Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze recent findings in the research on bankers' lending decision making, to merge relevant findings in psychology and economics and create a comprehensive review of the literature. Design/methodology/approach – The authors used a systematic...

Eleven organic and two conventionalSwedish livestock farmers and two initiators(non-farmers who took part in shaping earlyorganic livestock production in Sweden) wereinterviewed, using a semi-structured method.Respondents were selected through purposive andheterogeneous sampling with regard...

Den här rapporten redovisar huvudresultaten av forskningsprojektet ”Chefskap för Sverige: En fråga om relationer och ansvarstagande” och utprövningen av ett ledarskapsinstrument, för mätning av det innovationsfrämjande ledarskapet. Instrumentet är ett validerat frågeformulär med...

Using the critical incident technique, we investigated how 88 loan officers at four Swedish banks perceived their decision making in evaluations of commercial loan applications. First, we found that our sample of loan officers primarily used deliberation and less intuition when making decisions....

A leader supports teams and individuals as they turn their creative efforts into innovations (leader as facilitator) and manages the organization's goals and activities aimed at innovation (leader as manager). This review focuses on when and how leadership relates to innovation (i.e., the...

Research conditions and production in two humanistic disciplines — ancient history and classical archaeology (AHLA), and English are described and compared. A theoretical framework from research evaluation studies which emphasised mediating process factors in conjunction with input factors to...

A review of the literature and three case studies in housing research resulted in a framework of six propositions as to how to assess academic research utility. First, it can be measured directly and indirectly. Secondly, utility is dependent not only on academic research supply of knowledge and...

4 Background This paper summarises a grant proposal to the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA). The aim of this research project is to increase our understanding for factors that are crucial for creative working processes and innovative results in knowledge organisations. Its...

Quality control is an important and integrated part of the scientific system. However, developments in science are changing quality control into quality monitoring. New virtual and fluid organisational forms are emerging. Common boundaries are broken as for example in the “Triple Helix” and...