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- Bergström, Ola, 1968, et al.
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Irish Butchers Rather than Irish Meat: Trade Union Responses to Agency Work in Sweden
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Ingår i: Journal of Industrial Relations. - 0022-1856 .- 1472-9296. ; 52:4, s. 477-490
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Trade unions are often considered as being against the use of agency workers in the workplaces that they represent. As opposed to standard permanent employment, temporary agency work is often regarded as a more precarious form of work that serves the purposes of employers seeking to reduce labour costs, enhance flexibility and avoid employment regulation. However, trade unions may also see benefits of using agency workers as experience of them increases. When examining how agency workers are established in an organization, the mechanisms available to resolve inconsistencies between the perceived benefits and disadvantages needs to be recognized. Rather than conceiving of trade unions as being opposed or in favour of the use of agency workers, the analysis of trade union responses needs to be grounded in a different perspective. This article is an attempt to formulate such a perspective on trade union responses to agency work as being based on understanding the process of establishment rather than polarized responses. The argument is supported by an empirical study of a food manufacturing company in Sweden that increasingly turned to agency workers as a source of labour.
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- Styhre, Alexander, 1971, et al.
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Managing knowledge in platforms: boundary objects and stocks and flows of knowledge
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Ingår i: Construction Management and Economics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1466-433X .- 0144-6193. ; 28:6, s. 589-599
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Previous research suggests that construction industry companies use relatively little formal managerial procedures when managing knowledge. Instead, many construction companies are relying on informal networks and social capital as conduits for the sharing of knowledge. However, objects play an important role in organizations as vehicles for the sharing of knowledge. The use of platforms, standardized packages of prescribed components, routines and practices, in a major Scandinavian construction company (SCC), demonstrates that platforms are potentially useful when sharing and accumulating knowledge. The platform concept is a boundary object integrating various functions and activities and standardizing work procedures while at the same time leaving some room for contingencies and local conditions. SCC’s use of platforms contributes to the understanding of knowledge sharing practices by emphasizing the role of formally enacted objects and tools and by underlining the need for bridging and bonding the stocks and flows of knowledge in construction companies.
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- Styhre, Alexander, 1971
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The concept of transduction and its use in organization studies
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Ingår i: Emergence: Complexity and Organization. - 1532-7000. ; 12:3, s. 115-131
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- This paper discusses the concept of transduction introduced by French philosopher Gilbert Simondon as a generalized model for the individuation of entities, that is, when heterogeneous resources are brought together and temporarily stabilized into functional units. Simondon's thinking, influential in Deleuze's philosophy and Stiegler's view of technology, is then used to examine two non-reductionist theoretical frameworks of organization, Schatzki's concept of the "site of the social" and Czarniawska's "action nets". Both these two theories of organizing adhere to a generalized model of organizing that is fruitfully examined through Simondon's work. The paper concludes that process-based theories of organizing, indebted to Weick's (1969) seminal work, may be increasingly influenced by what in the paper is called biophilosophical writings, theories addressing the ceaseless becoming of biological organisms.
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