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- Wickenberg, Jan, 1962
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Trade-offs between efficiency and legitimacy when implementing a large change program at the middle management level
- 2013
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Ingår i: Presented at the 8th Colloquium On Organisational Change & Development, Gent, Belgium, September 12 and 13, 2013.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In his Harvard Business Review article of 1972, Hugo Uyterhoeven discussed an important difference between top managers and middle managers. While both categories needs to make sure that directives of change are implemented, middle managers have a two-fold task, as they also need to figure out how to actually implement the change. HBR has reprinted Uyterhoeven’s article twice as an ’HBR classic’. Our study aims to investigate Uyterhoeven’s claim of a difference in logic between top and middle management when implementing change. We would expect such a difference to more likely occur when performing change that would be difficult to implement and that would exhaust top managements ability to control the details. Therefore, we have investigated a case of change encompassing a multinational company and that would require organizational learning about its own processes.Our findings show that while differences of logic occurred between top and middle management, differences of logic also occurred at the middle management level between different parts of the organization. These differences were analysed according to the dimensions of organizational legitimacy and organizational efficiency. We discuss the trade-off between the efficiency of an organizational change, and its legitimacy. We argue that an analysis of this trade-off should be included in the stakeholder analysis made by the change agents.
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- Palmås, Karl, 1976, et al.
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Livelihoods or ecopreneurship? Agro-economic experiments in Hambantota, Sri Lanka
- 2013
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Ingår i: Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy. - : Emerald. - 1750-6204. ; 7:2, s. 125-135
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose - In the context of contemporary debates on ecopreneurship and sustainable livelihoods, this article compares two programmes to promote a certain type of agro-economic practice among rural farmers. By following the successes and failures of these programmes, the text interrogates how such initiatives are evaluated by the surrounding community of aid agencies and governmental bodies. Design/methodology/approach - Deploying the theoretical notion of "performativity", as used within economic anthropology, the article posits that the above-mentioned programmes can be construed as economic experiments. More specifically, the text compares two concurrent initiatives: One ecopreneurial experiment instigated by a social entrepreneur, and one livelihoods-focussed experiment instigated by an aid agency. The case study is based upon material from a three-year ethnography of entrepreneurship-promoting programmes in Hambantota, Sri Lanka. Findings - While the ecopreneurial venture fails, the livelihoods-based initiative proves successful in demonstrating its economic validity. The case study indicates that, in the context of modes of evaluation focusing on day-to-day incomes of farmers, it may be difficult for ecopreneurs to make room for ecological experimentation. Originality/value - Having identified this "ecopreneur’s dilemma", the article prompts scholars and policy-makers to investigate it further, and potentially re-examine how the livelihoods agenda is implemented in practice.
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- Styhre, Alexander, 1971, et al.
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The valuation of housing in low-amenity and low purchasing power city districts: social and economic value entangled by default
- 2022
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Ingår i: Construction Management and Economics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1466-433X .- 0144-6193. ; 40:1, s. 72-86
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Urban development projects are based on both calculative practices, in order to render investments in new housing profitable, and on a broader assessment of the value of amenities, qualities associated with housing units such as access to parks and shopping facilities, while not directly being included in presumptive buyers’ prices or rents but still affecting the prices or rents paid because amenities affect market demand. This condition is particularly cumbersome in low-income city districts, and/or in city districts with “negative” amenities, such as visible street crime and a substandard quality of schooling. A study of an urban development project in a “particularly socially vulnerable” city district in Sweden shows how municipally-owned real estate companies and private construction companies need to collaborate with authorities (e.g. the police) and municipal boards (e.g. the education board) to advocate investment in amenities. In order to increase housing stock evaluations, local housing market attractiveness, and the housing welfare of residents in blighted city districts, urban development projects must include, in substantive ways, a variety of perspectives, competencies, and formal decision-making authorities.
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- Annafari, Tsani, 1974, et al.
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Empirical exploration of factors that determine multiple mobile phone subscriptions
- 2014
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Ingår i: International Journal of Mobile Communications. - : Inderscience Publishers. - 1741-5217 .- 1470-949X. ; 12:1, s. 12-28
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study addresses the factors driving multiple mobile phone subscriptions by consumers in the Swedish market. The generalised Poisson model (GPR) is applied to count data obtained from two national annual surveys. The results show that business subscription and household size are consistently the main predictors of the multiple mobile phone subscriptions. This indicates that organisations, i. e., company and household, are important units of consumers in the mobile market that potential for expanding the consumers base. Demographics characteristics such as age, income and gender in addition to the use of mobile internet are also found as significant predictor. The operator could gain from this situation by applying relevant marketing strategies to the targeted consumers' segment as well as tightening the network effect to the relevant consumers' social group. This may be done by encouraging them to have additional subscriptions from the same operator or intra-operator multiple subscriptions, for instance through service bundling or collective subscriptions.
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- Bergek, Anna, 1973
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Technological innovation systems: a review of recent findings and suggestions for further research
- 2019
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Ingår i: Handbook of Sustainable Innovation. - : Edward Elgar Publishing. ; , s. 200-218
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In recent years, the technological innovation system (TIS) framework and its ‘functions approach’ has reached widespread diffusion among innovation scholars, especially those interested in sustainability transitions. It has so far been used frequently in studies of emerging sustainable technologies in the energy and transport sectors. This chapter provides some conceptual clarification regarding the functions framework, reviews the empirical findings of previous TIS studies and identifies topics to explore in future research. The review shows that a detailed understanding of the underlying mechanisms of some of the functions (‘entrepreneurial experimentation’, ‘market formation’ and ‘development of positive externalities’) is largely missing. More in-depth, qualitative analyses is therefore needed to identify causal chains of events within TISs. The review also reveals that the functions framework is not easily applicable to pure diffusion contexts, which suggests that the TIS framework should be supplemented by a ‘diffusion system’ framework.
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- Bergek, Anna, 1973, et al.
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Technological innovation systems in contexts: Conceptualizing contextual structures and interaction dynamics
- 2015
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Ingår i: Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. - : Elsevier BV. - 2210-4224 .- 2210-4232. ; 16, s. 51-64
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper addresses interactions between technological innovation systems (TIS) and wider "context structures". While TIS studies have always considered various kinds of contextual influences, we suggest that the TIS framework can be further strengthened by a more elaborated conceptualization of TIS context structures and TIS-context interactions. For that purpose, we identify and discuss four especially important types of context structures: technological, sectorial, geographical and political. For each of these, we provide examples of different ways in which context structures can interact with a focal TIS and how our understanding of TIS dynamics is enhanced by considering them explicitly. Lessons for analysts are given and a research agenda is outlined.
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- Felderhoff, Markus, et al.
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Cost inefficiencies in construction
- 2009
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Ingår i: 5th Nordic Conference on Construction Economics and Organisation. - 9789979983200 ; , s. 51-60
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: This paper identifies cost inefficiencies in construction, thereby contributing to the current debate about unsatisfactory productivity in the industry. It suggests that by focusing on the reduction of cost inefficiencies it is possible to increase productivity.Methodological Approach: A comprehensive review of relevant literature.Results: Four key issues leading to cost inefficiencies have been identified: (1) a great deal of non-value adding activities (waste), (2) high degree of uncertainty, (3) lack of standardisation, and (4) resistance to change. The interrelatedness of these issues is discussed and an integrated model is presented for consideration.Contribution: Awareness of how to reduce cost inefficiencies is important in order to improve profit margins in construction. Identifying, discussing, understanding their interrelatedness and addressing these cost inefficiencies are necessary steps towards improvement.
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