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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? ...
Femmes Fatales in Finance, or Women and the City
(2004)
This paper concerns the representations of women working with finances in popular culture. Popular culture retrieves plots from a common repertoire, and in this way transmits ideals and furnishes descriptions of reality, ...
Articulation of principles on the micro level - observing argumentation in a merger process
(2004)
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 ...
On Time, Space, and Action Nets
(2004)
Laboratory studies, especially those by Latour and Woolgar (1979/1986) and Knorr Cetina (1981) proved to be an invaluable source of inspiration for students of organizing. Laboratories, however, are mostly reminiscent of ...
Women in financial services: fiction and more fiction
(2004)
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: ...
"Integration" - a polyphonic concept in merging companies
(2004)
In this study a new method for researching the qualitative differences in meaning making of a concept is introduced to clarify how managers in two merger cases differ in the way they make sense of the ongoing process. A ...
Strong plots: The relationship between Popular Culture and Management Practice & Theory
(2004)
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 ...
Omställning till nytt arbete - en studie av Posten Futurum
(2004)
Posten har som ansvarig arbetsgivare skapat en särskild organisation, Posten Futurum, för att stödja och hjälpa anställda som blir övertaliga att få ett nytt arbete. I denna studie redovisas resultaten av telefonintervjuer ...
Is It Possible To Lift Oneself By The Hair? And If Not, Why Is It Worth Trying
(2004)
The title of this text alludes to the legend of Baron Munchausen, who reportedly did many impossible things. A change of a system by the same system belongs to such impossible tasks, as shown by Niklas Luhmann's theory of ...