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- Havemo, Emelie, 1987-
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Den visuella bilden av organisationen : Perspektiv på visualitet i accounting
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Organisations play a crucial role as actors that shape material action and societal discourse; therefore, it is important to understand the ways in which they gain legitimacy and how they shape society. The power of accounting representations to construct the accounting object – the organisation – is therefore a key concern in the accounting literature. Accounting is widely treated as a numbers-based ‘language of business’ through which ‘paper world’ representations shape outcomes in the material world. At present, visuality (the presence of visual images and visual thinking) is gaining influence as a means to represent organisations and construct accounting objects visually. As visuality continues to expand into the realm of accounting, questions emerge about its role and the possibilities of combining the two ‘languages’ during a time when management research is facing a “visual turn”.The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the nature of visuality in accounting. The dissertation is based on five essays that contribute to the visual turn through semiotic analysis of visual texts and qualitative case studies. Paper I explores how business model diagrams – an example of a corporate self-representation – can be designed, and proposes a typology of four main logics for illustrating value creation: classification, circularity, processes and transactions. Paper II describes the development of visuals use in the annual report, finding that visuals are used in greater numbers overall, and that diagrams are a relatively new visual resource in financial reporting. The paper also outlines the trend of a materiality, that is, that visuals increasingly refer to a non-specific and symbol-based idea of the organisation. In Paper III, internal and external representations of a business model are compared, and I conclude that self-representations can be based on parallel but conflicting interpretations of an idea. Paper IV proposes a new visual method for analysing combinations of graphs and texts, and shows that the ‘rhythm’ of graph use in the annual report increasingly integrates visuality in accounting narratives so that accounting and visuality overlap. Finally, Paper V explores challenges and opportunities of a digitalisation of visual artefacts based on the experiences of three organisations that used visual management before the transition.The theoretical contribution of this dissertation is framed in terms of two perspectives. First, a developmental perspective highlights that the nature of visuality has become more prominent in accounting settings, and that the nature of visuality has changed from materiality-based to a material practices that favour conceptual visualisations like diagrams and visual symbols. Second, visuality is explored from an ‘overlaps’ perspective. Three explanations for the role of visuality in accounting are synthesised from the literature: separation, convergence and multilingualism. The contribution is to conceptualise these ‘overlap models’ and thereby deepen the understanding of the role played by visuality in accounting. I also propose a fourth model – bridging – to extend the range of explanations for the meaning of a visual form of accounting.Based on the findings that visuality is more prominent and that the role of visuality is changing, it is proposed visual literacy is an important skill for practitioners who use visual images in accounting. The dissertation presents two frameworks that can contribute to visual literacy. The ‘transformationality framework’ shows how to analyse underlying ideas in corporate diagrams, and the ‘rhythm framework’ illustrates how to shape, use and analyse accounting texts in terms of how combinations of visuals form different rhythms in the annual report.
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- Alvehus, Johan, et al.
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Administration i offentlig sektor. Om expansion, elevering och mittokrati.
- 2024
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Administrationen växer i våra offentliga verksamheter. Alltmer resurser samlas ovanför kärnverksamheten, men också nedanför ledningen. Det som växer fram är en ny organisationsform, mittokratin, en organisation som domineras av sin mellersta del, administrationen. Varför sker denna utveckling och vad får det för konsekvenser? För att förstå varför måste vi förstå vilka drivkrafter som ligger bakom. Den här boken identifierar och synliggör en konkret och viktig utmaning för organisatörer av offentlig sektor.
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- Alvehus, Johan
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All jazz är skitdålig!
- 2020
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Ingår i: Tidningen Curie. - 2001-3426.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Alvehus, Johan
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Att skriva sin text på nytt
- 2021
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Ingår i: Tidningen Curie. - 2001-3426.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Alvehus, Johan
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Att sätta punkt
- 2021
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Ingår i: Tidningen Curie. - 2001-3426.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Alvehus, Johan, et al.
