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- Arbin, Katarina, 1971-, et al.
(författare)
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Explaining workers’ resistance against a health and safety programme : An understanding based on hierarchical and social accountability
- 2021
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Ingår i: Safety Science. - : Elsevier. - 0925-7535 .- 1879-1042. ; 136
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The seemingly paradoxical phenomenon of workers’ resistance to health and safety measures has been explained in various ways, for example through production or efficiency pressure, risk-taking behaviours or problematic safety cultures. This article addresses resistance but analyses it through the lens of hierarchical and social accountability. In a case study of a Swedish paper mill, a health and safety programme is resisted by workers even though it enjoys support from the local trade union. Explanations for this is found in the socialising form of accountability that conditions how workers perceive of work-related health and safety. The aspects of work identity, facilitation and visibility are identified and understood in terms of accountability. Who you are, how you perform work, and what is visualised is filtered and evaluated through horizontal relationships rather than in terms of hierarchical accountability to the company.
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- Beime, Kristina S., 1984-
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Den avvikande anställda : En studie av den disciplinära processens misslyckande
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis is devoted to the darker side of organizational control. How individuals, viewed by their superiors as dysfunctional or deviant, are dealt with once the everyday disciplinary standard operating procedures and social mechanisms are consider to fall short. My two research questions, how the deviant employee is constructed by management and how management handle the deviant employee, are closely related to how the threshold of deviance is defined, explicitly or implicitly, in formal organizations.Central in my work is the concept of ostracism, a process where an individual is both physically removed/banished, made redundant, isolated or relocated and socially defined as deviant, said to be disloyal, uncooperative or lazy. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault I conceptualize this as the last step in the organizations disciplinary process, a point where the aim of normalization is replaced by a process of exclusion, to safeguard the organization.In the analysis I identify different types of deviations and how managers construct deviance in relation to different logics. The individual can be regarded as a misfit in relation to a rational economic, a bureaucratic, a collegial social and finally a socio-cultural logic of action. The individual is classified as deviant in relation to one of these frames and the manager’s attempts to normalize the individual accordingly, something that also determine if and how the individual is excluded from the organization.The wider implications of the study is that in order to understand disciplinary regimes in working life, the processes of labelling deviance and managing exclusion must be understood.
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- Borglund, Tommy, 1968-, et al.
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CSR and Sustainable Business
- 2021. - 2
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- CSR AND SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS introduces many perspectives on corporate social responsibility and sustainable business, as well as how the different perspectives are connected. The discussion is based on real examples and cases. The development within CSR has been moving quickly, both in politics and in business. Phenomena, like social entrepreneurism, sustainable business strategies and new financial models relating to sustainability, have grown stronger. This book gives an overview of the most important concepts and theories, as well as offering a depth of historical perspectives and connections to business ethics. Theoretical aspects are combined with examples from a large number of companies and organizations. The text is divided into three parts. The first part provides an overview of the topic, its history and growth. The second part covers practices at companies and business operations. In the third part, the focus is on control and strategies for responsible, sustainable business. This first edition in English features some of the most influential experts in the field. The original Swedish edition published in 2012 has been used extensively in leading universities and management training courses in both Sweden and Finland for years.
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- Borglund, Tommy, 1968-, et al.
