School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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The controller in action- participative control here and now in product development processes
(1999)This paper analyses a video recorded exchange in a product development management group with a specific focus on the controller in action. This specimen of data serves to illustrate how larger issues of strategy ... -
Proximity Matters? Geographical aspects of changing strategies in automotive subcontracting relationships:the case of domestic suppliers to Volvo Troslanda assembly plant.
(1999)This study analyses the significance of geographical proximity in the restructuring process of a domestic subcontractor system in the Swedish automotive industry, using the Volvo Torslanda assembly plant as a case. The ... -
Translation and Transcription in Development Projects- From Vague Problems to Clear-Cut solutions Through Project Organizing
(1999)Occasionally, problems in society arise that do not fit into traditional structures of public organizations. Such problems become especially problematic if there is no adequate capacity to deal with them. At such situations, ... -
Making Sense of Business.Reorganizing Processes in Swedish Rail
(1999)In Sweden like in many other countries in Europe there is an ongoing process of making old, bureaucratic public service organizations, such as Vattenfall (heat and electricity generation), Sweden Post, Swedish Rail and ... -
Effekter av internationell turism på konsumenters inköpsmönster och attityder till produkter
(1999)Vid bedömning eller kategorisering av en produkt tar konsumenter ibland med produktens ursprungsland. Stereotypa bilder av olika länder och deras produkter förenklar konsumenternas bedömningar. Sedan 1965, då forskningen ... -
Household Labor Supply and Welfare Participation in Sweden
(1999)Using a sample of Swedish households, we estimate a household labor supply model assuming that preferences for consumption and leisure can be described by a direct translog utility function. The labor supply and welfare ... -
Tredjepartslogistik i svensk industri - en kartläggning
(1999)Utgångspunkten i denna rapport är utvecklingen mot att effektivisera försörjningskedjor (supply chain) genom ett mer omfattande samarbete mellan inblandade företag. Sådana samarbeten skapar förutsättningar för en bättre ... -
Konkurrensintensiteten på marknader - vad påverkan den?
(1999)I ringa utsträckning diskuteras graden av konkurrens. En förklaring kan vara, att konkurrensuppfattningen härrör från neoklassisk teori. En mera realistisk konkurrensuppfattning vinns genom att utgå från SCP-paradigmet. ... -
Netting the information infrastructure of Stockholm. An idea travels throughout the world.
(1999)This paper illustrates how the idea of a national information infrastructure travels through the world. Once the idea has traveled from the United States to Europe and to Sweden it has been translated and localized into ... -
Private vs. Business and Rail vs. Air Passengers: Willingness to pay for Transport Attributes
(1999)Using a stated preference survey on passengers travelling by rail or air between the two largest cities in Sweden, we investigate passenger's willingness to pay for improvements of different attributes of the transport ... -
The Phase-Out of Leaded Gasoline in the EU: A Successful Failure?
(1999)The objective of this paper is to analyze in both descriptive and econometric terms the phase-out of leaded gasoline consumption in the EU countries. The phase-out process is characterized by increased consumption of ... -
The Demand for Intercity Public Transport: The Case of Business Passengers
(1999)Using a stated preference survey on business passengers travelling with rail or air between the two largest cities in Sweden, we investigate business passengers' preferences for different modes of transport and their ... -
Price Bundling Theory Applied to Retail Banking
(1999)The current report presents a theoretical and empirical investigation of a pricing method called price bundling and its application in retail banking in Sweden and Finland. Price bundling was found to be an appropriate ... -
Protectionism, agricultural prices and relative factor incomes: Sweden’s wage-rental ratio, 1877-1926
(2006)Trends in wage-rental ratios have figured prominently in the recent literature on factor price convergence and globalisation in the late nineteenth century. In that literature Sweden has been described as a free trade ... -
The Structure of the Tax-system and the Estimation of Labor Supply Models
(1998)Using a repeated cross section for married prime age Swedish males for the years 1984, 1986 and 1988 produce drastically different labor supply elasticities. From 1984 to 1988 the Swedish tax system has reduced both tax ... -
Can Aid Generate Growth in Africa?
(1998)The paper discusses the impact of foreign aid on economic growth in Africa. After brief discussion about growth determinants it goes on to review the available evidence about the impact of aid on African economic growth. ... -
Adjusting Stock Market Values to Exchange Rate Exposure: The Case of ASTRA, SCA and STORA.
(1998)Europe's two largest forest product companies SCA and STORA are located in Sweden. One of the largest firms in Sweden is ASTRA, which is a pharmaceutical company. In this paper I analyze how the variance of these firms' ... -
Does Market Liberalization Increase Total Factor Productivity: Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector in Zimbabwe
(1998)In this paper we analyze if the structural adjustment program (ESAP), implemented during 1991-1995, contributed to an increase in total factor productivity in the manufacturing sector. To evaluate if productivity has grown ...