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- Söderlund, Jonas
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Pluralism in Project Management : Navigating the Crossroads of Specialization and Fragmentation
- 2011
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Ingår i: International journal of management reviews (Print). - : Wiley-Blackwell. - 1460-8545 .- 1468-2370. ; 13:2, s. 153-176
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Project management is a rapidly expanding subfield of management and organization studies. This paper seeks to make sense of this development and the current state of project management research. It reviews the literature published over the last five decades in 30 leading management and organization journals. In total, 305 articles were included in the data set. The paper proposes a categorization of the published articles into seven ‘schools of thought’: Optimization School, Factor School, Contingency School, Behaviour School, Governance School, Relationship School and Decision School. The schools vary in terms of their main focus and use of the project concept, major research questions, methodological approaches and type of theorizing. It is suggested that a better awareness on how to make use of the schools and the identified perspectives would stimulate cross-fertilization, unification and thus enhance a pluralistic understanding of projects and project management at the same time as it would prepare research to frame more accurately the problems of contemporary projects. In that respect, the paper offers ideas on how to navigate at the crossroads between specialization and fragmentation, between the search for novel topics and improvements of existing knowledge.
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- Tagesson, Torbjörn, 1969-, et al.
(författare)
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What Do Auditors Do? : Obviously they do not scrutinize the accounting and reporting
- 2011
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Ingår i: Financial Accountability and Management. - : Blackwell Publishing. - 0267-4424 .- 1468-0408. ; 27:3, s. 272-285
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Auditors and auditing firms are important actors in the process of institutionalising accounting standards. However, the formal and institutional requirements to de facto ensure professionalism and independence in the Swedish municipal sector have been strongly questioned. The aim of this paper is to investigate and explain how deviations from accounting standards are treated and reported by auditors. The results indicate deficiency in both competence and independence among the auditors. The institutional arrangements in Sweden do not seem to ensure that auditors facilitate and support the implementation of accounting standards.
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- Volker, Linss, et al.
(författare)
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The ADVIAN® Classification - A New Classification Approach for the Rating of Impact Factors
- 2010
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Ingår i: Technological forecasting & social change. - : Elsevier BV. - 0040-1625 .- 1873-5509. ; 77, s. 110-119
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A new classification scheme for the impact analysis based on an impact matrix is presented. In contrast to the state-of-the-art methods the impact factors of a social system are not grouped into 4 or 5 groups but ranked according to different criteria. The criteria include for instance the driving impact factors as keys for improvements to the system and the driven impact factors that may be indicators for the improvement success. The ranking for each criterion is on a scalefrom 0 to 100, independent of the number of impact factors.
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- Bjuggren, Carl Magnus, et al.
(författare)
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A Note on Employment and GDP in Family-Owned Business : A Descriptive Analysis
- 2011
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Ingår i: Family Business Review. - : Wiley-Blackwell. - 0894-4865 .- 1741-6248. ; 24:4, s. 362-371
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Swedish government gathers information that helps identify family-owned businesses and enabled the authors to analyze every business in the economy over a longer period than has heretofore been reported. Using these data, the authors found that family-owned businesses account for up to one fourth of total employment and one fifth of gross domestic product in Sweden. These shares have increased over time due, in part, to economic policy. The authors compare their findings with other studies and suggest how Sweden and other governments might make family firm data more readily available for researchers.
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