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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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- Lindberg, Kajsa, 1969, et al.
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Assembling Health Care Organizations. Practice, Materiality and Institutions
- 2012
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The health care sector is the largest sector of the economy in most developed countries. With ageing populations in Europe and North-America, the health sector is expected to undergo significant changes in the future as it needs to handle more patients within stable budgets. Given its weight and importance in economic and financial terms and its importance for citizens, the health care sector has been extensively studied in various disciplines, including management studies. In many cases, health care organizations are examined from a systems theory perspective or a field of professional expertise and jurisdictional struggles. Assembling Health Care Organizations: Practices, Materialities, and Institutions integrates an institutional theory perspective and a materialist view of the technologies, devices, biological specimens, and other material resources mobilized and put to work in health care work.
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