Search for dissertations about: "executives"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 36 swedish dissertations containing the word executives.

  2. 1. Essays on behavioral determinants of earnings quality

    Author : Savvas Papadopoulos; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Företagsledare; Redovisning; Accounting; Executives;

    Abstract : The neoclassical economic view of the firm - upon which most of the empirical financial accounting research is based - assumes that managers are rational wealth optimizers. Therefore, managers are considered homogeneous and selfless inputs into the production process, and this implies that different managers are perfect substitutes for one another. READ MORE

  4. 2. Problematic Departures : CEO Exits in Large Swedish Publicly Traded Corporations

    Author : Jaan Grünberg; John R. Kimberly; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Business studies; Corporate governance; directors; departures; executives; succession.; Företagsekonomi; Business studies; Företagsekonomi; Business Studies; Företagsekonomi;

    Abstract : The CEO departure is an important mechanism in corporate governance. It is by using this mechanism that boards of directors may discipline management. This study examines departures in the governance of large Swedish corporations.The study builds on three kinds of data. READ MORE

  5. 3. Giving Executives Their Due: Just Pay, Desert, and Equality

    Author : Alexander Andersson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Just pay; Desert; Equality; Incentives; CEO compensation; Maximum income policies; Egalitarianism; Financial ethics;

    Abstract : Before, during, and after the global financial crisis of 2008, executive pay practices were widely debated and criticized. Economists, philosophers, as well as the man on the street all seem to have strong feelings towards how much, in what ways, and on what grounds executives are paid. READ MORE

  6. 4. Corporate social responsibility sensemaking : The change agency of executives in Bangladesh and CRS workers in Japan

    Author : Enrico Fontana; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : The thesis is organised as follows. The next section presents a brief section on the ontological and epistemological nature of this thesis. This is followed by a literature review. READ MORE

  7. 5. IT project governance

    Author : Magnus Mähring; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This dissertation investigates how executives engage in information technology projects and how organizational control of IT projects forms and evolves over time. It contains an in-depth account of a large, multi-year IT project in a financial company. READ MORE