Society and Business Review: Volume 5 Issue 3

The concept of the balanced company and its implications for corporate governance

The concept of the balanced company refers to a company that is in good relations with its internal and external constituencies. Establishing such a balanced company largely…

The strategic balance in a change management perspective

The purpose of this paper is to revisit and rationally reconstruct the role of planning, strategic management, and strategic balance, in a context of managing change. The general…

Balancing trust and control in organizations: towards a process perspective

The purpose of this paper is to show that conceptualizing trust and control as interactively related processes, as opposed to more static conceptualizations of the two concepts…

An ethical justification of profit maximization

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether profit maximizing behaviour can be defended from an ethical point of view, and what possible restrictions should be made on…

Actors' balancing of criteria when translating an idea

Taking the model of association as a point of departure the research question asked in the paper is: what is the role of translators and their criteria for choices in the…

Balancing values and economic efficiency in the public sector!: What can public welfare service institutions learn from private service firms?

The paper discusses the balance between values and economic efficiency in the public sector in comparison with the private sector. The argument is that the public sector, hence…

From Higher Aims to Hired Hands

Institutional Work

How Institutions Think

The balanced company and balancing the corporation