Search for dissertations about: "Jenny Helin"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words Jenny Helin.

2. 1. Living moments in family meetings : A process study in the family business context

   Author : Jenny Helin; Leif Melin; Leona Achtenhagen; Robert Chia; John Shotter; Jönköping University; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; process; Bakhtin; meeting; dialogue; conversations; family business; collaborative; qualitative; process organization studies; Business studies; Företagsekonomi;

   Abstract : This dissertation studies meetings from a process perspective. Such an approach, which can be labelled ‘process organisation studies’ is promising in that it directs attention to social processes continuously in the making. The thesis builds on the current development in process organisation studies in two ways. READ MORE

4. 2. Being at home in business education : ... with sustainability

   Author : Lovísa Eiríksdóttir; Jenny Helin; Anu Valtonen; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; business education; critical thinking; homecoming; post-qualitative inquiry; Arendt; sustainability;

   Abstract : This inquiry is about business education. At first, the intention was that it would be about sustainability in business education, but the engagement with questions of sustainability left the idea of business with deep wounds that opened up for new questions of how to take care of them. READ MORE

5. 3. “Sweat is weakness leaving the body” : A study on the self-presentational practices of sporty top managers in Sweden

   Author : Janet Johansson; Torkild Thanem; Karin Berglund; Jenny Helin; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; sport; athleticism; self-expressive behaviours; self-presentation; företagsekonomi; Business Administration;

   Abstract : Embracing the symbolic interactionist view of the notion of self, applying dramaturgical theories of self-presentation, this study unpacks the linkage between leaders’ lifestyle behaviours (in athletic endeavours) and the formation of their sense of self as occupants of the leadership role from a self-expressive perspective.  I conducted a study of a group of sporty top managers in Sweden. READ MORE

6. 4. Moving beyond stewards versus agents : Exploring business managers as existential beings in the interior-design and furniture industry in Småland, Sweden

   Author : Pär Vasko; Daniel Ericsson; Lena Olaison; Mathias Karlsson; Jenny Helin; Linnéuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Stewardship; Agency; Existentialism; Aspect seeing; Freedom; Responsibility; Ambiguity; Concreteness; Being; Nothingness; Business administration; Företagsekonomi;

   Abstract : Exploring two theoretical positions in the field of corporate governance – stewardship theory and agency theory – Moving beyond stewards versus agents homes in on the positions’ respective conceptions of managers. Although fundamentally drawing a clear line between the two positions, these conceptions also conjoin them. READ MORE