Search for dissertations about: "institutional theory"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 316 swedish dissertations containing the words institutional theory.
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11. The Social Organization of Institutional Norms : Interactional Management of Knowledge, Entitlement and Stance
Abstract : The present thesis explores talk in institutional settings, with a particular focus on how institutionality and institutional norms are constructed and reproduced in interaction. A central aim is to enhance our understanding of how institutional agendas are talked into being. READ MORE
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12. An Arranged Marriage under Institutional Duality – The Local Integration Process between Two Globally Merging MNCs' Subsidiaries
Abstract : "The thesis studies the local integration process between two globally merging multinational companies’ (MNCs) subsidiaries - a process, which is part of a concurrently ongoing global consolidation process and that has to be implemented in the two subsidiaries’ host country environment. The main question asked is how this specific setting influences the characteristics of the local integration process - such as the approach used, management styles applied, integration mechanisms employed, the physical and procedural solutions chosen, and not least the occurring human-related integration issues - as well as the outcome of the process. READ MORE
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13. Adaptability or Efficiency : Towards a theory of institutional development in organizations
Abstract : Organizations, once established, tend not to change, typically going obsolete as society continues to evolve. This makes adaptability an important issue. Organizational members must make sense to each other, or coordination suffers. READ MORE
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14. An audit is an audit
Abstract : Previous studies within auditing have indicated that actors located in the center of the organizational field are more likely to have the resources needed in order to instigate change. Although it is acknowledged that actors located in the periphery might have incentives to change the organizational field, they are often viewed as unlikely change agents, as they are presumed to lack enough leverage. READ MORE
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15. The Development of Swedish Business Journalism : Historical Roots of an Organisational Field
Abstract : Contemporary Swedish business journalism is an established organisational field with shared practice within and across organisations. Using a historical perspective, this dissertation investigates the early formation of this field and the formation of a shared meaning system for business journalism. READ MORE
