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Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 109 avhandlingar innehållade ordet academics.

  1. 16. Essays on Social Comparison

    Författare :Fredrik W. Andersson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Marginal degree of positionality; relative consumption; marginal propensity to consume; self-reported current happiness; self-reported expected future happiness; relative academic performance; comparison wage; permanent income consumers; current income consumers; rule of thumb consumers; aggregation bias; sick listing; social norms;

    Sammanfattning : Paper 1: By using hypothetical choice experiments, this paper presents evidence that individuals’ concern for relative consumption depends on their relative consumption. Individuals with consumption levels above society’s average consumption level tend to have, in general, lower concern for relative consumption. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Advertising effectiveness measurement : intermediate constructs and measures

    Författare :Lars Bergkvist; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : Advertisers invest substantial amounts of money in advertising and need to know whether these investments pay off. Given that advertising generally has both short-term and long-term effects and that the behavioral effects of advertising are influenced by numerous other factors, intermediate measures are needed that gauge the mental effects of advertising in the target audience. LÄS MER

  4. 18. Where Scholars are Made : Gendered Arenas of Persona Formation in Finnish Folkloristics, 1918–1932

    Författare :Lisa Svanfeldt-Winter; Kirsti Niskanen; Marja-Liisa Keinänen; Annika Berg; Elise Garritzen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Scholarly persona; gender; Finnish history; history of folklore; history of humanities; history of knowledge; students; History; historia;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates how two Finnish folklorists, Elsa Enäjärvi (1901–1951) and Martti Haavio (1899–1973), obtained information about perceptions of what constituted good and acknowledged scholars and how they responded to these implicit and explicit expectations and requirements. The dissertation uses the concept of scholarly persona as an analytical tool to identify notions of good scholars as well as Enäjärvi’s and Haavio’s processes to form themselves as such. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Indicators in Action : Development, Use and Consequences

    Författare :Sofi Ersson; Jan-Erik Gröjer; Cecilia Lindholm; Ulf Johanson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Business studies; Performance measurements; non-financial; human resources; development; use; consequences; public sector; Företagsekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : The increased attention to performance measurements is evident in both private and public sector organizations and among both academics and practitioners. Although there is a strong belief in the possibilities of using measurements for managing organizations, both academics and practitioners have questioned measurements potential. LÄS MER

  7. 20. A metric culture in academia : The influence of performance measurement on the academic culture of Swedish universities

    Författare :Johan Söderlind; Lars Geschwind; Mats Benner; Peter Dahler-Larsen; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :Technology and Learning; Teknik och lärande;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis studies how the proliferation of performance measurement within Swedish universities has affected the way university actors perceive academic work. The wide diffusion of performance measures in academia is conceptualised as a reflection of changes in the wider societal culture that may be attributed to comprehensive public sector reforms, the globalisation of the higher education sector and novel perspectives and expectations on universities. LÄS MER