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Effekterna av hållbarhetsredovisning : En studie av konsekvenserna av de nya riktlinjerna om hållbarhetsinformation i statligt ägda företag
- 2010
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Regeringen beslutade under 2007 om nya riktlinjer för extern rapportering för de statligt ägda företagen. Dessa ska från och med räkenskapsåret 2008 hållbarhetsredovisa enligt Global Reporting Initatives (GRI:s) riktlinjer. Krav på hållbarhetsredovisning ger staten som ägare möjlighet att följa upp att styrelserna har tagit sitt ansvar enligt statens ägarpolicy, dvs att statligt ägda företag ska vara föredömen vad gäller socialt och miljömässigt ansvarstagande. Syftet med studien är att undersöka om och i vilken utsträckning regeringens utökade krav på hållbarhetsinformation har fått effekter på statligt ägda företagens hållbarhetsarbete. Studien fokuserar på förändringar i strukturer eller processer i företagens hållbarhetsarbete som kan härledas till tillämpningen av regeringens riktlinjer och de nya prioriteringar som följer av att riktlinjerna tillämpas. Studien bygger på intervjuer och enkäter till CSR- och hållbarhetschefer i 49 statligt hel- eller delägda företag samt till styrelseordförandena i dessa företag. Sammantaget visar resultaten att införandet av de nya riktlinjerna påverkat företagen i varierande grad. De företag som tidigare saknat erfarenhet från hållbarhetsredovisningar har genomgått en större förändringsprocess än de som redan sedan tidigare redovisat sina hållbarhetsfrågor. Riktlinjerna har därmed haft störst effekter på de företag som sedan tidigare inte haft större erfarenheter från hållbarhetsarbete. Resultaten visar att riktlinjerna bidragit till att skapa uppmärksamhet och medvetenhet kring hållbarhetsfrågor i företagen samt att generera ny kunskap om hållbarhetsfrågor. I synnerhet har kunskapsnivån ökat hos de företag som sedan tidigare ansåg sig ha begränsad kunskap och bristande erfarenhet från att arbeta med hållbarhetsredovisning. Nya hållbarhetsfrågor har därmed prioriterats i vissa företag. Framförallt har företagen medvetandegjorts om vikten av hållbarhetsfrågor. Vidare visar resultaten att riktlinjerna om hållbarhetsredovisning främst bidragit till förbättrade rutiner för att redovisa hållbarhetsfrågor snarare än skapat stora förändringar av hållbarhetsarbetet som praktik. I viss mån har det skett en ökad systematisering av hållbarhetsarbetet i stort. I vissa företag har nya hållbarhetsfrågor prioriterats och nya rutiner och riktlinjer för kärnverksamhetenhar utarbetats. Studien visar att affärsstödjande processer förändras i vissa företag. Dessa processer handlar främst om miljö och inköp, även om mycket få företag rapporterar egentliga förändringar av det de upplever vara kärnverksamheten. Strukturförändringar – att den formella organisationen i företagen ändras – förekommer i begränsad utsträckning och kan i så fall hänföras till organiseringen av hållbarhetsarbete. Överlag har dock riktlinjerna främst påverkat företagens sätt att rapportera och redovisa hållbarhetsfrågor snarare än själva hållbarhetsarbetet. Det leder oss fram till slutsatsen att redovisningen av hållbarhetsfrågor i första hand stärker och förbättrar redovisningsprocedurer, medan steget till förändrad praktik är längre. Av studien framkommer att hållbarhetsredovisning handlar om en lärprocess. Att använda GRI:s riktlinjer är inte helt okomplicerat. I flera fall upplevts det som svårt att arbeta enligt riktlinjerna i synnerhet när det gäller att välja ut och styra efter relevanta GRI-indikatorer. I vissa fall anser företagen att indikatorerna inte är anpassade efter deras bransch – och att de flesta indikatorerna därmed inte är applicerbara på deras verksamhet. Företagen har lärt sig att anamma GRI i olika utsträckning. Tydligt är att GRI anpassas till företagens egen verksamhet genom att GRI:s indikatorer översätts till relevanta nyckeltal i företagen.
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- Borglund, Tommy, 1968-, et al.
(författare)
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External facilitators as ‘Legitimizers’ in designing a master's program in sustainable business at a Swedish business school : A typology of industry collaborator roles in RME
- 2019
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Management Education. - : Elsevier. - 1472-8117 .- 2352-3565. ; 17:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article offers new knowledge on the role of industry as external facilitators in the case of designing responsible management education (RME). Drawing on a case of a Swedish business school that developed a two year master's profile in sustainable business, we find that industry partners acted as external facilitators in the form of ‘Legitimizers’. This type of external facilitator, Legitimizer, complements Vazquez-Brust and Yakovleva’s (2017) existing categories: ‘Guides’, ‘Monitors’, ‘Enablers’, and ‘Networkers’. Based on the findings, we propose that business can take on four types of legitimizing roles in academia – business collaboration: The Visitor, The Planner, The Co-operator, and The Co-educator. We further identify various forms of legitimacy, particularly cognitive and pragmatic, that the corporate activities and interactions generate. Interestingly, in the case of RME, companies are instrumental to legitimizing the education, rather than being the ones seeking legitimacy.
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- Borglund, Tommy, 1968-, et al.
