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- Andersson, Per, et al.
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The Configuration Of Actors In Market Practice
- 2009
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Ingår i: Marketing Theory. - : SAGE Publications (UK and US). - 1741-301X .- 1470-5931. ; 8:1, s. 67-90
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper addresses three conceptual challenges concerning actors and agency that arise when taking interest in market practice: i) how agency is awarded in practical situations, ii) how actors are preconfigured, and iii) how actors are represented. These issues are explored in three empirical scenes taken from a case study of the introduction of an e-procurement system at an international transport and logistics company. First, we suggest that practical interaction can be fruitfully regarded as a process of interdefinition involving prescriptions and subscriptions between acting entities, or actants . Second, we employ the term inscription to address efforts to affect in advance the configuration of such actants. Third, we suggest that actors are entities to which actions are ascribed, ex post . Through this secondary process a number of actants may be subsumed under a common actor label, thus offering a way of accounting for agency as part of a practice perspective. We conclude by discussing implications of the proposed vocabulary for multiplicity, reflexivity and market agency.
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- Dahlin, Peter, 1981-
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Turbulence in Business Networks : A Longitudinal Study of Mergers, Acquisitions and Bankruptcies Involving Swedish IT-companies
- 2007
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The end of the twentieth centry, and the beginning of the twenty-first, was a revolving period with many mergers, acquisitions and bankruptcies among Swedish IT-companies. Such events are likely to affect more than just the companies directly involved, i.e. the bankrupt and consolidating parties, and this thesis considers the contextual embeddedness of mergers, acquisitions and bankruptcies by studying them in a business network setting.The primary aim of this thesis is to further the understanding of business network change and its underlying dynamics. A business network is a conceptual description of the interrelatedness of companies, which makes them problematic to describe and understand. This thesis suggests a force-based approach to business network change, which focuses on the forces underlying the change rather than the actual alterations of the business network. The suggested approach emphasizes the change and enables an exploration and description of business network change based on its underlying forces, linked to form a change sequence. The events that occur and the forces they give rise to can be used to describe the character of such business network change sequences.To enable a study of a change sequence within the Swedish IT-related business network, this thesis will use a technique designed to gather information about events and parts of the business network structure by systematizing data from news items describing mergers, acquisitions and bankruptcies involving Swedish IT-companies during the years 1994-2003. This data structuration technique enables a longitudinal and retrospective study of a business network change sequence. The analysis indicates a high possibility of inter-linkages between mergers, acquisitions and bankruptcies involving Swedish IT-companies, and describes a business network change sequence with high intensity and wide extension, which is the type of business network change with the highest potential impact, here referred to as ‘turbulence in business networks’.
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- Hagberg, Johan, et al.
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Who's doing what? Exploring market practices and practitioners
- 2009
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The so-called practice turn (Schatzki et al., 2001) has made entries in many disciplines of contemporary social science. So far, however, there is a paucity of empirical practice studies addressing the activities of market practitioners. In this paper, we analyze marketing practices in two longitudinal case studies of Swedish retail trade. The research question dealt with is: who is performing marketing? We employ the threefold conceptualization of market practices as interlinked exchange, normalizing and representational practices proposed by Kjellberg and Helgesson (2006; 2007) to select a number of empirical vignettes of marketing practice from the case studies. Our analysis shows that important marketing activities were carried out by a multitude of actors, including professionals and amateurs, individuals and collectives, humans and non-humans, specialists and generalists. In our concluding discussion, we trace the implications of this observed heterogeneity of practices and practitioners both for research and for market practice.
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- Helgesson, Claes-Fredrik, et al.
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Macro-actors and the sounds of the silenced
- 2005
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Ingår i: Actor-Network Theory and Organizing. - Malmö & Copenhagen : Liber & Copenhagen Business School Press. ; , s. 145-164
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Helgesson, Claes-Fredrik, et al.
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Om marknader och marknadsprocesser
- 2008
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Ingår i: Vårdval i Sverige. - Stockholm : Fritzes. - 9789138229521 ; , s. 229-253
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Helgesson, Claes-Fredrik, et al.
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Practical Use: Enacting the User and That Which is Being Used
- 2009. - 1
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Ingår i: Use of Science and Technology in Business: Exploring the Impact of Using Activity for Systems, Organizations, and People. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. ; , s. 247-270
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book comprises a variety of examples of the use of science and technology in business, ranging from early computer use in the U.S. insurance industry to the present use of information technology in the Swedish furniture industry; from the classic UK fish and chip shop's use of white fish to Heathrow's Terminal 5-project; from new fishing net fibers to the cooling of chocolate at Cadbury's; from the development of new mobile wireless services to the creation of a genetic database on Iceland. The book shows the multifaceted and interactive character of the relationship between science and technology on the one hand, and business and innovation on the other. It explores this non-linear relationship through a selection of case studies and discusses its implications for science as well as for business. The economy of the use of sciences and technology, as well as the science and technology of economy, is given equal focus.
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- Kjellberg, Hans
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Market practices and overconsumption
- 2008
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Ingår i: Consumption, Markets and Culture. - : Taylor & Francis (Routledge). - 1477-223X .- 1025-3866. ; 11:2, s. 151-167
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
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