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- Solberg Søilen, Klaus, 1968-
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Life style welfare: How the New Class has transformed the Scandinavian Welfare State
- 2009
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Ingår i: Telos. - New York, NY : Telos Press Ltd.. - 0090-6514 .- 1940-459X. ; 2009:148, s. 73-85
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Three hypotheses are presented in this article, each supported by observations and theory. The first is that party distinctions in Scandinavian politics have ceased to be vehicles for coherent ideas related to political ideologies, but that parties instead have become machines to stay in power and keep supporters employed. The second is that the tradition among political parties in Scandinavia and especially in Sweden for accepting federalist measures as a response to central state inefficiencies has been checked by the development of the welfare state. It can only regain momentum through external pressure. The third is that the Scandinavia welfare state model has shifted from one of providing support to the needy to a party guaranteeing the middle class a certain life-style.
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- Solberg Søilen, Klaus, 1968-
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Macklean som ekonom
- 2009
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Ingår i: Svaneholms Årsbok. - Skurup : Svaneholm Andelsförening. ; , s. 37-48, s. 37-48
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Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Rutger Macklean (1742-1816) står ofta beskriven som friherre, politiker, och skiftesreformist. I vilken grad var han också ekonom? Frågan kan verka något långsökt vid en första anblick, men då får man komma ihåg, att ekonomi är ett gammalt grekiskt ord för ”hushållningsadministration" och att det var just detta som präglade mycket av hans verksamhet på Svaneholm, både för egen och för andras räkning . På Mackleans tid fanns det inte ekonomer i den betydelsen som vi idag förstår begreppet. Adam Smith (1723-1790), som ofta räknas som grundläggaren av det vetenskapliga studiet av ekonomi, var t.ex. moralfilosof. Hans mest kända verk Wealth of Nations från år 1776 finner vi också i Mackleans bokhylla. På den tiden benämndes inte det vetenskapliga fackområdet ekonomi, men politisk ekonomi vilket var en blandning av vad vi i dag skulle kalla statsvetenskap och ekonomi.
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- Solberg Søilen, Klaus, 1968-
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Management Implementation of Business Intelligence Systems
- 2008
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Ingår i: Systèmes d'information & intelligence économique. - Tunis : I.H.E. éditions. - 9789973868190 - 9973868196 - 9789973868206 - 997386820X ; , s. 358-371
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There has been much focus on why companies should invest in Business Intelligence (BI) and there has been many contributions on the BI process, but there has been and continues to be less written on how to implement BI in the organization. A major question facing all organizations, both private and public, is where to place the BI or Competitive Intelligence (CI) function in the organization. This answer will depend on the effectiveness of each placement. The findings presented in this article build on a decade of observations and research in the implementation of Business Intelligence Systems. A series of seven models are presented with examples of actual use.
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- Solberg Søilen, Klaus, 1968-, et al.
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Market Intelligence : Building Strategic Insight
- 2009
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Market Intelligence provides managers with helpful concepts, tools and ideas on market intelligence and analysis. Additionally, it gives the reader some of the analytical tools used to analyze both micro and macro factors in the organization’s environment to better predict future outcomes and help decision making. The field of competitive intelligence is studied by a diverse research community. Contributions are made to aid states on a national, regional and local level (Public Intelligence), the military (Military Intelligence), non-profit organizations (NPO Intelligence) and private companies (Private Intelligence). However, these contributions are mostly done in isolation, even though all these fields of study have much in common. The authors build their insight on these various schools as well as practical applications and provide the essential insights to aid management thinking.
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- Solberg Søilen, Klaus, 1968-, et al.
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Mercatus Engineering AB
- 2004
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Abstract: Starting out as a family business within environmental tech-niques, Mercatus Engineering AB, with its base in Vimmerby/Småland, grew rapidly during the 1990s when protection of the environment was a new market. After a short period of uncertainty in 1999, the board decided to invest intensely in its staff and in the re-organisation of the company. During one year all employees were given special training with the goal to obtain a higher degree of team spirit. The company says the investment has paid off. Mercatus has received a row of awards for their efforts. Although such staff training might be fruitful for the company at-mosphere, and companies frequently mention it as a reason for improve-ments, the question is whether it is the primary reason for the increased earnings and effectiveness of many companies. Investment in staff is a well used form of marketing, both internally and externally. Companies typi-cally want to show that their individual actions are the real reasons for change when in many cases it is Business cycles and external forces. After a period of slack environment issues have become a booming market again. New technologies are developed and launched successfully.
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- Solberg Søilen, Klaus, 1968-, et al.
