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Organisering och identifikation i byggherrerollen: Dialektik, möten och meningsskapande
KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM), Industrial Economics and Management (Dept.), Management Control. (Ekonomistyrning)
2009 (Swedish)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This study within organization theory takes a process perspective and focuses on how the dialectic interaction between the structuring and improvisational parts of organizing is handled in construction sites. In studies of organizing where reality is seen as socially constructed with focus on the subjective source of organizations reality, the individuals understanding of the identity and the rolecan be seen as central to interpret the social processes. Depending on how the actors understand their role in the context, the acting/interacting is going to beinfluenced. In times when the different orders of organizing have contrastingcontents the understanding of the role and the context is going to challenge. The actors then have to consider and reconsider the understanding of the role.To make the identification perspective possible to study a theoretical framework is constructed where community, meetings, insecurity and sense making arehighlighted as important aspects in the identification process. The empirical partis based on narratives from ten construction clients. The narratives were initiatedby descriptions of four situations, describing four occurrences, which provide four different attitudes to how the dialectic interaction between different ordersof organizing can be handled. The analysis of the narratives is based on how theactors in there argumentation express doubt and faith. Expression of doubt andfaith is used as tools to make the identification process concrete to be possible tostudy in a fruitful way.The study points out how doubt and faith are used to create pictures of the actors understanding of the role and its context. The analysis gives three identificationpatterns. The characteristics and content of the patterns are different whichinclude a difference between the understandings of the tension in the dialecticinteraction of different organizing orders. We can therefore say that the threepatterns give different starting points for action and interaction. Finally the implications of the results from the study are discussed in relation to management accounting and organizational change.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: KTH , 2009. , p. xi, 159
Series
Trita-IEO, ISSN 1100-7982 ; 2009:03
Keywords [en]
Construction client, identification, process, dialectic, orders, community, meetings, insecurity, sense making, doubt and faith.
National Category
Other Mechanical Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-10568ISBN: 978-91-7415-312-5 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-10568DiVA, id: diva2:219246
Public defence
2009-06-04, Sal D3, Lindstedtsvägen 5, KTH, Stockholm, 10:00 (English)
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Supervisors
Note
QC 20100811Available from: 2009-05-27 Created: 2009-05-27 Last updated: 2022-06-25Bibliographically approved
List of papers
1. Förmågor i samverkan: byggherrekompentens ur ett processperspektiv
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Förmågor i samverkan: byggherrekompentens ur ett processperspektiv
2005 (Swedish)Licentiate thesis, monograph (Other scientific)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: KTH, 2005. p. x,111
Series
Trita-IEO, ISSN 1100-7982 ; 2005:05
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-437 (URN)91-7178-119-6 (ISBN)
Presentation
2005-09-29, Seminarierum 443, Lindstedtsvägen 30, Stockholm, 13:15
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QC 20100811Available from: 2005-09-28 Created: 2005-09-28 Last updated: 2022-06-26Bibliographically approved

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