Browsing by Author "Andersson, Joakim"

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Kommunikation i slöjd och hantverksbaserad undervisning
(2021-01-14) Andersson, Joakim
This thesis aims to explore and analyse the different ways in which handicraft [sloyd] teachers communicate when teaching action-based knowledge, and the consequences for communication of different forms of communication between teacher and student. This dissertation has studied how teachers communicate using video documentation, MP3 recordings, interviews, stimulated recall and focus group interviews. The video-recorded material show that handicraft teachers use eight different forms of communication when giving an instruction. The results show that handicraft teachers use eight different forms of communication when giving an instruction: regular three-dimensional group instruction, verbal, verbal with tools, verbal with body language, tools only, body language only, body to body and intentional silence. Further analysis of the different forms of communication shows that they can be used in different ways in relation to abstract or concrete communication. These are called communicative resources. Abstract communication is an “as if ” action, while concrete communication involves the instructor demonstrating an action. The student’s prior knowledge and the teacher’s chosen form of communication have a central relationship to one another. The follow-up stimulated recall and interviews provided the teachers’ perspectives on why they used a particular form of communication and communicative resource, in addition to what result was intended. The analyses show some variation in the teachers’ degree of awareness of their communication and the consequences of their chosen form of communication when providing instructions for action-based knowledge. A teacher’s awareness of the communication form is significant for didactic planning of how different instructions are to be implemented while learning the handicraft. Awareness of one’s approach is a prerequisite for being able to choose suitable forms of communication for what is to be taught and for who is to be taught. If the same approach is always used, students are not given the opportunity for adapted teaching. Each group of students consists of different individuals with varying prior knowledge and different learning styles, which means the teacher’s communicative choices cannot be based solely on the task and its design but must also be adapted to what the instruction involves and who is receiving it.
Private equity owned companies' performance in Sweden after the financial crises in 2007-2008
(2015-04-10) Andersson, Joakim; Daun, Fredrik; University of Gothenburg/Department of Economics; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik
The private equity industry has grown tremendously in the past 20-30 years, and several studies have been made to examine the potential superior returns by private equity owned companies. However, there has been limited research on the performance of private equity owned companies during extraordinary conditions, such as financial crises. The aim of this paper is to compare the performance of publicly traded companies to the performance of private equity owned companies during a four year period after the financial crisis, and examine what factors had impacted the companies’ profitability the most. It was hypothesized that increased growth, a higher debt level and decreased working capital would have had a positive impact on profitability. The results show that increased growth and higher debt levels had a positive significant impact on profitability for private equity owned companies, while having had a negative impact on profitability for publicly traded companies. Reduced working capital did not have a statistically significant impact on profitability. The interpretation of these results is that private equity owned companies were better at optimizing their capital structure, even under extraordinary conditions. Furthermore, the interpretation of the negative effect of increased growth on profitability for publicly traded companies is that they did not perform as well after the financial crisis as the private equity owned companies. The conclusion from this study is therefore that private equity owned companies did recover better than publicly traded companies, and that growth and debt level affected the companies’ profitability the most.
Who Am I, or Pro-Am I?: Developing a Practice-Based Segmentation Model
(2018-07-03) Andersson, Joakim; Svenler, Måns; University of Gothenburg/Graduate School; Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School
Abstract: Segmentation has been a dominant tool of traditional marketing theory to understand consumer behavior. However, contemporary segmentation models are highly focused on the individual consumer and who they are in terms of demographics, psychographics and behavior, instead of what they do. Accordingly, this research aims to conceptualize segmentation from a practice-theoretical lens by moving the focus to how and why activities are carried out by individuals. Through an ethnographic study, generating empirical material from interviews and observations, we explore and illustrate how a segmentation model, i.e. the Practice Portfolio, can be empirically developed. Having music production as the exemplifying social practice, we examine the opportunities of segmenting markets after the embodied elements of practices; understandings and teleoaffective structures. Our findings demonstrate how understandings of a social practice range from a low to a high degree, i.e. from an Amateur (Am) level to a Professional (Pro) level. Combined with the teleoaffective structure, varying from being self-oriented (Am) to commercially oriented (Pro), four possible combinations, thus segments, emerge; the Pro, the Am, the Pro-Am and the Am-Pro. These four generalizations of segments and sub-practices within social practices result in the Practice Portfolio.