Change and transfer of competence within an industrial company – complex and interactive engineering. <p> <p> This paper presents how transfer of knowledge and competence occurs in relation to a major organizational change. The particular setting of predominantly engineers as organizational players...</p></p>

This paper reports the results of a survey study regarding the attitudes towards the Network Performance Assessment Model (NPAM). The NPAM is a revenue cap regulation model that has been developed to evaluate revenue reasonableness of the electricity distribution companies (EDCs) in Sweden. The...

Habitual entrepreneurs building complex business structures are despite of their importance and media exposure little researched. Our paper has this category in focus and our research questions besides the entrepreneur himself deals with their business structure from the perspectives of...

This study investigates the advantages of investing in plants for cogeneration, i.e. combined heat and power (CHP), when the heat is utilized for district heating. A focus is set on Swedish municipalities. The demand for heat is visualized in terms of load curves and duration diagrams. A...

I denna rapport konstateras att intäktstak är en regleringsmodell som dras med två mycket allvarliga långsiktiga problem. För det första måste regleraren bestämma parametrarna i modellen med omsorg, så att den inte ger felaktiga styrsignaler. Eftersom de styrsignaler modellen ger...

Under 1992 formades projektet; Kompetensöverföring i internationella, interorganisatoriska nätverk. Det hade sitt ursprung i ett övergripande projekt; Competence Analysis - the Management of Learning and Strategies for Competence development. Kompetensöverföringsprojektet beviljades...

To what extent knowledge synergy is developed in mergers and acquisitions depends on the ambitions of the parties, the relations between the knowledge spheres of both sides, and the methods used for knowledge integration. A high degree of knowledge integration is not always required; sometimes it...

The prime objective of this article is to explore the phenomenon of ‘trespassing entrepreneurship’, i.e. combined business and community entrepreneurship. The purpose is to explore two questions: How do ‘trespassing entrepreneurs’ combine business and community enterprise? Why do...

In order to attain sustainability for the industry, the inhabitants and the environment,it is important to study city goods transportation systems. Reasons for focusing on e-grocery(groceries shopped over the Internet) are that the last link of the grocery supply chain, i.e. the goods flow from...

This text focuses on the wealth of insight that Tarde has to offer organization theory. It revolves around three pairs of concepts: –imitation and invention, identity and alterity, custom and fashion, illustrating their relevance for understanding organizing by relating them to a study of big...