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- Bruncevic, Merima, 1981, et al.
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Introduction
- 2024
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Ingår i: Towards a Sustainable World - Academic Insights and Perspectives. - Göteborg : Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet. - 9789189838277 ; , s. 19-57
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Arman, Rebecka, 1976, et al.
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Inspecting life: professional vision in assisted reproduction technology
- 2019
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Ingår i: Cognition, Technology & Work. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1435-5558 .- 1435-5566. ; 21:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A growing scholarship in organization studies has examined how visual practices are informed by and situated within organizational settings and routines. Using the concept of professional vision, this is a study of the visual work of embryologists selecting human embryos in the field of assisted reproductive technologies. The term professional vision accentuates how embryologists cope with a number of tensions to accomplish disciplinary objectivity in their work. The study shows how visual practices are simultaneously individual and collective. While there are internationally enacted standard protocols guiding the routine-based work, these are continuously modified as novel clinical data is reported. Therefore, the embryologists’ inspection of life needs to actively accommodate both standard cases and deviations therefrom. This ultimately renders the professional vision of embryology something other than an “exact science” but rather a fluid, partly improvised, subjective, and at the same time highly specialized, routinized aesthetic practice. The study contributes to the emerging scholarship on visuality and professional vision in organizations, specifically to how standards are used in such practices. In addition, the study adds to the organizational research on assisted reproduction technology.
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- Arman, Rebecka, 1976, et al.
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The sacred and the profane in life science: The case of assisted reproduction laboratories
- 2018
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Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 24:5, s. 348-364
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Reproductive medicine and assisted reproduction therapies have been developed over the last decades resulting in over five million babies. The handling of human reproductive materials and patients is based on the ability to combine health care work and techno-scientific expertise in both the clinic and the laboratory setting. This study of Swedish assisted reproductive technology clinics demonstrates that the active day-to-day manipulation of human reproductive materials enact both the ‘profane’, through treating the embryos as raw materials in standardized procedures enabling economies of scale, and the ‘sacred’ through enacting a separation, the potential to human life, the patients ordeals, and seriousness. The enactment of the profane and the sacred is mostly balanced but at certain points in the work procedures, their intersecting becomes particularly salient. Such points provide opportunities for the study of the sense making of professionals in organizational grey zones, during techno-scientific activities.
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- Bergström, Ola, 1968, et al.
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Irish Butchers Rather than Irish Meat: Trade Union Responses to Agency Work in Sweden
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Industrial Relations. - 0022-1856 .- 1472-9296. ; 52:4, s. 477-490
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Trade unions are often considered as being against the use of agency workers in the workplaces that they represent. As opposed to standard permanent employment, temporary agency work is often regarded as a more precarious form of work that serves the purposes of employers seeking to reduce labour costs, enhance flexibility and avoid employment regulation. However, trade unions may also see benefits of using agency workers as experience of them increases. When examining how agency workers are established in an organization, the mechanisms available to resolve inconsistencies between the perceived benefits and disadvantages needs to be recognized. Rather than conceiving of trade unions as being opposed or in favour of the use of agency workers, the analysis of trade union responses needs to be grounded in a different perspective. This article is an attempt to formulate such a perspective on trade union responses to agency work as being based on understanding the process of establishment rather than polarized responses. The argument is supported by an empirical study of a food manufacturing company in Sweden that increasingly turned to agency workers as a source of labour.
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- Bergström, Ola, 1968, et al.
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It takes change to remain the same: The transformation of Swedish government policy making in economic crises and the involvement of social partners
- 2021
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Ingår i: Economic and Industrial Democracy. - 0143-831X. ; 43:4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The government responses to the corona crisis across the world has actualized an old debate regarding the role of the state and government policy making in economic crises. This debate should, the authors of this article argue, be understood in the context of how government policy making has been transformed in advanced capitalist economies in the past five decades and recent theoretical developments regarding the role of actors and institutions involved in the production and dissemination of ideas in such transformations. Drawing on an extensive review of policy making and changes in policy making doctrines, this article examines the role of government public investigations in the transformation of the Swedish government policy making in relation to economic crises where the state supports policy making through social partners.
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- Bergström, Ola, 1968, et al.
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Paradoxifying Organizational Change: Cynicism and Resistance in the Swedish Armed Forces
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of Change Management. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1469-7017 .- 1479-1811. ; 14:3, s. 384-404
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores organizational cynicism in the context of a major organizational change process. Cynicism has been viewed as a form of resistance driven by unsuccessful implementation of organizational change or, in contrast, as a direct negative attitude towards management. Drawing upon the interview data with regiment managers, this article analyses how unit managers describe organizational changes that their units have endured during a longer period of time. The empirical data suggest that rather than an expression of failed organizational change, managerial incompetence, or a general mistrust in management, organizational cynicism can be seen as organizational members' response to perceived changes and an effort to create a consistent image of everyday activities and formal organizational structures. In this non-instrumental view of organizational cynicism, any attempt to analyse the impact of organizational change on organizational cynicism must therefore take into account the possibility that organizational members actively take part in translating organizational change through what we call paradoxification, that is, by identifying contradictions and inconsistencies between the formal decisions made and their effects in the local setting, rather than other forms of resistance.
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- Brorström, Sara, 1982, et al.
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Plans and situated actions in urban renewal projects: The role of governance devices in realizing projects
- 2021
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Ingår i: Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space. - : SAGE Publications. - 2399-6544 .- 2399-6552. ; 39:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Municipalities and city administrations have the jurisdiction to determine the use of land and real estate, but must collaborate with various actors, including real estate developers, construction companies, and financial institutions, to realize stated goals. When implementing initiatives such as urban renewal projects, plans and situated actions may be loosely coupled during the early stages, when visions of the future are being articulated; over time, however, the information needed to calculate whether illiquid assets are attractive investment objects must be introduced. As such information is generated, the gap between plans and situated actions closes, having material effects under favourable conditions. This article presents an empirical study of an urban renewal project in a metropolitan area that initially gained external recognition via a prize awarded for visionary planning work. The project eventually encountered considerable difficulties, as a shortage of accurate information hampered production activities. The study underlines the importance of robust governance practices and accompanying governance devices in effectively transforming illiquid assets into, for example, housing.
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- Brorström, Sara, 1982, et al.
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Strategizing and “strategifying” for the common good: the case of deprived neighborhoods in the Swedish city of Gothenburg
- 2023
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Ingår i: International Public Management Journal. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1096-7494 .- 1559-3169.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Globally, we face grand challenges such as poverty and climate change. In response to such challenges, previous research claims that strategy research should address the “major challenges of contemporary society” this article examines a strategy adopted in Gothenburg, Sweden in an attempt to create an inclusive city through various actions in vulnerable areas. Using the concepts of strategizing and strategifying, the study shows how an attempt to address this challenge put pressure not only on the organization adopting the strategic document, but also on collaborating organizations. This illustrates how a strategic approach to a common challenge can create new organizational solutions and strengthen collaborating networks, although this might also lead to tension between organizations.
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