The health care sector is the largest sector of the economy in most developed countries. With ageing populations in Europe and North-America, the health sector is expected to undergo significant changes in the future as it needs to handle more patients within stable budgets. Given its weight and imp[...]

Vision and visuality are two concepts widely discussed and debated in philosophy and social science literature. Some authors even suggest that the entire Western intellectual tradition is strongly shaped by the paradigm of vision; the inspection and analysis of specimens collected from social realit[...]

No professional is an island. Despite their capacity to monopolize and erect entry barriers in terms of either formal credentials or membership of certain organizations, professionalism is inextricably bound up with collective accomplishments on a day-to-day basis and the capacity to share all the r[...]

Boken handler om teknologiens rolle i organisasjoner. Den presenterer en analytisk modell hvor teknologier har tre funksjoner i bedriften: å produsere, forbedre det administrative og kommunisere med samarbeidspartnere. Med litteraturliste og stikkordregister.[...]

Knowledge management and its various aspects are becoming increasingly popular in the field of organization and management, both in the academy and in business. Organizations employ so-called "Knowledge Management Managers", software vendors sell knowledge management systems, knowledge is seen as a [...]

The contemporary economy is primarily understood through the rationalist and formalist lenses of economic theory and its accompanying (mainstream) theories of organisation and management. In this corpus of work, the economy is commonly portrayed as emerging on the basis of the calculated and instrum[...]

Postmodern teori har haft ett betydande inflytande inom humaniora och samhällsvetenskap sedan mitten av 1980-talet. Denna bok är en introduktion till området postmodern organisationsteori - ett kritiskt, reflexivt tänkande om vad som konstituerar mänskligt samhälleligt handlande och vad som sk[...]

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Varför är en person underordnad andra personer? Svaren blir olika beroende på vilka teorier forskare använder.

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Denna bok visar hur intersektionalitet kan tillämpas inom organisationsteorin. Genom att skifta fokus och alternera mellan teorier om kön, klass, etnicitet och s[...]

Organization theory and management studies tend to underrate the importance of technological resources in accomplishing organized activities. In organizations, a wide variety of technologies are mobilized on a day-to-day basis to accomplish organized activities. Some of these technologies are subjec[...]

Organisation och organisering är en genomgång av organisationsteorin från de tidigaste försöken att organisera merkantil verksamhet under antiken till dagens IT-intensiva arbete i organisationer

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