2026
von Malmborg, F. (2026) Att skylla på brottsoffren: Politisk legitimering av klimatbrott genom demokratihotande brott, Stockholm: Ohm Kultur & Demokrati.
von Malmborg, F. (2026) Blaming and Criminalising the Victims: Political Legitimation of Climate Change Crime Through Hate Crime and Democracy Crime, Stockholm: Ohm Institute for Culture & Democracy. Download PDF
von Malmborg, F. (2025) On the applicability of the Advocacy Coalition Framework for analysing EU policy processes, European Policy Analysis, 12(1), e70008. https://doi.org/10.1002/epa2.70008
von Malmborg, F. (2026) Comparing strategies and success of policy entrepreneurs in EU energy and climate policy processes, Energy, Sustainability & Society, 16(2), 1-36. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13705-026-00563-1
von Malmborg, F. (2026) Weird sporting with double edged swords: Understanding ‘nasty rhetoric’ in Swedish climate politics, Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, accepted. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202502.0823.v3
von Malmborg, F. (2026) Christianity’s influence on populist radical right politics as strategy and style. 55th Annual Conference of the Swedish Political Science Association, 30 September to 2 October 2026, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202505.1734.v3
von Malmborg, F. (2026) Linking hate crime and democracy crime to climate change crime. 55th Annual Conference of the Swedish Political Science Association, 30 September to 2 October 2026, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202502.1902.v3
von Malmborg, F. (2026) ‘Executed in front of your children’: Embodied writing on social activist responses to cultural violence, Organization, submitted. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.0960.v6
2025
von Malmborg, F. (2025) The eye of every storm: Policy entrepreneurs to strengthen the role of energy efficiency in EU climate policy, Energy, Sustainability & Society, 15, 32. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13705-025-00529-9
von Malmborg, F. (2025) At the controls: Politics and policy entrepreneurs in EU policymaking to decarbonise maritime transport, Review of Policy Research, 42(5), 1243-1276. https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12609
von Malmborg, F., Rohdin, P. & Wihlborg, E. (2025) Legitima styrmedel: En fallstudie av klimatdeklarationer för byggnader, Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, 2025/4, 827-875. https://journals.lub.lu.se/st/article/view/28815/24840
Adedokun, R., Strachan, P.A., Singh, A. & von Malmborg, F. (2025) Exploring the dynamics of socio-technical transitions: Advancing grid-connected wind and solar energy adoption in Nigeria, Energy Research & Social Science, 119, 103850. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103850
Nordensvärd, J., Björklund, M., von Malmborg, F., La Fleur, L., Skogsmo, E. & Gamez, D.H.B. (2025) Reviewing the EU policy nexus of energy efficiency and social policy, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 224, 116128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2025.116128
2024
von Malmborg, F. (2024) Strategies and impacts of policy entrepreneurs: Ideology, democracy, and the quest for a just transition to climate neutrality, Sustainability, 16(12), 5272. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16125272
von Malmborg, F. (2024) Explaining differences in policy learning in the EU ‘Fit for 55’ climate policy package, European Policy Analysis, 10(3), 412-448. https://doi.org/10.1002/epa2.1210
von Malmborg, F. (2024) Policy learning for policy change on energy efficiency in companies, Energy Efficiency, 17, 84. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12053-024-10267-0
von Malmborg, F. (2024) Tapping the conversation on the meaning of decarbonization: Discourses and discursive agency in EU politics on low-carbon fuels for maritime shipping, Sustainability, 16(13), 5589. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16135589
von Malmborg, F., Rohdin, P. & Wihlborg, E. (2024) Climate declarations for buildings as a new policy instrument in Sweden: A multiple streams perspective, Building Research & Information, 52(4), 479-496. https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2023.2222320
Björklund, M., von Malmborg, F., La Fleur, L. & Nordensvärd, J. (2024) Going beyond the Council as brake of EU energy policy: Analysing the internal process of the Council in the recast of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, Energy Policy, 195, 114388. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114388
2023
von Malmborg, F. (2023) Advocacy coalitions and policy change for decarbonisation of international maritime transport: The case of FuelEU Maritime, Maritime Transport Research, 4, 100091. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.martra.2023.100091
von Malmborg, F. (2023) Combining the advocacy coalition framework and discourse analysis: The case of the ‘energy efficiency first’ principle in EU energy and climate policy, Politics & Policy, 51(2), 12525. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12525
von Malmborg, F. (2023) First and last and always: Politics of the ’energy efficiency first’ principle in EU energy and climate policy, Energy Research & Social Science, 101, 103126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103126
von Malmborg, F (2023) Tales of creation: Advocacy coalitions, beliefs and paths to policy change on the ‘energy efficiency first’ principle in EU, Energy Efficiency, 16(8), 87. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12053-023-10168-8
