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1.	Pallas, Josef, 1974- (författare) Talking Organizations : Corporate Media Work and Negotiations of Local Practice 2007 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract Contemporary business organizations are becoming increasingly medialized. The present thesis builds on the assumption that the media play an important part in shaping relations between organizations and their environments, and that we need to know more about the way organizations respond to and influence the media and the production of news. Following a close examination of thirteen major Swedish corporations and their media activities it has been suggested that business organizations are actively involved not only in direct media work, i.e. activities concerned with news coverage, but also in influencing the organizational and professional settings in which the production of news occurs. This involvement on the part of the companies embraced the production of media texts, the development of various relationships with the media, organizational arrangements for their Corporate Communications departments, and the professionalization of company-media interaction.This corporate involvement has been perceived as being exercised via a set of purposeful negotiations whereby the companies contribute to the co-shaping of the short-term conditions for the coverage of news regarding their conduct, as well as other general settings consisting the routines, norms and expectations that shape their long-term interactions with the media. It has been concluded that more attention should be paid to company-media activities identified as a negotiated local practice. This practice constitutes a formal behavioural frame of reference for the interacting actors, as it allows for the possibility of mutual adjustments and professional improvisations. Thus, with its suggestion for bridging between institutional expectations and locally developed solutions, the notion of negotiated local practices gives us a more comprehensive understanding of the way individual organizations interact with and co-shape their environments.
2.	Spencer, Robert, 1953- (författare) Strategic Management of Customer Relationships-A Network Perspective on Key Account Management 2005 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract This thesis deals with the key account management theme. The traditional view of key account management takes its roots in company practice and considers key customer accounts to be large complex customers with high financial returns - hence the notion of key - for the supplier firm. The role of key account management is considered to be that of understanding the characteristics and needs of thes key customers, then adapting the supplier organisation to better serve them, with a view to optimising on revenues. The nature and value of relationships with key customers per se receives little attention. The nature and value of networks of relationships influencing these relationships with key customer accounts is given even less consideration. Also, very little consideration is given to the strategic companty setting in which these key customers are managed. Taking these factors into account, the end result is complexity which goes beyond the simple issue of understanding the customer's organisational characteristics. The main purpose of the thesis is to provide a better understanding of the nature of key customer accounts and the forces at play when handling relationships with them. The empirical base used in the thesis comprises five papers with focus on important supplier-customer relationships. The main findings are the following: important customers earn their "key" status due to their value to the supplier across multiple dimensions, not just financial. This value comes partly from simple exchange of resources with the customer, partly from value generated within and by the relationship itself, and partly from the value of the network accessed via the relationship. As a result three corresponding levels of management exist, and no clear dividing line allows separation of the handling of key accounts from handling of the customer base overall. Consequently a proposal is made which suggests that an SMCR - Strategic Management of Customer Relationships - approach is to be preferred to a KAM approach.
3.	Abraha, Desalegn (författare) Establishment Processes in an Underdeveloped Country : The Case of Swedish Firms in Kenya 1994 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
4.	Abrahamson, Martin, 1977- (författare) Shareholders and Cherry-Picking IPOs : Studies on Shareholders, Initial Public Offerings and Firm Ownership Structure 2020 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract This dissertation explores investor characteristics and shareholdings of publicly traded Swedish firms. The dissertation consists of an introductory chapter, three published papers, and one working paper. All four papers use Swedish data. Two of the studies examine initial public offerings (IPOs) and the ownership structure; one explores first-time shareholders, and one examines IPOs and first-time shareholders.Paper I studies IPOs with the focus on initial return, the allocation of the shares and inside holdings. The paper presents evidence on allocation of shares to institutional and individual investors. The paper highlights the information asymmetry between institutional and individual investors and shows a wealth transfer from old to new shareholders. The results also show that money left on the table is received primarily by institutions rather than individual investors.Paper II explores the characteristics of first-time shareholders (rookies). I portray the rookies of the stock market and present a model to explain portfolio characteristics. The results show that despite the trend of individuals leaving the stock market, there are new individuals investing in stocks. I also show that gender balance among individual shareholders is rather even, which contradicts approximations of previous studies in other countries. The paper also raises the concern of diversifying stock portfolios, as the average portfolio holds less than four shares for all individuals and less than two for rookies. Paper III studies the relationship between IPOs and rookies. The paper highlights whether rookies invest in IPOs. The results show that besides bringing new firms to the stock market, IPOs contribute to that market, as they attract rookies to invest in the IPOs. The results also show that the return for rookies investing in IPOs is lower compared with rookies investing in non-IPOs.Paper IV studies the relationship between offer price and post-IPO ownership structure. The paper uses price groups and two definitions of breadth of ownership in the analyses. The results show that firms can affect their post-IPO ownership structure through the offer price.