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MSG (Mould Supply Group)
- 2004
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Abstract: The Swedish (and European) instrument mechanical industry has experienced a crisis since they started to meet serious competition from Baltic and South East Asian countries some years ago. The biggest competitors nowadays come from China; this phenomenon has commonly been called the “Chinese threat”. Being aware of the seriousness of the situation, corporations in several European countries have decided to combine their strengths and form clusters (as e.g. in Portugal). In Sweden, so far, such forms of cooperation have been less common. The leaders of three firms in Middle Sweden – Modellteknik AB in Eskilstuna, T-mold AB in Tvärred/Ulricehamn and Formverktyg in Nynäshamn AB – decided to go together and form a cooperation in order to improve their chances of surviving in the global marketplace. Although these companies differ considerably in their routines and their traditions, and even though they are located in different areas, these firms are in the process of growing together to meet future challenges. The cooperation has taken a rather loose and flexible form, i.e. non-institutionalised, which leaves room for other potential firms to join the project.
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- Solberg Søilen, Klaus, 1968-, et al.
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Nipsoft AB
- 2004
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Abstract: A large part of graduate engineers are hired directly by corporations when they graduate from university. They typically spend most of their working life being employed. Only a few take the step into entrepreneurship and start their own business. One reason for this university may be that educated engineers are not properly trained to run a business of their own. Many emphasize their short term personal economic situation even though they have developed a competitive business idea while in university. The founder and owner of the recently started IT-firm Nipsoft AB, located in Sollefteå/Northern Sweden, tells the story of an exceptional career: Being an academically trained technician, he thought he might have to wait a long time before leading a corporation of his own. Under rather coin-cidental circumstances he was able to start his own business at the age of 29. After a short time of struggle, he now leads his data system developing company successfully. He believes that much of his achievements is due to the short economic education which he received in an independent organization. For students to start to think about the possibility of starting up companies they need to be taught how.
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- Solberg Søilen, Klaus, 1968-, et al.
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Semantics, Classifications and Evidence in a Model for Global Catastrophic Risks
- 2011
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Ingår i: Knowledge organization. - Frankfurt : Ergon Verlag. - 0943-7444. ; 38:5, s. 438-454
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Life on the surface of the Earth is fragile and can be deteriorated by outside influence, from nature, or inside influence, from humans. We present a macro perspective for the nation state as a knowledge discourse system. To detect what might happen, a surveillance model needs to classify emerging risks prior to occurrence. The state intelligence model presented here helps survey potential macro factors. During risk analysis, a set of risk classification criteria was devised for linking inside and outside influence trigger points that can indicate existential catastrophes. The analysis is based on a classification of current risks rather than distant future potential risks. Each is measured according to its respective impact, and whether or not it is highly probable to occur or recur in the surveillance system. The inside influence is found most probable with a probability of P >= 0.4 compared to outside influence with a probability of P >= 0.28. The State Intelligence Surveillance Analysis Model presented here consists of an 8-by-8 risk matrix or, a 16 risk table with a computable 20.92 trillion risk combinations per second. The relationships between inside and outside influences have been studied and grouped into classification schemes, where it is imagined that one may trigger the other, and by chance, acting autonomously for any type of catastrophe. The current study gives more focus and awareness to classifiers and the problem of which surveillance components to detect, thereby improving simulations, being well aware that the exact calculations for catastrophes are impossible.
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- Solberg Søilen, Klaus, 1968-
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The shift from Geopolitics to Geoeconomics and the failure of our modern Social Sciences
- 2010
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Geoeconomics is gradually replacing the importance of Geopolitics. The transition is marked by the start of the process we call Globalization , about two decades old now, but still in its infancy, when government and government institutions discovered that they no longer were self-evident key actors and watchmen of world events . The process is an effect of the end of the Cold War and marks a strategic shift from political ideologies to economic realities.For decades fellow economists have praised the value of public and private borrowing, the production of services at the expense of the production of goods and they have underestimated the importance of trade surpluses for the Competitive Advantage of Nations. They have done so because they have failed to see what makes a nation, a region or a city wealthy in the long run. We have developed a social science paradigm at our universities which have undermined our own development. At the same time we have disregarded much of the tradition for critical thinking, as implied in Critical Theory but more fundamentally as understood for centuriesThe study of all living organisms is now studied with the use of Evolutionary Theory; except for the study of Man. We must start to ask ourselves why. Why should the Social Sciences be any different than Zoology in this respect, unless we say that Man stands outside of biology?
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- Solberg Søilen, Klaus, 1968-
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Towards the approaching of different Academic Intelligence Traditions : A place for Geopolitics
- 2008
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- There are different academic communities studying the subject of intelligence today whose methodological approach is quite different and as a partial consequence are not integrated. Not only the French tradition of Intelligence Economique, but also that of Geopolitique and Geoeconomie, which tend to discuss specific strategic problems from a broad multi disciplinary perspectives which includes philosophical and sociological considerations, the Anglo Saxon tradition of Competitive Intelligence, which tends to focus on empirical tests of real life cases, that of Market Intelligence which study problems of intelligence in the marketing function, that of Business Intelligence which focuses on the technology involved (Data Mining, CRM, etc), that of the Swedish Omvärdsanalys, or surrounding world analysis, focusing on both private and public side intelligence, and the German tradition of Wirtschaftsspionage, which tend to stick to definitions and historical parallels can all profit from more cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural reading and research.
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