Sweden liberalized labour migration policy in 2008 to allow third-country nationals to enter Sweden for entrepreneurship, not only for work. This unique element — a residence permit for entrepreneurship — was introduced by changes in the migration law. But has it been successful? CSR-affiliated researcher Aliaksei Kazlou took a closer look at the matter together with fellow researcher Susanne Urban.

Professor Emeritus Lars-Gunnar Mattsson has been involved in academic research and education since the 1960’s. Over the decades, his research has covered aspects of industry and distribution structure and dynamics, industrial marketing and internationalization with a focus on interorganizational relationships. More recently, he has begun to focus on sustainable development as dependent on interaction between market governance and state governance.

"The market can make the interest rate to go up, but only to the extent that the central bank allows it, says CSR researcher Max Jerneck in a debate article in Dagens Industri, regarding the political turmoil in the UK.

CSR Professor Örjan Sjöberg will take part in the panel discussion on sustainability and city life on October 26.

If "Cirkulära Öster" ("The Circular East") can lead to that the people of Nyköping are consuming less, and that less goods are being produced, it’s good for the environment, according to a researcher. And that may lead to new job opportunities as well.

With a background rooted in urban planning and sustainability from the Royal Institute of Technology and a specialization in management from Karolinska Institute, Ph.D student Saman Amir’s work at SSE revolves around sustainability with focus on the circular economy. She is passionate about sustainability both from the environmental and socio-economic justice standpoint and is now investigating the circular supply chains from a sustainability, business strategy and operations perspective.

CSR’s Director and Associate Professor Lin Lerpold has together with Professor Örjan Sjöberg published research which examines the sustainability of urban living, as urban areas are often portrayed as an opportunity to reduce environmental impacts. Highlighting amongst other things that the very nature of the agglomeration economies that allow for economising on natural resources may result in higher levels of consumption. They further explain the issue of 'ontological cityism' (the inter-urban issues of boundary drawing for measurement) when considering a city’s sustainability.

By its very nature the informal sector includes economic activity that lies outside the government regulation or taxation. The environmental degradation produced within the informal sector activities thus present additional challenges. Nearly 35 (15) percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) in low and middle income (advanced) economies is generated within the informal sector. According to the ILO more than 6 workers in 10 and 4 enterprises out of 5 in the world operate in the informal economy. CSR's Ranjula Bali Swain and University of Reading’s Uma Kambhampati have recently published a book on this theme.

Sophie Nachemson-Ekwall has recently written a third report on the market for social bonds and social outcome contracts and is looking forward to continuing her research in socially labelled financing. She appreciates the development of the social sustainability labelled financial market in the Nordic countries and is hoping for an even greater interest.

Affiliated researcher Max Jerneck has a background in sociology but has also studied literature and journalism. At SIR and SSE, his research focus has been on the climate transition, and how to develop low carbon industries, where he has been looking at solar energy in particular. His main project now, however, is immigrant integration and the Swedish hospitality industry.