School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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Informality, Ethnicity and Productivity Evidence from Small Manufacturers in Kenya
(2000)A rapidly increasing share of firms in Kenya consists of not only small but also informal establishments. This paper investigates the role of ethnicity and other factors in the choice of formality status at start-up. ... -
Knowledge-as-Action and Knowledge Development
(2000)This paper takes a critical look at the way in which knowledge development programmes are constructed by management in organisations. It is suggested that even though an increasing number of individuals in charge of human ... -
IT in Healthcare - Artefacts, Infrastructures and Medical Practices
(2000)Globally, health care is making huge investments in information technology. Several studies illustrate that IT implementations have been fraught with problems. Everywhere, the problems appear to be similar, irrespective ... -
Growth, Income Distribution, and Poverty: A Review
(2000)This paper reviews the recent literature dealing with the relationships between economic growth, income distribution, and poverty. This generally fails to find any systematic pattern of change in income distribution during ... -
A note on the first moment of extreme order statistics from the normal distribution
(2000)In this note some well known asymptotic results for moments of order statistics from the normal distribution are treated. The results originates from the work of Cramér. A bias correction for finite sample sizes is proposed ... -
Flip Zooming. The Development of an Information Visualization Technique
(2000)This thesis describes the development of a Focus+Context information visualization technique called Flip Zooming. Based on two initial examples of the technique, the work reported here expands the description and functionality ... -
Compensatory inter vivos gifts
(2000)Empirical studies of intergenerational transfers usually find that bequests are equally divided among heirs while inter vivos gifts tend to be compensatory. Using the 1992 and 1994 waves of the Health and Retirement Study, ... -
Breaking the Screen Barrier
(2000)This thesis is based on an important development in human-computer interface design: the move from primarily screen-based interfaces – based on the Windows-Icons-Menus-Pointer (WIMP) and Graphical Users Interfaces (GUI) ... -
Likriktning av hotellverksamhet uttryck och konsekvenser
(2000)Likriktning inom en bransch eller på en marknad är enligt ett institutionellt perspektiv en naturlig följd av behovet att erhålla legitimitet från sin omvärld. Man följer ideal som är vanliga och populära för den aktuella ... -
Environmental Taxation in Airline Markets
(2000)Over the last two decades many airline markets have been deregulated, resulting in increased competition and use of different types of networks. At the same time there has been an intense discussion on environmental taxation ... -
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT Hur svenska multinationella företag tillvaratar och sprider sina kunskaper
(2000)Kan kunskap administreras? Finns det verktyg med vars hjälp kunskap kan styras och kontrolleras? Skapas kunskapsutvecklingoch lärande genom att tillsätta knowledge managers och bygga upp databaser och nät? Av undersökningar ... -
Mobile Knowledge
(2000)Both the issues of “knowledge management” and “mobility” have received much attention recently. The interest in these issues is often motivated by the fact that work, in many organisations, has become “knowledge intensive” ... -
Nord Pool: A Power Market Without Market Power
(2000)Regulatory reform in the Nordic electricity-supply markets has resulted in a single integrated Nordic electricity market. This paper performs an econometric study of market power in the spot market of Nord Pool, the joint ... -
Organizing Sustainable Development. From Diffusion to Translation
(2000)Policy changes towards global sustainable development have important consequences for how these policies are organized. New and alternative models of organizing tend to emphasize indirect control rather than direct control ... -
Om managementteori
(2000)Artikeln beskriver de två dominerande tanketraditionerna inom managementteori, den rationella respektive den normativa styrfilosofin. Detta görs genom att redogöra för huvuddragen i utvecklandet av respektive styrfilosofi, ... -
Bracketing an issue in a product develoment process
(2000)This paper deals with action in the complex setting of a large product develeopment project a new year model of a car. The prespective is that of one engineer who has discovered a problem with the prototype car he is ... -
A Microeconomic Analysis of Institutions
(2000)This survey paper has three themes; a microeconomic analysis of institutions, an institutional analysis of microeconomics, and a discussion on the scope for an "institutional microeconomics" that takes insights ... -
Enkätstudie om drivkrafter bakom strukturförändringar i elleverantörsbranschen - En resultatsammanställning
(2000)Elmarknadsreformen är nu inne på sitt femte år och marknadens aktörer har, får man förmoda, hunnit anpassa sig till de nya förändrade förhållanden som råder. Inalles har det betytt att Sveriges, vid tidpunkten för ...