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. ...

The meaning of acronyms such as `IT' or `TIME' is very wide including technologies related to tele- and datacom, information technology, broadband, media and entertainment. Once dealing with digitized information, technologies ...

Under 90-talet genomfördes flera reformer för att förändra Kooperativa Förbundet, KF:s detaljhandelsverksamhet. Dessa förändringar ifrågasatte den etablerade inriktningen på medlemskap och framförde istället idéer kring ...

Sustainability is a complex concept involving disparate issues of environmental, social and economical significance. To work towards sustainability, we need both technological and social skills. Several studies on environmental ...

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 ...

Quite often the Dow Jones Sustainability Group Index (DJSGI), which identifies and keeps tracks on the performance of the sustainable driven companies, is referred to as an evidence of that integration of economic, ...

Occasionally, problems in society arise that do not fit into traditional structures of public organizations. Such problems become especially problematic if there is no adequate capacity to deal with them. At such situations, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...