Michael Funke

Research interests: Modern history, political economy, policy change & policy processes, interest group theory and regulatory theory, self-regulation, corporatism, export promotion, marketing history, advertising history, media history, business history, entrepreneurship.

Current Projects

“Selling Sweden or letting Sweden Sell: Export marketing between the state and the nation 1887 –1972”

“The Swedish Advertising Ombudsman, self-regulatory effects om market competition 2009 – 2019”

Present position

Ph.D. Economic History

Research interests

Historical processes of markets as related to regulatory and institutional change, specifically within marketing and the role of business interest associations in such developments. Business history, creative industries, corporatism, political economy, advertising history, post-war politics.

Current Projects

“Selling Sweden or Letting Sweden Sell: Export marketing between the state and the nation 1887 –1972” (with N Glover) Department of Economic History, Uppsala University

Funded by Handelsbankens research foundations, (Wallanders och Tom Hedelius Stiftelse)

“The Swedish Advertising Ombudsman, self-regulatory effects om market competition 2009 – 2019” The Institute for Economic and Business History Research at Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics

Funded på Ridderstads foundation (Ridderstads stiftelse)

Professionalization and strategic communication in postwar Swedish business interest associations

Selected publications

Books

Funke, M. 2015. Regulating a Controversy: Inside Stakeholder Strategies and Regime Transition in the Self-Regulation of Swedish Advertising 1950–1971. Uppsala: Uppsala Studies in Economic History.(Diss.)

Chapters in books

Funke, M. 2017. "A Historical Perspective on the Creation of the Swedish Market Court - Marketing Law Development within the Context of Political Economy" i Bernitz, U., Carlson, P., Nordell, P.J., and Rosén, J. (red.) Amici Curiae Marknadsdomstolen 1971- 2016. Stockholm: Jure Förlag.

Funke, M. 2013. Funke, Michael. "Advocacy Coalitions and Strategic Interests - the Policy Process of Swedish Advertising Self-Regulation 1950–1971", in Knowledge and Policy Change, edited by H. Lindberg. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. DiVA

Funke, M. 2013. Funke, M. "Från tidningsannonser till sponsrade länkar: den svenska reklamens historiska utveckling". in Entreprenörskap och varumärken edited by Lönnborg, M. and Larsson, M.and K. Winroth. Möklinta: Gidlunds. DiVA

Funke, M. 2011, "Swedish Business and the Political Radicalism of the 1960s - the Case of Advertising". in Aktörer och marknader i omvandling. Studier i företagandets historia tillägande Kersti Ullenhag, edited by Fälting. L. & Larsson. M. & Petersson, T. and Ågren, K. Uppsala: Uppsala Studies in Economic History 91.

Articles

Funke, M. 2019. "Assar Svensson", The Dictionary of Swedish National Biography, vol 170, issue 34.

Funke, M. 2017. "Johan Victor Svenson", The Dictionary of Swedish National Biography, vol 169, issue 34.

Funke, M. 2017. "Sven G Svenson", The Dictionary of Swedish National Biography, vol 169, issue 34.

Report

Funke, M. 2007. Rapport om reklambranschens opinionsbildning i branschtidningen Resumé 1977–1991, Ridderstads stiftelse.

Papers and research presentations

The economic history of the Swedish dansband industry 1970-2010 (outline), Biennial Meeting of Swedish economic historians, Gothenburg university, 2021 (w. Erik Lakomaa).

The Swedish Advertisers' Association and the institutional development of Swedish export advertising 1955-1972, Biennial of Swedish Advertising Historians, Stockholm University, 2021.

The Swedish Advertisers' Association and the institutional development of Swedish export advertising 1955-1972, 20th biennial Conference on Historical Analysis and Research in Marketing, Online, 2021.

Reklamombudsmannens konkurrenseffekter 2009–2019, preliminära resultat II: uppmärksamhet i media, EHFF/Stockholm School of Economics, 2020.

Reklamombudsmannens konkurrenseffekter 2009–2019, preliminära resultat, Uppsala Center for Business History, Uppsala University, 2020.

Reklamombudsmannens konkurrenseffekter 2009–2019, preliminära resultat, EHFF/Stockholm School of Economics, 2020.

“The emotional value of Sweden”: The advertising industry and professionalized export promotion in the 1950s, Dept of Economic History, Uppsala University, 2017 (w. N Glover).

Regulating a controversy: inside stakeholder strategies and regime transition in the self-regulation of Swedish advertising 1950–1971”, Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University, Uppsala, 2017.

Regulating a controversy: inside stakeholder strategies and regime transition in the self-regulation of Swedish advertising 1950–1971”, The Swedish Trade and Industry Committee on Marketing Law Policy Stockholm (Näringslivets delegation för marknadsrätt) 2016.

A Historical Perspective on the Creation of the Swedish Market Court - Marketing Law Development within the Context of Political Economy , The Institute for Intellectual Property Law and Market Law, (IFIM) Stockholm University, Stockholm, 2016.

Regulating a controversy: inside stakeholder strategies and regime transition in the self-regulation of Swedish advertising 1950–1971”, EHFF Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, 2016.

Education and Professional Experience

2016-2020, Collaboration manager, Uppsala University Innovation Office

2015 Ph. D. Economic History, Uppsala University

2005 Master’s Degree in History, Stockholm University

1992 Cultural Studies Programme, Uppsala University

Research Grants

Ridderstads foundation 2020

Handelsbanken research foundation 2016

The Swedish Retail and Wholesale Council (Handelsrådet) 2016

Ridderstad Foundation 2016

Helge Ax:son Johnson foundation 2014

Ridderstads foundation 2011

Ridderstads foundation 2010

Helge Ax:son Johnson foundation 2010

Ridderstad foundation 2005

Awards

Stanley C. Hollander best paper award, 2020