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Jacobsson, Mattias, Associate Professor (Docent)ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0002-2495-9676
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Jacobsson, M. & Jałocha, B. (2025). An essay on deprojectification: drivers and consequences. International Journal of Project Management, 43(2), Article ID 102693.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>An essay on deprojectification: drivers and consequences
2025 (English)In: International Journal of Project Management, ISSN 0263-7863, E-ISSN 1873-4634, Vol. 43, no 2, article id 102693Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The aim of this essay is to conceptualize and discuss the phenomenon of organizational deprojectification, with the aim of exploring the drivers and consequences thereof. The discussion begins with an overview of the development of the concept of projectification, providing the necessary background to examine existing research on organizational deprojectification. Employing the lens of paradox theory, the authors analyze paradoxes influencing the deprojectification process. Subsequently, the article presents a conceptual process model that encapsulates these paradoxes, accompanied by a discussion of the implications for organizations. The findings offer a deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities associated with deprojectification and contribute to the broader discourse on projectification in contemporary environments.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2025
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-236836 (URN)10.1016/j.ijproman.2025.102693 (DOI)001456388000001 ()2-s2.0-105000465593 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2025-03-24 Created: 2025-03-24 Last updated: 2025-04-15Bibliographically approved
Jacobsson, M. & Söderholm, A. (2025). Beyond conventional leadership: on Homo academicus (dux) and ontological assumptions in academia. In: Silvia Cinque; Daniel Ericsson (Ed.), Debating 'Homo academicus' in management and organization: ontological assumptions and practical implications (pp. 225-249). Palgrave Macmillan
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Beyond conventional leadership: on Homo academicus (dux) and ontological assumptions in academia
2025 (English)In: Debating 'Homo academicus' in management and organization: ontological assumptions and practical implications / [ed] Silvia Cinque; Daniel Ericsson, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025, p. 225-249Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

With the premise that ontological assumptions about Homo academicus and Homo academicus dux (the academic leader) must include knowledge and analysis of the organisational context where they act, this chapter sets out to challenge some common (and we argue incorrect) assumptions in contemporary management literature regarding how power is distributed, the role of dependencies among units and practices, and how a sense of belonging is formed. Three (alternative) conditions are introduced—reversed hierarchy, lateral independence, and community-based belonging—upon which academic practice and leadership implications are discussed. The alternative conditions thus explain why and how Homo academicus and Homo academicus dux acts the way (s)he acts, which consequently makes out the contours of a new academic rationality.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Palgrave Macmillan, 2025
Series
Palgrave Debates in Business and Management, ISSN 2524-5082, E-ISSN 2524-5090
National Category
Business Administration
Research subject
Business Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-229980 (URN)10.1007/978-3-031-58195-3_10 (DOI)001359364200010 ()978-3-031-58194-6 (ISBN)978-3-031-58195-3 (ISBN)
Available from: 2024-09-23 Created: 2024-09-23 Last updated: 2025-04-24Bibliographically approved
Jacobsson, M., H. Näsholm, M. & Rosales, V. (2025). Hur man kan skapa meningsfulla rutiner för en hållbar primärvård. AllmänMedicin, 46(2), 48-49
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Hur man kan skapa meningsfulla rutiner för en hållbar primärvård
2025 (Swedish)In: AllmänMedicin, ISSN 0281-3513, Vol. 46, no 2, p. 48-49Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Svensk förening för allmänmedicin - SFAM, 2025
National Category
Business Administration
Research subject
Business Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-238771 (URN)
Projects
Meningsfulla rutiner för en hållbar primärvård (AFA Försäkring, dnr: 200033)
Funder
Afa Trygghetsförsäkringsaktiebolag, 200033
Available from: 2025-05-14 Created: 2025-05-14 Last updated: 2025-05-14Bibliographically approved
Jacobsson, M. & Harryson Näsholm, M. (2025). Meaningful organizational routines in primary healthcare: influencing factors and their consequences for routine enactment. Journal of Health Organization & Management, 39(9), 16-35
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Meaningful organizational routines in primary healthcare: influencing factors and their consequences for routine enactment
2025 (English)In: Journal of Health Organization & Management, ISSN 1477-7266, E-ISSN 1758-7247, Vol. 39, no 9, p. 16-35Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Purpose: Based on the well-known risks associated with deviating from established routines in primary healthcare and the positive consequences of upholding them, the purpose of this study is to increase the understanding of the role of meaningfulness in the enactment of organizational routines.

Design/methodology/approach: The study is based on 24 semi-structured interviews with three different professional categories in primary healthcare in Sweden. The data were analyzed using thematic analysis on a latent level, combined with a two-factor model as sensitizing concepts.

