Join five international researchers for an engaging dialogue on the Sowing and Growing model, co-designed for use in diverse contexts, including Canada, Scotland, Sweden, Singapore and England!

This model shows how lived experience can anchor improvement in health and social services, and how co-production evolves through five phases: Germinating, Sprouthing, Blossoming, Propagating and Growing a community garden.

June 9:th at 2 PM, see more by the qr-code on this page: https://ju.se/center/ja/en/about-us/activities/engelsk-startsida-puffarkiv-handelser/2026-05-21-esther-international-webinar-exploring-the-sowing-and-growing-model.html

Gillian Mulvale, Nicoline Vackerberg, Esther Lim, Sandra Moll & Jenn Green

MMTC Seminar with guest Diellza Salihu (LUT)

Title: Institutional decoupling in industrial energy management technology adoption

This work-in-progress seminar examines how industrial firms adopt energy management technologies in response to institutional pressures within the Nordic manufacturing context. Drawing on institutional theory and the concept of decoupling, the study aims to investigate the gap between formal commitments to energy management and the actual implementation of energy-efficient practices and technologies. Using a qualitative, case study design, the research explores how energy-intensive industrial firms seek to monitor, optimise, and reduce energy consumption, improve operational efficiency, comply with regulations, and meet sustainability targets. The study more specifically aims to understand how symbolic technology adoption emerges and how important actors can facilitate more meaningful industrial energy transitions.

Title: Leadership Networks as Spaces for Interplay in Public Health and Welfare organizations: Strengthening Organizational Learning and Policy Implementation

Time June 11, 9.30 am

Where: Meeting room Kappan, Gf311

For participation, please register here no later than May 22 2026. For later registration, please contact agata.rukat@ju.se

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MMTC Seminar with guest Kieran Tierney, RMIT University

Title: Measuring customer grief in brand relationships

Brands are key to building customer-brand relationships. Despite this, organisations change their product lines by removing favoured brands, thereby disrupting these relationships.  This results in negative customer emotions, including pain and grief, which manifest in behavioural outcomes such as negative word-of-mouth, erosion of trust, and avoidance.

While there are established scales in psychology, grief remains relatively unexplored and fragmented in marketing and branding. Without measurement, brand studies risk capturing only partial manifestations of grief, resulting in inconsistent empirical findings and obscuring how grief shapes brand relationships, loyalty trajectories, and post-loss consumer behaviour, thereby impacting marketing management decisions. To address this, this study seeks to develop a customer grief measurement scale, given the impact of brand removals on customer-brand relationships.

This study used a quantitative approach comprising three studies conducted using data collected on Prolific. We present a reliable scale for measuring customer grief, its behavioural outcomes, and implications for hedonic and utilitarian brands.

Join us: B6046, JIBS or Online via zoom (contact for link)

About the presenter: Kieran’s research focuses on qualitative explorations of service interactions, with a particular emphasis on advancing knowledge in service branding, management and B2B marketing. His work aims to bridge the gap between academic insights and practical applications, contributing to both scholarly literature and industry practice.