Search for dissertations about: "accounting services"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 45 swedish dissertations containing the words accounting services.

2. 1. Management Control in Services. A Contingency Study of Responsibility Accounting in Highly Interactive Services

   Author : Sven Modell; Företagsekonomiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; organizational technology; responsibility accounting; services; management control; contingency theory; agency theory; Management of enterprises; Företagsledning; management;

   Abstract : This report examines the use of management control in services, with particular reference to the role of formal control systems in attributing and devolving responsibility within organizations. The study draws extensively on the service as well as the management control literature and advances an analytical framework based on a process-oriented approach to responsibility accounting. READ MORE

4. 2. Autonomous cloud resource provisioning : accounting, allocation, and performance control

   Author : Ewnetu Bayuh Lakew; Erik Elmroth; Hiaohui (Helen) Gu; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; cloud computing; distributed infrastructure; monitoring; accounting; performance modeling; service differentiation; business data processing; administrativ databehandling;

   Abstract : The emergence of large-scale Internet services coupled with the evolution of computing technologies such as distributed systems, parallel computing, utility computing, grid, and virtualization has fueled a movement toward a new resource provisioning paradigm called cloud computing. The main appeal of cloud computing lies in its ability to provide a shared pool of infinitely scalable computing resources for cloud services, which can be quickly provisioned and released on-demand with minimal effort. READ MORE

5. 3. Reconnecting with nature through concepts : On the construction of values in the ecosystem services paradigm

   Author : Sanna Stålhammar; BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ekosystemtjänster; hållbarhetsvetenskap; Vetenskapsteori; människa↔natur; värde; Ecosystem Services; Ecosystem services concept; ecosystem services value; Ecosystem service assessment; Cultural ecosystem services; socio-cultural valuation; connectedness; Relational value; experienced and context-based perspective.; Urban green infrastructures;

   Abstract : The alarming rates of extinction and degrading ecosystems call for new means of understanding and accounting for how people depend on nature. Ecosystem services (ES) is a contested but widely applied concept aiming to connect ecosystem functions to human wellbeing and to assess and account for how nature matters in decision-making. READ MORE

6. 4. Capacity allocation mechanisms for grid environments

   Author : Peter Gardfjäll; Erik Elmroth; Bo Kågström; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Grid computing; capacity allocation; allocation enforcement; accounting; Grid-wide fairshare scheduling; Web services; Computer science; Datavetenskap;

   Abstract : During the past decade, Grid computing has gained popularity as a means to build powerful computing infrastructures by aggregating distributed computing capacity. Grid technology allows computing resources that belong to different organizations to be integrated into a single unified system image – a Grid. READ MORE

7. 5. 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