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- Frandsen, Sanne, et al.
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Processes of non-identification: Business school brands and academic faculty
- 2021
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Management. - : Elsevier BV. - 0956-5221. ; 37:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines the internal implications of branding within higher education, a specific context which is dominated by the co-existence of strong professional logics and identity structures. We focus on how and whether academic faculty identify with the branding practices undertaken by their respective institution. The paper proposes a communicative perspective on brand identification to understand how academic faculty relate to and make sense of the brand. The findings, from responses of 65 faculty members at five business schools, indicate widespread indifference and non-identification with brand messages. Specifically, we identify four types of disconnects between faculty members and branding practices of their respective schools, namely ambiguity, emptiness, misalignment, and irrelevance. The evidence of these disconnects, we argue, suggests that the faculty members refrain from relating the brand to their own identities. Although individuals relate to discourses around the brand, these are often not internalized and do not thereby impact on their individual identity. Rather than navigating between identity tensions, they eschew identification altogether. We contribute to research on how branding works inside contemporary organizations – including higher education - through questioning the role of identity in branding processes seen as the management of meaning.
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- Guerci, Marco, et al.
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Editorial : Scholar-stakeholder collaboration for rigorous and relevant HRM research—Possible contributions and key requirements of collaborative studies in HRM
- 2023
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Ingår i: Human Resource Management Journal. - 0954-5395.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Human Resource Management research is striving to develop rigorous and actionable knowledge for today’s social and environmental global challenges. For years, academic-stakeholder collaborative knowledge creation processes have been considered as potentially rewarding ways to achieve this objective. However, applications of collaborative HRM research are still relatively sparse, as HR scholars tend to engage with more traditional processes of knowledge creation. The aim of this editorial is to foster more widespread conduct of collaborative HRM research in the future. Drawing on Habermas, whose ideas on human knowledge are considered to be at the core of the epistemology of collaborative management research, we first highlight three avenues for collaborative HRM research that addresses our technical, practical and emancipatory knowledge-constitutive interests. For each of them, we highlight key theoretical assumptions and risks. Thereafter, we describe two key requirements for rigour and relevance in the context of any collaborative HRM study. Finally, we present the papers included in this special section and discuss their implications for HRM research.
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- Huzzard, Tony
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Achieving impact : Exploring the challenge of stakeholder engagement
- 2020
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Ingår i: European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. - 1359-432X.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is an increasing expectation from research funding bodies that projects in working life and policy research (and other fields) should demonstrate clear and demonstrable impacts on policy and practice. In turn, many also argue that impact, beyond scientific impact, can be leveraged by stakeholder engagement. But what do we mean by stakeholder engagement in the conduct of working life research? What are the challenges associated with stakeholder engagement in large, interdisciplinary projects? How are stakeholder engagement and impact linked in this domain? This paper addresses these questions by reflecting critically on a Horizon 2020 project QuInnE that had a dedicated work package that sought to investigate explicitly the forms of stakeholder engagement in working life research and how these might be linked to various forms of impact. Experiences from the project, however, suggest that these endeavours are easier said than done. The paper elaborates on various lessons for collaborative researchers not least that impact can be registered even when engagement is lower than expected and, moreover, that ad-hoc engagement can be a more realistic and productive ambition than engage-ment that is pre-planned and systematic.
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- Jönsson, Jayne
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Logic Salience : Navigating in institutional landscape of funding volatility and ideological disputes in nonprofit hybrid organizing
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The concept of institutional logics is key to those who investigate organizational change, especially those who seek to understand the tension and impact of combining the logics of market and mission. Such a combination of logics, being an espoused financial sustainability solution for the funding-scarce nonprofit sector, is an increasingly prominent phenomenon. While there are several studies on various ways in which logics co-exist in hybrid contexts, the role of actors in this institutional complexity has received lesser attention. The organizations of this study are nonprofits in Sweden and South Africa. Through qualitative methods, the role played by individual actors in negotiating multiple logics is examined. The findings suggest that nonprofit actors may express support for multiple logics, but they ultimately respond to them according to the logic that they identify themselves with the most, tied to the values and ideological preferences they hold.From these findings, a concept emerged. The concept of ‘logic salience’ is proposed and developed abductively by exploring it as an analytical tool throughout the remainder of the case organizations, which are situated in paradoxical and adversarial settings. The successive refinement of the concept constitutes both input and output of the abductive research approach. Specifically, three categories of individual logic salience are identified. These prompt various individual responses, which, in turn, condition organizational responses that have implications for nonprofit organizing and hybridity. In addition, three types of hybridity that give an indication of the viability of the market-mission hybrid form are also identified.Through logic salience, this dissertation theoretically accounts for both the enabling and constraining properties of logics and at the same time elucidates and strengthens the role of individual agency in organizational responses and actions. It contributes to the fields of institutional logics, institutional work and hybridity through a framework that illustrates a cycle that starts from influences from the institutional field down to the organizational and individual levels, and back to the institutional field, which thus exemplifies the interconnectedness of the external and internal environments. Apart from a concept that can be useful in studying and understanding how and why actors respond to multiple logics in particular ways, the dissertation also provides an update on the current funding challenges to which nonprofit organizations are increasingly exposed. These challenges have significance not only for practitioners but also for funding institutions, policymakers, research and societies considering the nonprofit third sector’s attributed role in addressing government and market failures.
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- Jönsson, Jayne, et al.
