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- Eriksson, Kimmo, 1967-, et al.
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Emotional reactions to losing explain gender differences in entering a risky lottery
- 2010
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Ingår i: Judgment and decision making. - 1930-2975. ; 5:3, s. 159-163
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A gender difference in risk preferences, with women being more averse to risky choices, is a robust experimental finding. Speculating on the sources of this difference, Croson and Gneezy recently pointed to the tendency for women to experience emotions more strongly and suggested that feeling more strongly about negative outcomes would lead to greater risk-aversion. Here we test this hypothesis in an international survey with 424 respondents from India and 416 from US where we ask questions about a hypothetical lottery. In both countries we find that emotions about outcomes are stronger among women, and that this effect partially mediates gender difference in willingness to enter the lottery.
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- Eklinder-Frick, Jens, et al.
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Bridging and bonding forms of social capital in a regional strategic network
- 2011
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Ingår i: Industrial Marketing Management. - Amsterdam : Elsevier. - 0019-8501. ; 40:6, s. 994-1003
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Research on networks emphasizes the importance of bonds between actors. Social reciprocity strengthens network bonds, which is assumed to have positive effects on business relationships between firms. However,the importance of weak ties is also stressed in network research. An important policy issue is therefore if more attention should be devoted to the creation of bridges to other social groups and loosening bonds between network actors. The difficulty in doing so is described and analyzed in this article focusing on a regional strategic network, which is viewed in three network perspectives. Interview data were collected from all participating managers in a regional strategic network in 2004 and 2010. The findings shed light upon the paradox of using a regional strategic network to counteract over-embeddedness and freeing the involved actors from existing network lock-ins instead of further strengthening such social institutions.
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- Söderbaum, Peter, 1937-
(författare)
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Från monopol till konkurrens och pluralism inom nationalekonomin
- 2010
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Ingår i: Fria Tidningen. - Skarpnäck : Fria Tidningen. - 1654-9449. ; :11, s. 4-5
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Undervisningen i nationalekonomi vid Sveriges universitet sker enligt neoklassisk teori. Denna teori är speciell ur ideologisk synvinkel och legitimerar neoliberalismen som ideologi. Införande av pluralism vid nationalekonomiska institutioner är ett viktigt steg ur demokratisk synvinkel och när det gäller att komma till rätta med en ur miljösynpunkt ohållbar samhällsutveckling.
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- Söderbaum, Peter, 1937-
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Sustainability economics as a contested concept :
- 2011
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Ingår i: Ecological Economics. - Elsevier. - 0921-8009. ; 70:6, s. 1019-1020
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sustainability economics as a concept is interpreted differently in different publications. Some authors look for a modification of mainstream neoclassical economics while the present author regards sustainability economics as part of a different and separate economics paradigm.
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- Eriksson, Kimmo, et al.
(författare)
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The devil is in the details : Incorrect intuitions in optimal search
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. - 0167-2681. ; 75, s. 338-347
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- n the classic Secretary Problem it has been established that people tend to search somewhat less than is optimal, and a number of explanations have been suggested. Here we propose a new explanation, the Similar-But-Incorrect Intuitions Hypothesis, which says that suboptimal search behavior is to be expected because optimal strategies vary disproportionately with subtle details of the search problem setup, whereas people seem to entertain general intuitions about optimal search. We find support for this hypothesis in experiments on a new search problem, the Explore-and-Collect Problem, where the player collects utility from an option every time it is tried and options can be recalled. Although the optimal search effort in this problem is much smaller than for the Secretary Problem, people tend to search only marginally less. This is not predicted by previous explanations for suboptimal search.
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- Ekman, Peter, et al.
(författare)
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ERP selection through business relationships : adaptations or connections
- 2011
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Ingår i: International Journal of Entrepreneural Venturing. ; 3:1, s. 63-83
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyses how a generic form of information technology (IT), enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, can be selected by companies to enhance their business. ERP systems are a means of becoming more efficient through predefined standard functions called 'best practices'. Following the theory that markets are made up of business relationships in a network context, managerial advice would be to assess the vendor's existing business relationships. A company can harvest the inherent functions that an ERP system has from the vendor's prior interaction with other customers. This paper discusses how a company benefits from engaging in a new business relationship with an ERP vendor to become more competitive. However, this relationship is double-edged. A lesson is that the functions developed by the ERP vendor and the customer only offer a temporal competitive advantage, given that it can be used later in the ERP vendor's other connected business relationships.
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- Dobers, Peter, 1966-, et al.
(författare)
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Corporate Social Responsibility
- 2010
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Ingår i: Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. - Wiley InterScience. - 1535-3958. ; 17:2, s. 63-69
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The problematic and contestable nature of discourses on corporate social responsibility (CSR) has driven the commissioning of this special issue on discourses, narratives, and communication about CSR. While CSR may be seen as sharing normative goals with the concept of sustainable development, there are fundamental questions to be asked about the nature and purpose of CSR, how it has been constructed and framed, and whether it promotes the normative goals of sustainable development in order to effect change to the business-as-usual model. The teasing out of the different discourses of CSR has become an important theme in academic research in recent years. In this issue, that discourse is developed. The authors discover gaps between CSR as understood by civil society groups and radical non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the CSR norms promoted at corporate level. The latter fail to impact on business-as-usual, even though the same lan- guage may be used. The link between Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) reporting and market-value is explored; and CSR principles and actions promoted by business are cri- tiqued from the perspective of the norms of sustainable development, one conclusion being that the parameters of sustainable development as a concept need to be extended to include the dimension of culture.
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- Holmgren Caicedo, Mikael, et al.
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The makings of a statement: : accounting for employee health
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Human Resource Costing and Accounting. - Emerald Group Publishing. - 1401-338X. ; 14:4, s. 286-306
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how the idea of health statements is constructed and on what assumptions it rests. Design/methodology/approach – Published health statements from the Swedish municipality of Umea ̊ are analysed in terms of the rhetoric of the arguments that are presented. This is done in order to identify the assumptions the arguments rest on.Findings – Although no empirical proof is provided, the arguments presented in the health statements of Umea ̊ municipality follow a logic that goes from success factors to good results via employee health and satisfaction as a proxy of internal quality of work that in turn is assumed to create good quality of service. The construction of that logic is concomitantly the production and reproduction of a moral system of values that rest on the ambiguousness and implicitness. Originality/value – A discussion about the assumptions expressed in Umea ̊ municipality’s health statements, how they are constructed to make the management accounting of employee health work and the construction of morals that is implicit in that system.
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- Strannegård, Lars, 1969-, et al.
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Unstable Identities: Stable Unsustainability
- 2010
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Ingår i: Sustainable Development. - Wiley InterScience. - 0968-0802. ; 18:3, s. 119-122
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The identity concept has emerged as a key analytical concept in the social sciences in the past decades. In both scientifi c accounts and everyday use, the identity concept has tradi- tionally been seen as something that individuals possess. This view has however been heavily criticized by a social identity strand of social science, where identity is a matter of a negotiation where different social roles are learned in relations with others. The relational view of identities creates some serious problems for the sustainability challenge. In a world of relational identities, individuals are engaged in identity-creating interactions every day. Key problems are that the interactions, in urban environments, are highly commercialized; consumption cues are emotionally based and speak to our senses, and outnumber the competing cues several times over. Sustainable lifestyles are thus very fragile.
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