(författare)
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Increasing responsibility through transparency? : A study of the consequences of new guidelines for sustainability reporting by Swedish state-owned companies
- 2010
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In 2007, the Swedish government introduced new guidelines requiring state-owned companies to provide sustainability reports in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). The reform was part of an active ownership policy of the Swedish government with an ambition to promote sustainability in state-owned companies. Given the lack of empirical studies on the effects of GRI reporting this explorative study examines the consequences of new requirements on GRI reporting on state-owned companies in Sweden. The purpose of the paper is to investigate if and to what extent the government’s augmented sustainability information requirements have had effects on the sustainability activities at state-owned companies. The study is based on questionnaires sent to CSR and sustainability managers at state-owned companies and to the chairmen of these companies. The questionnaires were complemented with interviews with the sustainability managers of a selection of these state-owned companies. The results show that the introduction of the new guidelines affected the companies to varying degrees. The companies that lacked previous experience of sustainability reporting have gone through a more extensive process of change than those that were already submitting sustainability reports. The results also show that the guidelines contributed mainly to improved procedures for reporting on sustainability issues rather than bringing about far-reaching changes in sustainability activities in practice. This leads us to the conclusion that the reporting of sustainability issues in the first instance strengthens and improves reporting procedures, whereas the next step – to changes in practice – is a greater one.
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- Borglund, Tommy, 1968-, et al.
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The Professional Logic of Sustainability Managers : Finding Underlying Dynamics
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Business Ethics. - : Springer. - 0167-4544 .- 1573-0697. ; 182:1, s. 59-76
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The role of the Sustainability Manager (SM) is expanding. Whether SMs are turning into a new profession is under debate. Pointing to the need for a distinct professional logic to qualify as a profession, we identify what is contained within a professional logic of SMs. Through analyzing ambiguities present in the role of the SMs, we show that there is no specific distinct professional logic of SMs, but rather a meta-construct building on market, bureaucratic, and sustainability logics. In addition, we point to the complex configurations of and relationships between these underlying logics. The complexities also explain why the SMs differ from traditional professions and why it is problematic to talk about a ‘SM profession’. Rather, SMs are ‘organizational professionals’. The article builds on 21 interviews with SMs working for Swedish companies.
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- Borglund, Tommy, 1968-, et al.
(författare)
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Understanding Responsible Management Education from the Inside : A Case Study of a Case Study in an Insurance and Savings Company
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Business Ethics Education. - : Neilson Journals Publishing. - 1649-5195 .- 2044-4559. ; 15, s. 97-124
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite some two decades of research on Responsible Management Education (RME) relatively little is known about RME within business. In particular, different variants of RME in business have not been studied enough to give us a thorough understanding of the nature, role and function of RME in business. To provide some remedy, this article studies RME from an internal business perspective. Through action research, it shows how a specific form of RME, building on the Shared Value (SV) concept, is shaped, developed and manifested within the life-insurance and savings company Skandia. Furthermore, it develops a model for a holistic understanding of RME in business, taking into account RME actors, concepts, methods, and use. Apart from being an empirical illustration from within business of how RME becomes a tool for strategy, identity and innovation, and constructing a model for understanding RME, the article also highlights SV as the conceptual basis for RME.
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- De Geer, Hans, et al.
(författare)
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Anglo-Saxification of Swedish Business : Working paper within the project 'Scandinavian Heritage'
- 2003
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Ingår i: Business Ethics. A European Review. - : Wiley-Blackwell. - 0962-8770 .- 1467-8608. ; 12:2, s. 179-189
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- An increasingly globalised world challenges old orders, structures and arrangements. This becomes especially apparent in the ?eld of international business, where mergers, acquisitions and foreign direct investment can trigger job cuts, divestment and the closing-down of traditional industries. For this reason mergers and acquistions are sensitive issues. When two companies from different countries merge, or when a ?rm is purchased by a foreign actor, a new dimension enters into the life of the companies. This is very likely to cause worry and unrest among employees. In such a situation con?icts and clashes may arise and old values and norms may be challenged by the new order. In this paper we examine that issue. A special focus will be given to the con?icts and clashes that can be the consequence of such an encounter between old and new. We shall exemplify this with a case concerning a Swedish company recently bought by an American competitor. The particular aspect of the problem that we are interested in is the in?uence of the new ownership on the ethical values and virtues of the Swedish company. We look speci?cally at the sense in which the changes in the ethical ?eld are expressions of a new Anglo-Saxon shareholder-oriented model, as opposed to a more traditional Scandinavian stakeholder model.
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- De Geer, Hans, et al.
