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Netz, J., Reinmoeller, P. & Axelsson, M. (2025). Disruptions and Flexible Bureaucracy: Liminal Strategizing in Greyzones Between Peace and War. In: Proceedings of The Annual Meeting of The Academy of Management, 2024, Vol. 2024, No. 1: . Paper presented at 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 25-29 July 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark. Academy of Management (1)
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Disruptions and Flexible Bureaucracy: Liminal Strategizing in Greyzones Between Peace and War
2025 (English)In: Proceedings of The Annual Meeting of The Academy of Management, 2024, Vol. 2024, No. 1, Academy of Management , 2025, no 1Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Contemporary disruptions often last months or years, not days or weeks, requiring bureaucratic organizations that provide consistency and continuity. However, bureaucracies are typically rigid and inferior to temporary organizations in terms of flexibility in dealing with disruptions. Conversely, temporary organizations lack the continuity needed during prolonged disruptions. We learned about this poorly understood puzzle during our case study of Sweden’s defense administration’s military response to the greyzone between peace and war following Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Longitudinal data reveal how managerial hierarchies select internal trustees based on the trustees knowledge of local contexts and how the trustees reactivate former employees, chosen for their professional expertise, as external trustees to mobilize local resources. These trustees collectively engage in a liminal process of strategizing through familiarity that makes a bureaucracy flexible during prolonged disruptions, blending transparency with secrecy. This discovery challenges extant research that underestimates the ability of bureaucracies to become flexible during disruptions. As a basis for further theory development, we propose a “liminal strategizing through familiarity” model that is socio-culturally rooted among internal and external trustees. Our pre-theory reintroduces flexible bureaucracy, assigning familiarity with a new strategic role for continuity during prolonged disruptions.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Academy of Management, 2025
Series
Academy of Management Proceedings, ISSN 0065-0668, E-ISSN 2151-6561 ; Vol. 2025, No. 1
National Category
Business Administration Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-70679 (URN)10.5465/AMPROC.2025.12926abstract (DOI)
Conference
85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 25-29 July 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark
Available from: 2026-01-28 Created: 2026-01-28 Last updated: 2026-01-28Bibliographically approved
Lantz, M., Löwstedt, M. & Netz, J. (2025). Distributed future-making: Performativity in inside-out and outside-in perspectives. In: : . Paper presented at 16th International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, 26-29 June, 2025, Eretria, Greece.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Distributed future-making: Performativity in inside-out and outside-in perspectives
2025 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Refereed)
National Category
Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-70389 (URN)
Conference
16th International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, 26-29 June, 2025, Eretria, Greece
Available from: 2025-12-16 Created: 2025-12-16 Last updated: 2025-12-16Bibliographically approved
Måsbäck, K., Netz, J., Rylander Eklund, A. & Elmquist, M. (2025). Jakten på hållbar beredskap i svensk livsmedelsförsörjning. Göteborg: Chalmers University of Technology
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Jakten på hållbar beredskap i svensk livsmedelsförsörjning
2025 (Swedish)Report (Other academic)
Abstract [sv]

Efter andra världskriget och under kalla kriget hade Sverige en försörjningsberedskap baserad på omfattande lagerhållning och planer för att säkra livsmedelsförsörjningen även vid blockad. Under 1990-talet avvecklades mycket av detta, men med en säkerhetspolitiskt förändrad hotbild har behovet av en stärkt beredskap åter aktualiserats. Parallellt med denna utveckling har hållbarhetsfrågor vuxit i betydelse, då klimatförändringar påverkar matproduktionens förutsättningar oavsett om det råder fred eller krig. Båda dessa två områden – beredskap och hållbarhet – har blivit centrala expertisområden, men hur de ska integreras för att möta överlappande klimatrelaterade och antagonistiska hot är fortfarande oklart.

Syftet med forskningsrapporten är att empiriskt belysa hur de två expertisområdena hållbarhet respektive beredskap integreras för att möta överlappande klimatrelaterade och antagonistiska hot i det svenska samhället. Baserat på 582 rapporter publicerade 1992–2024 av aktörer i den svenska livsmedelskedjan identifierar studien hur politiska beslut och händelser har format relationen mellan hållbarhet och beredskap över tid. Ett mönster av fyra utvecklingsfaser framträder: vakuum-, specialiserings-, närmande- och armkroksfasen. I armkroksfasen har expertisområdena börjat kopplas samman, och begreppet ”hållbar beredskap” används allt oftare av myndigheter. Dock saknas en entydig definition av detta begrepp, vilket skapar osäkerhet kring dess praktiska tillämpning för ökade investeringar.

