... question: How do family and ethnic social ties support immigrant entrepreneurs in developing their businesses in their host country? Design/methodology/approach This study draws on the study of three immigrant entrepreneurs from Sweden, who run their businesses in different industries. The study used...

...Monica Elisabeth Nyström; Elisabet Höög; Rickard Garvare; Lars Weinehall; Anneli Ivarsson Purpose – The study identifies the variation of change strategies used in a complex large scale change program in health and social services in Sweden, aimed at changing professionals' health promoting...

... the possibility for further translations and causes the network to stabilize. The empirical basis of this article is a longitudinal study, during the period 2007‐2010, of the introduction of lean production in a large manufacturing company in Sweden. Our case company, here given the pseudonym HiTech, Inc...

... narrative order is establishing itself. This new narrative order significantly redefines the socio‐material status of waste and imposes major changes on waste management organizations. Research limitations/implications Based on the case of waste governance in Sweden, the authors conclude...

... Publishing Limited 2010 Socialization Organizational culture Employee behaviour United States of America Sweden Infantocracy: the ideal of childhood imposed on all of humanity (Kundera, 1986). Whatever else they might be, organizations are also, it is commonly asserted, cultural...

... management. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on a case study from ABB Sweden (a power and automation technology company). In‐depth interviews with senior managers, with vast experience of change management, constitute the empirical source. Findings The most important finding...

... to the understanding of mobilizing action in development projects, but also because they are crucial in a chain of sequential projects that are organized as responses to new situations. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses illustrations of development projects in public management in Sweden to discuss...

... Organizational change Business continuity Multinational companies Sweden As Ericson (2006) points out in a thorough analysis of how the past is addressed in management research, history is primarily seen as an explanation of inertia or path dependencies. Organizations get stuck in historical...

... with the tenants and tenant representatives. Also the administrative load has increased as the traditional assistant support has been replaced by new computer systems, and the ombudsmen have been made responsible for their own paperwork. Bureaucracy Employees Self development Change management Sweden...

... on action research projects. Design/methodology/approach In the empirical setting of a change project in a regional health authority in Sweden, researchers designed and facilitated a development coalition for introducing integrated care. This required an action research intervention that supported...

... without structures or vice versa. They are, however, only loosely coupled, for as Weick (1979) pointed out, organizational couplings are quite easy to dissolve and then construct anew. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Organizing Longevity Organizational development Sweden Organizational change...