5.	Abrahamsson, Gun, 1961-, et al. (författare) Problemlösningsarbete på låg organisatorisk nivå : Två studier om implementering respektive konkretisering av idéer om kundorderstyrd tillverkning 2004 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract The two studies reported in this thesis are about problem solving at a low organisational level in an organisational unit in a Swedish manufacturing company, which has adopted ideas of World Class Manufacturing. In the first study, we analyse, from an organisational learning perspective, the implementation of the well-known concept Continuous Improvement at shop-floor level and how management accounting may facilitate or impede improvement work. A case study was conducted in two workgroups in one production unit for about seven months. In one of the groups, management accounting facilitated improvement work with high organisational scope and, in the other group, impeded the organisational scope. Our conclusion is that management accounting may facilitate a high organisational scope by supporting the leadership style, stressing co-operation, dialog and participation, or, by the way the manager uses management accounting, make boundaries distinct between groups of employees and between departments, and therefore impede improvements with high organisational scope. In the second study, we analyse, from a rule-based behavioural perspective, how ideas of World Class Manufacturing are institutionalised in cross-functional problem solving at a low organisational level. A case study was carried out in two cross-functional weekly group meetings for about nine months. Problems raised and solutions decided followed a repeated pattern. The actors draw on instrumental rules, which can be described as technical as well as economic. We concluded that ideas of World Class Manufacturing were institutionalised as different variants of World Class Manufacturing in the different functions at a low organisational level. At the meetings, contradictory instrumental rules were activated by the functions and treated according to interaction rules. Two overall patterns of action, articulated the two main interaction rules guiding actors in how to treat contradictory ideas of World Class Manufacturing.
6.	Abrahamsson, Gun, 1961-, et al. (författare) Problemlösningsarbete på låg organisatorisk nivå : två studier om implementering respektive konkretisering av idéer om kundorderstyrd tillverkning 2004 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
7.	Alimadadi, Siavash (författare) Consistent Inconsistency : The Role of Tension in Explaining Change in Interorganizational Relationships 2016 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract This thesis commences with the notion that interorganizational exchange relationships are dynamic to an unprecedented degree. It is argued that, global production networks have integrated firms into interdependent structures that blur traditional geographical and organizational boundaries. It is also true that the same networks bring together companies with diverse socio-cultural and economic backgrounds. Thus, the thesis focuses on the complexity of the contemporary international business landscape. The purpose of the work performed was to understand the process of change in interorganizational relationships under these complexities.Through a qualitative study of two main cases and a pilot study, the thesis investigates the networking behavior and the relationship dynamics between multinational companies from Sweden and Turkey, operating in Turkish and Swedish markets, respectively. By examining how firms create, maintain, dissolve and reconstruct their relationships, the thesis contributes to problematizing some of the assumptions that are commonly taken for granted, but which underpin several studies of interorganizational relationship dynamics. The findings illustrate that as recent trends such as cross-border acquisitions frequently perturb the contexts within which firms are embedded, the impact might be favorable for some actors, while others might push for new and different ‘directions’, finding the existing relational arrangements and resource structures counter to their future goals. Yet, the actions of parties are constrained by the structural position in which they find themselves. Thus, the development of an exchange relationship involves multiple processes, often inconsistent with one another, thereby disturbing the stability of the relationship.Through the aggregation of each paper’s contribution, the “Thesis Summary” offers a wide perspective of the relationship dynamics. By incorporating both teleological and dialectical views, the framework proposed captures both the actions undertaken by individual firms to make change, and the structural forces both promoting and opposing change. Ultimately, the thesis offers a framework for investigating the impact of complexity on change in interorganizational relationships, opening doors to an improved understanding of the significance divergent perspectives and disruptive experiences have on relationship change.
