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- Björnström, Johan, 1975, et al.
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Corporate strategies: for whom and for what?
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Ingår i: Performance Improvement in Construction Management (eds. Atkin and Borgbrant). ; , s. 102-114
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Björnström, Johan, 1975, et al.
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Role of action research in dealing with a traditional process
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Ingår i: Performance Improvement in Construction Management. - 9781135998363 ; , s. 102-114
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Effective strategic management is becoming an increasingly important issue both for practitioners and management scholars. Not only is the process of formulating and implementing strategies given higher priority, but the role and meaning of strategies are also changing (Price, 2003). In the construction industry, however, relatively few companies seem, as yet, to have established a formal strategy process, even though there is considered to be greater awareness of the importance of effective strategic management to enhance performance and profitability (Junnonen, 1998). In the purportedly conservative construction industry, actors prefer adhering to the ‘business as usual’ mindset, which often results in a drift of strategic meanings and ultimate blurring of the organization’s strategic position (Johnson et al., 2005). Following a number of reports of companies’ failure to implement strategies (see, for example, Allio, 2005; Corboy and O’Corrbui, 1999; Kaplan and Norton, 2001), the attention of practitioners and researchers is now shifting from the formulation process to implementation dilemmas (Aaltonen and Ikavalko, 2002). The already growing body of research into strategy implementation seems to agree that one of the main reasons for failure is ineffective organizational communication caused by a lack of consideration of the social environment at the strategy execution level of the organization (Miniace and Falter, 1996). Yet, what is meant by the term ‘communication’ is not defined, and just a few studies have focused on the discursive and rhetorical aspects of strategy communication (Fairhurst et al., 1997; Johansson, 2003; Müllern and Stein, 1999). These studies typically describe managerial strategic communication as being transactional rather than interactional, monologic rather than dialogic and top-down rather than bottom-up. They also characterize strategic rhetoric at the top level of management as abstract rather than concrete, idealistic rather than realistic and distanced rather than proximal. To our knowledge, no such studies have been carried out in the construction industry. The overall purpose of this chapter is, therefore, to report preliminary results from a longitudinal case study of the strategy work carried out in a large Swedish construction company during a period of organizational change. Our concern here is the ways in which the new strategies are communicated down the chain of command in the company: from top management levels via middle management to project management. We focus on the face-to-face communications used by the different managerial levels to disseminate the corporate strategy and the implications this has on the ways in which the strategies are interpreted and understood. Of particular interest in these interactions are the underlying reasons for the different approaches toward strategy implementation. We hope to contribute some insights into the complexity of communicative processes and practices and argue that organizations need to view discursive processes and practices as an integral part of organizing.
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- Gluch, Pernilla, 1968, et al.
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Miljöbarometern för bygg- och fastighetssektorn 2006 - en kartläggning av sektorns miljöarbete
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Studien har kartlagt företagens syn på miljöutmaningen, responsen på densamma samt resultatet av genomfört miljöarbete. Enkätstudien som genomfördes under hösten 2006 riktades till miljöansvariga i inom svensk bygg- och fastighetssektor, av totalt 542 företag svarade 246. Resultaten visar att företagen upplever att miljöproblemen minskat något eller varit oförändrade under den senaste fyraårsperioden, men också att sektorn fortfarande kämpar med energifrågan och bruk av ej förnyelsebara material. Företagen fortsätter dessutom att lägga resurser på avfallshantering och miljöledningssystem. Företagen uppskattar att de främst uppnått resultat inom källsortering och kemikalieanvändning. I grova drag har bygg- och fastighetsföretagen under den senaste perioden satsat ännu mer på det man redan satsat mycket på. Resultaten visar att hindren för att göra gröna affärer idag upplevs mer framträdande, vilket lett till att fler tappat tron på marknadsmekanismer som lösning på problemen. Istället har lagstiftande åtgärder som främsta lösning stärkts. Under perioden har konceptet hållbar utveckling fått genomslag, även om det hittills inte påverkat organiseringen av arbetet i företagen. Slutsatsen som dras är att företagen inom bygg- och fastighetssektorn har ett aktivt miljöarbete men att utvecklingen på området uppvisar en viss utvecklingströghet. Studien identifierar sex möjliga orsaker till denna tröghet vilka presenteras i rapporten.
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- Gluch, Pernilla, 1968, et al.
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The Image of Greening as Communicated by Trade Magazines
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference, June 6-8, Finlandia Hall. Helsinki, Finland.
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- Gluch, Pernilla, 1968, et al.
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What makes it slow? A questionnaire survey of environmental attitudes, management and performance
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Ingår i: 4th Nordic Conference on Construction Economics and Organisation, 14th-15th June 2007, Luleå, Sweden.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Over the last two decades the Swedish building industry has made much effort to develop green building practices. Researchers within the field have provided theoretical knowledge on how to design green buildings and analytical environmental management tools have been developed to guide practitioners. Information campaigns have raised the general environmental awareness among building practitioners. In spite of these efforts, mainstream building practices do not seem to have undergone any marked changes. This raises the question of how environmental issues actually are dealt with in the building industry. Has the development stagnated and, if so, why? What causes green innovation inertia in the Swedish building industry? What makes it slow? This paper provides some answers to these questions by empirically examining environmental attitudes, management and performance in the industry. The paper is based on a structured questionnaire survey directed to environmental managers at all companies in Sweden with at least 50 employees within technical consultants, building constructors, and property owners and managers and companies with at least 20 employees within architecture. The response rate was 45.4% which corresponds to 246 respondents. The study detects possible causes to deficiencies and creates larger understanding as to why the development, despite much effort, sometimes does not go in the direction as intended by top management. Focusing on relations between the definition of environmental challenge, measures adopted and results from measures, the paper identifies trends and institutionalising processes that hinder sustainable development within the building industry.
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