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Att spränga normer: om målstyrningsprocesser för jämställdhetsintegrering
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, School of Business. (Akademin för ekonomistyrning i staten)ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4737-1573
2009 (Swedish)Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)Alternative title
Breaking Norms : On Management by Objectives for Gender Mainstreaming (English)
Abstract [en]

How do management control systems function when under pressure to mainstream gender equality into a core business? This question is being discussed with an interpretive approach from both the institutional and the gender perspective. Empirical evidence stems from two longitudinal case studies within the Swedish public sector where management by objectives (MBO) is the current model for governmental control. The analysis is based on four aspects: management by objectives, gender mainstreaming, the concept of loose coupling from organization studies and institutional change as translation.

The gender perspective highlights constructions that tend to enable or to hamper gender equality. The sociological institutional perspective sheds light over rules, norms and culture. In the empirical cases, it becomes evident that formal goals within MBO proved unable to overrule prevailing norms that have grounded a well established gendered (malestream) culture.  Control systems are designed to handle new issues; however, in the cases studied, this took place merely normatively and in line with the core business, not by changing the grounds on which the control system stands. The MBO model consequently lacks the ability to integrate gender in a transformative mode.

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Stockholm: Företagsekonomiska institutionen , 2009. , p. 244
Keywords [en]
Management control, management by objectives, gender perspective, gender mainstreaming, institutional theory, loose coupling, translation, interpretive approach, case study, central government, public transport sector
Keywords [sv]
ekonomistyrning, målstyrning, genusperspektiv, jämställdhetsintegrering, genusintegrering, institutionell teori, lösa kopplingar, översättning, tolkande ansats, fallstudie, statlig styrning, offentlig transportsektor
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Business Administration
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Business Administration
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-26056ISBN: 978-91-7155-831-2 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-26056DiVA, id: diva2:202293
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2009-05-29, Philipssalen, hus 3, Kräftriket, Stockholm, 13:00 (Swedish)
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Available from: 2009-05-05 Created: 2009-03-09 Last updated: 2022-02-25Bibliographically approved

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