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- Havemo, Emelie, 1987-
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Den visuella bilden av organisationen : Perspektiv på visualitet i accounting
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Organisations play a crucial role as actors that shape material action and societal discourse; therefore, it is important to understand the ways in which they gain legitimacy and how they shape society. The power of accounting representations to construct the accounting object – the organisation – is therefore a key concern in the accounting literature. Accounting is widely treated as a numbers-based ‘language of business’ through which ‘paper world’ representations shape outcomes in the material world. At present, visuality (the presence of visual images and visual thinking) is gaining influence as a means to represent organisations and construct accounting objects visually. As visuality continues to expand into the realm of accounting, questions emerge about its role and the possibilities of combining the two ‘languages’ during a time when management research is facing a “visual turn”.The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the nature of visuality in accounting. The dissertation is based on five essays that contribute to the visual turn through semiotic analysis of visual texts and qualitative case studies. Paper I explores how business model diagrams – an example of a corporate self-representation – can be designed, and proposes a typology of four main logics for illustrating value creation: classification, circularity, processes and transactions. Paper II describes the development of visuals use in the annual report, finding that visuals are used in greater numbers overall, and that diagrams are a relatively new visual resource in financial reporting. The paper also outlines the trend of a materiality, that is, that visuals increasingly refer to a non-specific and symbol-based idea of the organisation. In Paper III, internal and external representations of a business model are compared, and I conclude that self-representations can be based on parallel but conflicting interpretations of an idea. Paper IV proposes a new visual method for analysing combinations of graphs and texts, and shows that the ‘rhythm’ of graph use in the annual report increasingly integrates visuality in accounting narratives so that accounting and visuality overlap. Finally, Paper V explores challenges and opportunities of a digitalisation of visual artefacts based on the experiences of three organisations that used visual management before the transition.The theoretical contribution of this dissertation is framed in terms of two perspectives. First, a developmental perspective highlights that the nature of visuality has become more prominent in accounting settings, and that the nature of visuality has changed from materiality-based to a material practices that favour conceptual visualisations like diagrams and visual symbols. Second, visuality is explored from an ‘overlaps’ perspective. Three explanations for the role of visuality in accounting are synthesised from the literature: separation, convergence and multilingualism. The contribution is to conceptualise these ‘overlap models’ and thereby deepen the understanding of the role played by visuality in accounting. I also propose a fourth model – bridging – to extend the range of explanations for the meaning of a visual form of accounting.Based on the findings that visuality is more prominent and that the role of visuality is changing, it is proposed visual literacy is an important skill for practitioners who use visual images in accounting. The dissertation presents two frameworks that can contribute to visual literacy. The ‘transformationality framework’ shows how to analyse underlying ideas in corporate diagrams, and the ‘rhythm framework’ illustrates how to shape, use and analyse accounting texts in terms of how combinations of visuals form different rhythms in the annual report.
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- Alvehus, Johan, 1973-
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4 myter om professionalla organisationer
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Hur leds och styrs egentligen professionella organisationer? Är det professionella ideal eller är det effektivitet och kostnadsbesparingar som är viktigast? Vad spelar arbetsprocesser, strukturer och strategier för roll? Och behövs verkligen ledarskap? I ett försök att besvara dessa frågor ger sig boken i kast med fyra myter, eller populära föreställningar, om professionella serviceorganisationer:1 Professionella serviceorganisationer är platta organisationer med låga inslag av byråkrati 2 Professionellt arbete präglas av frihet och autonomi 3 a) Professionella arbetare måste styras b) Professionellt arbete måste styras 4 Professionella behöver ledarskapDe fyra myterna belyses i detalj och både ifrågasätts och nyanseras. I centrum för resonemanget står arbete, och boken närmar sig frågor om struktur, strategi, ledarskap och olika former av styrning, bl.a. human resource management, kulturstyrning och tidsstyrning. Bokens bidrag till teori, praktik och den bredare samhällsdebatten sammanfattas i form av fyra motmyter.4 myter om professionella organisationer tar sin utgångspunkt i aktuell forskning inom företagsekonomi och professionssociologi och vänder sig till studerande inom områdena organisation, management och ledarskap. Boken kan även ses som ett inlägg i debatten om hur professionella organisationer bör styras, vilket gör den intressant för såväl chefer som medarbetare inom den typen av organisationer.
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- Alvehus, Johan, et al.
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A New Professional Landscape : Entangled Institutional Logics in Two Swedish Welfare Professions
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies. - : Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies. - 2245-0157. ; 8:3, s. 91-109
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Previous research has made three parallel but incompatible observations on the contemporary development of welfare professions: loss of professional autonomy, hybridization, and maintained autonomy. Yet, research providing contextual understanding of the simultaneous occurrence of these three observations is lacking. The aim of this theoretical paper is to identify and explain seemingly contradictory coexisting features of modern welfare professions through a compre-hensive reading of current literature on the health care and teaching professions in Sweden. The literature has demonstrated entangled institutional logics, in which simultaneous but differing effects occur, thereby developing a new professional landscape.
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- Alvehus, Johan, et al.
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Administration i offentlig sektor. Om expansion, elevering och mittokrati.
- 2024
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Administrationen växer i våra offentliga verksamheter. Alltmer resurser samlas ovanför kärnverksamheten, men också nedanför ledningen. Det som växer fram är en ny organisationsform, mittokratin, en organisation som domineras av sin mellersta del, administrationen. Varför sker denna utveckling och vad får det för konsekvenser? För att förstå varför måste vi förstå vilka drivkrafter som ligger bakom. Den här boken identifierar och synliggör en konkret och viktig utmaning för organisatörer av offentlig sektor.
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- Alvehus, Johan
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All jazz är skitdålig!
- 2020
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Ingår i: Tidningen Curie. - 2001-3426.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Alvehus, Johan, 1973-
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All metodlitteratur är inte dålig
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Ingår i: Universitetsläraren. - 0282-4973. ; :9, s. 27-
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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