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Reconciling CSR with the Role of the Corporation in Welfare States : The Problematic Swedish Example
- 2009
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Ingår i: Journal of Business Ethics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0167-4544 .- 1573-0697. ; 89:Supplement 3, s. 269-283
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article uses the Swedish example to illustrate how corporate social responsibility (CSR) is understood and interpreted when it enters a welfare state context where social issues have traditionally been the domains of the state and of politicians. Among the implications one finds a relative scepticism of traditionally strong actors on the labour market, such as the state, trade unions and employers. This relative scepticism is primarily explained by an enduring idea of the role of business in society which stands in contradistinction to the idea expressed in the corporate centred idea of CSR. Still, CSR gains a foothold in the welfare state context, mainly because of the flexibility of the concept which allows for 'escape routes' - an understanding of CSR that focusses on issues at arm's length from the traditional welfare context. CSR also benefits from being codified in soft regulation, thereby becoming a legitimate super- national point of reference for all relevant actors. The possibility of developing new global arenas for espousing ideals partly in conflict with traditional ones also explains why CSR has become an established concept. In Sweden, such arenas have been created through the activities of multinational corporations, NGOs, investors, the media, consultants and other actors.
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- Englund, Hans, 1971-, et al.
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Managing performance evaluation uncertainties in schools : When teachers become struggling performers
- 2017
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Ingår i: European Educational Research Journal. - : Sage Publications. - 1474-9041. ; 16:6, s. 885-906
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Performative technologies are increasingly relied upon as a means of controlling the work of teachers. As noted in the literature, one possible outcome of this trend is the performer, a teacher identity that presupposes the internalization of, and adaptation to, a performative logic. Based on the findings from an empirical study of a Swedish upper secondary school, we suggest that teachers who actually submit to the underlying logic of performative technologies – i.e. who intentionally strive towards a performative identity – will encounter a number of performance evaluation uncertainties, due to how performative technologies may: (a) reflect and recognize teacher performances based on qualitative judgements, (b) fail to take into account their entrepreneurial endeavours, (c) depict essentially collective effects as individual performances, and (d) reflect and recognize performances in a relativizing way. Such performance evaluation uncertainties will, in turn, provoke perceived tensions as performative teachers want to be (perceived as) performers but become uncertain as to when and why they did (not) perform well. And importantly, we find that such tensions tend to turn the ongoing reproduction of a performative identity into a cognitive struggle. Based on this, we introduce and elaborate on a particular type of performative teacher identity; the struggling performer.
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- Englund, Hans, 1971-, et al.
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Performative Technology Intensity and Teacher Subjectivities
- 2019
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. - : Routledge. - 0031-3831 .- 1470-1170. ; 63:5, s. 725-743
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Critical educational literature suggests that an increased reliance upon neoliberally inspired management technologies transforms the very foundations from which images of the ideal teacher are constructed. The purpose of this paper is to add to this literature by (i) identifying and analysing a number of theoretical qualities associated with performative technologies, and (ii) discussing how such qualities contribute to the emergence of performative teacher subjectivities. Drawing upon the findings from a qualitative interview study into the extensive use of performative technologies in a Swedish upper secondary school, we discuss four key roles of performative technologies—referred to as territorializing, mediating, adjudicating, and subjectivizing—and the intensity by which they play out such roles. A key conclusion is that the intensity by which performative technologies territorialize, mediate, and adjudicate educational practices affects self-reflection and internalization among teachers and, hence, is important for understanding the subjectivizing role of performative technologies.
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- Engwall, Lars, 1942-, et al.
(författare)
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A Field Approach to Corporate Governance
- 2018
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Ingår i: Corporate Governance in Action. - New York : Routledge. - 9781138285668 - 9781315268859 ; , s. 25-41
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- Engwall, Lars, 1942-, et al.
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Conclusions
- 2018
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Ingår i: Corporate Governance in Action. - New York : Routledge. - 9781138285668 ; , s. 185-198
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- Engwall, Lars, 1942-, et al.
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Governance Relations
- 2018
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Ingår i: Corporate Governance in Action. - New York : Routledge. - 9781138285668 ; , s. 163-183
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- Engwall, Lars, 1942-, et al.
