Sökning: "accountability"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 210 avhandlingar innehållade ordet accountability.

  1. 11. Accountability and the making of knowledge statements : a study of academic discourse

    Författare :Hans Malmström; Engelska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; academic discourse; metapragmatics; verbs; social knowledge; higher-level metadiscourse; knowledge statement; metadiscourse; accountability; discourse voice; communication; citation; backgrounding; foregrounding;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates the manifestation of speaker accountability in connection with knowledge statements in two different kinds of academic discourse. The study focuses on knowledge statements which feature a set of knowledge stating verbs, namely argue, claim, suggest, propose, maintain, assume and believe. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Objectives, actors and accountability in quasi-markets: Studies of Swedish primary care

    Författare :Anna Glenngård; Företagsekonomiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Health care reform; Public sector; Governance; Accountability; Primary care;

    Sammanfattning : Following public sector reforms inspired by New Public Management, new structures and processes intended for actors to coordinate their activities have been introduced in the public sectors in Northern Europe since the 1980s. Partly, the focus on structural change has evolved around creating market-like structures. LÄS MER

  4. 13. Information, Voting Behavior and Electoral Accountability

    Författare :Mattias Nordin; Eva Mörk; Massimo Bordignon; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Information; Voting Behavior; Electoral Accountability; Principal-Agent; Vote Aggregation; Mass Media; News Consumption;

    Sammanfattning : Essay 1: In this paper, I investigate the causal effect of information on citizens’ ability to hold their elected politicians accountable for past behavior. Using survey data from the 2006 U.S. LÄS MER

  5. 14. Accountability and Family Business Contexts : An Interpretive Approach to Accounting and Control Practices

    Författare :Emilia Florin Samuelsson; Jönköping University; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis discusses accounting and control practices in terms of accountability, i.e. how organizational actors work out who is accountable to whom over what. The study investigates how different forms of accountability can emerge and develop in organizations represented as family- controlled. LÄS MER

  7. 15. Ansvarighet och redovisning i nätverk : En longitudinell studie om synliggörande och osynliggörande i offentlig verksamhet

    Författare :Cecilia Lindholm; Ingemund Hägg; Eva Wallerstedt; Virpi Havila; Johnny Lind; Rolf Solli; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Business studies; Företagsekonomi; Ansvarighet i nätverk; Ansvarighet och redovisning; Relationer och nätverk; Synliggörande och osynliggörande; Offentlig verksamhet; Missbrukarvården inom socialtjänsten; Processer i nätverk; Ansvarighet som process; Business studies; Företagsekonomi; Business Studies; företagsekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : Making fundamental changes in the accounting systems of public-sector organisations and introducing management accounting models in those organisations constitutes not only a change in accounting techniques, but more importantly, causes major changes in the processes within which accountability is constructed through interaction between actors. When the use of management accounting methods in the public sector occurs, fundamental ideas about public sector activities change. LÄS MER