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21	IT project governance Mähring, Magnus January 2002 (has links) This dissertation investigates how executives engage in information technology projects and how organizational control of IT projects forms and evolves over time. It contains an in-depth account of a large, multi-year IT project in a financial company. The story of the “New Deposit System” project provides insights into the dynamics of IT projects in organizations and the challenges facing executives engaging in the governance of these complex undertakings. Several characteristics of IT projects, such as their abstract nature, technological complexity and non-repetitiveness, render several of the manager’s trusted forms of control impracticable. Even the ideal of “strong top management support” is found to be problematic: it is an extraordinary measure unlikely to translate well into regular organizational practice. What we find instead are actors in search of means and ways to exercise influence. We find control to be reciprocal and dynamic, influenced by the organization and its history, by the principles and practices of corporate IT management and by the values and norms of the IT profession. In this environment, selection of key people, evolving trust, other people’s assessments and the construction and reshaping of a project image become important parts of the managerial repertoire for IT project governance. / Diss. Stockholm : Handelshögskolan, 2002 IS project control IT project management Top management support Executives Information technology Organizational control Case study Interpretive research Projektadministration Informationsteknik Business studies Företagsekonomi
22	Obligatorisk träning på arbetstid : Förmån eller påtvingad träningshets? / Mandatory training during working hours : Benefit or forced training? Persson, Linda, Johansson Thörnberg, Josefina, Karlsson, Daniella January 2022 (has links) Kandidatuppsats i företagsekonomi III, Organisation 15 hp, 2FE78E,Ekonomihögskolan vid Linnéuniversitetet i Kalmar. VT 2022. Författare: Daniella Karlsson, Josefina Thörnberg Johansson, Linda Persson Handledare: Iva Josefsson Examinator: Mikael Lundgren Titel: Obligatorisk träning på arbetstid - förmån eller påtvingad träningshets? Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att bidra med en ökad förståelse för hurmedarbetare upplever obligatorisk träning på arbetstid samt hur eventuellpåverkan av deras personliga integritet ser ut. Vidare ämnar fallstudien attbidra med underlag för andra liknande organisationer som vill implementeraträning på arbetstid. Frågeställningar: Hur upplever anställda obligatorisk träning på arbetstid?Hur kan den obligatoriska träningen påverka den personliga integriteten? Metod: Studien är en kvalitativ fallstudie med induktiv ansats.Datainsamlingen har skett via intervjuer med vår kontaktperson som är HRansvarig och sex respondenter. Samtliga respondenter arbetar somtjänstemän på ett byggnads-konsulterande företag med kontor i Malmö och Göteborg. Slutsats: Vår insamlade data har visat att samtliga respondenter överlagkänns mycket nöjda med konceptet obligatorisk träning på arbetstid. Dockuppmärksammas resultat som tyder på att ett etiskt dilemma kan uppstå,grupperingar kan bildas och att det finns gränsöverskridande inslag i form avprestationsmätningar vilka upplevs som mer negativa företeelser i det annarsuppskattade konceptet. Nyckelord: fysisk aktivitet, träning, friskvård, obligatorisk, organisatoriskkontroll, normativ styrning, etik, personlig integritet / Bachelor Thesis in Business Administration III, Organization 15 credits,2FE78E, School of Economics at Linnaeus University in Kalmar. Spring -22 Authors: Daniella Karlsson, Josefina Thörnberg Johansson, Linda Persson Supervisor: Iva Josefsson Examiner: Mikael Lundgren Title: Mandatory training during working hours - benefit or forced training? Purpose: The purpose of the thesis is to contribute with an increasedunderstanding of how employees experience mandatory training duringworking hours and what the possible impact on their sense of privacy lookslike. Furthermore, the case study intends to provide a basis for other similarorganizations that want to implement training during working hours. Questions: How do employees experience mandatory training duringworking hours? How can mandatory training during working hours affectindividuals sense of privacy? Method: The study is a qualitative case study with an inductive approach.The data collection took place via interviews with an HR manager and sixrespondents. All respondents work as salaried employees at a constructionconsulting company with offices in Malmö and Gothenburg. Conclusion: Our collected data have shown that all respondents generallyfeel very satisfied with the concept of mandatory training during workinghours. However, attention is drawn to results that indicate that an ethicaldilemma can arise, groupings can be formed and that there are cross-borderelements in the form of performance measurements which are perceived asmore negative phenomena in the otherwise appreciated concept Keywords: physical activity, training, wellness, mandatory, organizationalcontrol, normative governance, ethics, privacy physical activity training wellness mandatory organizational control normative governance ethics privacy fysisk aktivitet träning friskvård obligatorisk organisatorisk kontroll normativ styrning etik personlig integritet Business Administration Företagsekonomi
