Search for dissertations about: "Institutional Influence"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 223 swedish dissertations containing the words Institutional Influence.

  2. 6. Improving IT Integration for Higher Education Institutional Performance : Towards a Contextualised IT-Institutional Alignment Model

    Author : Jean Claude Byungura; Henrik Hansson; Ulf Olsson; Masengesho Kamuzinzi; Jimmy Jaldemark; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; IT integration; IT alignment; Alignment practices; Design science research; Innovation diffusion; Technology adoption; Institutional performance; Higher education; Artefact Evaluation; Computer and Systems Sciences; data- och systemvetenskap;

    Abstract : The integration of information technology (IT) into service delivery is currently seen as an innovative strategy to support the modernising of universities worldwide. However, in some institutions in developing countries, including Rwanda, IT has failed to add the intended value to university services, despite huge associated investments in IT. READ MORE

  4. 7. Business Plans in New Ventures : An Institutional Perspective

    Author : Tomas Karlsson; Dean A. Shepherd; Jönköping University; []
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    Abstract : This thesis is about business plans in new ventures. It takes an institutional perspective with a particular focus on how external actors influence ventures through norms, regulations and way of thinking. READ MORE

  5. 8. Introducing public sector eIDs : The power of actors’ translations and institutional barriers

    Author : Fredrik Söderström; Ulf Melin; Karin Axelsson; Agneta Ranerup; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; eID; electronic identification; introduction; eGovernment; Actor-Network Theory; institutional pressures; institutional barriers; eID; elektronisk identifiering; införanden; eFörvaltning; aktörsnätverksteori; institutionella tryck; institutionella hinder;

    Abstract : The electronic identification (eID) is a digital representation of our analogue identity used for authentication in order to gain access to personalized restricted online content. Despite its limited and clearly defined scope, the eID has a unique role to play in information society as an enabler of public digital services for citizens as well as businesses and a prerequisite for the development of electronic government (eGovernment). READ MORE

  6. 9. Adaptability or Efficiency : Towards a theory of institutional development in organizations

    Author : Mikael Klingvall; Göran Ahrne; Fredrik Liljeros; Felix Reed-Tsochas; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; organizational development; social influence; organizational culture; institutional development; adaptability; agent-based model; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : Organizations, once established, tend not to change, typically going obsolete as society continues to evolve. This makes adaptability an important issue. Organizational members must make sense to each other, or coordination suffers. READ MORE

  7. 10. Institutional Logics and Accounting Professionals : The case of K2 and K3

    Author : Karin Seger; Hans Englund; Magnus Frostenson; Roland Almqvist; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Institutional logics; multiple logics; co-existing logics; accounting professionals; accounting firms; small companies; small limited companies; the K-project; K2; K3;

    Abstract : Accounting firms have long been considered a ‘black box’ in the literature, but over the last two decades or so, a growing body of literature has emerged which points to how the accounting profession may be seen as a profession in transformation, one in which the underlying logic of their work has gone from emphasizing professional values to one in which commercial values constitute the main rules of the game.This thesis draws upon and add to this literature as it directs attention to how co-existing and potentially conflicting institutional logics enable and constrain accounting professionals, in practice and over time. READ MORE