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Department of Business Humanities and Law
- Entrepreneurship, Ethics & Leadership Unit
As a response to growing inequality, apocalyptic environmental damage, and the protracted effects of a global financial crisis, an increasing number of citizen initiatives are leading social innovation and entrepreneurship processes. Suggesting alternative economic and social imaginaries, and aiming at making our communities more resilient and our economies more sustainable, these citizen initiatives are experimenting with new forms of organising collective action. Activist entrepreneurs, community groups, cooperative initiatives, grassroots innovators and social entrepreneurs are working bottom up to generate solutions to many of the world’s current challenges. My research focuses on the concepts, strategies, tools and practices used by this new breed of entrepreneurial initiatives in their efforts to build sustainable economies, inclusive cities, and resilient communities. The methods I use are interventionist, actively taking part in the entrepreneurial processes I also study. In the past, I founded Förorten i Centrum, a social venture that uses the collective production of mural art to work bottom-up with communities burdened by territorial stigmatisation.
Currently, with a group of researchers and practitioners from Gothenburg University and Kenya (JOOUST University and Grassroots Economics Foundation), I'm part of setting up three community currencies in Kisumu (Kenya). In this doing, we hope to gain a better understanding of the diffusion strategies of grassroots innovations as well as of the economic, social and political impact of these monetary innovations on the communities introducing them.
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Micro-finance
- Complementary and community currencies
- Arts and social change
- Engaged Scholarship
Ester Barinaga holds a 35% professorship at CBS
- Barinaga, E. 2017. “Community Arts: On the precarious compromise between the inspirational and the civic worlds.” In Raviola, E. & Zackariasson (eds.), The Arts and Business: building a common ground for understanding current society. Routledge.
- Barinaga, E. 2017. “Tinkering with space: The organizational practices of a nascent social venture.” Organization Studies.
- Barinaga, E. 2016. “Engaged Scholarship: Taking responsibility for the politics of our method mediations.” In Landström, H., Parhankangas, A. & Riot, P. (eds.), Challenging entrepreneurship research. London: Routledge.
- Barinaga, E. 2014. “Micro-finance in a developed welfare state: A hybrid technology for the government of the outcast.” Geoforum, 51:27–36.
- Barinaga, E. 2013. “Politicising Social Entrepreneurship: Three Social Entrepreneurial Rationalities towards Social Change.” Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 4(3): 347–372.
- Barinaga, E. 2010. 2010. Powerful Dichotomies: Inclusion and exclusion in the Information Society. Stockholm: EFI.
- Barinaga, E. 2007. “’Cultural diversity’ at work: ‘National culture’ as a discourse organizing an international project group.” Human Relations, 60 (2): 315–340.
In: Social Enterprise Journal, Vol. 19, No. 2, 2023, p. 193-212
In: Urban Studies, Vol. 60, No. 1, 1.2023, p. 126-145
In: Urban Geography, 2.8.2023
In: Climate Adaptation: Accounts of Resilience, Self-sufficiency and Systems Change. Bristol : Arkbound 2021, p. 301-321
In: Frontiers in Blockchain, Vol. 3, 27.11.2020
In: Voluntas, Vol. 31, No. 2, 4.2020, p. 437-449
Visby : Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy, ICLD 2019, 4 p. (Policy Brief, No. 4)
Visby : Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy, ICLD 2019, 36 p. (Research Report, No. 15)
In: International Journal of Community Currency Research, Vol. 23, No. 2, 9.2019, p. 2-16
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2018, p. 397-402
In: Arts and Business: Building a Common Ground for Understanding Society. . ed. /Elena Raviola; Peter Zackariasson. New York : Routledge 2017, p. 104-117 (Routledge Research in Creative and Cultural Industries Management)
In: Educating Social Entrepreneurs, Vol. II: From Business Plan Formulation to Implementation. . ed. /Paul Miesing; Maria Aggestam. New York : Business Expert Press 2017, p. 83-91 (The Principles for Responsible Management Education Collection)
Paper presented at IV International Conference on Social and Complementary Currencies, 2017
In: Organization Studies, Vol. 38, No. 7, 7.2017, p. 937-958
In: The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education. ed. /Chris Steyaert; Timon Beyes; Martin Parker. Abingdon : Routledge 2016, p. 298-311 (Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting)
In: Challenging Entrepreneurship Research. ed. /Hans Landström; Annaleena Parhankangas; Alain Fayolle; Philippe Riot. Abingdon : Routledge 2016, p. 155-172 (Routledge Rethinking Entrepreneurship Research)
Paper presented at 17th N-AERUS Conference 2016, 2016
In: Skrivande om skrivande. ed. /Benedikte Borgström; Jenny Helin; Maria Norbäck; Elena Raviola. Lund : Studentlitteratur 2015, p. 161-176
Paper presented at The 5th Latin American and European Meeting on Organizational Studies. LAEMOS 2014, 2014
In: Geoforum, Vol. 51, 2014, p. 27-36
In: Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry, Vol. 11, No. 4, 2013, p. 5-11
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Abstract from Designing and Transforming Capitalism, 2012
Abstract from The 21st Nordic Academy of Management Conference 2011, 2011
Stockholm : Stockholm School of Economics 2010, 229 p.
