. In: Corporate Social Responsibility. Challenges and Practices,
Peter Dobers (Stockholm: Santérus Academic Press) pp. 7-18.
2010: "Aesthetic Consumption. A Dilemma for Sustainable Development." In Dobers, P. (ed.) Corporate Social
Responsibility. Challenges and Practices. (Stockholm: Santérus Academic Press Sweden) pp. 147-162.
2009: Sustainable Development and Organizational Communication. ICTs for Mobility – Some Reflections for Global
Resilience. In: Organizational Communication and Sustainable Development: ICTs for Mobility, Anette Hallin and
Tina Karrbom Gustavsson (Hersey, PA: Information Science Reference) pp. xiv-xvi.
2009: with Petra Adolfsson and Mikael Jonasson (eds.). Guiding and Guided Tours. (Göteborg: BAS Publishers).
2009: with Petra Adolfsson and Mikael Jonasson. Introduction. Guiding and Guided Tours. In: Guiding and Guided Tours.
Petra Adolfsson, Peter Dobers and Mikael Jonasson (eds.). (Göteborg: BAS Publishers) pp. 15-27.
2009: with Petra Adolfsson and Mikael Jonasson. Closing Words! In: Guiding and Guided Tours. Petra Adolfsson, Peter
Dobers and Mikael Jonasson. (Göteborg: BAS Publishers) pp. 215-217.
2009: with Anette Hallin. Producing Stockholm Through Guided Tours. In: Guiding and Guided Tours. Petra Adolfsson,
Peter Dobers and Mikael Jonasson. (Göteborg: BAS Publishers) pp. 147-175.
2009: with Anette Hallin. The Use of Internet in Building the Brand of 'Stockholm - The Capital of Scandinavia'. In:
M Gascó-Hernández and T Torres-Coronas, (eds.), Information Communication Technologies and City Marketing.
Digital Opportunities for Cities Around the World. (Hershey, USA: Idea Group Publishing) pp. 264-293.
2006: Reflektioner kring företags sociala ansvar. In: Hälsans organisering av arbetslivet. Mikael Holmqvist and
Christian Maravelias (eds.) (Lund: Studentlitteratur) pp. 223-230.
2006: with Adam Holmström. Tolerans, talang och teknologi i Tensta. In: Tensta utanför mitt fönster. Ingång till TenstaBo
06. Anders Gullberg (ed.) (Stockholm: Stockholmia förlag), pp 164-165.
2006: Empty spaces or illusionary images? "Stockholm as a Mobile Valley”. In: Stewart Clegg och Martin Kronberger (eds),
Space, Organization and Management, (Advances in Organization Studies), (Liber/Copenhagen Business School
Press), pp. 287-304.
2003: Image of Stockholm as an IT city: Emerging urban entrepreneurship. In: Chris Steyaert and Daniel Hjorth (eds), New
movements in entrepreneurship, (Aldershot: Edward Elgar Publishing), pp. 200-217.
2002: Broadband–Boom and bust in the new economy. In: Ingalill Holmberg, Miriam Salzer-Mörling and Lars Strannegård
(eds) Stuck in the Future. (Stockholm: Book House), pp. 79-104.
2001: Netting the information infrastructure of Stockholm. An idea travels throughout the world. In: Oskar Juhlin and Hans
Glimell (eds) The social production of technology. On the everyday life with things. (Göteborg: BAS Publishers),
pp. 189-206.
2001: Framväxten av ett IT-nät i Stockholm. In: Barbara Czarniawska and Rolf Solli (eds) Modernisering av storstaden.
Marknad and management i stora städer at sekelskiftet. (Malmö: Liber ekonomi), pp. 180-201.
1998: Miljömanagement? Miljö and management! In: P Dobers (ed) Miljömanagement. Guld and gröna skogar?,
(Stockholm: Nerenius & Santérus Förlag), pp. 18-31.
1998: with Anders Söderholm. Aktivt miljöarbete som projekt. Översättning and överlämning i projektets organisering.
In: P Dobers (ed) Miljömanagement. Guld and gröna skogar?, (Stockholm: Nerenius & Santérus Förlag), pp. 33-64.
1998: Pluralism av uppfattningar. På gott eller ont? In: P Dobers (ed) Miljömanagement. Guld and gröna skogar?,
(Stockholm: Nerenius & Santérus Förlag), pp. 201-217.
1997: with Rolf Wolff, Strategiskt miljöledarskap som forskningsutmaning. In: P Dobers and R Wolff (eds), Miljöstrategier -
Ett företagsekonomiskt perspektiv, 2nd edition, (Stockholm: Nerenius & Santérus Förlag), pp. 13-24.
1997: Strategier för miljöreformer. Detaljstyrande lagstiftning and experiment. In: P Dobers and R Wolff (eds),
Miljöstrategier - Ett företagsekonomiskt perspektiv, 2nd edition (Stockholm: Nerenius & Santérus Förlag), pp. 45-69.
1997: with Rolf Wolff, Miljö som utmaning för strategiskt lärande. In: P Dobers and R Wolff (eds), Miljöstrategier - Ett
företagsekonomiskt perspektiv, 2nd edition (Stockholm: Nerenius & Santérus Förlag), pp. 201-210.
1996: with Rolf Wolff, Managing the learning of ecological competence. In: W. Wehrmeyer (ed) Greening people. Human
resources and environmental management, (Sheffield: Greenleaf Publishing), pp. 271-288.
1995: Strategies for environmental reforms. In: R Wolff and B E Ytterhus (eds), Environmental management - where do
we stand?, (Oslo: Cappelen Akademisk Forlag), pp. 119-151.
Published Book Reviews
1996: The executive way. Conflict management in corporations, by Calvin Morrill. In: Scandinavian Journal of
Management, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 465-467.
1993: Economic approaches to organizations, by S. Douma and H. Schreuder. In: Scandinavian Journal of
Management, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 77-78.
Member of Editorial and Advisory Boards
2012-today: MiljöRapporten - Advisory Board
2008-today: The County Administration of Västmanland - Board
2002-today: Corporate Sustainability and Environmental Management (John Wiley & Sons) - Editorial Board
1999-today: Business Strategy and the Environment (John Wiley & Sons) - Editorial Board
1999-2001: Eco-Management and Auditing (John Wiley & Sons), 1999-2001 - Editorial Board
Reviews of Manuscript Submissions to Journals (since 2000)
•Business Strategy and the Environment (12)
•Scandinavian Journal of Management (5)
•Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management (4)
•Nordiske Organisasjonsstudier (2)
•Eco-Management and Auditing (2)
•Consumption Markets and Culture (1)
•Journal of Information Technology (1)
•Non-profit Management and Leadership (1)
•Entrepreneurship and Regional Development (1)
Academic Work
IN BRIEF
NAME Peter Dobers
Live Stockholm
WORK Mälardalen University, Västerås and Eskilstuna
AS Professor
Dean of the Faculty Board at Mälardalen University