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Blackboxing leadership: Methodological practices leading to manager-centrism
- 2023
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : SAGE Publications. - 1742-7169 .- 1742-7150. ; 19:1, s. 85-97
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The scholarly literature on leadership has long been characterized by leader-centrism, in the sense of a focus on individual leaders, their characteristics and actions. This tendency has been strongly criticized, not least by scholars with a critical perspective. However, we still see a strong emphasis on leaders and managers in empirical studies of leadership. In this article, we suggest that this tendency is at least in part a consequence of common methodological blackboxing practices within leadership studies. We identify two such blackboxing practices: delegation, where identification of the core phenomenon is left to informants, and proxying, when more easily defined phenomena are taken to stand for leadership. We suggest that a consequence of such practices is an unintended focus on managers, and attempts to avoid leader-centrism that rely on these blackboxing practices therefore paradoxically might result in manager-centrism.
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- Alvehus, Johan, et al.
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Critical theories
- 2020
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Ingår i: Theories and perspectives in business administration. - 9789144127088 ; , s. 325-350
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Alvehus, Johan
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Docility, obedience and discipline: Towards dirtier leadership studies
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Change Management. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1479-1811 .- 1469-7017. ; 21:1, s. 120-132
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Leadership is a popular term, among scholars and in general. It is romanticized and seems to cover everything and nothing. Its analytical value has therefore been questioned, and so has the very existence of leadership as a phenomenon. Here, based on the social psychology of GH Mead, I argue that leadership is a fundamental human phenomenon emanating from docility. By exploring this through the lens of three classic texts – Milgram’s Obedience to Authority, Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, and Taylor’s The Principles of Scientific Management – I argue that processes that accomplish leadership are often not understood as leadership, but as something else, for example manipulation or management. More generally, I argue that leadership disappears as we identify the details of its manifestations, and from this I argue that leadership is a concept that denies its own ontological foundation. My conclusions suggest that leadership scholars and practitioners increasingly should draw attention to the choices involved in leadership processes and to practices commonly seen as not being about leadership – leadership studies will benefit from making the immaculate concept of leadership dirtier.
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- Alvehus, Johan
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Hängslen och livrem
- 2021
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Ingår i: Tidningen Curie. - 2001-3426.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Alvehus, Johan, et al.
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Institutional Logics and Functionalist Differentiation Theory: Challenges and pathways forward
- 2022
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Ingår i: Organization Theory. - : SAGE Publications. - 2631-7877. ; 3:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As a theoretical framework in organization studies, institutional logics is immensely popular. It has been used in a large amount of highly contributory and enlightening empirical studies, and developed far beyond its original formulation in a classical paper by Friedland and Alford (1991). In our paper, we identify three key theoretical problems that have emerged in the development and use of institutional logics theory in the past three decades: the lack of uniformity and coherence in the definitions and empirical identifications of logics; the tendency of institutional logics theorists to attempt to build grand theory to connect micro, meso, and macro levels of analysis; and the difficulties to explain how institutional logics are reproduced and how institutional logics interrelate and evolve over time. To address these issues, we highlight the similarities between institutional logics theory and classical functionalist differentiation theory, drawing its legacy from Max Weber, Talcott Parsons, and Robert Merton, and propose its use as a resource in further theoretical development. The aim of the paper is not to reject institutional logics theory, or merely to point out its weaknesses, but to demonstrate how a revival of some classics in sociological theory can be used to sharpen institutional logics as an analytical tool and thus assist in efforts to further improve the usefulness of institutional logics as a theoretical framework in organization studies.
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- Alvehus, Johan, et al.
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‘It’s complicated’: Professional opacity, duality, and ambiguity—A response to Noordegraaf (2020)
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Professions and Organization. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 2051-8803 .- 2051-8811. ; 8:2, s. 200-213
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this comment to Noordegraaf’s ‘Protective or connective professionalism? How connected professionals can (still) act as autonomous and authoritative experts’, we argue that Noordegraaf has contributed significant insights into the development of contemporary professionalism. However, we argue for a less binary and more complex view of forms of professionalism, and for finding ways of understanding professionalism grounded in a relational view of everyday professional work. The first section (by Johan Alvehus) suggests that Noordegraaf’s ‘connective professionalism’ is primarily about new ways of strengthening professionalism’s protective shields by maintaining functional ambiguity and transparent opacity around professional jurisdictions. The second section (by Amalya Oliver and Netta Avnoon) argues for viewing professionalism on a range of protection–connection and offers an approach for understanding how connective and protective models co-occur. Both commentaries thus take a relational, dynamic, and somewhat skeptical view on the reproduction and maintenance of professionalism.
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- Alvehus, Johan
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Jag har inte tid!
- 2021
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Ingår i: Tidningen Curie. - 2001-3426.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Alvehus, Johan, et al.