8.	Anderson, Lakin (författare) Tensions in Transdisciplinary Research : A study of a climate research group 2023 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract In a time of sustainability predicaments and ‘grand challenges’, transdisciplinarity has been put forward as an approach through which researchers can engage with societal transformation for a better world. This study examines tensions that arise in the on-the-ground efforts of researchers to establish and manage a transdisciplinary research group within a Norwegian university. Tensions have been of interest in both studies of science and studies of organizations. Scholars have inquired into the ways in which tensions between interrelated, divergent demands influence the work of scientific knowledge production and organizational life. Transdisciplinary research groups, centers and institutes are proliferating, yet studies of the tensions and challenges they face at the micro-level remain nascent. Drawing on intermittent fieldwork over a two-year period, this dissertation analyses a local case in which climate and energy researchers took a transdisciplinary approach in establishing a “societally engaged” research group and research center in a social sciences department. Key questions are: which tensions do they encounter? How do they respond to them? The study makes use of concepts on tensions and paradox developed in organization and management studies to inform discussions on challenges in inter- and trans-disciplinary research in practice. The case study identifies, illustrates, and analyses several tensions salient for researchers: between the need for both consolidation and interrelation; between the need to grow and formalise the group while also maintaining its closeness and values; between ideas of researchers’ relationship to societal change as both distant and engaged; and between the need to maintain academic autonomy while providing usefulness to non-academic actors. Various responses to these tensions are identified and explored, including defending against, and actively embracing them. The findings allow for rethinking transdiscipclinary research in practice, with implications for research managers, practitioners, and policy makers.
9.	Andersson, Anneli, 1963- (författare) Vi blev antagligen för många : Könskränkande behandling i akademisk miljö 2007 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract The aim of this study is to further the theoretical understanding of gender harassment. I suggest an approach and a theoretical model that answers the question of how to understand and describe gender harassment both in terms of specific actions taken against an individual because of gender and the combined actions that constitute a gender harassment process. Due to the fact that gender harassment takes place in a structure and that the perpetrator needs structural support to be able to harass, the model considers existing power relationships at the workplace, i.e. how gender harassment reflects the distribution of power and structural behaviour of men and women. As my empirical material indicate aggressive behaviour and fear it is crucial to raise the issue of violence and to consider to what extent gender harassment is expressed av violence in the workplace. The empirical material contains broad-based and in-depth narratives about a kind of situation that is not well defined in the extant literature or elsewhere. It is essentially unknown whether gender harassment takes place to the same extent as sexual harassment. Even though quite a few narratives about daily working life bear witness of such situations they have remained largely undefined and little understood. In the present study, a combination of feministic organization theory about powerstructures at the workplace and violence theory is used to broaden the picture and to develop an instrument for understanding narratives about gender harassment. The results from the analysis, drawing upon material from practical gender equality work at a university and four in-depth interviews with victims of gender harassment, suggest that a combination of feministic organization theory and violence theory is fruitful for understanding the phenomenon of gender harassment. It is suggested that the proposed theoretical model offers a first but important step towards identifying and preventing gender harassment at the workplace.
