Search for dissertations about: "empirical study"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 3054 swedish dissertations containing the words empirical study.

  2. 1. Coordination in new forms of organising : an empirical study

    Author : Leona Achtenhagen; Jönköping University; []
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  4. 2. The Heterogeneity of Behavior in Operations Processes : Empirical Evidence

    Author : Neslihan Özlü; Fredrik Eng Larsson; Thomas Hartman; Olov Isaksson; Kai Hoberg; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; behavioral operations; empirical operations; heterogeneity; experience effects; ordering decisions; choice models; judgmental forecasting; operations processes; Business Administration; företagsekonomi;

    Abstract : Behavioral science research has established that observed human behavior may deviate considerably from model suggestions. In addition to the realization that there is no such thing as standardized human behavior, there are also substantial differences in how people deviate from the model: Different individuals make dissimilar decisions in the same situation when using the same information. READ MORE

  5. 3. Informal Finance and Microfinance in Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago : An Institutional Study

    Author : Akhil Malaki; Ulf Jonsson; Thorbjörn Engdahl; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; informal institutions; informal finance; microfinance; institutional study; institutions; Jamaica; Trinidad Tobago; Roscas; Credit Unions; NGOs; Economic history; Ekonomisk historia;

    Abstract : This study is about informal institutions in informal finance and microfinance in Jamaica and Trinidad-Tobago. Informal institutions as understood in this study are unwritten social norms that cater to specific needs in the society, and can be indirectly captured and measured in their outcome. READ MORE

  6. 4. Differences Between Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytically Oriented Psychotherapy : An Effectiveness Study

    Author : Johan Blomberg; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy; psychoanalysis; outcome; naturalistic field study;

    Abstract : Although the differences between psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy have been the subject of debate for a long time, there is nevertheless a striking lack of systematic empirical studies of extended psychoanalytical treatment. The aim of this thesis is to use empirical evidence to describe similarities and dissimilarities between psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy, as well as the prospects and difficulties inherent in studying the outcomes of these treatments within the framework of a naturalistic quasi-experimental field study. READ MORE

  7. 5. The Government Used to Hide the Truth, But Now We Can Speak : Contemporary Esotericism in Ukraine 1986–2014

    Author : Kateryna Zorya; Per Faxneld; Simon Sorgenfrei; Oleg Yarosh; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; esotericism; occultism; magic; Ukrainian history; Soviet history; transmission of esoteric ideas; intelligentsia; intellectuals; history of ideas.; Historical Studies; Historiska studier; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

    Abstract : The dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 26, 1991, marked the end of what has been called the most extensive sociological experiment in history. Newly formed post-Soviet states found themselves in a state of total anomie—a society-wide collapse of social norms. READ MORE