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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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Geoeconomics
- 2012
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- With the shift from geopolitics to geoeconomics the focus is no longer the Heartland or the Rimland, or any coherent geographical region, but the set of all geographical locations containing economically-important natural resources, what we shall call the Nareland (Natural Resource Lands). This new logic of dispersed geographical locations marks the shift from geopolitics to geoeconomics. The centre stage has been taken over by the private-sector organization, the corporation. This means that power has been transferred from the public to the private sphere. It means that the nation state is ceding its power to individuals – less in some countries and more in others, for instance less in Sweden than in the USA; but the trend is clear, and it is global.
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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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- Hansson, Linnea, et al.
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Optimal ways for companies to use Facebook as a marketing channel
- 2013
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Ingår i: Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society. - Bingley : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 1477-996X .- 1758-8871. ; 11:2, s. 112-126
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose – Social media has increased as a marketing channel, and Facebook is the biggest social media company globally. Facebook contains both positive and negative information about companies; therefore, it is important for companies to manage their Facebook page to best serve their own interests. Although most users are familiar with business and marketing activities on Facebook, they use it primarily for fun and personal purposes. The most effective methods for companies to use Facebook have not been clear. The personal nature of Facebook presents unique challenges for companies by raising ethical and social responsibility issues that are important to users. The purpose of this paper is to discover how companies can optimize their use of Facebook as a marketing channel. Design/methodology/approach – A survey was conducted. The respondents were 158 users of Facebook in Sweden; complete answers were provided by all respondents. In a series of specific questions and comments, the respondents were asked to describe an optimal marketing solution on Facebook for companies. They rated different functions, which were illustrated with pictures, to help in the cognitive process and to avoid misunderstandings. Findings – Most users who have an opinion on the issue accept marketing on Facebook, but only in the right amount. There are basically two groups: those who think that companies have no place on Facebook and those who want companies to be active on Facebook. The latter group emphasizes the importance of meaningful posts without unsolicited sales messages, and would prefer to search for the companies themselves rather than being bombarded by company messages. By far, status updates and pictures/images were found to be the most important functions to respondents. Research limitations/implications – The sample consisted of only Swedish users. Another limitation was that, since many Facebook users do not normally think about the implications of being exposed to marketing on Facebook, they have difficulty taking a position on many issues related to the service.Practical implications – The results give companies a clear idea of how to effectively use Facebook in their marketing efforts. Originality/value – A large number of companies are currently asking themselves, “How can we use Facebook in an optimal way?” The results in this study answer this question and lead directly to saving time and resources for these companies.
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- Solberg Søilen, Klaus, 1968-
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Why the social sciences should be based in evolutionary theory : the example of geoeconomics and intelligence studies
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business. - Halmstad : Halmstad University. - 2001-015X. ; 7:1, s. 5-37
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article gathers arguments for why the social sciences should be based in evolutionary theory by showing the shortcomings of the current paradigm based on the study of physics. Two examples are used, the study of intelligence studies and geoeconomics. After a presentation of the geoeconomics literature and an explanation of what the organic view of the social sciences is, we follow the study of economics as it developed after the Second World War to see where it went wrong and why.
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- Solberg Søilen, Klaus, 1968-
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Wirtschaftsspionage in Verhandlungen aus Informationsökonomischer und Wirtschaftsethischer Perspektive : eine Interdisziplinäre Analyse
- 2004
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The dissertation examines a case of industrial espionage by one of the parties involved in a forthcoming international negotiation. We want to know what consequences a burglary has for the actual negotiation. The dissertation consist of five hypothesis, of which the three first were empirically tested. The discussion of thesis four and five is supported basically by research literature, but have also found indirect support in the empirical study. A game theoretical model of four information sets is used. Thesis 1: Pay-offs do not change significantly from one information set to the other. confirmed Thesis 2: Behavior do not change significantly from one information set to the other. confirmed Thesis 3: The perception of fairness do not change significantly from one information set to the other. confirmed Thesis 4: International negotiations is socially so complex that it only makes sense to study the phenomena from an interdisciplinary angle. confirmed Thesis 5: A descriptive evolutionary approach can be an alternative to neoclassical economic theory in understanding the study of international negotiations. confirmed The study also confirms that economic theory is correct in excluding the ethical dimension from their models, as these factors have little influence on the end price. Fairness plays only a minor role in international negotiations. **
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- Solberg Søilen, Klaus, 1968-, et al.
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How Application Integration, Security Issues and Pricing Strategies in Business Intelligence Shape Vendor Differentiation
- 2009
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Ingår i: ECIS 2009. - Stockholm : ECIS. ; , s. 252-260
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper is investigating, through a mixed-method research combining interviews and an online survey, how BI vendors differentiate themselves when it comes to application integration, security issues and pricing strategies. The conclusion is that BI vendors differentiated themselves mainly by having individual definitions of what BI is. Buyers should therefore compare vendors through the vendor’s definition of Business Intelligence. Security issues were mainly user centric and pricing strategies implied that vendors approach buyers in a similar way where they offered standardized software bundles that could require some degree of customization in order for the buyer to derive the maximum benefit from the applications. It can be deduced from the obtained results that the most competitive BI vendors are acting more homogenous towards buyers when they offer their products and handle customers, compared to niche BI vendors.
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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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- Drozdz, Sebastian, 1992-, et al.
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An Assessment of Customer Shared Value in the Restaurant Industry – a Survey from Sweden
- 2015
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Ingår i: Theoretical and Applied Economics. - Bucarest : Asociatia Generala a Economistilor din Romania (A G E R). - 1841-8678 .- 1844-0029. ; 22:4 (605), s. 85-98
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article tries to investigate to which extent the concept of Customer Shared Value (CSV) is relevant for a particular industry, the restaurant industry. We wanted to know if there is a correlation between social benefits and economic benefits for restaurants. We also wanted to know if restaurants already conduct their business according to the concept of Creating Shared Value, but maybe without reference to the concept as such. We found that restaurant companies in Sweden actually work to create economic benefits and social values. However we did not find that there was any clear pattern between economic value and social values. The companies with the highest total shared value are in fact the companies with the highest revenue, but there are also companies with lower revenue which have scored high in total shared value and vice versa. Most of the restaurants implicitly work with several factors of the concept such as having knowledge of the costs and causes of environmental impacts and the notion of how to treat employees fairly. The findings are valuable because they show to what extent CSV is a reality in the restaurant business today. This may have implications about how practitioner and scholars alike view the concept of CSV.
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- Patowary, Muhammad Muzahidul Islam, et al.
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Improving last-mile delivery for e-commerce : the case of Sweden
- 2023
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Ingår i: International Journal of Logistics. - Abingdon : Taylor & Francis. - 1367-5567 .- 1469-848X. ; 26:7, s. 872-893
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In an age where e-commerce can provide a huge variety of different products online, customers still face the issue of the last mile challenge. The purpose of this paper is to find out if the last-mile delivery of products is efficient and explore the possible improvement to this service. This research shows that home delivery is the preferred method of last-mile delivery. A significant gap was disclosed between the available options for delivery on e-commerce websites and consumer preferences of last-mile delivery. Time of delivery and accuracy are the greatest barriers in the delivery chain. The research also shows that there is a lack of home delivery services provided in the market. The research is limited by the usage of non-probability sampling and equal distribution of respondents of all ages. The research identifies a clear gap between customers’ demands in the last mile and the firms’ offerings. © 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
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