10.	Andersson, David E. (författare) The Emergence of Markets for Technology : Patent Transfers and Patenting in Sweden, 1819–1914 2016 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract This thesis is concerned with the emergence of markets for technology and studies the evolution of patent transfers and its determinants, patent agencies and independent versus firm patenting in Sweden during the 19th century and the turn of 20th century. It explores how and why markets for technology emerge and under what circumstances by investigating the evolution of Swedish patent legislation and the patterns of patent transfers between individuals and firms. It presents a three-pronged framework studying: structure and actors, technology and transactions.Using a new and unique database covering every Swedish privilege and patent over the 1819–1914 period the empirical analysis reveals that although the transferability of intellectual property goes all the way back to the 18th century patent transfers did not start to increase significantly until the first modern Swedish patent law was passed in 1884. Along with the new law a market for patenting services also emerged where actors such as patent agents and the firms they founded, patent agencies, functioned as intermediaries in the market for patents and international networks of patenting. A few older patent agencies managed to create an oligopolistic setting where they introduced price controls through special interest groups.The thesis also questions the current dichotomous classification of independent and firm patenting. The methodological contribution lies in showing that research that depend too much on patent statistics run the risk of underestimating the importance of the firm when patents granted to individuals actually cover inventive activities that has taken place inside the boundaries of firms.Finally, the study shows that special marketplaces for the sale of patented and unpatented technology were created to help inventors find buyers and financiers for their invention and to help firms find new technology. The patent law of 1884 made it possible to trade in several submarkets of technology where the right to patent a certain invention could be bought, ideas could be financed, pending patent applications or the priority right to foreign markets could be bought and sold.The results lend support to the research emphasizing the role of intellectual property as a disclosure and diffusion mechanism for new technology.
11.	Andersson, Maria, 1972- (författare) Creating and sharing subsidiary knowledge within multinational corporations 2003 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract The conditions facing multinational corporations today reflect the increasing globalization of international business, in which knowledge is an important ingredient. Subsidiaries are important as they, to various degrees, possess unique knowledge, thus accounting for the strength of the multinational corporation, which is the topic under study in this thesis. The multinational corporation consists of geographically dispersed units, which are linked together in a complicated pattern. One of the issues explored in this thesis is what drives the knowledge creation of subsidiaries, as it is acknowledged that the strength of a multinational corporation resides in these globally dispersed units. Another issue is to investigate the role of headquarters’ recognition and of corporate relationships in sharing of subsidiary knowledge. A third issue explored is the use of Centres of Excellence and transnational teams as two organizational forms for knowledge creation and sharing. A combination of research methods was used to provide an enhanced picture of the research phenomena. As a part of an international research project, a survey was undertaken, resulting in data from 2107 foreign-owned subsidiaries located in seven different countries. In addition, two case studies have been performed in order to gain deeper understanding of (i) how subsidiaries create knowledge and (ii) the use of different organizational forms in MNCs for processing knowledge. The five papers included discuss creation and sharing of subsidiary knowledge. It was confirmed that subsidiaries create knowledge of significance for other units within the multinational corporation. The results show that that one of the main drivers for the creation of knowledge is interaction based on local market relationships, especially those with market customers. Corporate sharing of subsidiary knowledge is brought about by headquarters recognition of these units’ knowledge. This is facilitated if other corporate units have been involved in the creation of that knowledge. Another finding in the study is the use of Centres of Excellence and transnational teams for knowledge creation and sharing. Although the two different organizational forms serve the same purpose, they differ in organization and in antecedents to their knowledge processes.
12.	Andersson, Ulf (författare) Subsidiary network embeddedness : Integration, control and influence in the multinational corporation 1997 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract This thesis deals with subsidiaries in multinational corporations and especially how thespecific operational environment of the subsidiaries affects integration, control andinfluence in the multinational corporation. This study demonstrates that subsidiaries'embeddedness in their business networks does not only influence them, but also thebehaviour and development of the multinational corporation of which they form a part.By using a network approach, one can detect and study the specific operationalenvironment, in terms of suppliers, customers and other counterparts, such ascompetitors, government agencies, and labour unions. Interdependence is createdbetween the subsidiaries and their counterparts through the gradual adaptation ofresources and activities. Interdependence makes it possible for the subsidiaries and thecounterparts to influence each other's activities and operations. In this study we havemade a distinction between external embeddedness, that is relationships withcounterparts outside the legal system to which the subsidiaries belong, and corporateembeddedness, meaning relationships with sister units. The empirical base of this thesis comprises 100 subsidiaries in 20 divisions inSwedish multinational corporations. The main empirical findings are as follows: Thesubsidiaries' embeddedness in their networks effects their headquarters' integrativeendeavour and the subsidiaries' perceived control. The more the subsidiaries are highlyexternally embedded, the more restricted headquarter's possibilities to control theirbehaviour and development, while the opposite is true the more corporately embeddedthe subsidiaries are. The resources created in the network can be used by thesubsidiaries to influence the strategic behaviour of the multinational corporation if theyare providers of technological knowledge.
