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Jens Rennstam
Senior lecturer, Director of third cycle studies, Department of Business Administration
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Engineering Work - On Peer Reviewing as a Method of Horizontal Control
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Summary, in English
This ethnographically inspired study takes departure in this lack of engagement in horizontal control. Based on a study of engineers who develop technology for telecommunication, the book stresses the importance of observing operative work when trying to create an understanding of the dynamics of organizational control. The study problematizes the idea that organizational control has its origin in managers? actions, and results in the argument that a considerable amount of control takes place horizontally, something that deviates from the dominant view in the literature. In an attempt to make sense of this horizontal control, the concept of peer reviewing is developed as a method of organizational control.
Department/s
- Department of Business Administration
Publishing year
2007
Language
English
Full text
- Available as PDF - 17 MB
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Document type
Dissertation
Publisher
Lund Business Press
Topic
- Business Administration
Keywords
- Organizational science
- Samhällsvetenskaper
- Social sciences
- Horizontal control
- Complex work
- Knowledge intensiveness
- Organizational control
- Peer reviewing
- Organisationsteori
- Management of enterprises
- Företagsledning
- management
Status
Published
Supervisor
- Dan Kärreman
- Mats Alvesson
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 10 91-85113-16-6
Defence date
30 March 2007
Defence time
13:15
Defence place
Lunds Universitet Ekonomihögskolan Tycho Brahes väg 1, Lund Sal EC3:211
Opponent
- Graham Sewell (Professor)