Search for dissertations about: "accountability"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 167 swedish dissertations containing the word accountability.
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11. Accountability and the making of knowledge statements : a study of academic discourse
Abstract : This study investigates the manifestation of speaker accountability in connection with knowledge statements in two different kinds of academic discourse. The study focuses on knowledge statements which feature a set of knowledge stating verbs, namely argue, claim, suggest, propose, maintain, assume and believe. READ MORE
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12. Objectives, actors and accountability in quasi-markets: Studies of Swedish primary care
Abstract : Following public sector reforms inspired by New Public Management, new structures and processes intended for actors to coordinate their activities have been introduced in the public sectors in Northern Europe since the 1980s. Partly, the focus on structural change has evolved around creating market-like structures. READ MORE
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13. Information, Voting Behavior and Electoral Accountability
Abstract : Essay 1: In this paper, I investigate the causal effect of information on citizens’ ability to hold their elected politicians accountable for past behavior. Using survey data from the 2006 U.S. READ MORE
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14. Accountability and Family Business Contexts : An Interpretive Approach to Accounting and Control Practices
Abstract : This thesis discusses accounting and control practices in terms of accountability, i.e. how organizational actors work out who is accountable to whom over what. The study investigates how different forms of accountability can emerge and develop in organizations represented as family- controlled. READ MORE
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15. Transformations towards Sustainable Food Systems : Pathways, Governance, and Actors in a Swedish and European Union Context
Abstract : Food systems are central to global sustainability, while being complex systems where places and people are intertwined over large distances and at different scales. Transformations towards sustainable food systems have been called for in both research and policy, and Sweden and the European Union have declared high ambitions to act as global leaders in these transformations. READ MORE