Sökning: "Organisational tensions"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 25 uppsatser innehållade orden Organisational tensions.

1. 1. Guardians of the Ecology : Navigating Challenges in Municipal Urban Planning in Stockholm County – Insights and Strategies from Ecologists

   Master-uppsats, KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

   Författare :Ebba Sidh; [2023]
   Nyckelord :municipal ecologists; value articulation; ventriloquism; municipal planning process;

   Sammanfattning : Urban planning plays an essential role in preparing cities to handle and counteract the climate changes – and connected consequences – of today and the future. Municipal ecologists are specialists in environmental protection and therefore carry a crucial role when developing contemporary and future cities. LÄS MER

3. 2. Shifting paradigms in practice? Investigating the compatibility of Germany's energy cooperatives with sustainable degrowth

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

   Författare :Leon Bartling; [2023]
   Nyckelord :degrowth; community energy; cooperatives; renewable energy transition; degrowth framework for community energy; Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : The concept of sustainable degrowth presents itself as a normative response to some of the most pressing socio-ecological challenges of our time. The energy sector plays a prominent role in the degrowth debate, however, there is limited conceptual and empirical understanding of how energy production and consumption might look like from a degrowth perspective and which actors might be compatible with the degrowth ideals. LÄS MER

4. 3. The Application of LOC in Innovative Project Selection A Case Study

   C-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansiering

   Författare :Angyan Liu; Jacob Norell; [2022]
   Nyckelord :Management Control Systems; Project Selection; Levers of Control;

   Sammanfattning : In order to gain competitive advantages in the global market, innovation has become a key part of organisational strategy, leading to a series of challenges in project selection. As effective tools for decision making, the management control systems (MCS) may provide a holistic approach to this management uncertainty. LÄS MER

5. 4. No contradictions : Identity work of managers working for sustainable enterprises

   Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Författare :Anna Richter Olsson; Ana Lucia Stark; [2022]
   Nyckelord :Identity work; narrative identity; sustainable discourse; self-actualization; change agency;

   Sammanfattning : This is a study about the identity work of managers working for sustainable enterprises. Contrary to CSR managers who are constantly managing tensions between achieving social and environmental goals while working at a company whose aim is to maximise profits, the identities of managers working for sustainable enterprises, do not indicate that they are experiencing contradictions between sustainable and commercial discourses. LÄS MER

7. 5. The interplay between technocratic and socio-ideological controls in managing strategic tension - A case study of a large retail company

   C-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansiering

   Författare :Knut Wiwen-Nilsson; Fred Falkenberg; [2022]
   Nyckelord :Management control systems; Strategic tensions; Technocratic controls; Socio-ideological controls; Complementary and substituting controls;

   Sammanfattning : This paper investigates how management controls may be used to manage strategic tensions. By conducting an exploratory single case study on a Swedish listed company operating in the fashion and retail industry, this paper shows how the interplay between technocratic and socio-ideological controls manifests in a variety of ways to manage empirically observed strategic tensions. LÄS MER