Sökning: "corporate discourse"

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  1. 21. Moving beyond stewards versus agents : Exploring business managers as existential beings in the interior-design and furniture industry in Småland, Sweden

    Författare :Pär Vasko; Daniel Ericsson; Lena Olaison; Mathias Karlsson; Jenny Helin; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Stewardship; Agency; Existentialism; Aspect seeing; Freedom; Responsibility; Ambiguity; Concreteness; Being; Nothingness; Business administration; Företagsekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : Exploring two theoretical positions in the field of corporate governance – stewardship theory and agency theory – Moving beyond stewards versus agents homes in on the positions’ respective conceptions of managers. Although fundamentally drawing a clear line between the two positions, these conceptions also conjoin them. LÄS MER

  3. 22. Legitimizing sustainability talk in retail talk : The case of IKEA’s sustainability journey

    Författare :Axel Welinder; Företagsekonomiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; sustainability; communication; CSR talk; retail research; legitimation strategies;

    Sammanfattning : By looking at the empirical case of IKEA’s sustainability journey (1992-2017), using qualitative methods such as interviews and document studies, this thesis shows how sustainability talk over time is made into a legitimate feature of retail talk. Something I argue is a far more difficult, complex and problematic endeavour for retailers to undertake than most previous research on the topic would have us believe. LÄS MER

  4. 23. Urban Processes and Global Competition. Enabling factors for mutual urban and economic development Norra Älvstranden in Göteborg

    Författare :Bo Öhrström; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; enabling; institutional conditions; urban financing; competitive advantage; economic development; reflexivity; triple helix; governance; urban growth node; urban development; facilitation; cluster; system of innovation; guided development;

    Sammanfattning : Planning and re-development of the former shipyard and harbour areas in Göteborg represent an attempt where the new urban web is anchored in a corresponding development of user needs. This thesis examines the conditions for urban planning and development of an urban growth node in the form of an innovative cluster at Lindholmen. LÄS MER

  5. 24. Organiserande och identitet : om arbetsorganisation i geriatrisk sjukvård

    Författare :Ulla Sebrant; Mats Alvesson; Ola Halldén; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; pedagogik; Education; Pedagogik;

    Sammanfattning : The study is mainly about informal organising. The aim is to describe and interpret processes of organising in a health care unit and, from that example, to accomplish understanding of how power relations are handled and expressed by different actors in health care. LÄS MER

  7. 25. The young, the wealthy, and the restless : Trans-national capitalist elite formation in post-apartheid Johannesburg

    Författare :France Bourgouin; Socialantropologi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : Contemporary economic landscapes are particularly active with mergers, acquisitions, bankruptcies, and corporate takeovers, and the set of managerial elite who are in decision making positions are inextricably connected to these events. In this thesis I offer an anthropological perspective of these dynamics by considering the possible connection between processes of trans- national capitalist elite formation and identification, and larger transformations in the global system. LÄS MER