Two changes happened in 1998 that affect pension planning in a Swedish municipality. In the first place, there were changes in laws that affect accounting for pensions: Accrued pension rights that have been earned from 1998 have to be entered as a liability in the balance sheet. Pension rights...

Människor är olika, mycket olika. Individfaktorn har stor betydelse i många sammanhang, inte minst inom näringslivet. Hur ska man då bära sig åt för att göra ett urval och hitta den lämpligaste kandidaten? Under de senaste 10 åren har många intressanta rön gjorts i den psykologiska...

Med utgångspunkt i framväxten av mobil data och mobilt internet samt “mobilitet” i vid bemärkelse, har ett antal projekt formulerats vars syfte är att studera användarsidan och gapet mellan användarsidan och leverantörerna av de nya systemen. Denna studie är en av flera i detta...

This paper extends the literature on organizational culture and effectiveness by examining a set of foreign-owned firms operating in Russia. Beginning with an existing model of organizational culture and effectiveness, the paper presents two linked studies. The first study is a survey of 179...

The main finding in this paper is that customer familiarity (i.e. the number of product-related experiences accumulated by the customer) affects customer satisfaction in an asymmetric way. Data from customers in the airline industry suggest that it is more difficult to obtain a high level of...

This paper is concerned with the different forms of organizations which emerge in a capitalist market society. A theory is presented which primarily aims to describe and explain the repertoire of organizational forms which occur in such economies. In this paper, there is an emphasis on the...