Showing papers in "Scandinavian Journal of Management in 2018"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined reasons that lead to value co-destruction and when these reasons emerge and provided important insights for academics and managers into how value-creation efforts can have negative outcomes and at what stage each reason is more likely to happen.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the relationship between women directors and organizational innovation by considering the mediating role of the board's decision-making culture, and found that women directors contribute positively and significantly to organizational innovation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the recruitment and selection for project-based postdoc positions are organized in the current academic landscape characterised by increasing temporary research funding and how principal investigators construct the "ideal" postdoc.

TL;DR: In this article, a four-year qualitative field study of four large Scandinavian firms was conducted to investigate how incumbents handle the exploration of and resistance to adopting big data technologies and what challenges they face.

TL;DR: By integrating social capital theory with a capability-based view on performance, this article examined the extent to which returnee entrepreneurial ventures (REVs) gain international performance by integrating capability and social capital.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze solutions based on connected devices in the context of health, social care and wellbeing, based on the consideration that a solution is a combination of servi...

TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of public procurement of a low-tech medical device innovation in Swedish healthcare is presented, which illustrates the various perspectives of the different professions involved in the complex task of setting the requirement specification for the tender.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study of organizational and architectural change in a municipal administration at a time of major public sector reforms is presented to examine how design interventions were used to (re)form work and professional relationships.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of participative leadership on affective commitment to change will be contingent on employees' orientation toward leadership, and they find evidence that followers' orientation towards leadership is a useful interacting variable.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of PMS inconsistency on managerial role clarity and well-being is explored. And the authors conclude that PMS inconsistencies have negative effects on managers' role clarity, and that the situation does not improve if superiors practice loose control; on the contrary, it seems to make managers' work situation worse.

TL;DR: In this article, a conceptualisation of non-traditional expatriates (NTEs) is presented, and five underlying assumptions in the scarce extant literature are identified and discussed, as a means to responding to the following research questions: (i) how credible is the NTE term as an expatriation typology?; (ii) how can the conceptual framework of NTEs be operationalised?

TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative study of 51 Scandinavian expatriates in Hong Kong can contribute to advancing theory on the expatriate failure concept by asking individuals what constitutes failure to them.

TL;DR: The video games industry, one of the fastest growing creative industries and now engaging larger proportions of populations as smartphones and tablets achieve wider use, seeks to enhance its institutional legitimacy in order to further exploit the new economic possibilities provided by, for example, portable digital media and their market penetration as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use the concept of interpretative repertoires, i.e., localized discourses, to examine how facts are constructed about strategic work in a central government agency.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report a decade of engaged scholarship based on interviews and archival analysis that covers 20 years of strategic acts at Aftonbladet and consider this effort as a case of organizational ambidexterity under digitalization.

TL;DR: The authors analyzes how rhetoric is associated with the legitimation and institutionalization of managerial practices and finds that the process of institutionalization is related to both a decline in argument diversity and a shift from defensive to acclaiming arguments.

TL;DR: The main body of work of Zygmunt Bauman concerns his home discipline of sociology, but his insights have been influential also in the field of organization studies as mentioned in this paper, where they provide an over...

TL;DR: This article investigated the role of bureaucratic organizing in a grassroots volunteer organization, which emerged during the so-called refugee crisis in an emergency refugee shelter in Germany and found that volunteers adopted, accepted and acclaimed bureaucratic organizing as the only, natural and self-evident way of making the grassroots work.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that affordance has mainly been used as part of the program of sociomateriality to describe the technology-user dyad and identify a need for a reorientation of its use in organization and management studies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how specific aspects of downsizing measures influence the relationship between downsizing and corporate reputation and found that the size of the effect depends on the content and the context of the downsizing announcement.

TL;DR: The work of Zygmunt Bauman, insofar as it addressed the organizational world, saw it initially as a total institution, one in which the organization, as a specific entity defined by those activities it envelops, was focused on the central task of liquidation as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use dance as an analogy to explore how the body can resist organisational control in office work contexts and argue that office work gestures can be a site of postrecognition resistance.

TL;DR: In this article, an ethnographic study in a Dutch academic hospital showed that normalization practices were obscuring diversity issues and obstructing inclusion of cultural minority professionals, and that the normalization of professionalism-as-neutral and equality as-sameness informed the unequal distribution of privilege and disadvantage among professionals and left no room to question this distribution.

TL;DR: The authors explored management's use of language in financial disclosures of corrupt firms by looking at a sample of firms that have been prosecuted for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and found that the management of FCPA violators use more negative, less litigious, more complex and less conservative language when disclosing financials than nonviolators.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the implications of perceived Socio-Ideological Organizational Controls (SIOC) dimensions on actors' lived experiences in the workplace and explored whether emotions mediate the dyad control-resistance data was collected from 385 participants, via a self-administered questionnaire framed as part of a cross-sectional survey design.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a qualitative study of work site health promotion at the large Swedish producer of trucks and buses, Scania while the concept of WHP implies that it is employees' improve

TL;DR: This paper explored how a vision to "do things differently" for sustainability becomes enacted and significantly diluted at a major brownfield development project in the UK, with nonhuman mediators producing significant agency.

TL;DR: In this article, a series of strategy meetings in an employer branding project of a multinational construction company is analyzed, focusing on the interplay between employer branding structures and the interactions of employer branding strategists.

TL;DR: In this paper, a narrative approach that includes Ricoeur's notions of idem and ipse is used to elevate temporal dynamics of identity work with reference to the becoming aspect of the individual self in relation to the other.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take an identity project perspective on careers to explore how job seekers assess potential employers, and find four identity positioning strategies through which the women assess future employers.