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- Benders, J., et al.
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Cellular manufacturing at Scania-Vabis; continuity and discontinuity in management thought
- 2022
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Ingår i: Team Performance Management. - : Emerald. - 1352-7592. ; 28:3/4, s. 176-190
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose This paper aims to document the development of cellular manufacturing at Scania-Vabis, thereby contributing to the history of an organizational idea. Design/methodology/approach The authors draw on published sources and interviews to reconstruct the development of cellular manufacturing at Scania-Vabis and its traces. Findings Cellular manufacturing was applied and further developed at Scania-Vabis in the 1940s and 1950s. Nevertheless, it seems to have fallen into oblivion. The key idea resurfaced in the 1970s. Practical implications The authors argue that such "proven technology" should be considered a classical insight in organization design rather than old and thus outdated. Originality/value The authors demonstrate that this form of flow-based organizing is much older than commonly assumed and point to barriers in accumulating knowledge on organizing.
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- Blomquist, Tomas, 1963-, et al.
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Ekonomisk styrning för förändring : en studie av ekonomiska styrinitiativ i hälso- och sjukvården
- 1998
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Since the end of the 1980’s Swedish county council managers has been preoccupied with planning and implementing organisational change in order to alleviate the financial problems and to create more efficient production systems. Many of these efforts to change have implied changing the systems for management accounting and control, changes that have been inspired both by market-oriented ideologies and by the governance principles of large corporations in the private sector. Literature on management accounting and control indicates however, that management is unintentionally contributing to the creation of organisational inertia and conservatism. This contradiction is formulated as a change dilemma; ”How can managerial principles that make organizations subject to bureaucratization and inertia be used as important strategies for organizational change?” The purpose of the study is thus to analyze the use of management control systems as organizational change strategies in health care, employing a change perspective on management control.When used as a change strategy, management accounting and control becomes manifest as management control initiatives. Actors handle these control inititatives by organising themselves around the issue at hand. This organising process ends or fades away when there are no need for further attention to the control initiative.Empirical studies were made in the councils of Västerbotten, Sörmland and Uppsala counties. Management control initiatives investigated were performance-related pay, quality improvement work, systematic planning procedures, provider/purchaser-models, downsizing projects and profit center systems.The systems for management accounting and control appeared to structure health care organisations in terms of spatial structuring temporal structuring and actor categorization. The management control initiatives introduced were structured as extraordinary organising processes delimited in terms of space, time and involved actors. Actors in the administrative norm system participated with the intention to change the organisation, while those in the medical norm system aimed at just handling the initiative.Management control initiatives can therefore be seen as passing opportunities to change, passing in the sense that the organising processes are temporary by nature, opportunities in the sense that temporary re-coupling can be used to achieve long-term change. One such opportunity is the formulation of control initiatives; the possibility of using simple and standardized change strategies can be useful, but only if they are also linked to the medical norm system. A second opportunity is the temporary organising processes; if the project form of organising change can also be conveyed to the medical norm system, management control initiatives could result in short, intense courses of events that actually change things. The third opportunity s the recurrent cyc ica pro perties of management accounting and control systems, enabling recurrent activities around the same themes, thereby keeping them alive.
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- Borg, Elisabeth
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Liminality at Work : Mobile Project Workers In-Between
- 2014
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This doctoral thesis addresses how mobile project workers; technical consultants working in projects, experience and deal with project-based work. The thesis consists of a compilation of five papers and an extended summary. It is based on three qualitative studies including methods like interviews, diaries, and observations. The thesis adopts and develops the conceptual lens of liminality.The results of this thesis show that mobile project workers use four different practices to deal with liminality at work. Furthermore, the thesis develops the framework of “liminality competence,” indicating that some mobile project workers are better at utilizing their liminal positions than others. The thesis also studies how liminality competence is developed and how formal training programs influence the liminal position for mobile project workers.
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- Damm, Margareta, 1946, et al.
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Minskad sjukfrånvaro : en fråga om arbetsgivarincitament? Medfinansieringsreformen ur ett arbetsgivarperspektiv
- 2008
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Studien utvärderar medfinansieringsreformen som kom att gälla 2004-2006 och vars intention var att med ekonomiska incitament få arbetsgivare att ta ett ökat ansvar för att minska den sjukfrånvaro som i början av seklet ansågs mycket stor. För att förklara ar-betsgivarnas förhållningssätt besvaras först följande frågor: • Vad gör arbetsgivarna för att de anställda inte skall vara frånvarande från arbetet? Hur har de på denna punkt eventuellt förändrat sitt handlande på grund av refor-men? • Hur påverkas jämställdheten av de nya incitamenten, till exempel med hänsyn taget till att kvinnor vanligtvis står för högre andel av sjukfrånvaro? • Hur förhåller sig arbetsgivarna till ekonomiska analyser och kalkyler av sjukfrånvaron och reformen? Vilka ekonomiska resultat kan skönjas? • Hur ser arbetsgivarna efter reformens genomförande på sitt ansvar att förebygga ohälsa och vidta rehabiliterande insatser? Har reformen förändrat synsättet? Frågorna besvaras dels med hjälp av en enkät och dels med en serie fallstudier från företag och förvaltningar. I analysen dras slutsatsen att arbetsgivare, oavsett reformen, tar ansvar för att åtgärder som antas förebygga ohälsa eller rehabilitera sjuka genomförs, men att de vare sig kan eller vill, annat än marginellt, ta ansvar för sjukfrånvaron och dess orsaker.
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- Dellve, Lotta, 1965, et al.
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Projekt som källa till både engagemang och stress
- 2008
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Ingår i: Projektliv - Villkor för uthållig projektverksamhet. - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144052243
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Docherty, Peter, 1938, et al.
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The changing practice of action research
- 2006
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Ingår i: Jan Löwstedt & Torbjörn Stjernberg (eds.) Producing Management Knowledge. Research as Practice. - : Routledge.
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