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Responding to funding scarcity : governance challenges in Swedish and South African development partnerships
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Accouting & Organizational Change. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 1832-5912 .- 1839-5473. ; 17:1, s. 91-110
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: In the context of the general funding scarcity in the nonprofit sector, this paper aims to inquire into the governance challenges facing nonprofit aid organizations in a donor–recipient partner relationship. In particular, the authors focus on the challenges of commercial diversification as the espoused alternative to aid-funding.Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative design was deployed to collect and analyze data collected from interviews conducted in three case organizations in an aid development partnership.Findings: The various responses at the organizational level are presented as well as analyses of the inter-organizational aspects. All organizations have responded strategically to reductions in funding from state/government and other aid sources by attempting to diversify commercially yet at the same time maintain dependency on aid-funding. This entailed tensions between the logics of the market and mission. These tensions are manifest not only within the organizations but also in the relations between them.Originality/value: Analyses of the twin-track strategies have highlighted that maintaining aid dependency and resource diversification have different and conflicting relational prerequisites and require diverse and conflicting internal capabilities. The paper develops a conceptual framework for capturing the governance challenges of this strategic dilemma and concludes that the choices of pursuing continued aid-funding and seeking new commercial opportunities are invariably mutually exclusive.
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- Jönsson, Jayne, et al.
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Responding to funding scarcity : governance challenges in Swedish and South African development partnerships
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change. - 1832-5912. ; 17:1, s. 91-110
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: In the context of the general funding scarcity in the nonprofit sector, this paper aims to inquire into the governance challenges facing nonprofit aid organizations in a donor–recipient partner relationship. In particular, the authors focus on the challenges of commercial diversification as the espoused alternative to aid-funding. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative design was deployed to collect and analyze data collected from interviews conducted in three case organizations in an aid development partnership. Findings: The various responses at the organizational level are presented as well as analyses of the inter-organizational aspects. All organizations have responded strategically to reductions in funding from state/government and other aid sources by attempting to diversify commercially yet at the same time maintain dependency on aid-funding. This entailed tensions between the logics of the market and mission. These tensions are manifest not only within the organizations but also in the relations between them. Originality/value: Analyses of the twin-track strategies have highlighted that maintaining aid dependency and resource diversification have different and conflicting relational prerequisites and require diverse and conflicting internal capabilities. The paper develops a conceptual framework for capturing the governance challenges of this strategic dilemma and concludes that the choices of pursuing continued aid-funding and seeking new commercial opportunities are invariably mutually exclusive.
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- Levay, Charlotta, et al.
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Quantified control in healthcare work : Suggestions for future research
- 2020
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Ingår i: Financial Accountability & Management. - : Wiley. - 1468-0408 .- 0267-4424. ; 36:4, s. 461-478
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper outlines promising avenues for empirical research on quantified control in healthcare work. A review of key insights from accounting, organization studies, and the emergent sociology of quantification indicates that numbers are productive as well as deceptive and seductive, that they enable control but can be evaded, and that they typically have unintended effects. It remains to be further explored how multiple forms of measurement and quantified control play out in everyday healthcare work. Other questions worth probing concern the limits and capabilities of numbers as a shared language, the differential and disciplinary effects of numbers on social groups, the use of numbers for impression management, and how people manage to resist or mobilize numbers for different purposes. Calling for additional qualitative, close-up studies, the paper proposes a research focus on everyday practices and the interactions of diverse control measures. It sets out several fruitful methodological pathways, both the well-established approaches of ethnography and Actor-Network Theory and the more novel approaches of investigating numbers as communicative acts or as dramaturgical performances.
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- Nilsson, Håkan, 1967-
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Utvecklingsförmåga : En relationell process mellan ledning och arbetarkollektiv
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The focal point of this thesis is an interest in workplace development and how the relationship between managers and workers affects an organization’s ability to develop its way of working. The aim of the study is to contribute to debates on workplace development away from Tayloristic principles based on a strict division of labour and to investigate how to manage the well-documented consequences of such principles, low productivity and lack of engagement from employees. The aim is also to discuss how workplace relations founded on such principles can be changed and to elaborate on the benefits from such a change.In order to do so two lines of inquiry have guided the research process and formulation of research questions. The first examines how the relationship between managers and workers affects the organization’s ability to undertake organizational development. The second focuses on how the relationship between managers and workers can be configured to support organizational development.To find answers to these lines of inquiry an action research project was initiated in the same organization where the author has been working for more than twenty years: the research is conducted on his own practice as a change agent. In his job as an in-house trainer he met members of a part of the organization where the employees described their history as a quite dysfunctional workplace, yet at the same time they claimed it is “much better now”. The story caught the author’s interest which led to an agreement that an insider action research project was conducted in that part of the organization.For one year the author participated in the organization with a twofold purpose: first, to find answers to the research questions and second to support the organization in its ongoing challenges. Through dialogue and interviews, at both individual and group levels, a historical story of the workplace and its functioning “a long time ago” was built up. An informal system was identified whereby workers strove to secure what the thesis calls a “workless salary”, that is, to do as little as possible and still get full pay. This situation was later compared to the situation that emerged during the time of the intervention. The latter was a very different situation with high productivity and high levels of job satisfaction. The differences between the two work situations over time were obvious. This prompted the next part of the study, namely an investigation into how the development work had been achieved.The study concerns multiple levels and disciplines, which is common in action research. The result shows that workers’ ability to influence their own work situation along with growing arenas for discussions of work experience made the development possible and that a reflexive dialogue combined with a practice-oriented relational leadership can influence ways of working in practice that are conducive to workplace development. These four factors are presented in the thesis as constituting a platform for the workplace to develop better ways of working.Organizational change, Organizational development, Workplace science, Action research
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