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Leadership, power, and politics
- 2024
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Ingår i: Routledge Critical Companion to Leadership Studies. - 9781032425153
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- Alvehus, Johan
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Läsandets lov
- 2020
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Ingår i: Tidningen Curie. - 2001-3426.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Alvehus, Johan, et al.
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Micro-ethonography : Towards An Approach for Attending to the Multimodality of Leadership
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Change Management. - : Routledge. - 1469-7017 .- 1479-1811. ; 22:3, s. 231-251
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper addresses the need for further developing an understanding of leadership as practice in its multimodality by means of theoretically motivated qualitative methods, allowing researchers to come close to the doing of leadership. Empirical studies of this kind are still relatively rare. By articulating a microethnographic approach, we encourage short-term-focused engagements in empirical work and the writing of closed vignettes. Through this, current theoretical developments are connected to recommendations for fieldwork and for writing practices. We thereby articulate one possible coherent and consistent position from which to study the multimodality of leadership and to understand leadership as an accomplishment of direction.
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- Alvehus, Johan, et al.
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Om att undra inför företagsekonomin
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Ingår i: Om undran inför företagsekonomin. - Stockholm : Santérus Förlag. - 9789173591560 ; , s. 7-22
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- Alvehus, Johan, et al.
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Organisation
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Alvehus, Johan, et al.
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Organizing Professionalism – New Elites, Stratification and Division of Labor
- 2020
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Ingår i: Public Organization Review. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1566-7170 .- 1573-7098. ; 20, s. 163-177
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The case in this study is the introduction of a new more prominent position for teachers. The aim is to contribute to the literature on stratification and organizing of professions. This is done by addressing the question how division of labor is affected by enhanced organization of a profession? The paper illustrates how stratification took place and a new division of labor emerged. Not much conflict was observed regarding the new division of labor and it is proposed that this is because the new division of labor did not challenge the dominance over the core domain of teachers or of principals. The increase in organization did not lead to an increase in control of the profession but an increase in control by the profession. In addition, stratification in fact led to a de-hybridization of the roles of teachers and principals.
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- Alvehus, Johan, et al.
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To strengthen or to shatter? On the effects of stratification on professions as systems
- 2021
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Ingår i: Public Administration. - : Wiley. - 0033-3298 .- 1467-9299. ; 99:2, s. 371-386
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article is to contribute to the literature on how stratification affects professions. Our case is the first teacher reform in Sweden, which introduced a more prominent position for some teachers. In this article, we elaborate six different first teacher types and analyze how these affect the profession. While elites are generally described as hybrids, we conclude that several of our types rather led to a de‐hybridization of roles, where managers became more administratively focused, and elites more anchored to professional tasks. We conclude that elite roles expose various potentials in being strengthening/weakening or shattering/integrating to the profession, but, in contrast to other studies on professional elites, the majority of roles studied here are both strengthening and integrating to the profession. The study is qualitative and based on 111 interviews, 12weeks of shadowing and 53 observed meetings.
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- Empson, Laura, et al.
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Collective Leadership Dynamics among Professional Peers : Co-constructing an unstable equilibrium
- 2020
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Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 41:9, s. 1234-1256
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Professional service firms (PSFs) are characterized by contingent and contested power relations among an extended group of professional peers. Studies of such firms can therefore yield important insights for the literatures on collective leadership and leader–follower relations. Yet to date PSF scholars have neglected the topic of leadership, and leadership scholars have neglected the context of PSFs. Based on 102 interviews across the consulting, accounting and legal sectors, we identify three relational processes through which professional peers co-construct collective leadership: legitimizing, negotiating and manoeuvring. We demonstrate how the relational processes taken together constitute an unstable equilibrium, both in the moment and over time, emphasizing how leadership in PSFs is inherently contested and fragile. Our model contributes to theories of collective leadership and leader–follower relations by foregrounding the power and politics that underlie collective leadership. We highlight the significance of the individual leader within the collective. We challenge assumptions concerning the binary nature of leadership and followership, by showing how colleagues may grant leadership identities to their peers without necessarily granting them leadership authority, and without claiming follower identities for themselves.
