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  1. 21. How managers, academics and students use performance information under conditions of conflicting institutional logics and ambiguity : A case study of a Swedish university

    University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle

    Author : Mattias Sandgren; [2017]
    Keywords : Public sector; management control systems; university sector; higher education; performance information; institutional logic; ambiguity; decision-making;

    Abstract : A “new public sector” arose during 1980-1990s because of the pressure to utilize public funds more efficiently. The change is commonly known as New Public Management (NPM) and initiated a change towards private sector accounting technology, logics and a series of other management tools. READ MORE

  3. 22. Happy Grades in Swedish Primary Schools: an Investigation - How different institutional logics can manage conficting institutional pressures

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

    Author : Henrik Kilander; Jakub Losenicky; [2017]
    Keywords : institutional logics; institutional spheres; education; privatisation; happy grades;

    Abstract : Previously a role model for education, Sweden has been experiencing plummeting results in the international PISA rankings on education since they began in 2003. Defying this trend, the grades of Swedish students have been increasing. READ MORE

  4. 23. What are trees for : an ethnographic study of local firewood practices in Uganda in the context of deforestation and climate change discourses

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Filippa Giertta; [2016]
    Keywords : firewood; deforestation; climate change; carbon forestry; CDM; Kachung;

    Abstract : Interventions and schemes are being introduced all over the world to stop deforestation and reduce climate change. These interventions, on all levels of scale, follow a dominant global discourse based on a human-environment dichotomy and neo-Malthusian logic, and are driven by narratives of degradation by the local population and linear environmental change. READ MORE

  5. 24. The Dilemma of Public Procurement. How interactions between public and private institutions unfold in practice

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Hedwig Yllner; Anne-Kristine Toussaint; [2015-07-13]
    Keywords : public-private partnership; logic of appropriateness; neo-institutionalism; decision-making;

    Abstract : Abstract: Public-private partnerships are growing in importance, popularity and number as an attempt from the governments to cope with globalization pressures and are seen as a product of the New Public Management. The study focuses on the public procurement process where organizations from the public and private sectors are required to collaborate. READ MORE

  6. 25. Non-family CEOs in family firms - A Clash of Logics? : A study on how different logics and perceptions of professionalism  shape expectations and affect relationships.

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/IHH, Företagsekonomi

    Author : Daniel Ruus; Andreas Askmark; [2015]
    Keywords : Family Business; Non-Family CEO; NFC; Clash of Logics; Perceived Professionalism; CEO Recruitment; Clash of Logics; Relationships in Family Business;

    Abstract : In the near future several Swedish family firms will face a need for succession. Many times there is no available successor within the family firm. Hiring a non-family CEO (NFC) is thus a solution to keep the firm within the family. READ MORE