• From sedentary behaviors to sedentary moments: what constitutes and shapes children's activities and performances at home 

  Rathod, Apoorva (2022-11-07)

  The study of children’s sedentary behavior has grown exponentially in the last few decades due to the associations between sedentary behavior and various negative health outcomes and to concerns about children’s increasing ...

• Exploring Firm-employed PhD students as a Form of Academic Engagement with lndustry 

  Berg, Karin (2022-08-19)

• Rural encounters with the city. A study of the gendered livelihood strategies of migrant youth in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 

  Dessie, Elizabeth (2021-11-17)

  More than half of the world’s population growth will be accounted for by cities in the coming decades, with sub-Saharan Africa at the centre of this change. While studies have pointed to the disproportionate effects ...

• The effects of the land tenure reform programme on tenure security and agricultural development in Rwanda: the case of Musanze district, Northern Province 

  Muyombano, Emmanuel (2021-10-20)

  This PhD thesis is a compilation thesis comprising a research frame of seven chapters, and four related papers. The overall aim of this thesis is to investigate the effects of the land tenure reform programme on the ...

• Commercialization Done Differently: How Swedish university incubators facilitate the formation of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial firms 

  Brunnström, Linus (2020-12-11)

  This PhD thesis investigates how university incubators impact the formation of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial (KIE) firms in Sweden, which is interesting due to its unusual institutional regime for commercializing ...

• Fashioning a Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneur? 

  Gustafsson, Erik (2019-10-15)

  This PhD dissertation explores fashion design graduates as potential knowledge-intensive entrepreneurs through the relationship between knowledge and other resources, and different pathways post-graduation. Explorative ...

• A Black Utopia? Social Stratification in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Sierra Leone 

  Galli, Stefania (2019-03-20)

  In the present dissertation, social stratification in colonial Sierra Leone is discussed, with the aim of providing novel evidence on the association between ideals, institutions and inequality. The case study of Sierra ...

• Between the devil and the deep blue sea: Trade negotiations between the Western Allies and the Scandinavian neutrals, 1914-1919 

  Strøm, Knut Ola (2019-02-22)

  This thesis analyses the interplay between Western Allied policymakers and the governments of Denmark, Norway and Sweden during the Great War. It explores to what extent Allied economic warfare authorities were able to ...

• I husbondens bröd och arbete. Kön, makt och kontrakt i det svenska tjänstefolkssystemet 1730-1860 

  Uppenberg, Carolina (2018-05-24)

  The aim of this thesis is to analyze the power relations of labour and gender in the servant institution during the agrarian revolution in Sweden. The positions of servant, master and mistress are analyzed theoretically ...

• Development constrained – Essays on land as a factor in nineteenth-century industrialization and trade 

  Theodoridis, Dimitrios (2018-05-18)

  This dissertation consists of an introductory chapter, four research essays and one essay that describes the collected dataset. The first essay examines how the balance of land embodied in British trade developed during ...

• Industry Dynamics and Relatedness of Knowledge – Knowledge Transfer Through Labor Mobility and Entrepreneurship in the West Swedish Textile Industry 

  Börjesson Herou, Snöfrid (2018-05-02)

  This PhD thesis investigates how industry dynamics are influenced by knowledge transferred through labor mobility and entrepreneurship by focusing on the role of relatedness of the knowledge. The empirical setting is the ...

• Rural/urban redux: Conceptual problems and material effects 

  Dymitrow, Mirek (2017-11-20)

  Concepts are the basic building blocks of all knowledge, while the strength of the theories that guide any societal project is dependent on the quality those concepts. Contrarily, the utilization of questionable concepts ...

• Ownership or donorship? Results and ownership in Swedish international development cooperation 

  Brolin, Therese (2017-08-16)

  This thesis is a critical investigation of how the increased demand for results in international development cooperation has influenced relations between donors and partner countries. The increased demand for results, ...

• Elektrotekniska industrins ledande tråd. AB Dahréntråd och svensk lindningstrådsindustri 1945-1980 

  Thavenius, Robert (2017-03-31)

  This dissertation is a study of Swedish manufacturers of insulated winding wire and the market forces surrounding the industry between 1945 and 1980. As part of the chain of subcontractors, the winding wire industry was ...

• Exploring Knowledge Intensity in Entrepreneurship: A Quantitative Study of Knowledge, Innovation and Performance in Entrepreneurial Firms 

  Gifford, Ethan (2017-03-29)

  This Ph.D. dissertation investigates the statistical and theoretical relationships between different dimensions of knowledge intensive entrepreneurship (KIE) in Europe and how knowledge intensity and performance in ...

• Understanding recreational landscapes. Developing a knowledge base on outdoor recreation monitoring in Swedish coastal and marine areas. 

  Hansen, Andreas Skriver (2016-12-16)

  This PhD thesis concerns the role and importance of outdoor recreation monitoring in the management of coastal and marine areas in Sweden – a topic that in spite its importance has eluded attention, both in research circles ...

• Regional wages and labour market integration in Sweden, 1732–2009 

  Collin, Kristoffer (2016-11-25)

  This dissertation consists of an introduction, four research papers and two papers that describe the data collected. Three county-specific data sets were constructed: one wage data set for the manufacturing sector, one ...

• Konkurrens, samarbete och koncentration. Kalkstens- och cementindustrin i Sverige 1871-1982 

  Dahlström, Malin (2015-05-20)

  This dissertation examines cartels and cooperation. The literature about cartels and cooperation is in many ways contradictory; many of the studies that have been made come to different results. Several of the implications ...

• The changing role and importance of the built environment for daily travel in Sweden 

  Elldér, Erik (2015-05-19)

  Geography, in terms of the built environment and location patterns, was traditionally, and still is, emphasized by many scholars, policymakers, and planners as greatly influencing people’s daily travel behaviour. However, ...

• En industriell reservarmé i välfärdsstaten - Arbetslösa socialhjälpstagare i Sverige 1913-2012 

  Broström, Lovisa (2015-05-08)

  This economic history dissertation explores a central contradiction within the Swedish welfare state, the contradiction of the welfare state’s goal to decommodify its citizens from market fluctuations and the constant need ...

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