Showing papers in "Scandinavian Journal of Management in 2007"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors look at management education from several perspectives and provide a brief summary of the institutional development of management education, particularly in the United States and Europe, and provide evidence of such convergence.

TL;DR: This article examined how the identities of individuals working within the university, as well as the university itself, were constructed by examining the narratives that organizational members told, showing how academics, senior executives and general staff members constructed identities through different patterns in the interplay of similarity and difference among actors, doings and perceptions, as a result of which positions were ascribed to and taken up by individual and collective actors.

TL;DR: A classification of process views in organization studies is offered, assuming that distinctions may be drawn between ways that stability of entities is conceptualized in organizational analysis and based on the assumption that stabilization of entities resides in the process itself.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an overview of the development of the national business systems approach to the study of organizations, arguing that the approach is central to understanding the interaction between organizations, national contexts and international flows of capital, labour, technology and knowledge.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reflect upon recent developments in institutional theory with particular emphasis on how organizational fields have been conceived and how action has been conceptualized and incorporated into institutional accounts.

TL;DR: The authors examines the strategy of multinational enterprises in the global economy with particular emphasis on their strategies in and about China, and outlines the rise of globally distributed manufacturing, services and marketing under the control of a focal firm.

TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative analysis of how Swedish wind farm developers manage the permit-application process for their projects is presented, where the activities of the developers consist in contextualizing the project, ontologising it and neutralizing criticism addressed to it.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that to realize the integrative promise of strategic intent in organizations, achieving coherence between multiple intents is the most viable option, based on the philosophical theory of collective agency.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the possibilities of applying discourse analysis to the study of processuality in a particular type of art-producing organization, namely, the symphony orchestra, and explore the processual nature of these discourses in terms of their relational, contradictory and translocal nature.

TL;DR: This paper conducted a review of three Anglo-American journals of management education research, namely The Academy of Management Learning & Education, The Journal of Management Education, and Management Learning, and found that researchers have described or suggested five different conceptions of education, which either revise the business-school tradition or provide alternatives to it.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore different scenarios for the way that critical management education and studies can relate to mainstream management education, and the conclusion is that the second scenario, that of engagement, is preferable.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors build on field material collected from participating in 36 AGM during the spring of 2004 as well as on literature on corporate governance to analyze the behavior of AGM participants.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided an analysis of major management challenges and tensions within the European nuclear power industry in the context of safety, and found that human resource management, organisational climate and culture, and public confidence and trust are the three most challenging areas for nuclear managers across Europe.

TL;DR: The authors reviewed the Critical Management Education (CME) literature produced since 1995 and compared its development in the United Kingdom with that of the United States and explored the relationship between CME, as an academic field, and that of Critical Management Studies (CMS), the wider movement that deploys critiques drawn from sociology and political science perspectives.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe and understand relational interaction processes in project networks, and suggest that there is a connection between the characteristics of a project network and the type of interactions within it.

TL;DR: In this article, a study at Fullton International Airport was conducted to study how contemporary information systems partake in the development of new kinds of knowledge(s) and practices that in turn place particular demands on various participants to produce and maintain organization as a genre-defying "sociotechnical imbroglio".

TL;DR: In this paper, a new pay reform in the Danish public sector is analyzed in terms of Niklas Luhmann's systems theory and four codes of communication are identified: law, money, learning and love.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that any attempt to understand what socially responsible workforce reduction means in practice must take account of the context in which it occurs and the processes whereby new ideas are imitated and translated by local actors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the value of process theory is under-utilized because most attempts to apply process theory end up reverting to conventional non-process methods, and suggest that the cause of this reversion is primarily the challenge of making sense, of fixing the world, propelling us from process into the world of substance.

TL;DR: In this article, a study of an emerging biotechnology industry in a scenario that nuances the role of rigidity in adaptation is presented, where the knowledge gained in the course of a failed pursuit is released to, and absorbed by, the population of companies in the industry.

TL;DR: This article discussed the changes in the institutional logics that have underpinned higher education for business and management in the USA and examined the diffusion of US-based models to other parts of the world with reference to the center-periphery continuum that has emerged in management education.