Search for dissertations about: "accounting 2022"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 36 swedish dissertations containing the words accounting 2022.

2. 1. Accounting, Professions, and Performativity: Exploring the limits of accountingisation in professional organisations

   Author : Cemil Eren Firtin; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; accountingisation; professionalisation; calculative practices; performativity; accounting;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the practice of calculations and their consequences in different professional contexts. Specifically, it aims to extend the discussion on the relationship between accounting and public sector professionals by elaborating on the concept of accountingisation using a performative approach. READ MORE

4. 2. Understanding management accounting when "institutions matter" : a multimethod approach

   Author : Malin Härström; Jonas Gerdin; Hans Englund; Kirsi-Mari Kallio; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Management accounting; institutional theory; performance measurement; academia; situations; perceived control exposure; multimethod approach;

   Abstract : This thesis departs from a need to map extant research on management accounting (MA) drawing on institutional theorizing, due to unnecessary confusion and unclarity within. Four ‘areas of confusion’ are reviewed, i.e. MA as a concept, modelling of workings of and reasons for agency, MA’s role in social accounts and sources of (i. READ MORE

5. 3. Advanced Machine Learning Methods for Oncological Image Analysis

   Author : Mehdi Astaraki; Chunliang Wang; Örjan Smedby; Iuliana Toma-Dasu; Bjoern Menze; KTH; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Medical Image Analysis; Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Survival Analysis; Early Response Assessment; Tumor Classification; Tumor Segmentation; Medicinsk teknologi; Medical Technology;

   Abstract : Cancer is a major public health problem, accounting for an estimated 10 million deaths worldwide in 2020 alone. Rapid advances in the field of image acquisition and hardware development over the past three decades have resulted in the development of modern medical imaging modalities that can capture high-resolution anatomical, physiological, functional, and metabolic quantitative information from cancerous organs. READ MORE

6. 4. The Profit of Prevention. A study of Social Investments in a Swedish Region

   Author : Cristian Lagström; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; social investments; calculative practices; accounting; hybridity;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to deepen the understanding of the use and implications of accounting technologies in the governing of public services. It explores social investments, a proliferating public sector management technology based broadly on the idea to govern long-term public goals “by numbers”. READ MORE

7. 5. Essays on Economic Disadvantage : Criminal Justice, Gender and Social Mobility

   Author : Ulrika Ahrsjö; Mårten Palme; Susan Niknami; Julien Grenet; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Labor economics; Economic inequality; Criminal justice; Youth crime; Intergenerational mobility; Gender wage gap; In-group bias; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Abstract : Youth Crime, Community Service and Labor Market OutcomesCan lifetime trajectories of youth offenders be improved through criminal justice policy? I evaluate the effects of a youth justice reform in Sweden that sharply increased the share of juveniles assigned to court-ordered community service --- i.e. unpaid, low-skilled work. READ MORE