Search for dissertations about: "individual decisions"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 449 swedish dissertations containing the words individual decisions.

  2. 1. Individual information system acceptance behaviour : An electronic ordering system case

    Author : Katarina Arbin; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; information system; e-procurement; e-ordering; individual; acceptance; adoption; continued use; behaviour; structures; routines; longitudinal; case study;

    Abstract : Organizations have spent and continue to spend millions of dollars on information systems (IS) in order to enable business success. Information systems have long been used to help managers make better decisions, better understand the nature of customers and improve employee productivity. READ MORE

  4. 2. Household Decision Making, Time Preferences, and Positional Concern: Experimental Evidence from Rural China

    Author : Xiaojun Yang; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; individual decisions; ; joint decisions; ; intertemporal choices; ; Convex Time Budget; ; relative influence; ; patience; ; time-consistency; ; choice shifts; ; own decisions; ; predictions; ; decisions for spouse; ; positional concern; ; gender; ; household expenditures; ; visible goods; ; rural China; ;

    Abstract : For abstracts, see full text thesis.... READ MORE

  5. 3. Judicial Review and Individual Legal Activism : The Case of Russia in Theoretical Perspective

    Author : Anna Jonsson; Anders Fogelklou; Thomas Bull; Katlijn Malfliet; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Constitutional law; Judicial review; judicial protection; individual rights; individual legal activism; democracy; support structure; standing rules; legal aid; public law adjudication; civil society; Council of Europe; access to justice; Russia; post-Socialist; legal transition; Konstitutionell rätt; Constitutional law; Konstitutionell rätt; Konstitutionell rätt; Constitutional Law;

    Abstract : This dissertation deals with judicial review of governmental action and individual legal activism. It investigates whether judicial protection of individual rights and individual legal activism, within the field of public law, can be seen as an alternative or complement to electoral control of political and administrative powers. READ MORE

  6. 4. COMPETENCE AND COMMUNICATION : Do Not Resuscitate Decisions in Cancer Care

    Author : Mona Pettersson; Anna T Höglund; Mariann Hedström; Birgitta Johansson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; DNR decisions; do not resuscitate; end-of-life; hematology; oncology; cancer care; medical ethics; nursing ethics; ethical conflicts of interest; communicative ethics; ethical values; ethical competence; palliative care; nurses; physicians; moral distress.; Medicinsk vetenskap; Medical Science;

    Abstract : Within cancer care, do not resuscitate (DNR) decisions are frequently made. DNR decisions can be ethically difficult and lead to conflicts of interest and disagreements within the medical team. READ MORE

  7. 5. Time and inequality - A study of individual preferences

    Author : Hjördis Hardardottir; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Behavioral economics; Experimental economics; Individual preferences; Time preferences; Social preferences; income inequality; Health inequality;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of three papers that study individual preferences. The focus of the first two papers is on time preferences. In the third paper, preferences regarding how inequality in health and income should be defined are elicited. READ MORE