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Resituating Corporate Governance
- 2018
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Ingår i: Corporate Governance in Action. - New York : Routledge. - 9781138285668 ; , s. 1-24
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- Frostenson, Magnus, 1970-
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A Consent and Knowledge Perspective on Normative Control
- 2013
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- For a couple of decades, the idea of normative control has been challenged for not paying due respect to employee self-determination, self-actualization, autonomy, integrity and freedom to make moral decisions. Despite well-articulated criticism, few scholars problematize the functionality and nature of normative control given varying employee perceptions of it. This article adopts a perspective where both employee consent and knowledge of aspects and components of normative control are taken into account. Through such an approach, four different states related to normative control are identified and discussed. By doing so, the article shifts focus from the recurrent obsession with the pros and cons of value alignment to the internal legitimacy of the person(s) exercising normative control and to employee knowledge of what normative control actually brings about.
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- Frostenson, Magnus, 1970-
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Accounting context
- 2023. - 1
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Ingår i: Encyclopedia of Stakeholder Management. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781800374232 - 9781800374249 ; , s. 6-11
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- Frostenson, Magnus, 1970-
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Accounting Systems and Integration of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into Corporate Operations
- 2020. - 1
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Ingår i: Handbook of Business Legitimacy. - Cham : Springer. - 9783319688459 ; , s. 1-15
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Following the introduction of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), many companies claim to adopt them in one way or the other. Guided by the “SDG Compass” and other tools, companies are advised to go through a process of trying to understand the SDGs, defining priorities, setting goals, integrating, and reporting and communicating the results. The article points to the nature of implementing the SDGs in business, including going from macro to micro goals, managerialism, and instrumental rationality, all implicitly present in the discourse of SDGs. Such an understanding on how to implement the SDGs, however, requires a strong role of the accounting system of the firm. Based on a theoretical framework, the various roles of accounting assumed in the managerial and instrumental approach to the SDGs are discussed. These roles include the potential of the accounting system to territorialize (sustainability) issues, mediate these to other arenas or higher-order contexts, adjudicate between success and failure, and subjectivize or incentivize people within the organization. The problem of playing out these roles in relation to the SDGs is discussed, as well as the perils of doing it, including the risk of losing sight of ethical business conduct as an action-guiding principle.
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- Frostenson, Magnus, 1970-, et al.
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Ambiguous organizational change : Revisiting the role of projects
- 2022
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Public organizations are replete with projects of different kinds. Projects within public organizations may be used instrumentally as part of an agenda of change. However, such an agenda is not necessarily clear from the outset, as both projects and the base organization may change during lifetime of the projects. For that reason, it is necessary to understand the role of projects in organizational change, not only through looking at the projects as such, but also how they relate to each other and the overall idea of organizational change. The purpose of this article is to explain organizational change by means of parallel project establishment and management. This article sheds light on and analyses a project context of a Norwegian administrative county, where projects became instrumental to changing the organization. However, while traditional approaches often assume that projects are means used to change organizations, we argue that organizational change is ambiguous since projects are re-constructed during the course of time. Ongoing change also pertains to the base organization itself, which is reflected in the projects. Reasons for this multiple and partly parallel nature of change are found in both central and local priorities that emerge underway.
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- Frostenson, Magnus
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Att arbeta med CSR
- 2010
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Ingår i: Bonniers ledarskapshandböcker. - Stockholm : Bonnier Business Publishing.
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- Frostenson, Magnus
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Att arbeta med CSR
- 2014
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Frostenson, Magnus, 1970-
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Business Legitimacy and the Variety of Normative Contexts
- 2019. - 1
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Ingår i: Handbook of Business Legitimacy. - Cham : Springer. - 9783319688459
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- Legitimacy research suggests that companies obtain moral legitimacy when acting in accordance with commonly held norms and values of the social system. In recent years, more attention has been paid to the fact that such systems are heterogeneous. Assumptions about what is morally right and wrong differ, not only between normative contexts but also within them. For that reason, the issue of moral legitimation becomes complex. The focus of the chapter is on the nature of the normative contexts in which companies attain legitimacy. Light is shed on the variety of normative contexts and the way that companies relate to these. It is argued that normative contexts differ with regard to both the number of competing normative ideas and the strength of these ideas. In addition, multinational companies face a multitude of social systems in which moral legitimation takes place. The chapter provides a model for understanding various normative contexts. It is argued that depending on the nature of the contexts, moral legitimation will operate differently.
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- Frostenson, Magnus, et al.