von Malmborg, F. & Strachan, P.A. (2023) Advocacy coalitions and paths to policy change for promoting energy efficiency in European industry, Energies, 16(9), 3785. https://doi.org/10.3390/en16093785
von Malmborg, F., Björklund, M. & Nordensvärd, J. (2023) Framing the benefits of European Union policy expansion on energy efficiency of buildings: A Swiss knife or a trojan horse? European Policy Analysis, 9(3), 219-243. https://doi.org/10.1002/epa2.1184
von Malmborg, F., Björklund, M. & Rohdin, P. (2023) Improving energy efficiency of buildings, in: Urban, F. & Nordensvärd, J., eds. Handbook on Climate Change and Technology, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham; 163-178. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800882119.00018
Björklund, M., von Malmborg, F. & Nordensvärd, J. (2023) Lessons learnt from 20+ years of research on multi-level governance of energy efficient and zero-carbon buildings in the European Union, Energy Efficiency, 16, 98. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12053-023-10178-6
2006-2022
von Malmborg, F. (2022) Theorising member state lobbying on European Union policy on energy efficiency, Energy Policy, 167, 113057. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113057
von Malmborg, F. (2021) Exploring advocacy coalitions for energy efficiency: Policy change through internal shock and learning in the European Union, Energy Research & Social Science, 80, 102248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102248
von Malmborg, F. (2021) Förändring av EU:s politik för energieffektivisering: Policyförändring genom intern chock och policy-orienterat lärande, Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, 123(2), 267-294. https://journals.lub.lu.se/st/article/view/23518
von Malmborg, F. (2008) Corporate strategy and the Kyoto mechanisms – institutional and transaction cost perspectives, in: Antes, R., Hansjürgens, B. & Lethmate, P., eds. Emissions Trading: Institutional design, decision making and corporate strategies. Springer, Heidelberg/New York. 209–234. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-0-387-73653-2_14
von Malmborg, F. (2007) Stimulating learning and innovation in networks for regional sustainable development: the role of local authorities, Journal of Cleaner Production, 15(17), 1730-1741. (doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2006.08.014)
Strachan, P.A., Lal, D. & von Malmborg, F. & (2006) The evolving UK wind energy industry: Critical policy and management aspects of the emerging research agenda, Environmental Policy and Governance, 16(1), 1-18. (doi:10.1002/eet.400)
2005
Oskarsson, K. & von Malmborg, F. (2005) Integrated management systems as a corporate response to sustainable development. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 12(3), 121-128. (doi:10.1002/csr.78)
von Malmborg, F. & Strachan, P.A. (2005) Climate policy, ecological modernization and the UK emissions trading scheme, Environmental Policy and Governance, 15(3), 143-160. (doi:10.1002/eet.384)
2004
Forsberg, A. & von Malmborg, F. (2004) Tools for environmental assessment of the built environment. Building & Environment, 39(2), 223-228. (doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2003.09.004)
Korhonen, J., von Malmborg, F., Strachan, P.A. & Ehrenfeld, J. (2004) Editorial. Management and policy aspects of industrial ecology: an emerging research agenda. Business Strategy and the Environment, 13(5), 289-305. (doi:10.1002/bse.415)
von Malmborg, F. (2004) Networking for knowledge transfer: Towards an understanding of local authority roles in regional industrial ecosystem management. Business Strategy and the Environment, 13(5), 334-346. (doi:10.1002/bse.419)
Norén, H. & von Malmborg, F. (2004) Are standardised EMSs useful in local authorities? A study of how a tool from the private sector is used in the public sector. Business Strategy and the Environment, 13(3), 187-197. (doi:10.1002/bse.403)
Paulsson, F. & von Malmborg, F. (2004) Carbon dioxide emissions trading, or not? An institutional analysis of company behaviour in Sweden. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 11(4), 211-221. (doi:10.1002/csr.67)
2003
von Malmborg, F. (2003) Conditions for regional public–private partnerships for sustainable development: Swedish perspectives. Environmental Policy and Governance, 13(3), 133-149. (doi:10.1002/eet.317)
von Malmborg, F. (2003) Environmental management systems: What is in it for local authorities? Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 5(1), 3-21. (doi:10.1080/15239080305605)
von Malmborg, F. (2003) Public–private partnerships for regional sustainable development: Lessons from Sweden, in: Lafferty, W. & Narodoslawksy, M., eds. Regional Sustainable Development in Europe: The challenge of multi-level co-operative governance. ProSus, Oslo; 271-294.
von Malmborg, F.B. & Forsberg, A. (2003) Choice of energy data in environmental assessment of the built environment. Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management, 5(1), 83-97. (doi:10.1142/S146433320300122X)
Hedberg, C.J. & von Malmborg, F. (2003) The Global Reporting Initiative and corporate sustainability reporting in Swedish companies. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 10(3), 153-164. (doi:10.1002/csr.38)
2000-2002
von Malmborg, F.B. (2002) Environmental management systems, communicative action and organizational learning. Business Strategy and the Environment, 11(5), 312-323. (doi:10.1002/bse.337)