Tired of partying? Want a more relaxed kick-off? Welcome to the library to mingle with students from all faculties! The Student Health Care will serve free homemade Swedish fika! 

This event will takes place on 14, 20 och 22 January between 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm. Welcome all new and old students!

Fyery Adhena Abreha, PhD. Candidate in Business Administration, will present her Final Seminar entitled:

“Internal and external legitimacy challenges of hybrid organizations: The case of monasteries”

Time and place: Thursday, 15th of January 2026 at 10 am in B7030, JIBS.

Discussant: Associate Professor Adeyinka Adewale, University of Reading, UK.

Internal discussant: Associate professor Olof Brunninge, JIBS

Principal supervisor: Professor Timur Uman, JIBS

Deputy supervisors: Professor Emerita Ethel Brundin, JIBS, and Professor Benson Honig, McMaster University.

Please send a request to Fyery to receive a copy of her manuscript.

MOST WELCOME TO ATTEND IN ROOM B7030 OR ON ZOOM!

Are you ready to take the next step? It is time to explore the opportunities that a master's degree can offer you and your future career.

Take the opportunity to mingle and have a cup of coffee with our currrent master's students and programme managers. They share their experiences and talk about the programs that we offers.

There are also study counselors and staff from the International Office at the fair if you have questions about eligibility and studying abroad.

Welcome!

Tired of partying? Want a more relaxed kick-off? Welcome to the library for some mingle and homemade Swedish fika! 

Title: Proximity Strategies for Stakeholder Engagement in Business Models for Sustainability

Engaging stakeholders effectively is a cornerstone of sustainable business models, yet many organisations struggle to put it into practice. This seminar explores how proximity—the closeness in identity, function, production, or community—can serve as a powerful lever for stakeholder engagement. Drawing on multiple case studies, Cinzia Battistella and her co-authors propose a conceptual framework that combines five proximity dimensions and three strategic approaches (adaptation, association, and identity) to better integrate stakeholder engagement into business models for sustainability. The findings offer both conceptual clarity and practical insights for academics and practitioners seeking to bridge sustainability and collaboration in meaningful ways.

Healthcare improvement continues to face challenges in achieving sustainable change, despite decades of effort. Healthcare improvement often fails to account for the complex, adaptive and relational nature of healthcare systems, where outcomes depend on how people interact, make sense of change and co-produce solutions. Furthermore, improvement science has expanded rapidly. It draws on diverse traditions, such as implementation science, organizational learning, systems thinking, complexity science and co-production. There is a wide range of theories, models and frameworks that describe different facets of healthcare. This diversity enriches the field, but it also creates fragmentation and makes it difficult to integrate insights across levels and disciplines.

To strengthen both scholarship and practice, there is a need to clarify how theoretical perspectives can better reflect in achieving sustainable change. In a recent exploration of improvement science an invitation was made “to refine and advance mapping of the improvement landscape by identifying gaps and increasing contributions from diverse perspectives” (Reed et al., 2025: 1). Our respond is a review and analysis to support the continued development of improvement science by linking theoretical concepts more explicitly to studies of the realities of healthcare and by offering a clearer foundation for education, leadership and practice.

This is the scope of our contribution to Co-Lab, including reflections regarding the results from a Q 3.0 perspective.

Recommended reading: Reed JE, Antonacci G, Armstrong N, Baker GR, Crowe S, Harenstam KP, Hargreaves D, Jani YH, Provost L, Rejler M, Savage C, Thor J, Williams S and Woodcock T (2025) What is improvement science, and what makes it different? An outline of the field and its frontiers. Front. Health Serv. 4:1454658. doi: 10.3389/frhs.2024.1454658

Bio: Boel Andersson Gäre is adjunct senior professor at the Department of Improvement and Leadership, School of Health Sciences, Jönköping University/Jönköping Academy for Improvement of Health and welfare/Futurum, Region Jönköping County.

Caroline Ärleskog has a PhD in Sociology and works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Improvement and Leadership, School of Health Sciences, Jönköping University/Jönköping Academy for Improvement of Health and welfare.

JA is part of Co-Lab, a seminar series on co-production led by the Dartmouth Institute with an international audience. The network organizes seminars every month and these are open to anyone who is curious about the subject. The seminar is in English. Please use this link >

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Tired of partying? Want a more relaxed kick-off? Welcome to the library to mingle with students from all faculties! The Student Health Care will serve free homemade Swedish fika! Welcome all new and old students!

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