23	Facilitating control in growing organizations : A study of new requirements on systematization Flyman, Elin, Nilsson, Christina January 2013 (has links) Organizational growth poses new challenges for top management. In small organizations, coordination and communication is spontaneous and require little structure to be efficient. However, as the organization grows, the increased number of individuals requires a larger amount of coordination and communication. In this study, our purpose is to increase understanding of why growing companies are experiencing challenges with coordination as well as to increase organizational control. To fulfill this, we study one organization in particular. In order to find a sustainable solution, we investigate why these challenges are experienced. We argue that addressing the underlying causes for experiencing these challenges is the most effective solution in the way that it ensures that the same challenges do not recur. Therefore, the relationship between the challenges that are articulated by the organization and the underlying causes for the challenges is central to our study. Our study shows that our object of study would benefit from an increased internal focus to enable for long-term growth. This finding supports several existing models for organizational growth. Our object of study currently employs few systematized internal processes and is in need of further systematization with regards to several aspects, such as strategy development and implementation and organizational control. Our study further shows that a lack of systematization on a managerial level leads to ambiguities that are translated to the operational level. This explains the discrepancies between the challenges that are expressed by the organization and their underlying causes. / Organisatorisk tillväxt innebär nya utmaningar för företagsledningen. I små organisationer sker koordination och kommunikation spontant och kräver inte särskilt mycket struktur för att vara effektiv. När organisationen växer, gör emellertid det ökade antalet individer så att mer koordination och kommunikation behövs. Vårt syfte med denna studie är att öka förståelse för varför växande företag upplever utmaningar med koordination samt att öka organisatorisk kontroll. För att uppnå detta studerar vi en specifik organisation. För att hitta en hållbar lösning, så undersöker vi varför dessa utmaningar upplevs. Vi menar att detta är den mest effektiva lösningen på så sätt att man genom att adressera de underliggande orsakerna till att utmaningarna upplevs kan säkerställa att samma utmaningar inte återuppstår vid ett senare tillfälle. Således blir kopplingen mellan de utmaningar som artikuleras av organisationen och dess underliggande orsaker en central del i vår studie. Vår studie visar på att vårt fallföretag skulle gynnas av ett ökat internt fokus. Detta ökade interna fokus skulle möjliggöra för långsiktig tillväxt. Denna upptäckt stödjer flertalet befintliga modeller för organisatorisk tillväxt. Vårt fallföretag har i nuläget få systematiserade interna processer och är i behov av ökad systematisering utav flera aspekter, bland annat strategiarbete och organisatorisk kontroll. Vår studie visar även att en bristande systematisering på ledningsnivå leder till tvetydigheter som fortplantar sig till den operationella nivån. Detta förklarar diskrepansen mellan de utmaningar som artikuleras av organisationen och dess underliggande orsaker. Organizational growth organizational control strategy standardization systematization coordination long-term growth decision making Organisatorisk tillväxt organisatorisk kontroll strategi standardisering systematisering samordning långsiktig tillväxt beslutsfattande Economics and Business Ekonomi och näringsliv
24	Le contrôle des organisations à vocation universelle : le cas du Programme des Nations Unies pour l’environnement / Universal organizations’ control : the case of the United Nations Environment Programme Roy-Lemieux, Geneviève 10 July 2018 (has links) L’Organisation des Nations Unies (ONU) – une organisation unique à vocation universelle possédant sa propre personnalité juridique contrairement aux autres organisations internationales soumises, elles, au droit international, et disposant du pouvoir de définir ses relations avec les tiers ou parties prenantes, agit dans le cadre d’un système de gouvernance à deux niveaux. Ce système est composé d’une part de mécanismes de « gouvernance externe » (pour une coordination entre différents acteurs comme les États, les Ministères, les autres institutions internationales, les entreprises et les Organisations non gouvernementales) et d’autre part de dispositifs de « gouvernement interne » (cf. Bouquin & Kuszla, 2014), qui encadrent les différents organes de l’ONU. L’articulation de ces deux formes de gouvernance doit assurer la mise en