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Teams, continuous improvement, the unions and conditional trust in th...
Ahlstrand, Roland; Sederblad, Per (2012) The 16th International Workshop on Team working, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, September 6 –7, 2012	conference PAPER

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In this paper, it will be discussed if there is a “team dimension” connected to legitimacy/trust in manufacturing companies. The “improvement teams” in the truck producing company Scania, that also are the basic organisational unit in production, can be described as “open micro systems”, with external relations and links between the teams and the organisation as a whole (Sederblad, 2011b). Our interpretation is that the result of continuous improvement activities in the improvement teams is dependent on blue collar workers believe that they will, at least indirectly and in a long time perspective, benefit from involvement in developing the production system. We will introduce the concept “conditional trust” to analyse the relations in production (Sederblad, 2011a; see also page 5 in this paper). This concept will also be used to understand the negotiation system on the company level and we will especially focus on the role of the unions. In the final section of the paper we will analyse how the production system and negotiation system are linked to each other. We will discuss and analyse the following questions: 1. How is the “improvement teams” organised in the company Scania and how do they work with “continuous improvement”? 2. How is conditional trust established in production and in improvement activities (among supervisors, team-leaders and workers)? 3. How is conditional trust established in the negotiations in the company (management, unions and workers)? 4. How is trust in production linked to trust in the negotiation system, and how functions the system at the workplace as a whole?

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Organizations in cooperation within development partnerships : the im...
Bogren, Maria; Westerdahl, Stig (2011) 27th EGOS Colloquium, 7-9th July 2011, Göteborg	conference PAPER

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Background and purpose Attempts to solve important societal issues, for example long-term sick leave and unemployment, nowadays often involve several and varying type of actors. The European Union supports for example cooperation in projects aiming for new solutions and models to fight the problems. Temporary organizations are formed for this purpose at international, national, regional and local levels, with actors from public sector on different levels, representatives from private companies and non-profit organizations. At times, also the target group affected by the problem is involved. Formations of this kind can apply for funding for a certain period. The constellation lasts for this project only, and a possible continuation depends on the result of the project, or rather whether new funding is received. The purpose of this paper is to discuss a specific type of temporary cooperation between actors from different organizational fields within a temporary organization, what is called Development Partnerships. In our case, the members of the partnership comprises of other organizations, but we especially want to stress the issue concerning actors without organizational belonging, and their participation with actors from well established organizations belonging to institutionalised fields.

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Scanias produktionssystem : kundanpassad produktion och nya forskning...
Sederblad, Per Conference paper in Lean och innovationsförmåga : sammanställning av projekt; : VINNOVA (2012) Lean och innovationsförmåga – hinder, möjligheter och kunskapsluckor, VINNOVA, 17 Februari 2012, Stockholm	conference PAPER

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A remedy for segregation? conviviality and the question of sustainabl...
Alwall, Jonas; Aguirre Sanchez-Beato, Sara; Garcia Troncoso, Mariana; Pérez Campillos, Alba; Saponaro, Tiziana (2012) IMMIGRANTS AND CIVIL SOCIETY – 16th Nordic Migration Research Conference & 9th ETMU Days, Turku, Finland, 13-15 August 2012	conference PAPER

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Malmö is a city undergoing rapid change: growing, modernizing and gaining in attractiveness. It is a city with an unusually high percentage of immigrants, and of immigrants from all parts of the world. It is, however, also a city with major social inequalities. The latter features of the city have been highlighted by the Commission for a Socially Sustainable Malmö, the focal point of which is the observation of immense differences in health between different groups among Malmö’s population. However, the studies it conducts also cover the assumed reasons behind these differences: problems regarding work, housing, education and a lack of economic and social resources. The study here presented relates strongly to the questions the Commission is investigating, but focuses specifically on the role of conviviality – the “living together” (in the sense of social interaction between people of different ethnic backgrounds) which, according to Paul Gilroy (2004), has “made multiculture an ordinary feature of social life in /…/ postcolonial cities”. The study aims to investigate what examples of conviviality there actually exist in the city, the possible benefits conviviality produces (for its development) and what factors in the life of the city that provide obstacles to the realization of conviviality.

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Property investor behaviour : qualitative analysis of a very large t...
Öhman, Peter; Söderberg, Bo; Westerdahl, Stig (2012) ERES (The European Real Estate Society) conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, 13-16 June 2013	conference PAPER

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This explorative case study focuses on property investment decision-making from a behavioural perspective on the very micro level. The study aims at contributing to the understanding of how property investors manage the decision-making process, including issues like organising, valuing and financing. By applying a qualitative approach, we analyse an extraordinary large transaction that took place in the Swedish property market 2008. In an open bid transaction properties of the corporation Vasakronan was sold for SEK 41.1 billion (equal to € 4.3 billion). Managers in both the purchasing company and the consortium with the second highest bid were interviewed. They were encouraged to speak freely, but we also supplied an interview guide with a number of themes as well as specific questions. The findings reveal two types of characters in property investment decision-making behaviour with respect to how actors can organise the work and use external consultants, value the properties, and secure the financing necessary for a final bid. We use a qualitative empirical approach to analyse an extraordinary large property transaction from a buyer’s point of view, and we present detailed information about this transaction as well as general insights about actual behaviour rarely revealed in previous research or textbooks.

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