Gothenburg Research Institute: Recent submissions
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Using new technology to re-construct gender
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I krig och kärlek? En intresserad amatörs reflektioner kring militär rättskipning och juridisk process
(2009-06-22)Ett rättssystems effektivitet är i första hand beroende av att det efterlevs frivilligt. Frivilligheten uppnås genom att rättsordningen i huvudsak levererar resultat som korresponderar mot de underliggande normativa ... -
Ledar – Medarbetarskapsutbyten (LMX) inom Detaljhandeln. Litteraturöversikt.
(2009-02-24)Svensk detaljhandel har undergått genomgripande strukturförändringar som medfört förbättrad produktivitet och en kraftigt ökad omsättning. Utvecklingen har bl.a. inneburit ökade krav på butikschefen att vara en effektiv ... -
Post-Partnership Strategies for Defining Corporate Responsibility: The Business Social Compliance Initiative
(Springer, 2007)While cross-sectoral partnerships are frequently presented as a way to achieve sustainable development, some corporations that first tried using the strategy are now changing direction. Growing tired of what are, in their ... -
Evaluating Strategies for Negotiating Workers' Rights in Transnational Corporations: The Effects of Codes of Conduct and Global Agreements on Workplace Democracy
(Springer, 2007)Following the offshoring of production to developing countries by transnational corporations (TNCs), unions and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have criticised working conditions at TNCs’ offshore factories. This has ... -
Exploring the Effects of Union-NGO Relationships on Corporate Responsibility: The Case of the Swedish Clean Clothes Campaign
(Springer, 2006)In the current era, governments are playing smaller roles in regulating workers’ rights internationally, and transnational corporations (TNCs), non-governmental organisations (NGOs) involved in the struggle for workers’ ... -
TNC Motives for Signing International Framework Agreements: A Continuous Bargaining Model of Stakeholder Pressure
(Springer, 2008)Over the past decade, discussion has flourished among practitioners and academics regarding workers’ rights in developing countries. The lack of enforcement of national labour laws and the limited protection of workers’ ... -
Transnational Governance of Workers' Rights: Outlining a Research Agenda
(Springer, 2008)In twentieth century Europe and the USA, industrial relations, labour, and workers’ rights issues have been handled through collective bargaining and industrial agreements between firms and unions, with varying degrees ... -
Suppliers' Compliance with MNCs' Codes of Conduct: Behind the Scenes at Chinese Toy Suppliers
(Springer, 2007)Despite increased academic and practitioner interest in codes of conduct, there has been little research into the actual compliance of suppliers in developing countries with the codes of conduct of multinational corporations ... -
Identity work and identity regulation in managers' personal development training
(2008-11-26)This article describes the role of personal development training in managers’ identity processes. Personal development training constitutes a local management discourse, which can influence both identity work and identity ... -
Science for sale – build or criticize science as trademark
(2008-10-21)Over history science has, in a more and more agnostic world, come to replace religion as the most important hegemonic factor how to decide what is correct and what is incorrect, what is necessary and what may not be done, ... -
Intelligent suicide?
(2008-10-21)This is an essay discussing how far the limits of intelligence can be stretched, without risking that it becomes counter-productive. It focuses primarily on Sweden and the concretisations are Swedish. However, I believe ... -
Introducing the New Rhetoric into organization studies
(2008-10-03)The purpose of this paper is to introduce the New Rhetoric and show its relevance for organisation studies. The expression “New Rhetoric” refers here to the theory of argumentation that Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca ... -
Producing Difference in Organizing – Attempts to Change an Ethnic Identity into a Professional One
(2008-10-02)This paper reports how municipalities, state agencies and other organizations working with the induction of newly-arrived immigrants in Sweden cooperate in establishing a system for assessing the immigrants’ competencies ... -
The moral responsibility of project selectors
(2008-09-10)The starting point of this paper asserts that managers who elicit and select projects have a moral responsibility. Correspondingly, its purpose is to provide a means for project selectors to appreciate this responsibility ... -
From empathy to autism – how ignorance became the norm
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The Corporate Social Performance Dilemma: Organising for Goal Duality in Low-Income African Markets
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Förtroendefulla kläder: Omdefinitionen av svenska klädföretags leverantörsansvar (1995-2005)
(Studentlitteratur, 2006)