Sökning: "Agency costs"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 67 avhandlingar innehållade orden Agency costs.
1. Voices for Change : Hopes and costs for empowerment - a study on women's claims in the Egyptian revolution
Sammanfattning : This study investigates women’s possibilities to actively participate in societal change in Egypt. It aims at enhancing the understanding of structural conditions for women’s agency and how these enables and/or restrains women’s participation in the aspiration for societal change as well as their aspiration to live a ‘full life’. LÄS MER
2. Costs and Benefits of Delegation : Managerial Discretion as a Bridge between Strategic Management and Corporate Governance
Sammanfattning : This dissertation addresses the question of effective delegation, exploring it through the concept of managerial discretion (i.e., a latitude of managerial actions, which lie in the zone of shareholders’ acceptance). LÄS MER
3. Socioeconomic evaluation of postal and telecommunication services for disabled persons : applications to text telephone and videophone relay services
Sammanfattning : Introduction: The Swedish National Post and Telecom Agency provides services in the postal and telecommunication field aimed at several groups of disabled persons in Sweden. The services included in this study were the text telephone relay service and the videophone relay service. LÄS MER
4. Costs in Swedish Public Transport : An analysis of cost drivers and cost efficiency in public transport contracts
Sammanfattning : During the last seven years, the total cost for Swedish public transport provision has increased by over 30 percent in real terms according to figures from the government agency Transport Analysis. A similar pattern is found if considering a longer time span. LÄS MER
5. Essays on entrepreneurship and bureaucracy
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis is to explore the theoretical and empirical relationship between entrepreneurship and bureaucracy, and to examine the cause and effect of entrepreneurship. From this overall aim, four specific questions are investigated. LÄS MER