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- Hasselbladh, Hans
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Administrativa innovationer i organisationer
- 1991
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this paper is to develop a theoretical framework for the study ofadoption of new methods, techniques and ideas concerning organizing andcontrol of activities in organizations.A short review is made of the main stream in research on innovations. It isargued that the main shortcoming is the tendency to treat all innovations asstable entities which remain the same in the process of diffusion. Hence,research generally focuses on the question of adoption or rejection inorganizational settings. A different frame of reference is proposed; in short,focusing the transformation of innovations when they change location in timeand space.The central theme is to explore how “open” or “closed” innovations are. Thisquestion has two aspects: the longitudinal and the context. Over timeinnovations can develop a more closed character as a result of discursive andpractical action, i.e. equipment, instructions, established claims, motivations,explanations of causality. That development is “given” when the innovation isbrought to a new context. The crucial things, though, are the discursive andpractical capacities different groups of actors in the focal context have inrelation to the more or less elaborated version of the innovation. Further, itis also argued that adoption of new methods, techniques and ideas concerningorganizing and control of activities, can be be analyzed in those terms.
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- Hasselbladh, Hans, et al.
(författare)
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Change in organizations : a critique of the dominant assumptions of identity and determinacy
- 1996
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The instituted assumptions of identity and determinacy are elucidated regarding theirimplications for our understanding of the sources of constitution and change of social andorganizational action. Built upon these assumptions, mainstream organizational researchlocates these sources in exogenous environmental forces and ascribes to the significativeaspects of action and language a reflective-representational ontological status. We questionthese assumptions and their implications upon two premisses. First, that practical aspectsof action and perceived environmental constraints lack any intrinsic meaning, sincemeaning is ascribed to them by the significative aspects of action and language, mainly bythe instituted central imaginary significations of society or civilization. Second, that theselatter lack any inherent determination of meaning, for they constitute magmas of meaning.An alternative approach is outlined upon these premisses.
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- Hasselbladh, Hans
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Mötet ekonomi och medicin : konsekvenser av nya ekonomiska styrmodeller inom sjukvården
- 1992
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper discusses current administrative reforms in the SwedishHealth Care System. More specifically, changes in cost accounting,principles for resource allocation and criteria for evaluation ofresults in health care. Diverse and still developing models arereviewed and discussed in the light of what research inaccounting, infused with constructivist social theory, has arguedin later years.The reform ambitions can be categorized under two labels;panopticon and the market metaphore. Many of the well-knownproblems related to sophisticated management accounting seem toemerge also in the context of health care. Apart from those, wepropose that health care has some intrinsic characteristics thatcreate special problems. The social goals in terms of health,which motivate the entire system, cannot be measured in economicfigures and hence not used for cost-revenue purposes, which is thebase for much of management accounting. It is also problematic toapply the industrial logic of separation on medical staffs,patients, treatments and results, which intermingle in severalways in health care. Further, health care as a social field isconstituted by and through the medical profession and its praxis.Medical action and discourse are based on quite different forms ofcategorization, judgement and values compared to management ofproduction by economic figures.The merging of management accounting and medicine isconnected both to conceptual and moral problems. The politiciansand administrators pushing for administrative reforms are probablyfacing unintentional effects due to two factors.First, they overestimate management accounting as a means toeliminate or suppress micro-politics, opportunism and self-seekingguile. Second, they underestimate management accounting as aconstituting and transforming mechanism. They adopt a traditionalview that regards accounting as a neutral device, operating on aself-sufficient material world. In the long-run, the merging ofmanagement accounting and medicine can transform our conception ofhealth and health care in ways unpredictable today.
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