Essays about: "Conflicting logics"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 27 essays containing the words Conflicting logics.

1. 16. Management Control Systems & Performance Measurement Systems in Hybrid Organizations : The case of The Swedish Municipal Housing Corporations

   University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Fakulteten för ekonomi

   Author : Esam Elsheikh; [2018]
   Keywords : Hybrids; MHCs; business logic; social logic; MCSs; PMSs; strategy; control package; BSC; ERP;

   Abstract : Municipal housing companies (MHCs) can be seen as hybrid organizations, operating under multiple institutional logics that are likely in tension with each other. Measuring the performance of hybrid organizations is a much harder exercise than measuring the performance of pure public or pure private entities. READ MORE

3. 17. Translating Sustainability on a Microlevel : illustrated by the case of Nordic Choice Hotels

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Jenny Carlbaum; Lovisa Nyman; [2018]
   Keywords : Translating ideas; Microlevel perspective; Sustainability; Conflicting Institutional Logics; Rhetorical Strategies;

   Abstract : Sustainability has been identified as a fluffy idea containing conflicting logics that may make it problematic for individual employees to work with in practice. The aim of this thesis was to contribute to the literature of translating ideas by looking at the microlevel perspective of how the idea of sustainability has been translated within Nordic Choice Hotels. READ MORE

4. 18. Blurring realities between NGOs & retailers: A qualitative study of what enables NGOs and retailers to sustain inter-organisational collaborations in strategic CSR-projects, despite conflicting logics

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för marknadsföring och strategi

   Author : Antonia Linnarsson; Lina Wingren; [2017]
   Keywords : Institutional Theory; Institutional Logics; Inter-Organisational Collaboration; Corporate Social Responsibility;

   Abstract : Inter-organisational collaborations between NGOs and retailers have become increasingly popular in Sweden. Yet, there is currently only a few studies that seek to explain how inter-organisational relationships between NGOs and retailers can be sustained over time, given the often fundamentally different institutional logics on which these two organisational types are based. READ MORE

5. 19. A CSR Logic : How professions translate social responsibility

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : August Maniette; Magdalena Hillered; [2017]
   Keywords : CSR; HRM; professions; translation; institutional logics; CSR logic;

   Abstract : Increased expectations and legislation pressure companies to work with CSR and couple policy with practice. Defining a CSR logic is open for interpretation because it means something, but not always the same thing, to everybody. Professions have different interests that frame how they embed and enact a CSR logic. READ MORE

6. 20. Management Control Systems and Multiple Logics - a case study of a change process in a health care organization

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansiering

   Author : Anna Zhan; Lennart Wang; [2017]
   Keywords : health care; management control systems; institutional logics; change;

   Abstract : The health care sector demonstrates how organizations are faced with conflicting demands in their institutional environment which they need to respond to (Scott, 2000). On the one hand, the medical logic emphasizes professional values of providing appropriate care to patients, and on the other hand, the business logic emphasizes cost-effectiveness by promoting an efficient use of resources (Reay and Hinings, 2009). READ MORE