Findings: Differences are identified between factors that reduce meaninglessness (called “sufficiency factors”) and those that enable meaningfulness (called “meaningfulness factors”). Nine sufficiency factors and six meaningfulness factors explain what makes organizational routines perceived as meaningful by the different professional groups. A two-factor matrix is developed that highlights the intricate challenges associated with routine enactment based on these factors.

Originality/value: The study is unique in that it is the first to integrate research on organizational routines and meaningfulness. However, understanding meaningful organizational routines is not only essential because it is an overlooked area in both of these two streams of research but also because of its clear, practical relevance in the primary healthcare setting.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2025
Keywords
Organizational routines, Primary healthcare, Meaningfulness, Practice
National Category
Business Administration
Research subject
Business Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-233368 (URN)10.1108/JHOM-10-2023-0317 (DOI)001386292300001 ()39742449 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-85213802518 (Scopus ID)
Funder
AFA Insurance, 200033
Available from: 2025-01-02 Created: 2025-01-02 Last updated: 2025-01-09Bibliographically approved
Geraldi, J., Jacobsson, M. & Pemsel, S. (2025). Thirty years of temporary organizations research: a field reconnecting with its soul. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 42(2), Article ID 101425.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Thirty years of temporary organizations research: a field reconnecting with its soul
2025 (English)In: Scandinavian Journal of Management, ISSN 0956-5221, E-ISSN 1873-3387, Vol. 42, no 2, article id 101425Article in journal, Editorial material (Other academic) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

This Special Issue marks the 30th anniversary of the influential 1995 Special Issue on Temporary Organizations in the Scandinavian Journal of Management, which redefined projects as time-bound, socially embedded organizations. That issue initiated a “soul-searching” journey, sparking a vibrant academic field. Today, the field offers nuanced insights into temporary organizing, gaining broader recognition in management and organization studies. This anniversary prompts renewed soul-searching: Do the original ideas still resonate? How should the field evolve amid contemporary challenges? What responsibilities do scholars bear? We close by reflecting on creating and nurturing the soul of an academic field, and suggest future paths for soulful and responsible scholarship in temporary organizations.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2025
Keywords
Organizational soul, Project studies, Research ethics, Research impact, Sociology of research, Temporary organizations
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-239189 (URN)10.1016/j.scaman.2025.101425 (DOI)2-s2.0-105005199451 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2025-06-05 Created: 2025-06-05 Last updated: 2025-06-09
Jacobsson, M. & Linderoth, H. (2024). A technological niche perspective on the dissemination of results from strategic innovation programs. In: : . Paper presented at the 15th IRNOP Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, June 11-14, 2024.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>A technological niche perspective on the dissemination of results from strategic innovation programs
2024 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This paper investigates the challenges of disseminating results from a Strategic Innovation Programme (SIP) in the Swedish built environment sector. The study takes on a technological niche perspective and combines document analysis, semi-structured interviews, and focus group interviews to increase the understanding of what might hamper sector-wide dissemination of results from SIPs. Analyzing the dissemination practices from a technological niche perspective, it is shown how the dissemination of results is dependent on two preconditions (ambition and capacity) and how clarity of target group(s) in combination with the alignment between RDI logic and the target group's frame of reference (which is anchored in the socio-technical regime) further inhibits or enables dissemination. It is concluded that ensuring these preconditions and strengthening the alignment is critical to improving sector-wide dissemination. However, an inherent dilemma must be dealt with in terms of not necessarily prioritizing dissemination at the expense of norm-challenging ideas. Given that the overarching goal of technological niches is to achieve socio-technical change, merely promoting incremental (norm-aligned) change – or “lame ducks”— is not enough.

National Category
Business Administration
Research subject
Business Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-226417 (URN)
Conference
the 15th IRNOP Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, June 11-14, 2024
Available from: 2024-06-17 Created: 2024-06-17 Last updated: 2024-06-18Bibliographically approved
Harryson Näsholm, M. & Jacobsson, M. (2024). Collaborating in primary healthcare: Practices fostering meaningful organizational routines. In: : . Paper presented at 27th NFF Conference. Reykjavík, Iceland, August 15–17, 2024.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Collaborating in primary healthcare: Practices fostering meaningful organizational routines
2024 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In primary healthcare, various professions and roles need to collaborate to treat the constant influx of patients. Notorious problems of stress, high workload, high staff turnover, etcetera, make dealing with this collaboration even more challenging. Well-functioning organizational routines are needed to coordinate work, ensure patient safety, and the correct and equal treatment of patients. However, if the routines are perceived as meaningless, there is a high risk that professionals will deviate from them. Therefore, it is essential that the routine is perceived as meaningful to motivate all those involved to uphold the routine. Although the subjective meaningfulness of work has been extensively researched, it has yet to be connected to organizational routines. We, therefore, explore how meaningfulness can be enabled in organizational routines. Based on a thematic analysis of interviews with staff at three primary care units, six sources that make routines perceived as meaningful were identified. Also, we discuss two types of organizational practices that can foster meaningfulness in routines. Our findings have significant implications for healthcare organizations and are relevant for organizations in other contexts where different professional groups collaborate.

