The research project, The School and the information- and communication technology (ICT), has as main purpose to analyze how different ICT-reforms, for example KK and ITIS, maintain when financiers terminate their commitment. The question is how the school maintains these reforms and established...

This paper is the last of six case studies in a research project ”The school and information- and communication technology (ICT)”. The study is taking place in the municipality of Göteborg. The results of the study show that that the technical infrastructure for ICT has been improved in...

In Sweden, workers´ representatives have been involved in risk assessment at workplaces since the beginning of the 20th century. One of the main results is the development of a large net of health and safety representatives called “skyddsombud”; regional safety representatives (RSR) on many...

In focus here are processes of discipline in work groups in human service organisations. We will describe and analyse disciplining processes among teachers in schools and warders in prisons, two different service organisations,which both aim at influencing there ”clients”, and none of them...

This paper is an outline of a research agenda concerning implementation of information- and communication technology (ICT) in Swedish schools. During the last decade the Foundation of Knowledge and Competence has spent nearly 150 million euros on its school campaign in order to build a better...

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 energieffektiviseringar i dessa länder. Studiens delsyfte är att...

This report covers an empirical research project focused on studying the knowledge acquisition, external linkages and developmental processes in software firms. A large database was been created through 133 interviews that were carried out in cooperation with managers in software firms in 19...

Internprissättningsproblemet i dess vedertagna betydelse är problemet att få två resultatenheter inom samma organisation som handlar med varandra att agera utifrån hela organisationens bästa, trots att de är fullständigt målstyrda och endast bedöms utifrån sitt eget resultat. Detta...

The aim of this paper is to discuss the process of development of the firm in interaction with its institutional environment, which I call the entrepreneurial process. This can be studied in three phases, i.e. initiating phase, establishment phase and growth phase. I am going to present a model,...

This paper aims at developing the theoretical understanding of revenue capping as a way of regulating monopolistic firms. It is shown that the fact that a standard monopolist regulated by a fixed revenue cap will raise its price above the unregulated monopoly level is robust to two-part pricing....