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Science for sale – build or criticize science as trademark
(2008-10-21)
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, ...
Intelligent suicide?
(2008-10-21)
This is an essay discussing how far the limits of intelligence can be stretched, without risking that it becomes counter-productive. It focuses primarily on Sweden and the concretisations are Swedish. However, I believe ...
Identity work and identity regulation in managers' personal development training
(2008-11-26)
This article describes the role of personal development training in managers’ identity processes. Personal development training constitutes a local management discourse, which can influence both identity work and identity ...
Producing Difference in Organizing – Attempts to Change an Ethnic Identity into a Professional One
(2008-10-02)
This paper reports how municipalities, state agencies and other organizations working with the induction of newly-arrived immigrants in Sweden cooperate in establishing a system for assessing the immigrants’ competencies ...
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 ...
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 ...
Introducing the New Rhetoric into organization studies
(2008-10-03)
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 ...