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- Arnesson, Leif
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Chefsrörlighet
- 1998
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Executive mobility, specifically the movement of executives between different positions and how an organization's management and the executives themselves handle such transitions, can have a great impact on both organizations and individuals. It is therefore important to pay attention to the use of executive mobility as an instrument for organizational control. As far as top executives are concerned, the control function is central to management of a large company. Studying mobility in the long term makes it possible to determine whethermobility follows distinct patterns; what influence management has on the mobility of top executives and how this influence varies over time; and whether management exercises organizational control of transitions to new executive positions.Empirical data was collected from twenty-six executives of a large Swedish company ranked immediately below the chief executive officer (CEO). Individual executives were interviewed first, and two years later the CEO and five others with responsibility for executive mobility were interviewed. A simple block diagram was developed to model executive mobility. The model shows two dimensions, mobility and external experience, and by combining these, four categories are obtained. Executives with low mobility and low external experience are categorized as Locals, while those with high mobility and low external experience are Generalists. Low mobility with high external experience gives the category Experts, and high mobility with high external experience the categoryCosmopolitans. Executives with low mobility, can be expected to use a hard-work strategy and mount few initiatives to change their positions. Mobile executives, on the other hand, frequently take the initiative to change positions. The differences between the categories seem to diminish as the executives reach higher executive levels. By that stage, mobility is based more on the CEO's career planning than on the category in which the executive falls.Management has considerable ability to control senior executives work-role transitions. These control possibilities are extensively used in regard to role demands, but to a lesser extent in regard to organizational socialization. Executive mobility is a useful instrument for all three of the control functions studied: vacancy-filling, executive development and organizational development. The general conclusion reached is that executive mobility seems to be an extremely important instrument for organizational control.
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- Arnesson, Leif, et al.
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Coach Succession and Team Performance: The Impact of Ability and Timing -- Swedish Ice Hockey Data
- 2009
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Ingår i: Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports. - USA : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 2194-6388 .- 1559-0410. ; 5:1, s. Article 2-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this study is to identify a function for the team performance for professional ice hockey teams in Sweden. In order to understand how team performance relates to key variables such as coaching ability and coaching experience and succession, the OLS (Ordinary Least Squares) and the more robust quantile regression techniques are used to estimate team performance for the ice hockey teams. Quarterly data for the period 1975-2006 is used for this purpose. The results have shown that coaching ability has a rather significant positive effect on team performance, and that managerial succession during the season is found to have a rather significant negative effect on team performance. The results also indicate a strong correlation between coaching ability and team performance. Moreover, the quantile regression approach provided a better understanding regarding the dynamics of the factors that affect performance and provided more interesting results than the OLS normally does.
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- Salman, Khalik, et al.
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Coach succession and team performance; the impact of ability and timing: Swedish ice hockey data
- 2008
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The purpose of this study is to identify a function for the team performance for professional ice hockey teams in Sweden. In order to understand how team performance relates to key variables such as coaching ability and coaching experience and succession, the OLS (Ordinary Least Squares) and the more robust quantile regression techniques were used to estimate the team performance for the ice hockey teams. Quarterly data for the period 1975-2006 is used for this purpose. The results have shown that coaching ability has a rather significant positive effect on team performance, and they have also shown that managerial succession during the season is found to have a rather significant negative effect on team performance. We also found a strong correlation between coaching ability and team performance. Moreover, the quantile regression approach provided a better understanding regarding the dynamics of the factors that affect performance and provided more interesting results than the OLS normally does.
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- Salman, Khalik, et al.
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Estimating international tourism demand for selected regions in Sweden and Norway with iterative seemingly unrelated regressions (ISUR)
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1502-2250 .- 1502-2269. ; 10:4, s. 395-410
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper estimates the demand for tourism to Sweden and Norway from five countries: Denmark, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Japan, and the United States. For each visiting country, and for selected regions in Sweden and Norway, we specify separate equations by including relative information. We then estimate these equations using Zellner's Iterative Seemingly Unrelated Regressions (ISUR). The benefit of this model is that the ISUR estimators utilize the information present in the error correlation of the cross regressions (or equations) and hence are more efficient than single equation estimation methods such as ordinary least squares. Monthly time series data from January 1993 to December 2006 are used. The results show that the consumer price index, some lagged dependent variables, and several monthly dummies (representing seasonal effects) have a significant impact on the number of visitors to the SW6 region in Sweden and Tröndelag in Norway. We also find that, in at least some cases, relative prices and exchange rates have a significant effect on international tourism demand.
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- Salman, Khalik, et al.
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Estimating the Swedish and Norwegian international tourism demand using (ISUR) technique
- 2010
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1502-2250 .- 1502-2269. ; 10:4, s. 395-410
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper estimates the demand for tourism to Sweden and Norway from five countries: Denmark, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Japan, and the United States. For each visiting country, and for selected regions in Sweden and Norway, we specify separate equations by including relative information. We then estimate these equations using Zellner's Iterative Seemingly Unrelated Regressions (ISUR). The benefit of this model is that the ISUR estimators utilize the information present in the error correlation of the cross regressions (or equations) and hence are more efficient than single equation estimation methods such as ordinary least squares. Monthly time series data from January 1993 to December 2006 are used. The results show that the consumer price index, some lagged dependent variables, and several monthly dummies (representing seasonal effects) have a significant impact on the number of visitors to the SW6 region in Sweden and Tröndelag in Norway. We also find that, in at least some cases, relative prices and exchange rates have a significant effect on international tourism demand.
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- Salman, Khalik, 1949-, et al.
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Estimating the Swedish and Norwegian international tourism demandusing (ISUR) technique
- 2009
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper estimates the demand for tourism to Sweden and Norway for five countries: Denmark, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Japan, and the United States. For each visiting country, and for Sweden and Norway, we specify separate equations by including relative information. We then estimate these equations using Zellner’s Iterative Seemingly Unrelated Regressions (ISUR). The benefit of this model is that the ISUR estimators utilize the information present in the error correlation of the cross regressions (or equations) and hence are more efficient than single equation estimation methods such as ordinary least squares. Monthly time series data from 1993:01 to 2006:12 are used. The results show that the consumer price index, some lagged dependent variables, and several monthly dummies (representing seasonal effects) have a significant impact on the number of visitors to the SW6 region in Sweden and Tröndelag in Norway. We also find that, in at least some cases, relative prices and exchange rates have a significant effect on international tourism demand.
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- Yazdanfar, Darush, et al.
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Assessing determinants on job creation at the firm level Swedish Micro Firm Data
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Ingår i: International Journal of Economics and Finance. - : Canadian Center of Science and Education. - 1916-9728 .- 1916-971X. ; 4:12, s. 105-113
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this paper is to examine the profitability life cycle among Swedish micro firms. The study sample contains 22,710 micro firms across six industries for which complete financial information is available for the year 2007, giving a total of 68,130 observations. The results of the empirical study indicate that the firm profitability changes systematically over its life cycle stages. The profitability is high in the first life cycle stage, and as firms age and develop, it decreases. The change of firm profitability in different industries over their life cycles follows the general pattern of the total sample. Empirical tests provide support for two additional predictions of the life cycle model: specifically, that firm size influences profitability, and that the industry affiliation has a more pronounced effect on firms’ profitability than the variables size and life cycle stage. The results from the statistical tests support the applicability of the life cycle model to explain the profitability development pattern.
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