13.	Arnesson, Leif (författare) Chefsrörlighet 1998 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.
14.	Arwinge, Olof, 1971- (författare) Internal Control in the Financial Sector : A Longitudinal Case Study of an Insurance Company 2014 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract This thesis comprises of an initial summary of Study I which is my licentiate thesis in business administration. Study I is a literature study on internal control. Thereafter follows Study II which is a case study of Swedish insurance organization. The case study adopts a contingency perspective and attempts to find environmental and firm-level factors that influence the design, use and outcome of internal control. Study II is a longitudinal study that accounts for key internal-control developments that occurred between 2000-2010. This case study finds that there are two environmental influences that significantly affected internal-control design, use and outcome. They consist of environmental uncertainty and regulatory and supervisory forces. Their influences differ in nature but jointly they act to set boundaries and frame in-ternal-control design, use and outcome. There are two firm-level influences of governance structure and managerial attitudes that act jointly with strategy to affect the design, use and outcome of internal control. While environmental influences set boundaries and frame internal-control work, firm-level contingencies can effectively enable or disable internal-control effectiveness. These firm-level influences provide means and opportunities to internal-control work. My longitudinal research suggests that evolutionary steps have been taken regarding internal-control design and use. In sum these steps correspond to a shift in internal-control orientation and a transformation of practices where Folksam has been moving from a looser towards a tighter form of internal control, with greater transparency in operational risk management. Finally, based on the internal-control principles of the COSO framework I see that particular principles have been enhanced within the Folksam system of internal control. The components of these principles are the control environment, risk assessment and monitoring.
15.	Avotie, Leena, 1956- (författare) Chefer ur ett genuskulturellt perspektiv 1998 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
16.	Awuah, Gabriel Baffour (författare) The presence of multinational companies (MNCs) in Ghana : a study of the impact of the interaction between an MNC and three indigenous companies 1994 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
17.	Backman, Jenny, 1980- (författare) An Eye for Accounting : Studies investigating judgmental effects of visual cues in accounting communication 2020 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract This dissertation investigates judgmental effects of visual cues in accounting communication. The dissertation comprises a comprehensive summary and four empirical studies. My overall objective is to highlight the relevance of the visual to both accounting theory and practice by empirically demonstrating that, in corporate reports, visual elements juxtaposed with accounting information can significantly influence report readers’ evaluative judgments regarding corporate performance. My research aims to bring theoretical work on framing and the power of the visual into the accounting domain, focusing predominantly on the emotive power of visual imagery and color. Using experiments and complementary methods such as interviews and eye-tracking, the empirical studies demonstrate that these supplementary visual elements, despite not conveying any additional facts, can indeed influence report readers’ evaluative judgments regarding various aspects of communicated corporate performance. In line with psychology-based theoretical propositions that frames can promote different interpretations, the combined results suggest that the presentation format of accounting information does matter for evaluative judgments of corporate performance, and that information-redundant but affect-laden visual cues in accounting discourse can systematically affect stakeholder understanding. A central line of argument in this dissertation is that in an increasingly visual society, it is essential to gain a more nuanced understanding of the psychological effects of visual graphics in accounting discourse if we are to advance our understanding of accounting-related judgment and decision making. The potential judgmental effects of visuals in accounting communication has so far received little attention in accounting research or from regulators, and the display of visuals is currently not considered by general guidelines regarding corporate reporting. My overall motivation for this research is to address this incompleteness in extant accounting research and practice.
