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Orden som förnyar
(2001)
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Representing IT: Embodying the Electronic Economy
(2001)
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 ...
Standardisering av värderingar. Personalutbildning inom den svenska konsumentkooperationen
(2001-05-07)
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 ...
Managers work with words - an introduction
(2001)
This report tries to establish a theoretical position on the problem of dealing with contradictory goals in organisations. Our most prominent theories point to `sequential attention to alternatives' or `sequential attention ...
Recruiting for Sustainability. Administration or development?
(2001)
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 ...
Confrontation and the rules of the game in product development - the micro processes
(2001)
Observations from two car projects are analysed. Video-recordings of two sequences showing team members trying to use confrontation to make other members change their behaviour and pay more attention to the provision of ...
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 ...
Isolationist Automorphism, Relentless Isomorphism, or Merciless Idealism. The Cultural Context of City Management in Warsaw, Stockholm and Rome
(2001)
This paper employs some results of a study of city management in Warsaw, Stockholm, and Rome by setting them in a cultural context. Contrary to the common opinion, the difficulties in effective city management in Warsaw ...
Stiff surprise - coping with surprising discoveries in product development processes
(2001)
An incident in a product development project is analysed to see how participants cope differently with surprising situations. This generates cognitive variety in the project team which means that the situation is complex ...
KNOWLEDGE INTERESTS IN CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2001)
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 ...