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PARTICIPATORY INVOLVEMENT AND MULTITHEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES IN VISUAL MANAGEMENT DESIGN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2020

C. Söderlund*
Affiliation:
Mälardalen University, Sweden
U. Florin
Affiliation:
Mälardalen University, Sweden
J. Lundin
Affiliation:
Mälardalen University, Sweden
K. Uggla
Affiliation:
Mälardalen University, Sweden

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This paper deals with the development of participatory methods in visual management (VM) when investigating parts and system/s related to VM devices in organisational contexts. Four theoretical perspectives – sociocultural theory, boundary objects, diagrams, maps and models, and visual rhetoric – have been applied to gain an overall understanding of the participants’ collective investigation of the system/s. Managers and co-workers in five Lean-inspired organisations have used the method Multimodal Origami (MO) to design their VM devices, in this case the VM boards and associated meetings.

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