The existence and scale of formal memberships in a country or a region have often been used as an indicator of the country’s degree of civility or the civic and voluntary engagement in the population (Almond and Verba 1963; Curtis, Grabb and Baer 1992; Curtis Baer and Grabb 2001; Putnam 2000). At the same...

This paper investigates forecasting performance and judgmental processes of experts and non-experts in soccer. Two circumstances motivated the paper: (i) little is known about how accurately experts predict sports events, and (ii) recent research on human judgment suggests that ignorance-based...

This paper reports on a preliminary studie of the organising of pharmaceutical goods distribution in the Nordic countries. Based on close descriptions of the four national markets, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland, a comparative analysis is made. The chosen comparative dimensions are:...

This paper describes the organising of a 50th anniversary of an urban community. The focus is specifically on how ideas of identity related to a past were manifested in various events. The organising of the anniversary is described in terms of temporary organising, where the activities of...

This paper studies some fundamental issues concerning the relation between market value of equity and the fair value of financial derivatives determined according to International Accounting Standard No. 39, Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement (IAS 39) in non-aktive markets. It is...

Emotioner är av avgörande betydelse i människors liv, men först ganska nyligen har deras betydelse i arbetslivet uppmärksammats. Begreppet emotionell intelligens (EI) som etablerades omkring 1990, och populäriserades i Golemans framgångsrika böcker, är ett exempel på den utvecklingen....

The paper deals with the problems concerning government procurement of e-services from private companies and how this type of procurement could be improved. <p> The paper is part of a research program description initiated by the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems (www.vinnova.se).

Hur kan man förbättra resultatet i en projektintensiv organisation? Artikeln adresserar denna frågeställning genom att beskriva ett analysramverk (PRIO-ramverket) och en metod (PRIO-metoden) för verksamhetsutveckling i projektintensiva organisationer.

The positive effect of customer satisfaction on repurchase intentions and attitudinal loyalty has been shown in numerous studies. The effect of switching barriers on these variables, however, has been subject to much less attention from researchers. In this study we propose that switching...