œuvre des politiques internationales. Ces politiques prennent la forme de plans ou programmes d’action dans différents domaines, en particulier dans le domaine environnemental. Même si cet axe ne fait pas partie des missions historiques de l’ONU comme la paix et la sécurité internationale, il a pris de l’importance à partir de 1972 avec la création du Programme des Nations Unies pour l’environnement – PNUE. Bien que ses missions aient évolué, le PNUE n’a jamais été aussi faible. L'analyse des configurations de contrôle du PNUE nécessite une approche sociologique prenant en compte les interactions entre les acteurs et la structure (théorie de la structuration et des métaorganisations). La comparaison de deux études de cas mit au jour trois configurations de contrôle des organisations à vocation universelle et une grille d’analyse des facteurs à prendre en compte pour assurer une articulation cohérente de leurs deux formes de gouvernance. / The United Nations (UN) – an atypical organization with its own legal personality unlike other international organizations, has the power to define its relationships with all its stakeholders and is acting within a system of governance at two levels: one of "external governance" (for coordination between different actors such as governments, other international institutions, international funds, businesses and non-governmental organizations) and one of internal governance (Bouquin, Kuszla, 2014) which frames the various UN bodies. The articulation of those two forms of governance ensures the implementation of international policies at the national level. These policies take the form of plans or programs of action in various fields, especially in the environmental field. Although this axis is not part of the historic UN missions such as peace and international security, it gradually took on some importance in 1972 with the establishment of the United Nations Environment Programme - UNEP. Although its missions and its organizational control model have progressively changed, UNEP’s governance has never been that weak. Analysis of UNEP’s control configurations requires a sociological approach that captures the interactions between actors and structure (structuration and metaorganizations theory). The comparison of two case studies carried out in a situation of participant observation revealed three universal’s organizational control configurations and a grid of factors to be considered in order a coherent articulation of these organizations’ two forms of governance. Enjeux environnementaux mondiaux Gouvernance environnementale mondiale Contrôle organisationnel Théorie de la structuration Étude de cas longitudinale Global Environmental Issues United Nations Environment Programme Global Environmental Governance Organizational Control Structuration Theory Longitudinal Case Studies
25	De la théorie des coûts de transaction à une économie des coûts de traduction : l’émergence d’un centre de services mutualisés comme dispositif de contrôle inter-organisationnel / From transaction cost economics to translation cost economy : the emergence of a shared service center as an inter-organizational control device TANGUY, Laurent 13 December 2011 (has links) Cette thèse étudie la période de transition associée à l’externalisation d’une activité d’une organisation vers une autre et a pour objectif de décrire la manière dont un dispositif de contrôle hybride entre marché et hiérarchie émerge au cours de cette période. Pour ce faire, nous nous sommes appuyé sur une étude in situ de quinze mois d’un projet mondial d’externalisation de l’activité IT d’un client auprès de trois centres de services mutualisés d’un prestataire. La description du terrain s’articule autour de deux voies de passage conceptuelles ancrées dans l’Actor Network Theory. La première propose de partir de la Théorie des Coûts de Transaction pour aller vers une « économie des coûts de traduction ». La seconde avance le concept d’accumulation de petits points de contrôle fondée sur l’étude d’un « contrôle en train de se faire » (Vosselman & Van der Meer-Kooistra, 2006). La description de la phase de transition émet l’idée que les coûts de traduction et l’accumulation de petits points de contrôle forment un « registre en double » permettant de tracer le mouvement de co-construction de la prestation de services et du dispositif de contrôle associé. Au cours de cette période, les faits locaux furent circonscrits par l’équipe projet pour les ramener au sein du centre de services mutualisés. Ce travail permit d’amorcer un cycle d’accumulation des connaissances. Ce mouvement rendit progressivement le projet et la prestation de services plus réels, mais au prix d’un éloignement irrémédiable avec ce qui avait été spécifié dans le contrat. Dorénavant, le coût pour agir à distance était réduit et le centre de services mutualisés pouvait a priori être considéré comme un dispositif « économe ». Cependant, le processus d’externalisation conduisit à une transformation profonde de l’activité externalisée et de l’identité des différents groupes d’acteurs associés. La comparaison entre les deux situations, avant et après l’externalisation, était rendue