Search for dissertations about: "ACCOUNTABILITY"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 167 swedish dissertations containing the word ACCOUNTABILITY.

2. 1. The Limits of Control? The Role of Sustainability Control for Constructing Accountability within Organisations

   Author : Leanne Johnstone; Magnus Frostenson; Tommy Borglund; Sabina Du Rietz; Matti Skoog; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Accountability; accountabilisation process; accountability dynamic; hierarchical accountability; institutional incrementalism; social and environmental accounting; socialising accountability; sustainability controlling; sustainability control systems;

   Abstract : Sustainability control is grounded in pragmatic research traditions which imply that the design of formalised sustainability control systems (de-signed by managers) is enough to ensure strategic plans are met in re-sponse to external accountability demands. Through this, the individualis-ing aspects of control in a hierarchical accountability sense are empha-sised, and the main accountability relationship becomes between the supe-rior and subordinate. READ MORE

4. 2. Accounting for Accountability : Theoretical and Empirical Explorations of a Multifaceted Concept

   Author : Jessica Janina Hornbach; Anna-Carin Nordvall; Frank G. H. Hartmann; Timur Uman; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; accountability; stress; reporting behavior; performance evaluation; rationalization; neurobiology; experimental research; Business Studies; Företagsekonomi;

   Abstract : This dissertation extends our understanding of accountability in the accounting literature, where discourses revolve around diverse manifestations of accountability. While accountability is often conceptualized as a management control tool, accountability also seems to operate through inter- and intra-personal mechanisms. READ MORE

5. 3. Understanding Media Accountability : Media Accountability in Relation to Media Criticism and Media Governance in Sweden 1940-2010

   Author : Torbjörn von Krogh; Lars Nord; Jesper Strömbäck; Epp Lauk; Mittuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : media criticism; media responsibility; media accountability; media regulation; media governance; public interest;

   Abstract : The concepts of media accountability, media criticism and media governance are analysed and discussed in a Swedish setting; how they relate to each other and interact. This is achieved by using various methods – a survey to editors, analy- ses of parliamentary debates, interviews, direct observation and document stu- dies – in studying different stakeholders, media representatives and governance conditions in Sweden during the last 70 years. READ MORE

6. 4. Incumbent Renomination : Accountability and Gender Bias

   Author : Michal Grahn; Elin Bjarnegård; Johanna Kantola; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; political recruitment; party politics; proportional representation; gender; incumbency; re-selection; accountability; representation; delegation; preference voting; flexible lists; Czech Republic; Slovakia.; Statskunskap; Political Science;

   Abstract : Party recruiters in proportional-representation (PR) systems are forced to do what their majoritarian counterparts are not: they need to rank-order all their candidates on the party ballots based on whom they most wish to get elected. Consequently, new candidates and incumbents alike compete for a limited number of electable ballot slots. READ MORE

7. 5. Crisis, Accountability and Blame Management : Strategies and Survival of Political Office-Holders

   Author : Annika Brändström; Paul Hart; Försvarshögskolan; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; blame-management; blame-avoidance; crisis; accountability; presentational strategies; political office-holders; crisis-induced; ministerial career; Statsvetenskap med inriktning mot krishantering och internationell samverkan; Statsvetenskap med inriktning mot krishantering och internationell samverkan;

   Abstract : Crises are an integral part of our modern world; they are breaking points that disturb our sense of normalcy. While some of them are treated as ‘normal incidents’ that are bound to occur in a vast and complex array of governmental activities, others spark a blaze of media attention, public emotions, and political upheaval. READ MORE