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Control or Accountability? : An Empirical Investigation into the Nature of Sustainability Control in Retail
- 2012
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Sustainability, in a wide sense of the word, is a prerequisite for business legitimacy in today’s society, not least in retail. To many, sustainability becomes an issue that must somehow be managed. Commonly, management of sustainability is understood in more or less the same fashion as managing business in general. For example, sustainability is assumed to be controlled in the same manner as any other business activity. Control is a concept traditionally referable to a specific internal context, usually assuming a rational, instrumental and closed organization where goals and objectives are formulated at top level, even if the mechanisms of control may vary considerably. In this paper, we question the prevailing ideas of management control when it comes to sustainability. Based on how sustainability issues are actually managed within retail, we point to inadequacies of understanding sustainability as an issue that can be managed in a traditional way. The paper builds on interviews made within a large Swedish retail firm with relatively developed strategies and understandings of sustainability and the need for responsible business conduct, both in practice and communication.Thus, the purpose of the paper is to show how control in terms of sustainability escapes traditional conceptions of management control. This, we argue, is not just an issue of academic interest. In a wider sense, we identify why the issue of sustainability requires other means and competencies to be successfully managed compared to traditional business issues. Basically, we formulate our contentions against the concept of accountability, the contents and consequences of which must be understood and handled by companies in order to provide a credible sustainability profile.
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- Frostenson, Magnus, 1970-
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Corporate Social Responsibility in Sweden
- 2021. - 1
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Ingår i: Current Global Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility. - Cham : Springer. - 9783030683856 - 9783030683863 ; , s. 351-365
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is now a body of literature covering the history of CSR in Sweden and the shapes that the concept has taken in Swedish business. In recent years, however, a number of overarching trends have influenced the understandings and practices of CSR in Sweden. This chapter identifies such trends and discusses their implications. Thereby it complements earlier descriptions of CSR in welfare states.The chapter identifies three interrelated tendencies affecting how CSR has developed in Sweden: First, the regulatory development including both hard and soft regulation; second, an outspoken governance perspective on CSR, including ownership pressure on business to operate according to sustainability criteria; third, the interwoven demands of the multi-stakeholder context and business concerns that co-exist and define business practices.One conclusion is that CSR in Sweden has become strongly conditioned by institutional and ideological paradigms that define responsible business behavior. Political and multi-stakeholder activism influences CSR thinking to a higher extent today compared to a decade ago. It is obvious that the concept of sustainability has gained ground at the expense of CSR. Swedish companies do not object to being part of the sustainability agenda.
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- Frostenson, Magnus, et al.
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CSR från webben till butiken : etiska stödstrukturer för arbetstagare inom handeln
- 2010
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I den första delstudien undersöks vilka frågor detaljhandeln kommunicerar och lyfter fram som viktiga ansvarsfrågor. Den andra delstudien fördjupar förståelsen av de ansvarsstrukturer som används, medan den tredje undersöker förhållandet mellan ansvarsstrukturer och det stöd dessa kan ge medarbetare på butiksnivå. Slutligen ges förslag kring hur strukturerna kan utvecklas. Intresset för ansvarsfrågor, åtminstone i termer av hur och i vilken omfattning mankommunicerar frågorna, är kraftigt varierande i detaljhandelsföretagen. Av detaljhandelsföretag med över 100 anställda är det, att döma av den första delstudien, fortfarande en minoritet som kommunicerar frågorna. Tendensen är att miljöfrågor kommuniceras mest och rena etikfrågor, särskilt de av intern natur och av praktisk relevans för medarbetarna i deras arbetssituation, minst. Kommunikationen kring ansvarsfrågor överlag (miljö och kvalitet, socialt ansvar, etik, samt välgörenhet och sponsring) är också ojämnt fördelat mellan olika branscher. Det finns också en tydlig tendens till ”filtrering” i detaljhandelns kommunikation om ansvar, det vill säga att ansvaret för att kommunicera frågorna ligger på koncernnivå snarare än på dotterbolagsnivå. Bland de övergripande orsakerna till varför detaljhandeln hanterar ansvarsfrågor som de gör är ett institutionellt tryck på detaljhandeln att utveckla aktiviteter och strukturer för att leva upp till rollen som ansvarsfull aktör i