School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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Conflict Diamonds
(2003)’Conflict diamonds’ refers to the fatal role that diamonds are believed to have played in several African conflicts. The article analyzes the impact of diamond abundance on economic growth in light of the broader, previously ... -
Are Some Lives More Valuable?
(2003)A theoretical model of the ethical preferences of individuals is tested by conducting a choice experiment on safety-enhancing road investments. The relative value of a saved life is found to decrease with age, such that ... -
The Use and Importance of External Sources of Knowledge in the Software Development Process
(2002)Partnerships and external knowledge acquisition have become important means for gaining access to the increasing number of technologies needed for the development of more advanced products especially in emerging and ... -
Baltic Sea Ports and Russian Foreign Trade – Studies in the Economic and Political Geography of Transition
(2003)Baltic Sea Ports and Russian Foreign Trade – Studies in the Economic and Political Geography of Transition Edited at the Department of Human and Economic Geography, University of Göteborg. Series B, no 104, 372 ... -
Aspects of Macroeconomic Saving
(2003)This thesis deals with various aspects of macroeconomic saving. It consists of an introduction and four self-contained papers. Paper I, "From closed to open door policy: An empirical study of China's international capital ... -
BPR in the Pharmaceutical Industry
(2003)This thesis investigates the use of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) as a change approach in the Pharmaceutical Industry. The pharmaceutical industry is undergoing profound changes. New opportunities, e.g. in the field ... -
E-handel med resor Bokning och köp av resor på Internet – konsumenters attityder och upplevda risker
(2003)The travel industry is one of the few industries where there is an increased interest among consumers for on-line reservations. The purpose of this study is to explore and describe consumers’ attitudes towards travel ... -
Action towards time structures in product development processes - observations on the micro level
(2003)In product development processes conventional wisdom has it that structure is provided by strict specifications of product properties, budgets and time schedules that are followed up (Womack et al 1990, Clark & Fujimoto, ... -
The Organising of Expert Firms
(2002)A prevalent assumption in discussions on expert labour is that experts organise their work according to an occupational logic. The question, however, how the occupational logic come to dominate the greater part of expert ... -
Do You Enjoy Having More Than Others? Survey Evidence of Positional Goods
(2003)Although conventional economic theory proposes that only the absolute levels of income and consumption matter for people’s utility, there is much evidence that relative concerns are often important. This paper uses a ... -
The Dilemma with ICT in Educational Organisations
(2002)This paper is an outline of a research agenda concerning implementation of information- and communication technology (ICT) in Swedish schools. During the last decade the Foundation of Knowledge and Competence has spent ... -
Environmental Taxation - Empirical and Theoretical Applications
(2003)This thesis consists of five self-contained articles, and hence each paper can be read independently. Still, all five papers have one important feature in common: environmental taxation. Paper 1: The Phase-Out of Leaded ... -
Essays on Earnings and Human Capital in Kenya
(2003)Among Sub-Sahara Africa countries, Kenya has had a rapid educational expansion. This dissertation provides empirical analyses of the impact of education on labor earnings in Kenya, based on surveys of manufacturing firms ... -
Deciding Who's Decisive: Municipality Break-Ups and the Behavior of Local Politicians
(2003)Swedish municipality parts aiming for secession are highly dependent on the municipal council's acceptance in order to succeed. Only four of the 25 municipality break-up verdicts passed by the central government have not ... -
The Practice of Human Resource Disclosures - Some Evidence from Information, Providers and Users
(2002)This paper is concerned with the relationship between information, providers and users of human resources disclosure in advanced annual reporting practice. Opposing prior disclosure research the focus of this study is not ... -
On academic writing
(2006)Are there any useful tricks of the trade, as it were, to sustain a productive routine of writing for publication in academic journals?1 Nowadays the drive towards international publication is stronger than ever in Europe ... -
Professionals in Investment Banks - Sharing an Epistemic Pracitce or an Occupational Community
(2003)The circumstances in contemporary society have created new conditions for how the organising and legitimising of contemporary 'knowledge workers' develop. It seems like the today's practice and expertise of knowledge workers ...