Resultatet visar att nya förhållningssätt till överlappande klimatrelaterade och antagonistiska hot behöver utvecklas för att expertisområdena hållbarhet och beredskap ska kunna integreras till reella lösningar inför och vid samhällskriser. Nya förhållningssätt utgör en kompetens som kan stärka försörjningsberedskapen av kritiska varor och tjänster. Denna kompetens är därför viktig att fortsatt studera och vidareutveckla för att kunna möta utmaningarna inom svensk livsmedelsförsörjning i en tid av överlappande, varaktiga samhällskriser.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Göteborg: Chalmers University of Technology, 2025. p. 57
National Category
Economics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-67410 (URN)978-91-88041-60-9 (ISBN)
Projects
Innovationslabb för hållbar beredskap i livsmedelsförsörjningen
Funder
Swedish Research Council Formas, 2022-02436
Available from: 2025-03-10 Created: 2025-03-10 Last updated: 2025-10-13Bibliographically approved
Netz, J., Reinmoeller, P. & Axelsson, M. (2025). Making Bureaucracy Flexible in Prolonged Disruption: Liminal Strategizing through Familiarity. In: : . Paper presented at SMS 45th Annual Conference, 11-14 October 2025, San Francisco, USA. (1)
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Making Bureaucracy Flexible in Prolonged Disruption: Liminal Strategizing through Familiarity
2025 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Refereed)
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-70680 (URN)
Conference
SMS 45th Annual Conference, 11-14 October 2025, San Francisco, USA
Available from: 2026-01-28 Created: 2026-01-28 Last updated: 2026-01-28Bibliographically approved
Axelsson, M. & Netz, J. (2025). Transformation av förmågeutveckling inom svensk polis: slutsatser och rekommendation från följeforskning 2024. Göteborg: Stiftelsen IMIT
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Transformation av förmågeutveckling inom svensk polis: slutsatser och rekommendation från följeforskning 2024
2025 (Swedish)Report (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Göteborg: Stiftelsen IMIT, 2025
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-70390 (URN)
Available from: 2025-12-16 Created: 2025-12-16 Last updated: 2025-12-16Bibliographically approved
Netz, J., Rylander, A. & Elmquist, M. (2025). Understanding competence in polycrisis – the case of climate-security nexus in the food sector. In: : . Paper presented at 41st EGOS Colloquium, Creativity that goes a long Way, July 3-5, 2025, Athens, Greece.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Understanding competence in polycrisis – the case of climate-security nexus in the food sector
2025 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Refereed)
National Category
Business Administration Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-70388 (URN)
Conference
41st EGOS Colloquium, Creativity that goes a long Way, July 3-5, 2025, Athens, Greece
Available from: 2025-12-16 Created: 2025-12-16 Last updated: 2025-12-16Bibliographically approved
Netz, J. & Stendahl, E. (2024). Developing Meta-Orchestration Capability through Breakdowns: Evidence from a Firefighting Innovation Network. In: : . Paper presented at 15th International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, 24-27 June, Coral Beach Resort, Paphos, Cyprus.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Developing Meta-Orchestration Capability through Breakdowns: Evidence from a Firefighting Innovation Network
2024 (English)Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
National Category
Business Administration Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-66656 (URN)
Conference
15th International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, 24-27 June, Coral Beach Resort, Paphos, Cyprus
Available from: 2024-11-22 Created: 2024-11-22 Last updated: 2025-10-13Bibliographically approved
Netz, J. & Stendahl, E. (2024). Developing Meta-Orchestration Capability through Breakdowns: Evidence from a Firefighting Innovation Network. In: : . Paper presented at SMS 44th Annual Conference, 19-22 October 2024, Istanbul, Turkey.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Developing Meta-Orchestration Capability through Breakdowns: Evidence from a Firefighting Innovation Network
2024 (English)Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-66661 (URN)
Conference
SMS 44th Annual Conference, 19-22 October 2024, Istanbul, Turkey
Available from: 2024-11-22 Created: 2024-11-22 Last updated: 2025-10-13Bibliographically approved
Netz, J., Reinmoeller, P. & Jansen, R. (2024). From Frustration to Institutionalization: Rapid Institutional Renewal and Emergent Intermediaries. In: Proceedings of The Annual Meeting of The Academy of Management, 2024, Vol. 2024, No. 1: . Paper presented at 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 9-13 August 2024, Chicago, USA. Academy of Management, Vol. 2024(1)
Open this publication in new window or tab >>From Frustration to Institutionalization: Rapid Institutional Renewal and Emergent Intermediaries
2024 (English)In: Proceedings of The Annual Meeting of The Academy of Management, 2024, Vol. 2024, No. 1, Academy of Management , 2024, Vol. Vol. 2024, no 1Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

When extreme contexts reveal voids in national preparedness systems, the actors in emergent intermediaries face a dilemma in resolving a lack of supply—they can follow existing rules and fail, or they can break rules to enable supply but risk punishment after the crisis. Multiple-case analyses of how the COVID-19 outbreak affected the supply of safety-critical goods revealed how intermediaries emerged rapidly and contravened national legislation and customs because prosocial frustration compensated for fear. Those public and private actors involved in emergent intermediaries reflected on the right thing to do and envisioned a flexible national preparedness system. Although literature points to intermediaries for new coordination of supply during crises, their emergence and social organization into rapid institutional renewal are overlooked. Based on our findings, we develop a model that shows how new intermediaries emerge when actors break, make, and prosocially integrate rules by drawing on frustration and reflection to envision system renewal, institutionalize their experience, and avoid impending punishment. While theories overlook the dilemma of voids in national preparedness systems, this study highlights how emergent intermediaries’ actors renew institutions rapidly. These insights advance extreme context research on the phenomenon by integrating institutional and prosocial literature and offer policy implications.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Academy of Management, 2024
Series
Academy of Management Proceedings, ISSN 0065-0668, E-ISSN 2151-6561 ; Vol. 2024, No. 1
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-66657 (URN)10.5465/AMPROC.2024.11916abstract (DOI)
Conference
84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 9-13 August 2024, Chicago, USA
Available from: 2024-11-22 Created: 2024-11-22 Last updated: 2025-10-13Bibliographically approved
Netz, J. & Reinmoeller, P. (2024). How Social Structure Makes Dynamic Capabilities Dynamic. In: : . Paper presented at 15th International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, 24-27 June, Coral Beach Resort, Paphos, Cyprus.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>How Social Structure Makes Dynamic Capabilities Dynamic
2024 (English)Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
National Category
Business Administration Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-66654 (URN)
Conference
15th International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, 24-27 June, Coral Beach Resort, Paphos, Cyprus
Available from: 2024-11-22 Created: 2024-11-22 Last updated: 2025-10-13Bibliographically approved
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