Research Report: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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: ...