Sökning: "principal and agent"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 59 avhandlingar innehållade orden principal and agent.

1. 1. The Practice of Newspaper Ownership: Fifty Years of Control and Influence in the Swedish Local Press

   Författare :Jonas Ohlsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; newspaper ownership; control; influence; the press; ownership concentration; board of directors; foundation ownership; principal-agent; political parallelism; Sweden;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with a perennial theme in both public and academic debate: how ownership is exercised in the news media. It does so by exploring the main agency through which ownership control is expected to be exerted in the individual media firm: the board of directors. LÄS MER

3. 2. Navigating Open Polities for Change in Swedish Bilateral Development Cooperation Projects

   Författare :Jenny Iao-Jörgensen; Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; complex adaptive systems; International Development Cooperation; open polities; Swedish authorities; project management; organisational resilience;

   Sammanfattning : International development cooperation is undergoing a transformation, driven by the urgent need for more effective, holistic approaches to address enduring global challenges. This thesis explores the paradigmatic shift towards complex adaptive systems (CAS) thinking in Swedish bilateral development cooperation project management, in response to these challenges. LÄS MER

4. 3. Incentives and Forest Reform: Evidence from China

   Författare :Yuanyuan Yi; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Forest devolution; Household management; Forest investment; Deforestation; Allocative efficiency; Household welfare; Forestland rental markets; Collective forest tenure reform; Managerial incentives; Environmental protection; State-owned forests; State-owned enterprises; Chinese-style federalism; Two-principal; one-agent model; China;

   Sammanfattning : Chapter I: Forest Devolution Reform in China: A Trigger for Investment or Deforestation? I investigate whether and how the devolution of forestland to households in China triggered investment in forestland, and its effect on forest resource conditions. The investment analysis is based on a panel dataset of a two-round survey of 3,000 households in eight provinces before and after the implementation of the forest devolution reform, while the analysis of resource conditions is based on satellite imagery on forest cover and vegetation during 2001-2012. LÄS MER

5. 4. 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

7. 5. Impartial Contract-Engineering in Real Estate Transactions : The Swedish Broker and the Latin Notary

   Författare :Ola Jingryd; Hans Lind; Claude Zacharias; Malmö högskola; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Latin notary; Real estate agent; Real estate; Real estate broker; Comparative law; Profession; Business and economics;

   Sammanfattning : Even in the days of an ever closer European union, Europe contains no less than four different legal cultures with respect to real estate conveyances: the Latin-German notary system, the deregulated Dutch notary system, the lawyer/solicitor system, and the Scandinavian licensed real estate broker system. The latter is of particular interest in that Scandinavian brokers play a far larger role in real estate transactions than their European counterparts. LÄS MER