Misum Academic Insights is a series of online briefs highlighting research carried out by our affiliates. Each insight provides a short overview of a research project with its results as well as implications for practice. Read the first three editions in the series below.

Pernilla Petrelius Karlberg i Ny teknik om ledarskap under pandemin.

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected our well-being in many dimensions. Understanding how these dimensions interact and what factors influence the overall level of well-being can be instrumental in policy design today and in the process of recovery once the pandemic is over. With this in mind, the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics and the FREE Network invites you to participate in an online academic workshop on 'Dimensions of well-being'.

In effort to expedite progress in coronavirus vaccine uptake, several countries have started incentivising prospective vaccine-takers with lotteries and the chance of a big win. Research co produced with Misum's Executive Director explores this growing public health incentive.

Congratulations to researchers Martin Sköld, Åke Freij, and Johan Frishammar whose research article has been awarded Best Paper 2020 from the European Management Review!

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This year’s Social Innovation Scholarship has been awarded to Louise Ribrant and Maakwe Cumanzala, two SSE students with bright futures. The scholarship will support them this summer while working for and supporting a social entrepreneur, leveraging their business skills to create positive change. Social innovation and social entrepreneurship are initiatives aimed to improve what is missing or not working in the social structure: new solutions, methods and ideas that create a sustainable society – economically, socially and ecologically.

New research strives to reposition Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the crux of the management debate by arguing that augmentation cannot be neatly separated from automation.