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Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 108 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Decentralization.

1. 16. Future School Management : Do Plans and Needs Match? A Comparative Study with Examples from Four OECD-Countries

   Författare :Kah Slenning; Arild Tjeldvoll; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Education; Future studies; Scenario; Comparative study; Local Management of Schools; Competence; OECD; School Development; Interviews; Curriculum; National Educational Policy; Decentralization; Devolution; internationell pedagogik; International Education;

   Sammanfattning : The overriding aim of this study is to focus a factor affecting the readiness of the education systems of four OECD countries (or, to be quite correct, three countries and one state in the U.S.) to meet and adapt to changing demands and expectations on educational outcome. LÄS MER

3. 17. Icons of New Public Management : four studies on competition, contracts and control

   Författare :Roland M Almqvist; Ernst Jonsson; Björn Brorström; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; competition; decentralization; management by contract; management control system; mechanisms of change; new public management; organizational reform; threat of competition; transformation; Business studies; Företagsekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : Public organizations have undergone major changes over the past few decades. The umbrella term used to characterize these changes in the style of public administration is ‘New Public Management’ (NPM). LÄS MER

4. 18. Informationsteknologi i organisationer : bestämningsfaktorer och mönster

   Författare :Peter Andersson; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Information Technology; Determinants; Organization Structure; Dominant Actors; Decentralization; Strategy.;

   Sammanfattning : Researchers in this field have placed different emphasis on the structural constraints visa- vis the freedom of the actors. An awareness that IT is a social construction does not necessarily mean that some individual actor or actor entity can perform freely. An inflexible, tightly structured social situation can considerably limit the action space. LÄS MER

5. 19. Essays on the economics of education and health

   Författare :Iman Dadgar; Karin Edmark; Matthew Lindquist; Andreea Mitrut; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; education; ordinal rank; decentralization; timetable; accident mortality; heart-disease mortality; unemployment; GDP; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : Study I: This paper investigates the effect of the academic ordinal rank position of Swedish grade 9 students relative to their school peers on future educational achievement and adult earnings. The results show evidence of a positive impact of being more highly ranked in the class, and the effects are concentrated to the top and the bottom of the ordinal rank distribution. LÄS MER

7. 20. Decentralized Application Security

   Författare :Per Hallgren; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Decentralization; Homomorphic Encryption; Location-Based Services; Privacy;

   Sammanfattning : On the internet today, everything is centralized. For most people, a single commercial entity owns the power to disclose all their personal emails. Most commonly your emails are only disclosed to you and your correspondent, but the power to choose who sees these emails is in fact not yours. LÄS MER