Gothenburg Research Institute: Recent submissions
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Yunus Janusansikte: En kritisk granskning av försäljning till världens fattiga
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The Processes of Defining Corporate Responsibility: A Study of Swedish Garment Retailers' Responsibility
(Wiley InterScience, 2008)Despite extensive research on corporate responsibility, little research exists on how the inter-organisational processes of defining corporate responsibility develop. In this paper, we present a framework based on ... -
The risk/no-risk rhetoric of environmental impact assessments (EIA): The case of off-shore wind farms in Sweden
(2008-02-07)Risk is a key topic in the communication between developers of infrastructure projects, permit-granting authorities, and civil society. The nature of risk communication is contested among academics, however. Whereas some ... -
The Evolution of Swedish Pharmacies and Recent Reforms
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Guided tours and the city - Proceedings
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Steg på vägen till toppen - Utvärdering av arbetet efter projektet Women to the top
(2007-10-19)Syftet med det EU-finansierade projektet Women to the Top var att få fram fler kvinnor på toppositioner i svenska företag och offentliga organisationer, samt att skapa en plattform för detta arbete. Syftet med denna ... -
Individer eller personal? En idéskrift om etik inom person(al)ledning
(2000-05-07)Rapporten beskriver olika former av etik inom personalledning som kommer till uttryck inom dagens arbetsliv; den organisatoriska, den ekonomiska och den personorienterade. Det huvudsakliga budskapet är att samhälliga ... -
Standardisering av värderingar. Personalutbildning inom den svenska konsumentkooperationen
(2001-05-07)Under 90-talet genomfördes flera reformer för att förändra Kooperativa Förbundet, KF:s detaljhandelsverksamhet. Dessa förändringar ifrågasatte den etablerade inriktningen på medlemskap och framförde istället idéer kring ... -
The Controller's Managerial Work
(2007-04-19)This article analyses a controller’s action in a product development setting. An alliance context provides for a hybrid form of governance and for complexity. The analysis builds on the participants’ own comments to a ... -
Mot en respektens etik för servicemötet
(2004)Servicemötet handlar oftast om ett möte mellan människor. I detta avseende är det inte bara legitimt utan även nödvändigt att betrakta det utifrån ett etiskt perspektiv och ställa sig frågan: vilken moral kräver servicemötet? ... -
On Time, Space, and Action Nets
(2004)Laboratory studies, especially those by Latour and Woolgar (1979/1986) and Knorr Cetina (1981) proved to be an invaluable source of inspiration for students of organizing. Laboratories, however, are mostly reminiscent of ... -
Articulation of principles on the micro level - observing argumentation in a merger process
(2004)The merging process between a Swedish and a Norwegian manufacturing company has been studied using interviews, video recordings and comments explaining video recorded events at meetings. It is assumed that sensemaking ... -
"Integration" - a polyphonic concept in merging companies
(2004)In this study a new method for researching the qualitative differences in meaning making of a concept is introduced to clarify how managers in two merger cases differ in the way they make sense of the ongoing process. A ... -
Women in financial services: fiction and more fiction
(2004)At the peak of the "new economy", the Swedish newspapers were reporting an interesting fact: women were entering financial services, joining not the old-fashioned occupational groups such as bank clerks, but the avant-garde: ... -
Strong plots: The relationship between Popular Culture and Management Practice & Theory
(2004)In this paper we consider the relationship between popular culture and management practice. Starting with references to previously established connections between high culture and management, we turn to popular culture for ... -
Organisering mellan organisationer Vårdkedja som handlingskedja
(2003)Den här uppsatsen handlar om hur man organiserar vård över organisatoriska gränser, vilket innebär att olika enheter måste samverka. I ett projekt (Högsbo-projektet) som bedrevs under slutet av 1990-talet arbetade personal ... -
Svenska företag i deckarromaner 1943-2001
(2003)Fiction offers many interesting insights to students of management. In the first place, many novels contain elements of historical ethnographies, portraying the ways of life – and organizing – that vanished in the past. ...