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- Abalo, Ernesto, 1982-, et al.
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Digitalisering och social exklusion : Om medborgares användning av och attityder till Arbetsförmedlingens digitala tjänster
- 2008
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This research report focuses on the users of e-government in a social science perspective. Our aim is to study how different social groups, registered at the Swedish Public Employment Service, relate to the internet, the agency and the services offered on its website (www.ams.se). The field of e-government research is dominated by studies that centre attention on the supply side (videlicet research investigating the entrance of IT in organizations and the implications that new technology have to these), while usercentred research (demand side) is still scarce. Our study, focusing on how citizens relate to the internet in general and e-government in particular, therefore helps to bridge a knowledge gap within the field. Our survey is based on a questionnaire sent to 2 000 randomly selected persons, all registered at the Swedish Public Employment Service. Of these, 762 job seekers responded, which gives us a frequency rate of 40 percent. The questions asked were related to the job seekers’ usage of and attitudes towards the internet in general and the agency’s webpage in particular, but also to their attitudes to the Swedish Public Employment Service. The main results show that social factors, particularly education, play a major role for the job seekers’ ability to use the web based services offered by the agency. People with a lower educational level are less inclined to use the agency’s website, and at the same time they experience the site as more complicated to use. We also found a strong link between the relations to the internet (access, usage, experience and attitudes) and the relations to the agency’s website. Those with advantaged internet relations – mostly well educated people, white collars and people living in bigger cities – also use the agency’s website more diligently and tend to have more positive attitudes towards it (and vice versa). Thus, its necessary to talk in terms of digitally well equipped and less well equipped groups. The unequal relations to the internet in general and the agency’s website in particular not only indicate that e-government is more suitable for the digitally well equipped, but that it in fact exclude those with less digital resources. This new kind of exclusion has great implications for the job seekers’ possibilities to enter the labour market, and to act their role as citizens. If e government also means a reformation of the citizen role – in the sense of increased individual responsibility towards the government - not bridging the digital divide will carry even more exclusion to those that’s already excluded.
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- Abalo, Ernesto, 1982-, et al.
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Olika publiker, olika livsstilar : Om idrott, kultur och regional utveckling
- 2008
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I föreliggande rapport studeras vilka sociala värden som elitidrotten och kulturen genererar för invånarna i landsortspräglade län som Blekinge, Halland, Kalmar och Kronoberg. Studien syftar till att lämna ett bidrag till den samhällsvetenskapliga idrottsforskningen, och ge ökad kunskap om idrottens och kulturens betydelse för den regionala utvecklingen. Studiens material vilar på en postenkät skickad till 1500 slumpmässigt utvalda personer i respektive län. Det sammanlagda antalet besvarade enkäter uppgick till 3181 stycken, vilket ger en nettosvarsfrekvens på 54 procent. Rapporten visar bland annat att både idrott och kultur värderas relativt högt och konsumeras i relativt stor utsträckning. Beträffande idrott konsumeras främst breddidrottsliga evenemang, och vad gäller kultur besöks bibliotek och biografer oftare än exempelvis teatrar. Studien visar också att de kultur- respektive idrottsintresserade skiljer sig åt vad gäller demografi, men även vad gäller livsstil. De idrottsintresserade har en mer folklig och lantlig prägel, medan de kulturintresserade är att betrakta som en välutbildad kosmopolitisk grupp. Med tanke på de sistnämndas ökade rörlighet är satsningar på kultur ej att förringa. Denna typ av satsningar kan få denna resursstarka grupp att dels stanna kvar i landsorten, dels flytta in till densamma.
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- Collin, Sven-Olof Yrjö, 1957-
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The boards functional emphasis – A contingency approach
- 2008
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Ingår i: Corporate Ownership & Control. - Sumy : Virtus Interpress. - 1727-9232 .- 1810-3057. ; 4:2, s. 24-39
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The understanding of the board of a corporation and its behavior is limited, despite the board’s societalimportance. We present a contingency approach to the board’s functional emphasis, considering afourth function in addition to monitoring, decision making, and service or resource provision. Theadditional function is conflict resolution (or principal identification). The approach contrasts withmainstream research by assuming that the firm is a nexus of investments, avoiding the empiricalassumption that the shareholder is the sole principal. We derive propositions that are not restricted toany empirical category of a corporation, and address praxis implications for managing functionaldisharmony.
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- Collin, Sven-Olof Yrjö, et al.
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Turnover and heterogeneity in top management networks : a demographic analysis of two Swedish business groups
- 2008
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Ingår i: International Journal of Business Science and Applied Management. - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Brunel University. - 1753-0296. ; 3:3, s. 31-55
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A theory based on the demography of top management teams is used to explain membership turnover in two Swedish business groups, network analysis being used to define group membership. The results suggest these business groups possess a combination of financial and industrial experience as a group resource and the socialising strategy of control as a force counteracting the conflict-producing force of heterogeneity. An organisational demographic perspective focusing on opposing forces of heterogeneity and homogeneity is developed. It is shown that the perspective can be applied both to formal organisations and to informal ones such as networks.
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- Gustafsson, Kristina, 1970-
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En muslimsk friskola : Förutsättningar och praktik
- 2008
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Ingår i: Religion och livsfrågor. - Solna : Föreningen Lärare i religionskunskap. - 0347-2159. ; :4, s. 15-17
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- Holmberg, Kristina
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Grund, uppbyggnad och verktyg – diskurspsykologi som analysredskap i musikpedagogisk forskning
- 2008
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Ingår i: Nordisk musikkpedagogisk forskning. - Oslo : Norges musikkhøgskole. - 1504-5021. ; 10, s. 113-134
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Fundament, construction and tools – discursive psychology at work in music education This article addresses how discursive psychology can be used in the discipline of music education. Engaging examples from the field are chosen to provide an introduction to the analysing tools in discursive psychology. Empirical data consist, amongst others, of interviews with students and teachers in Swedish music- and culture schools, and of video observation of choir rehearsal. These provide enlightening examples of how fact construction is built up or undermined in descriptions and also how accounts are involved in action, all considering the rhetorical construction in everyday social inter- action. Some of the tools illustrated are “category entitlement”, “stake inoculation”, “footing”, “out-there-ness”, “active voicing” and “ontological manipulation”. The article also highlights the importance of the theoretical framework, the fundament that is tightly bound up with the perspective of discursive psychology. Here a brief description is made, considering the social world, knowledge and the person as socially constructed, as well as an idea of language as the focus and topic of investigation. – In particular this text intends to give a brief overview of the discursive psychological approach and serve as an introduction to the field.
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