Search for dissertations about: "agency theory"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 213 swedish dissertations containing the words agency theory.

2. 11. 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. 12. Opportunistic Behavior in Industrial Marketing Relationships

   Author : Raeesah Chohan; Esmail Salehi-Sangari; Leyland Pitt; John B. Ford; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Opportunistic behavior; moral hazard; adverse selection; principal-agent; Agency Theory; professional agent; Theory of Relationship Constraints; client-advertising agency relationship; ex-ante; ex-post; formal constraint mechanisms; social constraint mechanisms; Industrial Marketing; Industriell marknadsföring;

   Abstract : As humans beings, we act to our advantage. In some cases, this is done to the detriment of others; also known as opportunistic behavior. READ MORE

5. 13. A Practice Theory in Practice : Analytical Consequences in the Study of Organization and Socio-Technical Change

   Author : Inti José Lammi; Jukka Hohenthal; Leon Caesarius; Anders Buch; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; practice theory; organization; organizing; work; technology; materiality; socio-technical change; methodology; qualitative research; site ontology; public administration; Business Studies; Företagsekonomi;

   Abstract : Appealing calls are often made towards the study of phenomena through so-called practice theory. However, the implications of the use of practice theory, if taken seriously in analysis, are rarely discussed. The chief concern of this thesis is the applicability of the most radical dimensions of practice theory. READ MORE

6. 14. Exploring 'couplehood' in dementia : A constructivist grounded theory study

   Author : Ingrid Hellström; Ulla Lundh; Mike Nolan; Ingegerd Fagerberg; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; dementia; spousal relationship; couplehood; grounded theory; Caring sciences; Vårdvetenskap;

   Abstract :   The overall aim of this thesis is to gain a better understanding how people with dementia and their spouses experience dementia over time, especially the impact it has on their inter-personal relationships and patterns of everyday life. Data were collected using separate semi-structured interviews with 20 persons with dementia and their spouses of 6 monthly intervals over an 18-months period (132 interviews in total), and analysed using constructivist grounded theory. READ MORE

7. 15. Homelands Lost and Gained : Slavic Migration and Settlement on Bornholm in the Early Middle Ages

   Author : Magdalena Naum; Historisk arkeologi; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; migration; historical archaeology; Bornholm; Western Slavs; everyday; ritual practice; body; identity construction; memory; agency; phenomenology; practice theory;

   Abstract : This doctoral thesis examines early medieval Slavic migration to the island of Bornholm (Denmark). With a combination of interdisciplinary theories and approaches, which focus on human translocation and memory and identity construction, a holistic approach to the studies of migration in archaeology is proposed. READ MORE