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- Bergström, Ola, 1968, et al.
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Organizing Sustainable Development. From Diffusion to Translation
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In: Paper presented at the EGOS conference Organizational Praxis, Subtheme 9: Management towards Sustainability, at Helsinki School of Economics, Finland, 2nd-4th of July 2000.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Policy changes towards global sustainable development have important consequences for how these policies are organized. New and alternative models of organizing tend to emphasize indirect control rather than direct control and supervision. However, our understanding of their effects and consequences is not very elaborated. The purpose of this paper is to develop an understanding of specific characteristics and effects of organizing alternative environmental policies towards sustainable development. The paper is based on a field study of the latest attempt in Sweden to work towards sustainable development. In 1998, the Swedish government formulated a program for local investments aiming at positive environmental effects and increased employment rates. In this article, we have posed more general questions on how to understand and to theorize upon the organizing of sustainable development. We suggest to view the implementation of environmental policies towards sustainable development as a chain of translations. These translations highlight unintended consequences of the policies, e.g. the creation of a temporary linguistic community allowing local and global `time spaces' to merge.
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- Dobers, Peter, 1966
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Translating and transcribing in development projects - from vague problems to clear cut solutions through project organising
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In: Paper accepted for presentation at IRNOP IV Conference Paradoxes of Project Collaboration in the Global Economy: Interdependence, Complexity and Ambiguity, 10-12 January 2000, Sydney, Australia..
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Organisations, as well as society in general, are organised along functional perspectives. Each function that serves members of a society has traditionally been taken care of by one state agency in each functional field. In the past, state agencies have improved sectors such as the social, educational and environmental fields of the industrialised society. Due to their initial success, these organisations have grown larger and have become permanent actors to serve society. However, over time new problems arise that cannot be dealt with by means of permanent organisations. Instead, projects and project-like organisations are created to deal with issues where permanent organisations tend to be less appropriate. On a societal level, the creating of environmental projects to deal with diffuse pollution problems is one example. On a company level, the organising of organisational development projects to deal with problems in the current organisational structure is another example. Our reasoning is that such problems and previously unorganised solutions need temporary projects to ensure successful implementation and real change. It is simply not possible to cover all present and future problems by means of permanent and administrative organisations. This paper takes the discussion further by examining the crucial organisational problems that projects of this type have to deal with. They are created with little or no support from traditional organisations, they have ambiguous goals, and are vulnerable. The implications of this paper are the following: from a practical perspective, we show how environmental and organisational renewal projects can be successfully organised as development projects instead of traditional projects. From a theoretical perspective, we argue it is fruitful to concentrate on certain aspects of project organising. By doing so, and by referring to the Scandinavian adapted institutionalism and translation sociology, this paper discusses the delimitation and formation of project organising by introducing the concepts of translation and transcription as vital components in the process of shaping and re-shaping this type of projects.
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