18.	Bai, Wensong (författare) The Best of Both Worlds : The Effects of Knowledge and Network Relationships on Performance of Returnee Entrepreneurial Firms 2017 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract In an increasingly globalized business world, international human mobility and its association with entrepreneurship presents attractive opportunities for business research. One increasingly important phenomenon in the field is returnee entrepreneurship, which is the reverse flow of migrants who acquired skills in developed countries back to their emerging-market home countries. In this way, knowledge from developed countries transfers back to, and fills technological and entrepreneurial gaps in, emerging countries. This thesis aims to explain returnee entrepreneurship by examining what factors differentiate innovation, internationalization and business performance of returnee entrepreneurial firms.The empirical investigation uses a mixed method approach comprising a qualitative single case study and four quantitative studies of a recent sample of 200 Chinese returnee entrepreneurial firms, and focusses on factors such as knowledge and network relationships, which are two advantages that returnee entrepreneurial firms are thought to have. By distinguishing among types of knowledge from various sources, and network relationships from both international and domestic origins, the findings show that international opportunity knowledge and domestic business relationships influence the innovation performance of returnee entrepreneurial firms. The structural characteristics of the international network of a returnee entrepreneurial firm are related to that firm’s international networking capability, which in turn influence its opportunity-driven internationalization. Additionally, the international experiential knowledge of returnee entrepreneurs nurtures their firms’ international market knowledge, and these experiences also indirectly affect firm internationalization by being transmitted through that market knowledge. Finally, international networking capability and innovation performance positively influence the business performance of returnee entrepreneurial firms, whereas the international business knowledge has a negative impact on business performance.The thesis challenges the enthusiastic view of returnee entrepreneurial firms by refining the heterogeneity of both the returnee entrepreneurs themselves, and the performance variances of their ventures. Empirically, this thesis suggests a combination of knowledge and resources from both ‘worlds’ that can best benefit the performance of a returnee entrepreneurial firm. This thesis also contributes to theory by providing new insights into the combined effect of (1) an individual entrepreneur’s international experience, and (2) a new venture’s knowledge base and capabilities; furthermore it also describes what that combined effect will be on the new venture’s performance.
19.	Baraldi, Enrico, 1970- (författare) When Information Technology Faces Resource Interaction : Using IT Tools to Handle Products at IKEA and Edsbyn 2003 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract This thesis investigates the interplay between IT and the other resources in business networks. IT tools are important facilities that firms utilize in several managerial tasks. Two main issues are addressed: (1) how does IT affect the surrounding resources? and (2) how does the value of IT emerge in relation to these resources? Two case studies present how the firms IKEA and Edsbyn use IT tools in handling their products (IKEA’s table Lack and Edsbyn’s table El-Bord). 130 personal interviews and many visits to several firms offered a detailed picture of the resources, information, and IT tools in twelve managerial tasks (six per product). The effects and the value of IT emerge when IT interplays with the other resources (products, facilities, business units and relationships) that embed the IT facilities. The effects of IT on resources vary greatly across the twelve managerial tasks, grouped into two categories, exploitative and explorative. In exploitative tasks (aiming at static efficiency), the effects of IT are stronger, thanks to highly relevant IT-embedded models and to highly formalized information. Conversely, IT has restricted effects in explorative tasks, because IT is unable (1) to model non-given resources, (2) to handle network-embedded information, and (3) to steer non-linear development processes. However, IT stabilizes exploration by formalizing ex ante and freezing ex post resources. As for IT’s value, there exist no perfect IT tool in relation to the conflicting resources. Even downscaled IT systems become highly proficient tools if favourably embedded by other resources. The value of IT is more evident in exploitative tasks, where IT more easily models resources and digitalizes the needed information: IT structures resources and automates activities, as required for maintaining efficiency. In explorative tasks, instead, IT is a conservative force, because it focuses on established resource combinations, while neglecting wholly new ones.
