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6. Personnel Resistance in Public Professional Service Mergers: The Merging of Two National Audit Organizations
Sammanfattning : The human side of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) – with focus particularly on resistance - has puzzled scholars for decades. Still, there is little discussion as regards to how the concept should be defined or understood. Often expressions of resistance, rather than its actual content, are described. LÄS MER
7. The Moral Rubicon. A Study of the Principles of Sanctity of Life and Quality of Life in Bioethics
Sammanfattning : The principles of sanctity of life and quality of life are often appealed to in medical decisions at the "edges of life." Notwithstanding their importance in bioethics, these principles are still badly understood. This study is an attempt to clarify their normative significance and content. LÄS MER
8. Advance Directives and Personal Identity
Sammanfattning : Advance directives are instructions given by patients – or potential patients – specifying what actions ought to be taken for their health in the event that they are no longer capable to make decisions due to illness or incapacity. Over the last decades, there has been a rising tide in favour of advance directives: not only is the use of such directives recommended by most medical and advisory bodies, they are also gaining increasing legal recognition in many parts of the world. LÄS MER
9. Essays on Voting Behavior, Labor Market Policy, and Taxation
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four self-contained essays.Essay 1 investigates the vote motive in Swedish general elections. A theoretical model of rational retrospective voting is tested empirically on pooled cross-sectional and panel data from the Swedish Election Studies between 1985 and 1994 supplemented with time series on inflation and unemployment. LÄS MER
10. Workers, Firms and Welfare : Four Essays in Economics
Sammanfattning : This thesis comprises four chapters, in two parts. The first part examines the result of a Swedish payroll tax reduction; first from the perspective of the worker, then from that of the employer. The second half of the thesis concerns subjective well-being, both from an individual and from an aggregate viewpoint. LÄS MER