The rise of modern corporations has been accompanied by an expansion of salaried executives who have replaced owner-managers. With this expansion, the new class of managers/executives came to regard themselves as stewards of large and complex corporations, and not principally or exclusively as...

The contributors to this highly innovative and authoritative research companion, leading experts in their field, apply relational analyses to different areas of organization studies and provide a comprehensive review of the relational perspectives. The book features empirical, theoretical,...

Syftet med studien är att bedöma om de aktiviteter som pågår i DELTA leder till förändringar hos de medverkande organisationerna. Medverkande organisationer i DELTA är AMI, Arbetsförmedlingen, Försäkringskassan, Psykiatrin, Primärvården och Socialtjänsten. Att DELTA har haft...

New institutional theory has been criticized, for describing institutionalization as a static qualitative state rather than a process. In this paper we provide an extended understanding of the process of institutionalization by replacing the mechanical concept of diffusion by the concept of...

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