20.	Barkfeldt, Carl, 1985- (författare) Asset Mispricing 2022 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract This dissertation studies the pricing of stocks in capital markets. It comprises five chapters, where the first serves as an introduction. The subsequent four chapters are each written as self-contained research papers. While the theory of efficient markets serves as the theoretical foundation, I approach the research from a conceptual starting point that recognizes market mispricing.The first paper investigates a testing methodology of market efficiency based on fundamental valuation. The methodology is based on an investment strategy where stocks with high (low) V/P-ratios are assigned into long (short) portfolios. We conjecture that under the assumption of independence between the portfolio assignment and systematic risk, a positive return from such investing strategy is inconsistent with market efficiency. We estimate fundamental values based on a flexible residual income valuation model via the state-space framework and implement the investment strategy on a sample of U.S. stocks spanning 1980–2017. The implementation shows a significant positive monthly return. Moreover, the results are substantiated in a standard five-factor model. In sum, these results appear anomalous with respect to market efficiency, at least as given by the five-factor model.The second paper examines whether improvements in earnings forecasting translate into improvements in implied cost of capital estimates of expected returns. I attain high-performing earnings forecasting via a machine learning approach. In particular, I implement and evaluate six popular machine learning methods to forecast earnings. The evaluation demonstrates that the machine learning algorithms can generate earnings forecasts that consistently outperform state-of-the-art benchmarks. Moreover, I estimate the implied cost of capital on a sample of U.S. stocks spanning 2000–2017. The general result indicates that improvements in earnings forecasting do not translate into improvements in return predictability. While issues with the implied cost of capital methodology could explain the results, another possible explanation is market mispricing.The third paper compares the performance between the implied cost of capital and factor model approaches in estimating the cost of capital in an inefficient market. I conduct the comparison in a Monte Carlo simulation experiment. The simulation results indicate that the implied cost of capital approach is more robust to market inefficiency.The fourth paper analyzes investor learning of cash flow expectations in the context of market efficiency. I argue that the bias-variance tradeoff translates into inefficiencies in market pricing. Moreover, in a simple model, I prove that these inefficiencies can be exploited by an investor aware of whether market prices exhibit a bias or suboptimal variance.
21.	Basu, Eve-Michelle, 1990- (författare) Solving for ‘X’ : Understanding New Venture Units 2021 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract Innovation ‘labs’, ‘garages’ and ‘X’ units are proliferating in corporations across geographic and industry boundaries. However, semi-autonomous units poised to organize entrepreneurship within established corporations are not a novel phenomenon: such new venture units (NVUs) first appeared in the 1970s. Since then, they experienced multiple cycles of ebbing and flowing popularity and evolved considerably. Different generations of NVUs are products of their time and characterized by residual novelty. Prior research explores past generations of NVUs and typically takes the corporate venturing perspective as a starting point. This perspective presupposes a particular objective for these units: to add new business to and generate new revenue streams for their parent corporation. Less understood are contemporary NVUs, as well as whether and to what extent NVUs may, in fact, contribute to corporate entrepreneurship in other and novel ways. This thesis sets out to revisit and understand contemporary NVUs taking an organizational perspective, which examines the social stock of knowledge about current NVUs articulated in multimodal discourse. Drawing on novel theoretical and methodological ways of seeing, it explores what these units are and do, as well as what objectives they pursue. The findings suggest the following. First, NVUs do not, in fact, appear to be effective vehicles for creating and developing new ventures that survive within the parent corporation. Second, contemporary NVUs function as vehicles for corporate ideation that are tasked more explicitly than previous generations with exploratory activities, such as search, experimentation, and variation. Third, NVUs’ distinct culture, processes, and modus operandi are ends in and of themselves: contemporary NVUs serve as test sites for novel ways of working and nurture entrepreneurial innovation processes throughout the organization. Finally, the findings suggest that these units are a means to legitimate large, established corporations in business environments that are increasingly dynamic and face disruption by entrepreneurial startups. The thesis contributes to a more nuanced understanding of NVUs as part of a larger organizational system in which they create value through more than new business and revenue streams. In highlighting the broader and more strategic role of contemporary NVUs, it also helps explain the recurrent interest in these units that is counterintuitive from the corporate venturing perspective. NVUs attract interest today not despite their shortcomings as vehicles for corporate venturing, but because they can accommodate a new entrepreneurial way of working, which enables and signals the transformation of the organization, and, in so doing, they catalyze a broader process of becoming an entrepreneurial and innovative corporation.
