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In this paper we consider the relationship between popular culture and management practice. Starting with references to previously established connections between high culture and management, we turn to popular culture for the same kind of connection. We suggest that much popular culture is...

At the peak of the "new economy", the Swedish newspapers were reporting an interesting fact: women were entering financial services, joining not the old-fashioned occupational groups such as bank clerks, but the avant-garde: traders and analysts. This is accompanied by a growing interest of...

Laboratory studies, especially those by Latour and Woolgar (1979/1986) and Knorr Cetina (1981) proved to be an invaluable source of inspiration for students of organizing. Laboratories, however, are mostly reminiscent of simple factories, an organization form that is no longer central in...

This paper concerns the representations of women working with finances in popular culture. Popular culture retrieves plots from a common repertoire, and in this way transmits ideals and furnishes descriptions of reality, but it also teaches practices and provides a means through which practices...

Studien kartlägger uppfattningar om chefskap som olika generationer chefer är bärare av samt formar. Syftet är även att generera frågeställningar till en fördjupad studie av chefskap och generationsskifte. <p> <p> Resultaten från pilotstudien visar att det finns tre tema som framträder...</p></p>

Arbetsmarknaden har gradvis blivit allt hårdare i kultursektorn där utbudet sedan lång tid tillbaka överstigit efterfrågan. Mellan 1995 och 1998 drev Länsarbetsnämnden / AMI Karl Johan i Göteborg i samverkan med SDN Linnéstaden och SDN Majorna ett projekt - "kulturarbetarprojektet" -...

Kan kunskap administreras? Finns det verktyg med vars hjälp kunskap kan styras och kontrolleras? Skapas kunskapsutvecklingoch lärande genom att tillsätta knowledge managers och bygga upp databaser och nät? Av undersökningar framgår att svenska storföretag denna gång inte följt...

Risk is a key topic in the communication between developers of infrastructure projects, permit-granting authorities, and civil society. The nature of risk communication is contested among academics, however. Whereas some scholars conceive of risk communication as a matter of effectively...

The emergence of the Internet has made it easier for people to socially interact than ever before. Today, the most popular channel is Facebook with over 845 million users world wide. In Sweden, the number of users amount to approximately half of the population. We had two aims with this study....