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- Kihlberg, Robert, 1975-
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Influence in sensemaking during change : a study of the Swedish police reform and subsequent change work
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation is based on four articles, and examines efforts of influence in processes of sensemaking during, and subsequent to, the Swedish police reform. Sensemaking – a process where individuals work to understand what is going on when they encounter confusing events – is of central importance for how organizational change unfolds. Influence in sensemaking refers to activities with capacity to shape persons preferences and perceptions, as they try to make sense. In this dissertation, the overall purpose is to increase the understanding about influence in sensemaking during micro-processes of change. The research questions address how efforts of influence in sensemaking at different organizational levels can be understood, and by which means actors attempt to influence others sensemaking. The research applies sensemaking and sensegiving as its theoretical framework. With a qualitative approach, and ethnographic methods, influence in sensemaking is examined on four levels: Article 1 examines how the strategic level of reform promote change through visual media. The results show how 44 videos function to layer meaning and construct stereotypes in attempts to influence how the sensemaking of change would take place. Article 2 reports an ethnography of middle-managers involving employees in a multivocal process that aims to influence how sensemaking evolves. This process has four features: open-endedness, low control over cues given, several sources of cues, and the encouragement of complexity and ambiguity. Article 3 studies employees working as ‘change’ agents at employee conferences. Results show that these actors exert influence in three ways: drawing on positional power, acting powerless, and by attempts to give power away. Article 4 reports an ethnography of employees enacting a change initiative. The results show how employees’ various enactments involve episodic power, which influence the sensemaking process to varying degrees and towards diverse ends. Overall, the results from the articles outlines three understandings of influence in sensemaking: top-down efforts, reflexive interactions and responsive enactments – each with particular consequences for who can take part in processes of sensemaking, organizing, and change work, when and how. For organizations, the results imply a need for managers and employees to raise awareness of others as well as one’s own influence in sensemaking, as it shapes the way they make sense of, understand, and enact organizational change. In a larger perspective, this has significance for which forms of organizing are stimulated to develop – democratic or undemocratic.
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Om undran inför företagsekonomin
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Johan Asplunds Om undran inför samhället är en klassiker inom svensk samhällsvetenskap. Otaliga är de studenter och forskare som låtit sig utmanas, inspireras och vägledas av den vetenskapliga hållning Asplund presenterar. Asplunds undrande attityd inför livet och dess många skiftande uttrycksformer utmärks av ett sökande efter förståelse istället för förklaring; den innebär att närma sig verklighetens fenomen som vore de gåtor att dechiffrera och den syftar, inte minst, till att problematisera det som anses vara naturligt eller självklart. Asplund önskar helt sonika begripliggöra världen genom att vrida och vända på den så att andra aspekter av verkligheten framträder än dem som tas för givna i vardagen.I denna bok återvänder en grupp forskare till Johan Asplunds bok och utforska det sociala fenomen som utgör sin för-givet-tagna verklighet: företagsekonomin. Det finns ett tungt vägande skäl varför det är viktigt att ställa sig undrande inför just företagsekonomin: Ämnet är en kraft i samhället. Sedan 1993 har över 150000 företagsekonomer examinerats från de svenska lärosätena, och årligen fylls arbetsmarknaden på med cirka 7500 nybakade företagsekonomer. Under läsåret 2018/19 var så många som var tionde examen från det svenska utbildningsväsendet en examen inom företagsekonomi. Detta säger något om de prioriteringar som görs i samhället men det säger också något om det hopp och de förväntningar som unga människor knyter till disciplinen.I denna bok är ambitionen att synliggöra några av företagsekonomins många konsekvenser. Intresset riktas mot företagsekonomin som kunskapsdomän, som praktik och som ideologi. I boken utforskas Johan Asplunds idéer mot en företagsekonomisk fond. Vad har hans sätt att resonera kring människor och kunskapande att säga om företagsekonomin som samhällelig praktik? Företagsekonomins tankevärld och språk ställs till svars: Vilket slags aspektseende handlar företagsekonomi om? Och leder verkligen företagsekonomins tankefigurer till en sådan akut aspektblindhet som Asplund fruktar? Kort sagt, boken utgör en undran inför företagsekonomin.
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- Svensson, Peter, et al.
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Den undranslösa företagsekonomin
- 2020
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Ingår i: Om undran inför företagsekonomin. - 9789173591560
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- Wede, Christer, et al.
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Professionell identitetsutveckling
- 2021
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Ingår i: Didaktisk dialog i högre utbildning. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144139029 ; , s. 47-64
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