complexe du fait de l’existence des coûts de traduction inhérents au passage du contrat au dispositif sociotechnique nécessaire à la réalisation de la prestation de services. / This dissertation is dedicated to the transition period related to the outsourcing of an activity from an organization to another one. Its objective is to describe the emergence of a hybrid control device between market and hierarchy. We studied during 15 months a global IT outsourcing project from a client to three customers’ shared service centers. The field analysis is based on two “conceptual ways” grounded in Actor Network Theory. The first moves from Transaction Cost Economics to “Translation Cost Economy”. The second one puts forward the concept of small points of control accumulation responding to Vosselman & Van der Meer-Kooistra’s call to investigate “control in the making” (2006). The transition phase shed light on the proposition that costs of translation and small points of control accumulation created a “double register” tracing the movement of services co-construction and the related control device emergence. The local facts were framed by the project team and brought into one of the shared IT service center. An accumulation cycle of knowledge was running. This movement made both the project and the service actual but at the cost of translating the initial service defined by the contract. The price to act at distance was reduced and the shared IT service center could be considered as “economic”. However, the outsourcing process led to a transformation of the IT activity and modified the identity of the groups of actors. The comparison between the two situations, before and after outsourcing, was made difficult because of translation costs inherent to the transformation of the contract into a socio-technical device implemented to deliver the service. Sociologie du contrôle de gestion Contrôle inter-organisationnel Actor network theory Théorie des coûts de transaction Etude qualitative Etude longitudinale Externalisation Centre de services mutualisés IT Systèmes d'information Management control sociology Inter-organizational control Actor network theory Transaction cost economics Qualitative study Longitudinal study Outsourcing Shared service center IT Information systems
26	Who are we and what do we measure? : A case study of the dynamic relationship between performance measurement and organizational identity Källgren, Marcus, Vejbrink Kildal, Adrian January 2022 (has links) Performance measurements have been described as a tool by which management can communicate expected standards of behavior as well as a shared meaning among members regarding the intended direction of the firm. In parallel, the organizational identity field relies on the premise that members can answer the question “who are we as an organization?” through a sense of shared understanding. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the implications a performance measurement system has on the employees’ perception of “who we are“, related to the theoretical framework of organizational identity. This paper utilizes a qualitative research method, a case-based approach of a Swedish life science company which is conducted in an exploratory manner. The case company is chosen due to its contextual setting regarding the newly implemented performance measurement system, along with the inherent characteristics of the industry in general, which is typically considered to be incongruent with such quantitative measurements. The empirical data is collected through eight interviews with members from the chosen case company, as well as through internal documents describing its performance measurement system. The authors propose a revised theoretical framework in which performance measurements and organizational identity are investigated through a conceptual model which explores their dynamic relationship. The findings reinforce well-known ideas of performance measurements and organizational identity, along with providing new insights on the dynamics between them. Keywords: Organizational Identity, Performance Measurement System, Performance Management, Identity-Dynamics organizational identity performance measurement system performance management identity-dynamics PMS HR human resources acquisition change management HR-metrics employee reward system evaluation appraisal organizational performance employee performance perception tracking monitoring organizational culture organizational control medium who we are who we are as an organization qualitative measurement quantitative measurement case study life science organizational members shared understanding we-ness dynamic relationship relationship interrelationship central enduring distinctive CED implications identity-related adjustments top-down initiative strategic initiative strategic sensemaking sensemaking ideational definitional component attributes loose couplings innovation enhancing reinforcing guiding stretching enabling challenging threatening constraining R&D research development idealized identity desired identity Business Administration Företagsekonomi

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