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Metaphors and the Cultural Context of organizing
(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 ... -
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 ... -
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? ... -
Negotiating Selves: Gender
(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.
(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
(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?
(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
(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, ... -
Omställning till nytt arbete - en studie av Posten Futurum
(2004)Posten har som ansvarig arbetsgivare skapat en särskild organisation, Posten Futurum, för att stödja och hjälpa anställda som blir övertaliga att få ett nytt arbete. I denna studie redovisas resultaten av telefonintervjuer ... -
Omstrukturering, omställning och kompetensväxling
(2005)Svenska företag har under 90-talet omstrukturerat sin verksamhet i snabbt tempo. Det finns många orsaker till detta. Avreglering av marknader, teknikutveckling, globalisering, värderingsförskjutningar hos kunder är några ... -
On academic writing
(2006)Are there any useful tricks of the trade, as it were, to sustain a productive routine of writing for publication in academic journals?1 Nowadays the drive towards international publication is stronger than ever in Europe ... -
On meshworks and other complications of portraying contemporary organizing
(Gothenburg Research Institute, 2013-10)This text begins with a brief summary of problems resulting from the traditional framing of the term “organizations”. It ignores organizing without organizations, organizing between organizations, and the fact that ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Organisationsformens betydelse för kvaliteten i personlig assistans
(Centrum för konsumtionsvetenskap, 2016)Syftet med denna studie är att jämföra kvaliteten mellan tre typer av assistansanordnare; brukarkooperativ, privata bolag och kommunen. En kvantitativ undersökningsansats har tillämpats med postenkät som insamlingsmetod. ... -
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 ... -
Organizational effects on e-business in companies
(2002)The end of the 1990s witnessed a firm establishment of IT, Internet and various forms of e-commerce in business-to-business trade. The new technology is commonly presented as a new, revolutionary way of doing business. In ... -
Organizing Labour Market Integration of Foreign-born Persons in the Gothenburg Metropolitan Area
(Göteborgs universitet, 2018-09)The overall purpose of this report is to review contemporary labour market integration initiatives targeting foreign-born persons (though not necessarily such persons only). The initiatives we list here are undertaken in ... -
Organizing Sustainable Development. From Diffusion to Translation
(2000)Policy changes towards global sustainable development have important consequences for how these policies are organized. New and alternative models of organizing tend to emphasize indirect control rather than direct control ...