Browsing Conference papers (IOA) by Author "Justesen, Lise"
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The Politics of Wildlife in Infrastructure ConstructionSage, Daniel; Dainty, Andy; Tryggestad, Kjell; Justesen, Lise; Mouritsen, Jan (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Across many construction projects, and especially infrastructure projects, efforts to mitigate the potential loss of biodiversity and habitat are significant, and at times controversial. In our paper we do not propose to gauge the success or failure of this effort; rather we are interested in fleshing out some conceptual approaches via Actor- Network Theory through which infrastructure projects can start to address a series of overlooked questions. Some of these questions are firmly located within the realm of construction project management: are animals considered project risks or stakeholders; is wildlife always simply a retrospective cost to a project or can it proactively benefit a project, can we ever manage wildlife, and if so how? These questions in turn lead us to engage with wider debates found in the margins between the social and biological sciences on the distinction between Nature and Politics: to what extent should we seek a place for animals in politics and how can we live with them ethically. Thus far, very little research has addressed the interplay of humans and animals within construction projects. Instead those interested in the politics and ethics of human-animal relations, or Animal Studies, have focussed far more on stable and contained sites, whether organisations like zoos, farms or laboratories, or other places like homes and parks. These largely ethnographic studies inevitably perhaps downplay the unplanned, unexpected and highly politically and ethically charged collision of hitherto rather separate human and animal geographies. Yet, as we argue here, it is often along such colliding spaces, where animal geographies are unexpectedly found at the heart of human projects, that we ask and answer many of the above questions around our respect and response to both animals, and indeed other humans. In this paper we will examine such encounters conceptually, with reference to two infrastructure projects, and discuss their relevance to both construction project management and broader work on the politics of animals. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8849 Files in this item: 1
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Or how the natural environment may qualify as a stakeholder in the firm’s business environmentJustesen, Lise; Mouritsen, Jan; Tryggestad, Kjell (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In its general form, stakeholder theory posits an extension of the ecology. It claims that there are other stakes and interests than those posited by shareholder value theory (Freeman et al. 2004; Jensen and Sandström 2011), and some stakeholder theory proponents argue that the natural environment is also to be considered as a stakeholder (Driscoll and Starik 2004; Norton 2007). It is a positive claim – there are more stakes and interests – and a moral one – we should look towards more interests in order to complete the analysis. With this framing, stakeholder theory seeks to identify stakes and interests which may be difficult but in principle achievable; it also seeks to make analysis of organized activity such as (global) business into a concern with the relative power of stakes and interests. These concerns are highly relevant but they face the barrier that if stakes and interests are positively there, the analysis becomes static and will pay less attention to both the formation and to power-effects of stakes and interest. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8482 Files in this item: 1
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Plesner, Ursula; Glerup, Cecilie; Justesen, Lise (Frederiksberg, 2016)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Digital technologies are said to profoundly reshape the organization and service of the public sector across the Western world (Dunleavy & Margetts, 2010). From the electronic handling of vast amounts of filework in the tax administration to robots in home care and smart boards at schools, digitization is an essential component of most government reforms. OECD continously monitors its member states’ progress with digitization, as digital technologies are considered a solution to ‘big issues’ such as high public spendure, ineffectiveness, and calls for transparency in public administration across the globe (OECD 2009). Scholars in the field of public administration refer to this as ‘Digital-Era Governance’ (Dunleavy, Margetts, Bastow, & Tinkler, 2006) or Egovernment (Bekkers & Homburg, 2005.). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9330 Files in this item: 1
Plesner Glerup Justesen EGOS 2016.pdf (230.6Kb)
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