Browsing Research Report by Author "Corvellec, Hervé"

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    • A mise-en-sens process - Sensegiving and wind power development 

      Risberg, Anette; Corvellec, Hervé (2006)
      This article intends to contribute to the conceptualising of organisational sensegiving. Based upon a qualitative analysis of how Swedish wind farm developers manage the permit application process for their projects, we ...

    • Action nets for waste prevention 

      Corvellec, Hervé; Czarniawska, Barbara (Gothenburg Research Institute, 2014-03)
      Although waste prevention is considered the best possible option in the European waste-hierarchy model, it is not always clear what is meant by “waste prevention”. This chapter presents three cases of waste prevention, ...

    • Ett bra vindläge - Industrialisering och nyliberal kommersialisering av blåsiga platser 

      Corvellec, Hervé (2006)
      För att befrämja en omställning av energisystemet har den svenska riksdagen fastställt ett mål för produktion av vindkraftsel som innebär en kraftig utbyggnad av vindkraftskapaciteten. Denna utbyggnad ger upphov till lika ...

    • Elements of Narrative Analysis 

      Corvellec, Hervé (2006)
      This article is intended to be an introduction to narrative analysis. It introduces key terms in narrative theory (e.g. story and plot), discusses various types of narratives relevant for social studies and features three ...

    • Etik som teknik och som kritik 

      Corvellec, Hervé (2006)
      Artikeln börjar med en historisk tillbakablick över företagsetikens tillkomst som akademiskt och praktiskt ämne. Etiken kan ses såväl som en teknik ämnad åt att förbättra lönsamhet och som grunden för en kritik av nutidens ...

    • For a Narrative Criticism of Organizational Performance 

      Corvellec, Hervé (2000)
      Grand narratives have fallen, or at least come off badly from, successive waves of structuralist, Marxist, post-modern, feminist, and post-colonialist criticisms (to name but a few). It is surprising that hardly anyone has ...

    • Introducing the New Rhetoric into organization studies 

      Corvellec, Hervé (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 ...

    • The moral responsibility of project selectors 

      Corvellec, Hervé; Macheridis, Nikos (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 

      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? ...

    • 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, ...

    • The risk/no-risk rhetoric of environmental impact assessments (EIA): The case of off-shore wind farms in Sweden 

      Corvellec, Hervé; Boholm, Åsa (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 ...

    • Sustainability objects as performative definitions of sustainability: The case of food waste-based biogas and biofertilizers 

      Corvellec, Hervé (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 ...

    • Talks on Tracks - Debating Urban Infrastructure Projects 

      Corvellec, Hervé (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 Impossibility of Corporate Ethics – For a Levinasian Approach to Managerial Ethics 

      Bevan, David; Corvellec, Hervé (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 role of valuation practices for risk identification 

      Boholm, Åsa; Corvellec, Hervé (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 ...