The whole movement, read and linked.

Issues in Accounting Education (AAA) · Lindsay & Libby

Teaching case on the Swedish bank that abandoned budgets.

ResearchGate · Lindsay & Libby

Open copy of the Handelsbanken decentralisation case.

Substack (D. Ledingham) · Substack author

Essay on Wallander's reversal of head-office power and branch-level entrepreneurship.

Aneo (blog) · Aneo

French consultancy's account of Wallander's 1970s turnaround and decentralised decision-making.

Wikipedia · —

Background on the 1970s decentralisation and the Oktogonen foundation owning ~10% of the bank.

Corporate Rebels · Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.

Visit to the Swedish bank where 'the branch is the bank' and budgets were abolished in the 1970s.

Corporate Rebels · Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.

Peer comparison instead of targets as a performance driver.

Corporate Rebels · Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.

Case on Wallander's 'church principle' and 800 autonomous branches.

FDIC · Handelsbanken

Regulatory filing in which the bank itself explains 'the branch is the bank' and decisions taken on the spot with customers.

Medium — The Ready · Aaron Dignan

Dignan's research tool built from studying Automattic, Buurtzorg, dm-drogerie markt, FAVI, Haier, Handelsbanken, Menlo, Morning Star, Patagonia, Spotify and W.L. Gore, among others.