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- Eriksson-Zetterquist, Ulla, 1967, et al.
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Organizing Technologies
- 2011
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Organization theory and management studies tend to underrate the importance of technological resources in accomplishing organized activities. In organizations, a wide variety of technologies are mobilized on a day-to-day basis to accomplish organized activities. Some of these technologies are subject to continuous discussions and controversies while others are taken for granted or simply ignored. Organizing Technologies presents theories about technology and its recursive ability to both shape its users and to be shaped by its very use, outlining an analytical model where technologies serve three broad functions within organizations: to produce goods and services, to enhance administrative work, and to connect and co-align organizations within networks, supply chains, or distribution systems.
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- Eriksson-Zetterquist, Ulla, 1967, et al.
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Overcoming the glass barriers: Reflection and action in the “Women to the top” programme
- 2008
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 15:2, s. 133-160
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Numerous equality programmes have been launched with the aim of promoting a more gender equal work life, yet little substantial action has been reported. This article presents a study of the Women to the Top programme in Sweden, supported by the European Union (EU) and aimed at promoting more women into top management positions. The research suggests that large-scale projects assembling such heterogeneous actors as industry representatives, politicians and scholars tend to generate further reflection and discussion rather than promoting adequate and highly needed action. Drawing upon Brunsson's distinction between action rationality and decision rationality, the relatively modest effects of large-scale equality programmes are examined, not in terms of a lack of commitment or competence on the part of the participants but as a matter of the disjunction between reflection and action. Reconciling reflection and action, that is, emphasizing not only reflection on gender inequality but also privileging various forms of practical action (such as new policies, the appointment of female managers, restructuring gendered wage inequalities or new recruitment procedures), is therefore a top priority for policymakers desiring more substantial changes in the gendered outline of industry.
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- Eriksson-Zetterquist, Ulla, 1967, et al.
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When the good times are over: Professionals meet new technology
- 2009
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Ingår i: Human Relations. - : SAGE Publications. - 0018-7267 .- 1741-282X. ; 62:8, s. 1145-1170
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Information and communication technologies play a key role in contemporary organizations. Supported by a longitudinal study of changes in purchasing practices, owing to the implementation of an e-business system at a large, global corporation, this article shows the interplay between the technology and the role of the users. We argue that the introduction of the e-business system increased the hierarchy and bureaucracy but also that the purchasers' professional identities and established work procedures were threatened by the technology being used. The results indicate how a technological artifact is by no means detached from the broader reformulating of managerial procedures and practices, instead reflecting and embodying some of the managerial virtues of predictability and hierarchy. Since technology is playing an increasingly key role in most industries and domains, it is also suggested that the intersection between technology and professions be examined in more detail.
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- Fasth, Jonas, et al.
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Crisis management as practice in small- and medium-sized enterprises during the first period of COVID-19
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. - : Wiley. - 0966-0879 .- 1468-5973. ; 30:2, s. 113-224
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article draws attention to the social context and working methods in crisis management. Based on 1000 interviews with business leaders in Swedish small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), we analyze crisis management in practice and ask: What social contexts do business leaders use in crisis management, and what working methods do they rely on? Most companies in this study do not have any form of crisis group; rather, they deal with issues reactively as they occur. Few of the companies work continuously with a crisis plan and only slightly more than half of those that have crisis plans report that it has been helpful in dealing with the COVID-19 situation. The study concludes that Swedish SMEs seem reliant upon a process that has an emerging nature whereby decisions are largely based on gut feeling. However, the companies in our sample that experienced a significant revenue decline due to the COVID-19 situation report that they employ a more centralized and deductive approach with reports and documents as a basis for their work. The study contributes to a developed understanding of how crisis management works in practice.
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- Fasth, Jonas, et al.
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Ledarskap och affärer i byggföretag - En balansgång för den relationsorienterade ledaren
- 2021
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Ledarskap framställs ofta som en kärnprincip för varje modern organisation som strävar efter framstående och framgång. Ett framgångsrikt Ledarskap anses, bland annat, kunna stärka arbetsmoral och välmående bland medarbetarna, stärka självförtroendet och inspirera, främja kreativitet, öka handlingskraften och initiativförmågan samt skapa en för organisationen önskvärd målbild, något att gemensamt sträva efter. Samtidigt som det finns en utbredd övertygelse kring vikten av framgångsrikt ledarskap, framställs det som något som i stor grad beror på situation och kontext. Det vill säga att ”ledarskap” inte är en enhetlig princip och att den därför inte heller är universellt tillämpningsbar. I stället är ledarskap något som skapas i pågående dialog och praktik, betingat av den specifika situation och kontext där det utövas. I den här studien har uppmärksamheten riktats mot ledarskap i byggföretag. När man studerar ledarskapspraxis är det viktigt att inse att ledarskapsideal fungerar som en karta för hur enskilda ledare agerar (eller rationellt avser att agera), och att sådana ledarideal är formade av rådande normer som tjänar till att definiera vad bra ledarskapsarbete är. Därför syftar denna studie till att studera preferenser och praxis för ledarskap hos chefer inom byggbranschen, med hjälp av följande forskningsfrågor: • Vad betyder begreppet ledarskap bland chefer i stora byggföretag? • Hur används ledarskap för att möta dagens och framtidens utmaningar i dessa företag?
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- Hagberg, Johan, 1973, et al.
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The production of social space: shopping malls as relational and transductive spaces
- 2013
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Ingår i: Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology. - 1726-0531. ; 11:3, s. 354-374
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose – The concept of space is commonly transcending the binary separation between materiality and abstraction structuring social theory, being both a built, immutable environment and what is derived from uncoordinated spatial practices embedded in social norms and instituted behaviours. As a consequence, organization theorists have been only marginally interested in organized spaces and spatiality, examining primarily office spaces and other visual, symbolic spaces in organizations. Organized space is relational and transductive, constructed to be able to both accommodate various needs and demands and to be able of responding to emerging information. Organized space is thus transient and fluid, only temporarily stabilized, and fundamentally open to external influences. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – A study of shopping center development practices demonstrates how various actors representing heterogeneous interests collaborate to balance various interests such as the need for both commercial and public spaces in a community, rendering social space a politicized space wherein disputes and interests are settled. Findings – Social spaces such as shopping centers are unfolding as relational and transductive spaces capable of being modified and changes as new social needs and demands emerge. Shopping center spaces are developed in the intersection of a variety of professional domains of expertise and social interests and needs. Originality/value – The paper combines a theoretical framework of social spaces as being what is produced in collaborative efforts and what includes both technical and material as well as social and cultural components with an empirical study of shopping mall development.
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- Holmgren Caicedo, Mikael, 1971-
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A Passage to Organization
- 2005
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- How does action turn [into a] substantive and, if it does, how does it turn into action again to perdure or even change?In this endeavor I set out to study organizing and organization by asking myself how organizing becomes a product called organization and how that product turns into the very organizing whence it once was spawned. In other words, I set out to study what I denominate the movements between organizing and organization. To that end a play is put in motion in which actors act and make representations which are subsequently interpreted poetically and rhetorically. This in order to create a stage of evidence from which the movements between organizing and organization can be derived.The imagination put forth consists of two movements, which I dub instantiation and concatenation. These I relate to the motions embodied by metaphor and metonymy and later conflate them into one and the same movement of organizing in the wor[l]d within which materials through their play against each other are gathered to create more or less stable products. These products may be called organizations.In a way, this is an attempt to study the makings of organization by way of a passage into it.
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