Essays about: "institutional translation"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 29 essays containing the words institutional translation.

1. 1. Stuck in translation: Why public agencies seldom succeed implementing performance budgeting : A case study on output controls of the Swedish Armed Forces

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Andreas Egevad; [2023]
   Keywords : management accounting; public sector agencies; performance budgeting; efficiency; multiple institutional logics; sociology of translation; trust;

   Abstract : Despite its benefits, output controls are less prevalent than its counterpart input controls in public sector agencies. Performance budgeting aligns the input of resources with the output of products and services systematically, enabling assessment of the efficiency and effectiveness of organizational activities. READ MORE

3. 2. TRANSLATION OF THE EU’S COHESION POLICY INTO REGIONAL PRACTICE - An interview study of the regional management of the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) in West Sweden

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Karolina Kraft; [2022-06-23]
   Keywords : EU; Cohesion Policy; Structural Funds; European Social Fund Plus ESF ; subnational actors; Multi-level governance; social cohesion;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to analyse how different subnational actors interact in and influence the regional management of the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), and what challenges there are in effectively implementing the ESF+ at the subnational level. Previous research has established that the effectiveness of the EU’s Structural Funds, of which the ESF+ is a part, in general varies greatly between different European regions. READ MORE

4. 3. Ideas Traveling Across High Institutional Distances : A Case Study of Digitalization in the Costa Rican Agriculture Sector

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Linus Granath; Emil Luusua; Joshua Keelty; [2022]
   Keywords : Institutional theory;

   Abstract : Institutional theory asserts that an organization’s context determines which circulatingideas it considers appropriate and thus chooses to adapt. Yet, ideas are able to travelacross high institutional distances between significantly different contexts when assistedby intermediaries in the recipient context. READ MORE

5. 4. The travel of a labour market integration method- Institutional contexts shaping the translation of an idea into practice

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Erik Truong; Felicia Sjödin; [2021-06-29]
   Keywords : Translation; travel of ideas; locallity; labour market integration; validation; employability; institutional context; novel method; institutional confusion;

   Abstract : The study investigates how public and private organisations adopt novel labour market integration practices and their implications. It is informed by the case of one Multinational Cooperation (MNC) and two municipal companies that have adopted a novel method to integrate recent refugees and youths into the labour market in Sweden, called job tracks. READ MORE

6. 5. Steering towards Circular Economy- A case study about how individual translation of circular economy influences a multinational corporation (MNC)

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Carl-Fredrik Fock; Julia Carlsson; [2021-06-28]
   Keywords : Circular Economy; Translation; Institutional logics; Organisational change; Legitimacy; Individual motives; MNC;

   Abstract : Circular Economy (CE) has been argued to be a necessary guideline for improving sustainable development, with the objective to gradually decouple growth from the consumption of finite resources. The findings in this report emphasise the complexity of finding a coherent definition of CE and outline why the concept is translated differently by individuals in a multinational corporation (MNC). READ MORE