näringslivet. Detta handlar särskilt om medvetenhet om frågor kring arbetsvillkor hos underleverantörer, miljö, mänskliga rättigheter och korruption. De strukturer som utvecklas har en tendens att återspegla centrala intressenters prioriterade frågor, som ofta handlar om de ovan nämnda områdena, men inte om företagsinterna frågor om enskilda medarbetares skyldigheter och rättigheter i det svenska sammanhanget. Dessa hanteras snarare inom ramen för arbetsrättslig lagstiftning och välfärdsstatens sociala dimensioner. I stället handlar diskussionen om till exempel uppförandekoder som framförallt riktas mot underleverantörer, att man hållbarhetsredovisar och lyfter fram miljöfrågor eller att man börjar tillämpa en branschkod. Kommunikationen och ansvarsstrukturerna är starkt centraliserade. Rent organisatoriskt kan det förstås som en vilja till samordning och konsistens, men det kan också ses som en indikation på att företagen möter frågorna framförallt på koncernnivå. Non-governmental organisations (NGOs), media och andra aktörer närmar sig företagen centralt. Det är inte butiken och den enskilda medarbetaren som får ta i frågorna i första hand. Trots medarbetarens viktiga roll i kundmötet är inte frågorna decentraliserade i egentlig mening. Trots detta visar fallstudierna att ansvarsstrukturer kan ha betydelse för medarbetare, men bara till viss del som stödjande instrument i kundmötet. En viktigare funktion tycks de fylla genom att skapa identitet och förtroende samt genom att fungera rent informativt, genom att signalera vad företaget gör i ansvarsfrågor.
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CSR och hållbart företagande
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- CSR OCH HÅLLBART FÖRETAGANDE introducerar många perspektiv på företagens sociala ansvar och hållbart företagande, samt hur de olika perspektiven hänger ihop. Resonemangen knyter an till verkliga exempel och fall. Utvecklingen inom CSR har gått snabbt inom både politik och företagande. Fenomen som socialt entreprenörskap, hållbara affärsstrategier och nya finansiella modeller kring hållbarhet har vuxit sig allt starkare. Nytt i denna upplaga är att de globala hållbarhetsmålen diskuteras mer ingående och ett helt nytt kapitel har tillkommit som diskuterar begrepp och fenomen kopplade till mångfald och integration. Boken ger både en överblick över de viktigaste koncepten och teorierna samt ett djup kring historiska perspektiv och företagsetiska kopplingar. Teori varvas med exempel från en lång rad företag och organisationer.
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CSR reser in i organisationen
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Ingår i: Företagsansvar. - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144068794 ; , s. 133-146
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CSR travels into the organization
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Ingår i: CSR as a management idea. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781782544722 - 978 1 78254 472 2 ; , s. 126-140
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Decoupled but necessary : The internal significance of codes of conduct in retail firms
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we examine the significance of codes of conducts (CoCs) in the internal work context of two retail firms. We do this in a threefold way. First, we identify in what way employees use and refer to CoCs internally. Second, we identify the function and relevance of CoCs inside a company. Third, we explain why CoCs tend to function in the identified ways. We find practical and conscious decoupling in our cases, which – counter-intuitively – seems to facilitate the process of establishing a CoC in the organisations. This is explained by the contents of the codes and by the normative meta-logic they represent. Although decoupling may exist as a reality within the two retail firms, it is counteracted by the normative master ideas expressed in the codes. This normative meta-logic serves as a unifying understanding of the meaning of work. Based on this, we argue that we must look upon decoupling from a more contextual viewpoint. We claim that it is wise to go above the single-levelled analysis of decoupling and open up for a two-level analysis which takes into account not only the concrete application of CoCs but also their function and meaning. An implication of this is that what might appear as a decoupled code cannot be dismissed as irrelevant to the ‘core’ of the organisation.
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E-handel : Organisering, distribution och hållbarhet
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Hur organiseras e-handel? På vilka sätt förändrar den kundmötet? Hur fungerar distributionen? Leder e-handel till ökad hållbarhet? Kommer e-handel att ersätta den fysiska butiken? Frågorna är många och viktiga att besvara när detaljhandeln går in i en ny era och elektronisk handel blir en självklarhet.Den här boken svarar på frågorna. Den tar upp e-handelns organisering, kunder, distribution och frågor om hållbarhet. Särskilt viktigt är det att förstå hybridhandel, som innebär att företag bedriver både fysisk handel och e-handel parallellt. Boken är skriven ur ett företagsekonomiskt perspektiv och fungerar som en introduktion för alla som vill veta mer om e-handel.
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