Judgements and beliefs often are distorted. They are affected by underlying values and reflect strong tendencies toward wishful thinking. In action, biased thinking may or may not be detrimental, and there is a very delicate balance to keep between the need to motivate oneself for forceful...

Taking a set of studies about business action as the empirical starting-point, this paper looks at the various ways in which action is represented. The overall research question can be stated as follows: how is business action reconstructed in our narratives? The texts analysed are collected...

This paper reports on a study of organizational control of IT projects, specifically how control forms and evolves over time and how executives engage in the control task. <p> Viewing executive involvement in its organizational context, the study builds on studies on executive involvement in IT...</p>

This study investigates how spontaneous interaction in an R&D environment is affected by temporary absence form the work site. Previous studies has shown the central importance of spontaneous interaction in R&D activities, but not how this is linked to the amount of co-presence. By using work...

In the present study a representative sample (N = 797) of the Swedish population was surveyed, with regard to attitudes related to energy policy issues (e.g., environmental attitudes, risk perceptions, and attitudes towards different energy production systems) and self-reported electricity...

The paper presents a specially constructed Web-based tool, WebGPSS, developed in Sweden, for teaching business students simulation. The tool includes a Java Applet that provides a Graphical Users Interface, by which the student can build a simulation model of a system, such as an inventory...

The perceived risk of terrorism was studied in a group of Swedish respondents. The over-all level of perceived risk of terrorism was low in this group. Risk to others from terrorism was rated as higher than personal risk, suggesting a relatively high level of perceived possibility of protecting...

I svenska folkrörelser diskuteras idag det egna ledarskapet och hur detta kan utvecklas och förnyas. Inom organisationerna söker förtroendevalda och högre tjänstemän efter nya former och metoder, perspektiv och förhållningssätt, för att försöka förstå och vidareutveckla ledning...