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- Chrostowski, Aleksander, et al.
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Managing for the common good : The case of Soplicex
- 2019
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Ingår i: Tamara Journal. - : Tamara. - 1532-5555 .- 1545-6420. ; 17:3, s. 13-25
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this paper is to point to the potential value of an approach to management based on the idea of the common good, as opposed to classical capitalism based on private ownership. Such an approach makes it possible to resist a pursuit of short term oriented gains and a maximization of narrowly defined profits, and, instead, to focus on humanistic values, as to adopt a long term perspective. The much cited notion of the “tragedy of the commons” was based on deficient material and argumentation, but, most of all, it completely disregards of the issue of management. Using a case study developed through a longitudinal action research project in a big service enterprise we call “Soplicex”, we present the strategic process grounded in learning, as well as the building of a strong structure centred on teams. The engagement of the employees was, originally, strongly oriented towards the idea of the common good. The consultants and researchers adopted this principle as the guiding rule in their work with the organization. Even though the process was interrupted by the takeover by a foreign investor, we show how the findings of the study remain relevant for alternative organizing and managing today and in the future. The conclusions of this paper reach further than just being reflections on a historical case study: a model of management is presented, concerned with the care and protection of the common good.
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- Chrostowski, Aleksander, et al.
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Learning organizing through paradoxes : a tribute to Andrzej Zawiślak
- 2016
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Ingår i: Tamara Journal. - 1532-5555 .- 1545-6420. ; 14:4, s. 140-147
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper is intended as a tribute to Andrzej Zawislak, one of the precursors of systems approach to organization theory in Poland. More specifically, we highlight four recurring themes in his work: learning by studying systemic paradoxes, theorizing about organizations as complex human systems, reflection on the role of university in its social context, and scepticism towards rationality of social science. We believe that Zawislak’s unique voice deserves to be heard and may serve as a fruitful starting point for theorizing about organizations.
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- Jensen, Tommy, 1970-, et al.
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Dirty work as seriality
- 2016
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Ingår i: Tamara Journal. - 1532-5555 .- 1545-6420. ; 14:3, s. 99-111
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The literature on dirty work has traditionally zoomed in on workplace studies of occupational groups stigmatized by some parts of society. In this paper the bias is challenged and extended with the aid of Iris Marion Young’s appropriation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s concept of seriality and an empirical study of workers with non-stigmatized occupations in stigmatized work contexts (arms and pornography). The study shows that the workers have to be constantly ready to deal with work-related dirt in their identity work and to do this without any means of support, development of a language or resistance to the transfer of dirt.
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- Jensen, Tommy, et al.
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Global trafficking networks and business studies
- 2009
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Ingår i: Tamara Journal. - 1532-5555 .- 1545-6420. ; 7:4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper outlines the contours of the global network society and then searches for 'the masters' of this emerging environment. Judging from the management talk on flexible, decentralized and adaptable networked enterprises, these masters are found in the large global corporations, but closing in on practice, evidence rather points in the direction of illegal, or partly illegal, global networks. In the paper, we use global trafficking networks as the benchmark example, arguing that they are the real masters of the global network society and that they show us in which direction large global corporations might be heading. This raises several issues, of which the role and responsibilities of business researchers and business studies are discussed. We present three kinds of arguments to why we should study global trafficking networks -- the ideologist, the scientific and the moral argument. The position advocated in the paper holds that the two first cannot be left to their own destinies; they need to be assessed on moral grounds.
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- Kostera, Monika, et al.
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Holding up the Aegis : On the construction of social roles by Polish IT-professionals
- 2011
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Ingår i: Tamara Journal. - 1532-5555 .- 1545-6420. ; 9:1-2, s. 75-84
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper takes up the self-construction of the social roles of Polish IT professionals. Weconducted an ethnographic study and observed that many of our interviewees defined theirroles by negation and by invoking the internal and often hermetic aspects of theirprofession. Labeling this practice “holding up the shield,” we trace its archetypical roots.The recurrent use of this practice makes a change in agency in the process of constructingthe role possible, to the benefit of the IT professionals.
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- Kostera, Monika, et al.
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Transitional space
- 2011
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Ingår i: Tamara Journal. - 1532-5555 .- 1545-6420. ; 9:3-4, s. 7-9
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