Management ideas are an important aspect within every organizations institutional environment. These ideas affect how organizations are managed by shaping managers understandings of what organizations can, may, or must do. Consequently, the diffusion and adoption of management ideas is an important aspect in understanding why organizations take certain actions at certain points in time. The objective of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of affecting factors during the process when a management idea meets reality in an organizational context. The empirical contribution of the thesis is three papers based on three separate studies. The first study investigated managers perceptions of improvement work within the Swedish heal...
This study considers that multiple and diverse rationales, including rational, emotional and sociall...
Previous research has found that organizational innovations are important for organizations’ long-te...
Despite the mounting evidence that innovation in management can fuel competitive advantage, we still...
Management ideas are an important aspect within every organizations institutional environment. These...
Management ideas are an important part of every organization’s institutional environment. These idea...
A number of things can be identified in the literature that explain why organizations adopt manageme...
In the face of an ever-changing, complex environment, managers in organizations need constantly to d...
Purpose – Building on recent research that emphasizes the role of managers as central in the adoptio...
Purpose: Building on recent research that emphasizes the role of managers as central in the adoption...
The adoption of management concepts has attracted much attention in organisation studies. However, t...
The core aim of the overall research project is to explore the appropriation of ideas, theories, con...
The purpose of this study is to investigate what happens within an organization when a process view ...
This paper aims to broaden the understanding of the complexity in the dissemination of management id...
Background: There is a growing expectation that many health organisations will implement innovations...
The paradigmatic change that is emerging in modern western managerial thinking influences, among oth...
This study considers that multiple and diverse rationales, including rational, emotional and sociall...
Previous research has found that organizational innovations are important for organizations’ long-te...
Despite the mounting evidence that innovation in management can fuel competitive advantage, we still...
Management ideas are an important aspect within every organizations institutional environment. These...
Management ideas are an important part of every organization’s institutional environment. These idea...
A number of things can be identified in the literature that explain why organizations adopt manageme...
In the face of an ever-changing, complex environment, managers in organizations need constantly to d...
Purpose – Building on recent research that emphasizes the role of managers as central in the adoptio...
Purpose: Building on recent research that emphasizes the role of managers as central in the adoption...
The adoption of management concepts has attracted much attention in organisation studies. However, t...
The core aim of the overall research project is to explore the appropriation of ideas, theories, con...
The purpose of this study is to investigate what happens within an organization when a process view ...
This paper aims to broaden the understanding of the complexity in the dissemination of management id...
Background: There is a growing expectation that many health organisations will implement innovations...
The paradigmatic change that is emerging in modern western managerial thinking influences, among oth...
This study considers that multiple and diverse rationales, including rational, emotional and sociall...
Previous research has found that organizational innovations are important for organizations’ long-te...
Despite the mounting evidence that innovation in management can fuel competitive advantage, we still...