Holmqvist explores how a social welfare organization becomes a self-evident phenomenon by 'medicalizing' its environment: a way of 'solving' social problems by viewing and treating them as medical problems. This study generates new understandings of how institutionalization of organizations comes about.
Holmqvist explores how a social welfare organization becomes a self-evident phenomenon by 'medicalizing' its environment: a way of 'solving' social pr...
During the past two decades, corporate management has come to take an active role in health promotion programming for employees, offering health education, screenings, therapy, and even leisure initiatives. However, little attention has been given to how contemporary worksite health programs in fact blur the traditional distinction between work and private life. This has resulted in that little research on the other side of the work-health nexus: how employers factor health considerations into workforce management and productivity control. With the advancement of "work-site health promotion"...
During the past two decades, corporate management has come to take an active role in health promotion programming for employees, offering health educa...
Organizations are under constant pressure to be ambidextrous. They must be able to exploit existing processes, routines and systems at the same time as they must engage in exploration through playfulness, relaxed control and experimentation. We know little about the human costs and challenges of ambidexterity. In this volume we explore the impact of ambidextrous organizations on individuals' working lives. The authors analyze how employees are required to follow routines at the same time as they are expected to break these routines. They also explore how the individual dilemmas of...
Organizations are under constant pressure to be ambidextrous. They must be able to exploit existing processes, routines and systems at the same time a...