Keywords
collaborating, routines, meaningful, healthcare
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-229237 (URN)
Conference
27th NFF Conference. Reykjavík, Iceland, August 15–17, 2024
Available from: 2024-09-05 Created: 2024-09-05 Last updated: 2024-09-12Bibliographically approved
Jacobsson, M. & Harryson Näsholm, M. (2024). Exploring the relative peculiarities of healthcare to understand meaningful routines. In: : . Paper presented at Symposium: Why should business school academics care about health? 27th NFF Conference, Reykjavík, Iceland, August 15–17, 2024..
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Exploring the relative peculiarities of healthcare to understand meaningful routines
2024 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Other academic)
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-229438 (URN)
Conference
Symposium: Why should business school academics care about health? 27th NFF Conference, Reykjavík, Iceland, August 15–17, 2024.
Available from: 2024-09-09 Created: 2024-09-09 Last updated: 2024-09-12Bibliographically approved
Musrepova, B., Biedenbach, T. & Jacobsson, M. (2024). From parallel existence towards synergistic potential: Combination of digital ambidexterity mechanisms. In: : . Paper presented at The 12th Nordic Conference on Construction Economics and Organisation, CREON, Trondheim, Norway, 30–31 May, 2024.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>From parallel existence towards synergistic potential: Combination of digital ambidexterity mechanisms
2024 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

For construction firms to prosper, digital ambidexterity in terms of the organisational capability to both exploit existing digital technologies and explore new ones is found critical. In this regard, research suggests that construction firms must have the ability to employ various mechanisms to achieve digital ambidexterity. However, there is a limited understanding of whether mechanisms and not just their elements can be combined to achieve digital ambidexterity. Therefore, this paper explores this gap with the purpose of investigating how various digital ambidexterity mechanisms coexist and are integrated. Using a qualitative research methodology, this study draws on insights from 36 semi-structured interviews conducted in two large construction projects, complemented by five days of on-site observations and secondary data. The material is analyzed using a systematic grounded theory-inspired approach. In the results, the two cases are juxtaposed, and the unfoldment of the mechanism is outlined over time. It is observed how the main contractor's exploitation efforts in utilizing digital technologies can lead to an exploration effort for subcontractors, which challenges the common assumptions about ambidexterity where exploration is succeeded by exploitation. Additionally, it is shown that the combination of digital ambidexterity mechanisms could vary from parallel existence to integration, with the potential for synergy. In conclusion, this research highlights the multifaceted nature of digital ambidexterity in construction projects and broadens the understanding of how digital ambidexterity unfolds in an inter-organisational setting. Through that, the finding provides construction project actors with valuable insights for improved digital strategy formulation.

Keywords
Digital ambidexterity, Construction firm, Mechanisms, Digital technologies, Dual case study
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-225665 (URN)
Conference
The 12th Nordic Conference on Construction Economics and Organisation, CREON, Trondheim, Norway, 30–31 May, 2024
Available from: 2024-06-05 Created: 2024-06-05 Last updated: 2024-06-10Bibliographically approved
Jacobsson, M. & Linderoth, H. (2024). Looking inwards to move forward: on how to do things differently in construction management research. In: : . Paper presented at The 40th ARCOM Conference, London, UK, September 2-4, 2024.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Looking inwards to move forward: on how to do things differently in construction management research
2024 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In his keynote speech at the 2023 ARCOM conference, Professor Andy Dainty encouraged Construction Management (CM) scholars “to do things differently”. He argued that for the field to uphold its legitimacy and relevance, scholars must better engage in a broader set of theoretically informed debates around which accumulations of knowledge form. How this is to be done, he did not address. Based on a phenomenology-inspired analysis and drawing on the ideas of Community of Practice, we reflect on what needs to be done to follow his advice. We introduce and discuss three scholarly orientations - community natives, expatriates, and itinerants. To do things differently, we argue that more CM scholars must act as community itinerates or expatriates and, thus, instead of only “helping the industry”, explore the relative peculiarities of AEC and understand how these can be used to challenge taken-for-granted assumptions beyond the CM filed. In doing so, scholars must also develop “discursive competence” and challenge their identity so that they primarily identify with being academics rather than being part of and serving the industry.

Keywords
Impact, Communities of practice, Construction management research
National Category
Business Administration
Research subject
Business Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-229244 (URN)
Conference
The 40th ARCOM Conference, London, UK, September 2-4, 2024
Available from: 2024-09-05 Created: 2024-09-05 Last updated: 2025-02-05Bibliographically approved
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