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Stiff surprise - coping with surprising discoveries in product development processes
(2001)An incident in a product development project is analysed to see how participants cope differently with surprising situations. This generates cognitive variety in the project team which means that the situation is complex ... -
Strategisk Bolognaanpassning? En företagsanalys av Handelshögskolan
(2006)Under 2006 bedrivs ett intensivt arbete med att omforma Handelshögskolans utbildningsprogram och utbildningsrutiner för att leva upp till de krav som formuleras i Bolognaprocessens olika lagar, förordningar och riktlinjer. ... -
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 ... -
Sustainability objects as performative definitions of sustainability: The case of food waste-based biogas and biofertilizers
(2015-02)This article introduces the notion of sustainability objects to label objects that come with a claim to promote a more sustainable mode of living. The purpose is to show that organizations that develop such objects contribute ... -
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. ... -
Sweden's largest Facebook study
(Gothenburg Research Institute, 2012-03-06)The emergence of the Internet has made it easier for people to socially interact than ever before. Today, the most popular channel is Facebook with over 845 million users world wide. In Sweden, the number of users amount ... -
Talks on Tracks - Debating Urban Infrastructure Projects
(2000)This paper retraces and analyzes the debate around a major infrastructure project in central Stockholm, the construction of a third railroad track over the islet of Riddarholm. Using the analytical framework of the New ... -
The (d)evolution of the cyberwoman?
(2006)In this text, we examine Donna Haraway’s idea of a liberating potential of cyborgization first in the subsequent versions of Stepford Wives (the novel, the 1975 movie, and the 2004 movie), and second in the evolution of ... -
The appropriate banker and the need for ontological re-positioning
(Gothenburg Research Institute, 2012)It is obvious that the bankers of this world have failed miserably. Top managers have failed to know what was going on in their organization (or worse). At lower levels of bank the employees have failed to realize that ... -
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 ... -
The Digital Invisibility of Broadband and its Representation in the Modern City
(2001)City managers in several cities have tried to market their city related to information technology; i.e. Osaka as a city of intelligence, Barcelona as a city of telematics, Amsterdam as a city of information, Manchester as ... -
The Impossibility of Corporate Ethics – For a Levinasian Approach to Managerial Ethics
(2005)The moral philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas offers a prospectus of stark impossibility for any programme of business or corporate ethics. It differs from most traditional ethical theories in that for Levinas the ethical ... -
The nature of control. A study of CEO behavior
(2000)How do CEOs exercise control over their organizations? This question is to be answered through a study, which consists of direct observation of eight Swedish CEOs in their everyday work. Of special interest is to investigate ... -
The Organising of Expert Firms
(2002)A prevalent assumption in discussions on expert labour is that experts organise their work according to an occupational logic. The question, however, how the occupational logic come to dominate the greater part of expert ... -
The role of valuation practices for risk identification
(Gothenburg Research Institute, 2015)This report uses a relational theory of risk within which risk is understood as a relationship between a risk object and an object at risk where the risk object threatens the value embedded in the object at risk. A case ... -
The Thin End of the Wedge. Foreign Women Professors as Double Strangers in Academia
(2005)The impetus for this study was an observation that many of the women who obtained the first chairs at European universities were foreigners. Our initial attempt to provide a statistical picture proved impossible, because ... -
THE USES OF NARRATIVE IN ORGANIZATION RESEARCH
(2000)A so-called literary turn in social sciences in general and in organization studies in particular has resulted in re-discovering the narrative knowledge in organization theory and practice. Organization researchers ... -
TOWARDS A SOCIO-POLITICAL THEORISING OF THE CORPORATION (FIRM) – A PROBLEM STATEMENT
(Handelshögskolan, Göteborg, 2019-12)Economies and corporations are increasingly being characterized as financialized. The separation of ownership and control is at the core of this development and we depart from an understanding that Jensen & Meckling’s ... -
Town by the Riverside - jazz som kulturarv i Göteborg
(Centrum för konsumtionsvetenskap, 2016-04)Denna rapport bygger på en pilotstudie av jazzföreningen Classic Jazz Göteborg. Studien faller inom ramen för Centrum för konsumtionsvetenskaps (CFK) delprojekt i det tvärdisciplinära och internationella forskningsprojektet ... -
Translating and transcribing in development projects - from vague problems to clear cut solutions through project organising
(2000)Organisations, as well as society in general, are organised along functional perspectives. Each function that serves members of a society has traditionally been taken care of by one state agency in each functional field. ...