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- Bröchner, Jan, 1948, et al.
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Quality and legal aspects in public care procurement
- 2016
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Ingår i: TQM Journal. - 1754-2731 .- 1754-274X. ; 28:4, s. 648-663
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the applicability of care quality concepts as contractaward criteria for public procurement of health and social care, using the case of Sweden.Design/methodology/approach – Based on a literature review, European and Swedish legal texts,government regulations as well as 26 Swedish court review cases concerning care procurement havebeen analysed.Findings – Methods used for assessing care quality are seldom useful for predicting the quality to bedelivered by a potential contractor. Legal principles of transparency and equal treatment of tenderersmake it necessary to apply strict requirements for verification.Research limitations/implications – Results refer primarily to a Swedish context but could beapplicable throughout the EU. Further studies of relations between award criteria and public/privatecollaborative practices for improving care quality during contractual periods are desirable.Practical implications – Local and regional procurement officials should benefit from a betterunderstanding of how quality criteria should be designed and applied to the award procedures for carecontracts. Care providers in the private sector would also be able to develop their quality strategies andpresent their abilities more efficiently when tendering for public contracts.Social implications – Issues of quality of health and social care are of obvious importance for socialsustainability. Public awareness of care quality problems is evident and often a cause of media concern.Originality/value – This investigation pinpoints the difference between traditional care qualitythinking and the legal principles underlying contract award in public procurement of care services.
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- Söderholm, Patrik, 1968-, et al.
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The political economy of industrial pollution control : environmental regulation in Swedish industry for five decades
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0964-0568 .- 1360-0559. ; 65:6, s. 1056-1087
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The paper analyzes the prerequisites for a regulatory-driven transition toward radically lower air and water pollution in industry. This is achieved in the empirical context of the Swedish mining and metals industry, and by investigating the environmental licensing processes during two regulatory systems. The paper derives an analytical framework that explores under what circumstances such licensing processes can result in radical emissions reductions without seriously jeopardizing the competitiveness of the industry. Archived material covering six environmental licensing processes, three during each system, is used to illustrate the various design and implementation issues. The results suggest that regulatory-driven green transitions benefit from trust-based bargaining procedures in which companies are involved in repeated interactions with regulatory authorities, and which extended probation periods permit tests of novel abatement technologies (including innovation). The findings also illustrate the importance of abstaining from simplified normative notions about policy instrument choice (e.g. taxes versus standards).
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- Öhman, Lisa, 1978, et al.
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Overhearing the planning of a crime: Do adults outperform children as earwitnesses?
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Ingår i: Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0882-0783 .- 1936-6469. ; 26:2, s. 118-127
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study examined the reliability of earwitnesses using an ecologically realistic experimental set-up. A total of 282 participants, distributed over three age-groups (7–9 vs. 11–13 year olds vs. adults), were exposed to an unfamiliar voice for 40 seconds. After a two week delay, they were presented with a 7-voice lineup. Half of the participants were exposed to a target-present lineup (TP), and the other half to a target-absent lineup (TA). For both types of lineups the participants performed poorly. In the TP-condition only the 11–13-year olds (with 27% correct identifications) performed above chance level. Furthermore, in the TA-condition all age-groups showed a high willingness to make an identification (overall mean=53%). For both groups of children, voice identification co-varied significantly with speaking rate and pitch level, as did pitch variation for the youngest children. Neither factor correlated significantly with the adults’ identifications.
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- Öman, Lisa, et al.
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Mobile phone quality vs. direct quality : How the presentation format affects earwitness identification accuracy
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Ingår i: The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context. - : Sociedad Española de Psicología Jurídica y Forense. - 1889-1861 .- 1989-4007. ; 2:2, s. 161-182
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The present study aimed to gain insight into the effect of mobile phone quality on voice identification using an ecologically realistic design. A total of 165 participants were exposed to an unfamiliar voice, either directly recorded or mobile phone recorded, for 40 seconds. After a two week delay, they were asked to identify the target-voice in a 7 voice target-present line-up. We used a between- subjects design, where half of the subjects were exposed to a directly recorded line-up, and the other half to a mobile phone recorded line-up. Data analysis did not show any significant effect of presentation format or line-up format. These results suggest that the detrimental effect on voice recognition suggested by the poorer sound quality of mobile phone recordings is minimal. They also indicate that there is no benefit from conducting a mobile phone recorded line-up, if the voice is originally heard over a mobile phone. More research is needed, however, before definitive conclusions may be drawn. The overall accuracy for correct identifications was 12.7% which is expected by chance. Further, one particular foil attracted 54% of all false identifications. Future research should focus on explaining why earwitnesses perform so poorly and develop methods to improve identification accuracy.
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