Search for dissertations about: "Intermediary Organizations"

Showing result 6 - 7 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words Intermediary Organizations.

  2. 6. Playing the Matching Game : An Institutional Analysis of Executive Recruitment and Selection in Software Start-ups: Silicon Valley and Stockholm

    Author : Tiziana Sardiello; Christofer Edling; Mary Brinton; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; job-matching; executive recruitment; executive selection; entrepreneurship; start-up; software; institutionalism; institutional logics; Silicon Valley; Stockholm; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : Software start-ups make media headlines daily, suggesting that it may take only a garage and two engineering students to begin such companies, and that these same people will constitute the core of the executive team until these organizations become multinational giants. Despite these spontaneous starts, newly formed entrepreneurial ventures have many obstacles to overcome in their resource and cultural environments when establishing their practices. READ MORE

  4. 7. Exceptions in the Swedish School System : Exploring the Conditions Facing Secular and Confessional Nonprofit Schools

    Author : Ebba Henrekson; Johan Hvenmark; Johan Vamstad; Erika Willander; Lars Skov Henriksen; Marie Cederschiöld högskola; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Nonprofit schools; Confessional schools; School choice; Sweden; Institutional logics; Public religion; Marketization of welfare; Civil society; Människan i välfärdssamhället; Social välfärd med inriktning mot civilsamhället; The Individual in the Welfare Society; Social Welfare and the Civil Society;

    Abstract : In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Swedish school system underwent a series of reforms that opened up the system for independent schools funded through vouchers. Since then, for-profit firms have gained significant traction and constitute a far greater share of the school system compared to nonprofits. READ MORE