David Calås
Senior LecturerDavid Calås is a senior lecturer in Sport Science, specializing in management.
His research focuses on organization and entrepreneurship in the field of arts, culture and spots. In this area, David's research interests include the use of sociological approaches and philsophy to give rise to new ways of understanding organizational and entrepreneurial phenomena. In his dissertation project Entrepreneurship as Organizing Desire, he explored how desire is organized in entrepreneurial practices by engaging with the thinking of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and studying the creation of a private art venue in Sweden.
We are accredited
The School of Business and Economics at Linnaeus University is accredited by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, AACSB. Only 6 percent of the world’s leading business schools achieve this accreditation, making us one of a few schools that are trailblasers in teaching, research, and societal impact.
My research groups
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Art, Culture and Entrepreneurship At a time when art and culture increasingly are subjected to market conditions, entrepreneurship has become a force to be reckoned with in society, not only as a…
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Centre for Leadership in Småland All companies, public organisations and non-profit associations need to work on renewing their operations. Leaders therefore need to create and develop the…
Publications
Article in journal (Refereed)
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Calås, D. (2023). "Don't sow, grow offshoots!" : Proposing a rhizomatic agenda for research in the intersection of arts, culture, and entrepreneurship. Art, Culture & Entrepreneurship. 1 (1). 7-29.
Status: Published
Conference paper (Refereed)
- Calås, D., Helmefalk, M. (2022). Co-creating Competitive Gaming : Exploring the Institutional Role of Esports for Indie Game Development. Esports Research Network Conference: Sustainable Esports in the Digital Society : Book of Abstracts. 61-63.
- Calås, D. (2019). Entrepreneuring through the lens of illusio : misproducing, reproducing and transforming the desirable. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Entrepreneurship as Practice Conference, Paris, France, April 3-5, 2019. 1-16.
Chapter in book (Refereed)
- Calås, D., Ellborg, K., Ericsson, D., Esperi Hallgren, E., Husung, A. (2021). Inter-ethnography : from individual beings to collective becoming. Organizational ethnography. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing. 91-109.
- Calås, D. (2020). Gamifying Practice. Utilizing Gamification in Servicescapes for Improved Consumer Engagement. IGI Global.
Book (Other academic)
- Lindkvist, L., Calås, D. (2018). Avtryck : kulturentreprenörer, konsthallar och mecenater. Stockholm, Volante.
Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
- Calås, D. (2023). Entrepreneurship as Organizing Desire. Doctoral Thesis. Linnaeus University Press. 300.