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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, ...
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? ...
Sustainability objects as performative definitions of sustainability: The case of food waste-based biogas and biofertilizers
(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 ...
Ett bra vindläge - Industrialisering och nyliberal kommersialisering av blåsiga platser
(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 ...
Action nets for waste prevention
(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, ...
The Impossibility of Corporate Ethics – For a Levinasian Approach to Managerial Ethics
(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 ...
Etik som teknik och som kritik
(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 ...
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 ...
Elements of Narrative Analysis
(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 ...
The risk/no-risk rhetoric of environmental impact assessments (EIA): The case of off-shore wind farms in Sweden
(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 ...