In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2009, p. 1-14
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Paper presented at CESEM 2009 : Conference on the Politics of Social Cohesion, 2009
In: Management Practices in High-Tech Environments. ed. /Dariusz Jemielniak; Jerzy Kociatkiewicz. : Idea Group Publishing 2009, p. 18-41
In: Handbook of Research on Knowledge-Intensive Organizations. ed. /Dariusz Jemielniak; Jerzy Kociatkiewicz. Hershey : Idea Group Publishing 2009, p. 116-132
Los Angeles, CA : USC-Marshall/Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies 2020, 15 p. (Historical Entrepreneurship Case Series)
Los Angeles, CA : USC-Marshall/Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies 2020, 15 p. (Historical Entrepreneurship Case Series)
Los Angeles, CA : USC-Marshall/Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies 2020, 12 p. (Historical Entrepreneurship Case Series)
Los Angeles, CA : USC-Marshall/Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies 2020, 24 p. (Historical Entrepreneurship Case Series)
Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School, CBS 2019, 15 p. (CBS free case collection)
Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School, CBS 2019, 9 p.
Stockholm : Bokförlaget ETC 2015, 176 p.
In: Årsberättelse. Förorten i Centrum, Vol. 2014, 2015, p. 10-11
Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School, CBS 2015, 13 p.
Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School, CBS 2014, 10 p.
Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School, CBS 2014, 8 p. (CBS free case collection)
Lund : Studentlitteratur 2014, 208 p.
Stockholm : Förorten i Centrums 2013, 30 p.
1.11.2012
Vol. ECCH number: 812-034-1., www : European Case Clearing House 2012, 6 p.
Vol. ECCH number: 812-034-8., www : European Case Clearing House 2012, 14 p.
Cranfield : European Case Clearing House 2011, 11 p.
Cranfield : European Case Clearing House 2011, 13 p.
In: MPP News, No. September, 1.9.2010, p. 17-18
In: Mikrofinans i Sverige: Hur når vi människor utan relation till banksystemet?. . ed. /Inga-Lill Söderberg. Stockholm 2009, p. 104-112 (SparbanksAkademins skriftserie, No. 4)
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Project Title – Community Currencies: Grassroots Financial Innovations for Inclusive Economic Growth
The project investigates the governance practices, impacts and diffusion of grassroots innovations, which are developing financial and monetary infrastructures for inclusive economic growth in urban informal settlements in African countries. It is informed by the case of community currencies in the informal settlements of Kenya’s three major cities (Mombasa, Nairobi and Kisumu). Running throughout four years (2019-2023), the project uses a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods, all within a participatory action research approach. The project builds on collaborations with resident associations and community-based organisations in three informal settlements in Kisumu, the local non-profit Grassroots Economics Foundation, the Kisumu County Council as well as Jaramogi University, Copenhagen Business School, Lund University and University of Gothenburg. The project brings together monetary and grassroots innovation studies in interdisciplinary research, contributing to the development and diffusion of financial and monetary infrastructures for urban informal settlements, and indicating a novel route for social enterprise and development aid.
Funded by DANIDA (Denmark).
Time-span of the project: 2019-2023
Project title – Special-purpose money: Complementary digital currencies and the sustainable development goals
The research project investigates the foundation of special-purpose digital currencies (SPDC) and the extent to which their infrastructure enable the creation of a complementary socio-economic system that captures and transacts value realms other than those recognised by general purpose money (GPM). Building on a systematic review of the literature on local complementary economy initiatives as well as on empirical research of international case studies, the project aims to identify the factors (e.g. governance and management), the stakeholders (e.g. communities, local authorities) and the monetary design traits (e.g. currency convertibility, currency value base) required for the development of a SPDC that would encourage sustainable production and consumption. By applying a humanities approach to the investigation of general-purpose money as an artefact generating unsustainable practices, the project will shed light on how the design of a digital special-purpose currency may promote more sustainable practices.
The research collaboration is led by Alexander Paulsson (Lund University) and includes research institutions from five countries – Lund University in Sweden, Getulio Vargas Foundation and Sao Paulo Business School in Brazil, HEC Montréal Business School in Canada, Brunel University London in the UK, and Maastricht University in The Netherlands – and involves setting up Living Labs in Brazil, Sweden, and the UK.
Funded by Formas (Sweden)
Time-span of the project: 2021-2024
- Professor at Lund University, 2019-
- Fellow at the University of Southern California