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- Andersson, Ulf, et al.
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Degree of integration in some Swedish MNCs
- 1994
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Ingår i: CIBER conference, Uni. of Illinois. - Uppsala : Företagsekonomiska institutionen.
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Avotie, Leena
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De genusspecifika kulturerna och ledarskap
- 1991
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The integration of women into management has not always taken place without problems. Some of the problems which female managers are confronted with in their work and during different stages of their careers are often said to arise, from, inter alias, the differences in the value-orientation between men and women. The interests, priorities and basic values shared by the majority of women are different from those values, norms and standards which are valid in the management of most organisations. This is seen as a fact which causes many of the conflicts which specifically concern female managers. The use of the value-system related gender differences as an analytical tool is, however, limited because of the difficulties to find proper definitions of the concept.This work is an attempt to create a concept which enables the study of the difficulties which an individual with a value-orientation which is specific to the female gender role meets in a context that is dominated by the male value-system.The differences in value-orientation between men and women are here seen as a manifestation of two different gender-related cultures. The objective of this study is, therefore, to define the concepts of female and male culture. In order to produce two gender related cultural patterns the results of previous research which has focused on the gender differences have been organized by using a model for organizational cultures created by Schein (1985).
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- Eriksson, Kent
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The heterogeneous technology of retail banking
- 1991
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Retail bank operations have in the light of recent developments in technology, deregulation and market become more complex. Banks need to handle both standardized and unstandardized services which leads to differentiation between units. This paper presents a framework for analysis of technologies and work flows in banks.
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- Forsgren, Mats, et al.
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Internationalization of division management in Swedish international firms
- 1990
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- An important issue in the divisionalized firm are the relationsships between the three levels; topmanagement, divisional management and the operational level. In the international firm thephysical location of the divisional management level becomes especially problematic because ofthis level’s strategic role concerning the links to the top management and the foreign subsidiariesrespectively.Most literature on international business leaves no doubt that the parent company, the “centre”,designs the organization and controls the subsidiaries, the “periphery”. However, the relevance ofthis perspective is dependent on the stage of the internationalization process. In later phases ofthis process the subsidiaries can extend their operations to markets outside their own and becomestrong enough to play a strategic role in the group’s total operations within a certain product areaor function. Thus a situation can arise with a firm consisting of several centres located in differentgeographic areas, rather than one centre and a periphery. In the paper this is labeled multi-centrestructure.In a political perspective such centres are expected to have considering influence on the formalorganization structure including the location of the divisional management.In the paper the relation between the internationalization of divisional management and the existence of multi-centre structures in 22 Swedish firms is analysed.
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- Forsgren, Mats, et al.
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Managing international networks : presentation of a research project
- 1992
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This is a presentation of a research project which focuses on influence in divisions ofSwedish international firms. Our aim is to study how some intraorganizationalrelations, i.e. relations between divisional managements usually situated in Sweden andsubsidiaries mainly located in Europe, can be influenced by interorganizational factors.The networks in which the subsidiaries are engaged are investigated, in order to seehow the characteristics of the networks influence the conditions for the subsidiaries tomanage their own development and influence the strategy of the whole division. Weassume that the long-term strategic behavior of the divisions and the subsidiaries can berelated to the business networks in which they are embedded.A model, which in earlier versions has been presented at the EIBA-conference inMadrid 1990, at the Strategic Processes Research Conference in Oslo 1991 and at theIMP-conference in Uppsala 1991, is developed. This model is the base for an empiricalstudy which was started during spring 1991 and will be finished at the end of 1992.The project is partly financed by the FA-Institute - Institute for Research on Businessand Work Life Issues. Project leaders are professors Jan Johanson and Mats Forsgren atthe Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University, and assistants are UlfAndersson, Ulf Holm, Cecilia Pahlberg and Peter Thilenius.
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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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