School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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Höganäs - en fallstudierapport om IT och skolan
(2004)This paper is the fourth of six case studies in a research project ”The school and information- and communication technology (ICT)”. This one is taking place in the mu-nicipality of Höganäs. The results from the study can ... -
Women in financial services: fiction and more fiction
(2004)At the peak of the "new economy", the Swedish newspapers were reporting an interesting fact: women were entering financial services, joining not the old-fashioned occupational groups such as bank clerks, but the avant-garde: ... -
Energitjänster på en avreglerad marknad: För en effektivare energianvändning?
(2004)This thesis studies the efforts made by society to achieve more efficient energy use in order to better utilise resources and lessen the stress on the environment. Despite the value to society promised by more efficient ... -
Eli Heckscher Today: A Bibliometric Picture
(2004)The citations of Heckscher (1879-1952) in journals included in the Social Sciences Citation Index and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index do not, of course, give a complete picture of his significance as a scholar and ... -
Geography, Biogeography and Why Some Countries are Rich and Others Poor
(2004)The most important event in human economic history before the Industrial Revolution was the Neolithic transition from a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle to sedentary agriculture, beginning about 10,000 years ago. The ... -
Rum, Tid och Pengar - en studie om redovisning i praktiken
(2004)Accounting numbers affect people in many ways. This is an important research issue. This thesis attempts to problematise the relation between accounting numbers and what they refer to; a relation that is typically ... -
Strong plots: The relationship between Popular Culture and Management Practice & Theory
(2004)In this paper we consider the relationship between popular culture and management practice. Starting with references to previously established connections between high culture and management, we turn to popular culture for ... -
The Danish Guidelines on Intellectual Capital Reporting Towards A European Perspective on Human Resource Disclosures?
(2004)Currently, many academics assert that although several companies proclaim their employees as the company’s most valuable resource only a few companies have utilised models and concepts of measuring human resources in their ... -
Can Japan Make a Comeback?
(2004)Since the beginning of the 1990s Japan has experienced economic stagnation. This paper discusses its causes and the prospects for recovery. It considers both the macroeconomic problems and the viability of the Japanese ... -
Ungdomars virtuella rörlighet - Användningen av dator, internet och mobiltelefon i ett geografiskt perspektiv
(2004)This study explores how urban young people fit the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) into their everyday lives. Their virtual mobility may be lasting and have long-term effects on socio-spatial ... -
Regional logistiksamverkan för konkurrenskraft
(2003)Forskningens syfte är att närmare studera motiv till, utformning och funktion av regional logistiksamverkan och möjligheten att utveckla regionala logistikcentra. Av speciellt intresse är att identifiera nyttan av regional ... -
Organisering mellan organisationer Vårdkedja som handlingskedja
(2003)Den här uppsatsen handlar om hur man organiserar vård över organisatoriska gränser, vilket innebär att olika enheter måste samverka. I ett projekt (Högsbo-projektet) som bedrevs under slutet av 1990-talet arbetade personal ... -
Unequal Provision of Local Public Services under the Threat of Secession
(2003)This paper studies to what extent it is possible to discriminate between two municipality parts by unequal public service provision when there is a threat of secession. The objective of the local politicians is to maximize ... -
From Welfare to Work: Evaluating a Proposed Tax and Benefit Reform Targeted at Single Mothers in Sweden
(2003)In this paper we propose a tax and benefit reform to increase the working hours and to decrease the welfare participation of single mothers in Sweden. We have access to high-quality tax and income data, and use a ... -
The entrepreneurial process: An institutional perspective
(2003)The aim of this paper is to discuss the process of development of the firm in interaction with its institutional environment, which I call “the entrepreneurial process”. This can be studied in three phases, i.e. initiating ... -
Human Resource Disclosures
(2003)ABSTRACT Although several corporations proclaim their employees as being thecorporation’s most valuable resource, only a few corporations have utilised models and concepts of measuring human resources in their corporate ... -
Has Sweden’s government budget policy been too discretionary? Evidence from a generalization of the tax smoothing hypothesis
(2003)Barro's (1979) tax smoothing hypothesis (TSH) assumes that the government is always subject to an "optimal" degree of discretion in budget policy, i.e., optimal in the sense that the welfare costs from taxation are ... -
Maximum Likelihood Ratio based small-sample tests for random coefficients in linear regression
(2003)Two small-sample tests for random coefficients in linear regression are derived from the Maximum Likelihood Ratio. The first test has previously been proposed for testing equality of fixed effects, but is here shown to ... -
Wicksell versus Brisman: A Dispute on Capital between Generations
(2003)After Wicksell in 1911 had published the second Swedish edition of his Lectures on Political Economy, a debate began in the Ekonomisk Tidskrift between Wicksell and his opponent Sven Brisman. The controversy was mainly ... -
Processes of accountability. Experience from the operative level in Swedish local government
(2003)This study is about social and institutional practices of accountability. Firstly, the study develops a framework of accounts. Based on this framework it is argued that accountability arises from practices of using accounts ...