Browsing Research Report by Author "Gothenburg Research Institute"
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I krig och kärlek? En intresserad amatörs reflektioner kring militär rättskipning och juridisk process
Töllborg, Dennis (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 ... -
I KULTURENS GREPP - Nedläggningen av Lear Corporations fabrik i Bengtsfors. Ett industriellt drama i tre akter
Wass, Johan; Edström, Anders (2002)No abstract! -
"Integration" - a polyphonic concept in merging companies
Rovio-Johansson, Airi (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 ... -
Integration, diversity and mutual learning in intra-Nordic management
Jönsson, Sten (2000) -
Is It Possible To Lift Oneself By The Hair? And If Not, Why Is It Worth Trying
Czarniawska, Barbara (2004)The title of this text alludes to the legend of Baron Munchausen, who reportedly did many impossible things. A change of a system by the same system belongs to such impossible tasks, as shown by Niklas Luhmann's theory of ... -
Isolationist Automorphism, Relentless Isomorphism, or Merciless Idealism. The Cultural Context of City Management in Warsaw, Stockholm and Rome
Czarniawska, Barbara (2001)This paper employs some results of a study of city management in Warsaw, Stockholm, and Rome by setting them in a cultural context. Contrary to the common opinion, the difficulties in effective city management in Warsaw ... -
KNOWLEDGE INTERESTS IN CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Wolff, Rolf; Strannegård, Lars; Dobers, Peter (2001)We know from earlier studies that corporate environmental management is a young discipline, not yet integrated in general management and organization studies, but that researchers take an increasing part in the ongoing ... -
Kompetensväxling i kommunal regi - om Bengtsfors framtid efter Lear
Trägårdh, Björn (2002)När Lear Corporation våren 1999 lade ner sin verksamhet i Bengtsfors agerade kommunen snabbt och tillskapade ett projekt som åtog sig att återskapa de dryga 860 jobb som försvunnit. Kommunen hade sedan tidigare en beredskap ... -
Konstnärliga interventioner för kreativitet och förändring i organisationer: lekfullt utforskande, motstånd och dialoger i läroprocessen
Soila-Wadman, Marja (2017-12)Studiens syfte är att skapa förståelse för vad det är som händer i processen under ett konstnärsdrivet interventionsprojekt för kreativitet och förändring i en organisation utanför den konst- och kulturella sfären. En ... -
Lyckad integration? Skönlitterära beskrivningar av invandringen i Sverige 1945-2017
Czarniawska, Barbara (Gothenburg Research Institute, 2020) -
Making Sense of Business.Reorganizing Processes in Swedish Rail
Tullberg, Maria; Edström, Anders (1999)In Sweden like in many other countries in Europe there is an ongoing process of making old, bureaucratic public service organizations, such as Vattenfall (heat and electricity generation), Sweden Post, Swedish Rail and ... -
Managers work with words - an introduction
Jönsson, Sten (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 ... -
Managing Accountability: Exploring Reasoning in a Management Team
Rovio-Johansson, Airi (2005)This article deals with a sociocultural perspective on dialogue and communication in analyzing the actors’ ways of meaning making in talk as action in a management team meeting. It investigates the potential of the dialogical ... -
Metaphors and the Cultural Context of organizing
Czarniawska, Barbara (2001)When the linguistic turn reached organization studies, it manifested itself in the first place by the interest in metaphors. The crucial role of these tropes for theory building was emphasized, and their place in the very ... -
Mot en respektens etik för servicemötet
Corvellec, Hervé (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? ... -
Negotiating Selves: Gender
Czarniawska, Barbara (2006)This paper suggests a way of framing gender production in workplaces as a negotiation with varying results. The basis for such a frame is a combination of the notions of ”positioning” (the discoursive production of selves, ... -
Netting the information infrastructure of Stockholm. An idea travels throughout the world.
Dobers, Peter (1999)This paper illustrates how the idea of a national information infrastructure travels through the world. Once the idea has traveled from the United States to Europe and to Sweden it has been translated and localized into ... -
New directions for management and organization studies on waste
Corvellec, Hervé (Gothenburg Research Institute, 2015)This article presents a research agenda about waste management from the perspective of management and organization studies. The agenda suggests that scholars should draw upon research on waste governance, lean management, ... -
Nordic Management & Business Administration Research - Quo Vadis?
Korneliussen, Tor; Jönsson, Sten; Rotefoss, Beate; Johanne Pettersen, Inger (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 ... -
Om managementteori
Tengblad, Stefan (2000)Artikeln beskriver de två dominerande tanketraditionerna inom managementteori, den rationella respektive den normativa styrfilosofin. Detta görs genom att redogöra för huvuddragen i utvecklandet av respektive styrfilosofi, ...