School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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Energitjänsters betydelse på en avreglerad energimarknad: en kartläggning av energiföretagens energitjänstverksamhet i Sverige och Storbritannien
(1999)Rapporten bygger på en enkätundersökning som genomförts hos energiföretag i Sverige och Storbritannien. Det övergripande syftet med studien är att kartlägga, beskriva och jämföra energiföretagens energitjänster och ... -
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 ... -
e-ducation
(1999)e-ducation is a study of information technology use in higher education. The aim of the research is to improve educational practice with information technology. The modern educational system was developed to teach the ... -
The effects of firm-specific variables and consensus forecasts data on the pricing of large Swedish firms' stocks
(1999)In this essay we model the returns for 14 large Swedish firms' stocks with a conditional multifactor model with time-varying beta terms. The data are monthly and the sample period is June 1992 to August 1997. The beta ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Technical Efficiency During Deregulation of the Urban Bus System in Sweden
(1998)This paper compares the levels of technical efficiency reached by bus transport companies during the period 1989-1996, taking into account the deregulation context in which they operate. The empirical evidence reveals that ... -
Från kompetensöverföring till organisatoriskt lärande - en studie av kompetensöverföring vid Stena Lines förvärvande av Sealink British Ferries.
(1998)Under 1992 formades projektet; Kompetensöverföring i internationella, interorganisatoriska nätverk. Det hade sitt ursprung i ett övergripande projekt; Competence Analysis - the Management of Learning and Strategies for ... -
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 ...