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Nordic Management & Business Administration Research - Quo Vadis?
(2002)
This paper deals with the ongoing debate as to whether there is a Nordic research tradition in management and business administration. And if there is such a tradition, what are the characteristics of this way of academic ...
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 ...
On the locus of justice in the resource allocation of a small city
(1999)
A narrative presenting the development and reforms of the budgetary process
and related organisational changes in the city of Gothenburg is subjected to an
analysis inspired by Rawls' Theory of Justice. It is found that ...
Action towards time structures in product development processes - observations on the micro level
(2003)
In product development processes conventional wisdom has it that structure is provided by strict specifications of product properties, budgets and time schedules that are followed up (Womack et al 1990, Clark & Fujimoto, ...
Var finns rättvisan i fördelningen av resurser i en liten storstad?
(2000)
En berättelse om budgetreformer och med dem sammanhängande organisatoriska förändringar i Göteborgs Stad analyseras mot bakgrund av Rawls `Theory of Justice'. Man finner då att beslutscentrum vad gäller prioriteringar har ...
Doing interventionist research in management accounting
(2005)
Interventionist research is not unobtrusive since the researcher deliberately seeks to make an impact on the world in order to gain knowledge. In this chapter we examine the fundamental nature of interventionist research ...
Managers work with words - an introduction
(2001)
This report tries to establish a theoretical position on the problem of dealing with contradictory goals in organisations. Our most prominent theories point to `sequential attention to alternatives' or `sequential attention ...
Confrontation and the rules of the game in product development - the micro processes
(2001)
Observations from two car projects are analysed. Video-recordings of two sequences showing team members trying to use confrontation to make other members change their behaviour and pay more attention to the provision of ...
Action Research in Management Accounting Studies
(1999)
New directions in management accounting studies should
aim at getting us out of the ontological trap which is provided by the
decision making conception of management. The Scandinavian
tradition of fieldwork in the area ...
The controller in action- participative control here and now in product development processes
(1999)
This paper analyses a video recorded exchange in a product development
management group with a specific focus on the controller in action. This
specimen of data serves to illustrate how larger issues of strategy ...