Sökning: "Path-dependency"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 38 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Path-dependency.

  1. 1. I välfärdsstatens hägn: Autonomi inom arbetslöshetsförsäkringen : Under the Welfare State Umbrella. Autonomy within the Unem-ployment Insurance

    Författare :Anna Bendz; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Autonomy; political institutions; path dependency; unemployment insurance; welfare state; causal mechanisms; political decision-making; Sweden; Norway; public policy;

    Sammanfattning : The point of departure of this dissertation is the general question of how to combine normative political philosophy with empirical analysis, the argument being that concepts from the political philosophy can and shall be used for the construction of theoretically and empirically relevant research questions. The core concept in the dissertation, which is also the object of the empirical analysis, is autonomy. LÄS MER

  2. 2. Using and Managing Resources in Industrialized House-Building : Characterization of a Swedish Industrialized House-Building Company from a Resource-Based View

    Författare :Petri Uusitalo; Lars Stehn; Susanne Engström; Daniel M. Hall; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Entreprenourial orientation; Dynamic capability; Path dependency; Technology transfer; Resource based-view; Industrailized house-building; Byggproduktion och teknik; Construction Management and Building Technology;

    Sammanfattning : Global reports stress the importance of developing the construction industry to address productivity related issues and challenges with urbanization. McKinsey conclude that the construction industry could be more efficient by how they manage and employ resources to address the low productivity. LÄS MER

  3. 3. Bilder av lokal näringslivsutveckling : exemplet Värnamo

    Författare :Martin Röllgårdh; Anders Malmberg; Kjell Haraldsson; Lars Larsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Local business development; discourse analysis; economic geography; industrial districts; path-dependency; social capital; knowledge bases; creative class; place attractiveness; strategic choices; Lokal näringslivsutveckling; diskursanalys; ekonomisk geografi; industriella distrikt; stigberoende; socialt kapital; kunskapsbaser; kreativ klass; platsattraktivitet; strategiska val; Human geography; economic geography; Kulturgeografi; ekonomisk geografi; Kulturgeografi; Social and Economic Geography;

    Sammanfattning : The main aim of this licentiate thesis is to examine how local actors in a medium-sized Swedish municipality, Värnamo, in their role as decision-makers at the local arena, describe and explain the preconditions and strategies for local economic and social development. The analysis uses semi-structured interviews to reveal the connections between the local actors representations of social and economic structures and their representations of central and future strategic choices. LÄS MER

  4. 4. Mot framtiden på gamla spår? : Regionala intressegrupper och beslutsprocesser kring kustjärnvägarna i Norrland under 1900-talet

    Författare :Fredrik Andersson; Jan Ottosson; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economic history; agenda setting; institutions; Norrland; path dependency; policy making; railways; railway policy; regional interest groups; Sweden; Ekonomisk historia; Economic history; Ekonomisk historia; ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

    Sammanfattning : In this dissertation the construction of two coastal railways, the East Coast Line and the Bothnia Line, in the Norrland region of northern Sweden is used as a case study of how regionally based interest groups are formed, and how they gain access to decision-making processes on a national level. In periods when a number of preconditions were in place, a window of opportunity opened for the coastal railway that the regional elites could exploit. LÄS MER

  5. 5. Organising Regional Innovation Support : Sweden's Industrial Development Centres as Regional Development Coalitions

    Författare :Marie-Louise Eriksson; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; lnnovation support organisations; lnnovation policy; Learning organisations; Development coalitions; Partnership; Organisationai capabilities; Economic geography of innovation; Learning regions; Socio-cultural and institutional context; Path-dependency; Sweden; Finspång; Gnosjö; Tekniska innovationer; regional utveckling; regionalpolitik; innovation; Sverige; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Sammanfattning : This PhD dissertation examines the issues of institutional and policy learning often referred to in discussions about innovation policy in the literature on economic geography of innovation, systems of innovation, and learning regions. A central argument is that in order to enhance OUTknowledge of this learning dimension in innovation policy we need to focus on the level at which much innovation policy is organised and implemented, i. LÄS MER