Sökning: "Institutional performance"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 155 avhandlingar innehållade orden Institutional performance.
1. Auditors’ Constitution of Performance : a study on the duality of performance in the auditing profession
Sammanfattning : For decades, the auditing profession has been under scrutiny, due in part to its close association with a business rationale. This has led to some to call for de-professionalization, where accountability, control, and commerce would threaten auditing’s autonomy. LÄS MER
2. Improving IT Integration for Higher Education Institutional Performance : Towards a Contextualised IT-Institutional Alignment Model
Sammanfattning : The integration of information technology (IT) into service delivery is currently seen as an innovative strategy to support the modernising of universities worldwide. However, in some institutions in developing countries, including Rwanda, IT has failed to add the intended value to university services, despite huge associated investments in IT. LÄS MER
3. Utformning och användning av kommunala verksamhetsmått
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to develop a frame of reference within which formal control system performance measures can be described and their design and use can be analyzed for control systems in municipalities. From a cybernetic control approach measures are used as instruments to plan and gain feedback from employee actions, and adjust them to the internal and external environment of which they are a part. LÄS MER
4. The Social Organization of Institutional Norms : Interactional Management of Knowledge, Entitlement and Stance
Sammanfattning : The present thesis explores talk in institutional settings, with a particular focus on how institutionality and institutional norms are constructed and reproduced in interaction. A central aim is to enhance our understanding of how institutional agendas are talked into being. LÄS MER
5. Institutional Ownership - the Anonymous Capital : Corporate Governance and Investment Performance
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of five separate essays and an introductory chapter, The essays can be read independently from each other, but they are all in the field of corporate governance and investment performance. Specifically, the focus is on the role of institutional owners in the conflict between controlling shareholders and minority owners. LÄS MER