Introduction Intelligent and flexible robots using sensors and adaptable programming are promoted as state-of-the-art technology with great potential of improving industrial production. It is commonly associated with ...

I Konsumtionsrapporten 2021 sammanfattas och analyseras hushållens privata konsumtion i Sverige under 2020 och 2021. Här ges en helhetsbild av hushållens konsumtion, vilken baseras på statistik från framför allt Statistiska ...

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 ...

Lösningen på demokratiproblemet har i praktiken alltid varit att en elit skall styra i folkets namn och utan alltför mycket insyn från folket. Ingen kan ju ha något emot att saker görs för allas bästa, eller hur? Vi, folket, ...

A field intervention investigated the effect of feedback on residential electricity use in households in Sweden. For a period of eight weeks differentiated energy use for daily domestic behaviors was monitored by 15 residents ...

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 ...

Karel Čapek, the Czech author, coined the term “robot” (from “robota”, labor in Slavic languages; “robotnik” means “worker”) in 1920. In his play, R.U.R. - Rossum Universal Robots, artificial humans made of synthetic organic ...

The aim of this study is to investigate attitudes towards nanomaterials and nanotechnology among Swedish expert stakeholders. The study explores the views of these experts on a number of topics in connection to nanotechnology ...

Odd Langholm, a prominent Scandinavian scholar of early economic thought, provides us with cues on how to re-consider the fundamental assumptions that go into economic valuation and modelling. “Fair value” was not ...

År 2009 instiftades en ny diskrimineringslag i Sverige. Lagen syftar till att motverka diskriminering och främja lika rättigheter och möjligheter med grund i kön, könsöverskridande identitet eller uttryck, etnisk tillhörighet, ...

A career in retailing is to a large extent a boundaryless career. A career in retail does not limit the individual to a single organisation, to a single role/position, or to a hierarchical rung on the organisational ladder. ...

This report is the result of a close study of the organization behind the GMLSTN JAZZ music festival. It comes out of a participatory study of the week-long GMLSTN JAZZ festival, which was held in Gothenburg, Sweden between ...

Fredagen den 22:a Maj 2015 samlades medarbetare från forskningsprojektet Re:heritage, Göteborgs Universitet och Göteborgs Stadsmuseum på parkeringsplatsen/torget på Magasinsgatan för att tillsammans genomföra en ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Sedan i mitten av 1990-talet har antalet personer med en tillfällig anställning ökat i Sverige. Utvecklingen inom detaljhandeln är likartad, om än på en något högre nivå än genomsnittet. Det är dessutom en sektor med ...

City-branding strategies today often stress ideas and stereotypes of culture and creativity. As urban managers increasingly focus on establishing cities as brands to position them at home and abroad (Saez et al 2013), a ...

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 ...

I samband med Rolf Sollis 60-årsdag har vi bjudit in våra kollegor till att delta i en mindre festskrift till vår vän och kollega. Rolf har som vi alla vet många strängar på sin lyra: undervisning, forskning, prefektskap, ...

Denna artikel presenterar resultat från en undersökning av prekvalificering i arkitekttävlingar. Avsikten är att utveckla kunskap om hur arrangörer utser arkitektkontor/team till inbjudna tävlingar. Prekvalificering är ett ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since the empirical phenomenon of Guided tours involves several aspects, such as tourism, sustainable spatial planning, cultural heritage, the mediation of place through technologies, place marketing and management, Guided ...

Detta proceedings innehåller bidrag som presenterades vid konferensen GPMS, Göteborg Public Management Seminar, i november 2009. GPMS genomfördes i anslutning till Kvalitetsmässan i Göteborg och syftet med GPMS är att skapa ...

Svensk detaljhandel har undergått genomgripande strukturförändringar som medfört förbättrad produktivitet och en kraftigt ökad omsättning. Utvecklingen har bl.a. inneburit ökade krav på butikschefen att vara en effektiv ...

Over history science has, in a more and more agnostic world, come to replace religion as the most important hegemonic factor how to decide what is correct and what is incorrect, what is necessary and what may not be done, ...

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 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 ...

This article analyses a controller’s action in a product development setting. An alliance context provides for a hybrid form of governance and for complexity. The analysis builds on the participants’ own comments to a ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the present text, an institution is understood to be an (observable) pattern of collective action, justified by a corresponding social norm. By this definition, an institution emerges slowly, although it may be helped ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sedan 1999 anordnar Chalmers och Centrum för management i byggsektorn (CMB), en 1,5 årig masterutbildning med namnet Management i Byggsektorn (MB-utbildningen). En viktig orsak till denna utvärdering av MB-utbildningen är ...

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? ...

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 ...

At the peak of the "new economy", the Swedish newspapers were reporting an interesting fact: women were entering financial services, joining not the old-fashioned occupational groups such as bank clerks, but the avant-garde: ...

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 ...