Sökning: "Executives"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 50 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Executives.

1. 1. Essays on behavioral determinants of earnings quality

   Författare :Savvas Papadopoulos; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Företagsledare; Redovisning; Accounting; Executives;

   Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

3. 2. Företagsledares arbete och tillväxt

   Författare :Jonas Fasth; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Företagsledare; Entreprenörskap; Små- och medelstora företag; Executives; Entrepreneurship;

   Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this study is to contribute to knowledge about the relationship between what entrepreneurs do and firm growth. This aim have been translated into three research questions: (1) What characterizes the work of entrepreneurs in small and medium-sized businesses?; (2) What affects the design of entrepreneurial work? (3) How does the work of entrepreneurs relate to business growth? In order to develop knowledge about how entrepreneurs work to create growth interviews with 60 entrepreneurs were made. LÄS MER

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

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

   Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

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

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

   Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

7. 5. Styrning bakom kulisserna : Regeringskansliets politiska staber och regeringens styrningskapacitet

   Författare :Anna Ullström; Rune Premfors; Göran Sundström; Patrik Hall; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; core executives; government; government offices; ministerial staff; political advisers; political appointees; political elites; steering; governance; policy capacity; political institutions; state organization; political ethnography; regeringskansliet; regeringen; politiska staber; politiskt sakkunniga; politiskt anställda; politiska eliter; styrning; styrningskapacitet; politiska institutioner; statens organisering; politisk etnografi; Political science; Statsvetenskap; Ethnography; Etnografi; Public sector research; Forskning om offentlig sektor; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis analyses one of the less explored areas of Swedish politics: the political appointees in the ministerial staffs of the Swedish core executive. The study draws attention to the everyday life of the ministerial staff in order to give an idea of their function: What do the political appointees do? How is the work of the ministerial staffs organized? How is policy coordinated at the political level? The main empirical focus of this thesis is the 2002-2006 term of office. LÄS MER