22.	Bay, Charlotta, 1973- (författare) Making Accounting Matter : A Study of the Constitutive Practices of Accounting Framers 2012 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract The idea of accounting as a constitutive means, making people think and act in particular ways, is well established in the social strand of accounting literature. In professional organisations, for example, accounting is claimed to be critical to processes of turning people into rational and responsible economic actors. However, this thesis refocuses the empirical attention away from the organisation and into the private sphere of people’s everyday financial lives. As this is a field partly inhabited by people who for various reasons are believed to have difficulty in making sense of financial accounts, a dilemma arises regarding how to influence people’s way of managing their own finances by means of accounting information. How this dilemma is assumed to be resolved in order to make accounting matter is the query of this thesis. Through a study of four cases, the thesis investigates the practices of public authorities, a television makeover show, and a pension insurance company – here referred to as accounting framers – whose task it is to construct accounting in such a way so as to make it come across as important, relevant and useful to various groups of the general public. By examining how people’s accounting interpretations are elaborated in order to make them responsive to financial accounts, the thesis contributes to problematising the constitutive role of accounting and the conditions believed to enable it to turn people into financially responsible actors.
23.	Bengtson, Anna (författare) Framing Technological Development in a Concrete Context : The Use of Wood in the Swedish Construction Industry 2003 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract An understanding of the factors that condition technological development is of vital importance for business theory as well as for practitioners. The contextual setting of the development constitutes one area of inquiry into this research field. Context has often been studied as an aggregate or a market with clearly defined boundaries to the studied technology. In this thesis, however, the examined technological development is studied from a processual perspective, examining the interplay that takes place between a focal resource in the development and its context. To be able to analyse this interplay, the context has been divided into three dimensions; activity patterns, resource constellations and webs of actors, based on three central aspects of the industrial network model. A concept that describes the interaction process that takes place in each dimension has then been distinguished and used for the examination. Processes of integrating activities, of adapting resources and of positioning actors are thus analyzed in order to increase the understanding of the development. The empirical material deals with the reintroduction of multi-storey timber-frames in the Swedish construction industry. The technology for constructing tall buildings using timber for framing was forbidden after the Sundsvall fire in 1888. On 1993/94, however, there was a change in regulations, which made it possible to study what happens when two centenarians, the multi-storey timber frame technology and the Swedish construction sector, yet unknown to each other, are brought together. The study focuses especially on the first building projects in Sweden where the timber framing technology was used, a project using the established technology and a study on Nordic basis of maiden projects in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. The material have been collected through primary sources such as personal interviews and participation in project meetings, and through secondary sources such as research reports and articles on the timber-framing technology. It is concluded in the study is that contextual factors play a major role in shaping a technological development process and the technology that becomes established due to the difficulties and costs of acquiring knowledge about the technology, the embeddedness of the established framing-technology in the established industrial network, and due to the work efforts needed in order to reach positive economic results based on involvement in the technological development process.
24.	Bjurström, Erik, 1966- (författare) Creating New Attention in Management Control 2007 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract The need to focus and economize on scarce attention is increasingly being acknowledged within management accounting and control literature. The aim of this study is to investigate how practitioners go about creating new concepts and measurements to induce attention towards new issues and as-pects of strategic importance for the organization. In this case study, we follow a project group in a Swedish municipality, creating a management control model of employee health. A close-up view is provided through a narrative approach, based on filming and participant observation, illustrating the highly situated and contextual character of atten-tion in sensemaking processes. The naming of the concepts of management control was found to be associated with a science-framing, while references to local practices of management control induced practice-framing strongly de-emphasizing characteristic features of management control. Line-managers of the study accepted the framework without demands for indica-tors or predictive models. This outcome is in line with a practice notion of management control and a language-game understanding of human communication: management control systems are part of the practices defining meaning and directing at-tention towards different aspects of any situation. Rather than being a lan-guage, management control concepts and measurement may not provide much more than the phonetics of business. Consequently, it may be ques-tioned whether what gets measured automatically gets managed. In line with the attention-based view of the firm and a practice notion of management control, this study suggests that new attention is created through the naming and framing of management control ideals, and as a result of the expressions of managerial intent through practices.
25.	Blankenburg Holm, Desirée, Docent, 1962- (författare) Business Network Connections and International Business Relationships 1996 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
26.	Blomgren, Maria (författare) Pengarna eller livet? : Sjukvårdande professioner och yrkesgrupper i mötet med en ny ekonomistyrning 1999 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract The past decades have witnessed a radical transformation of the public sector in most of the Western world. Traditional methods of organising have gradually given way to new ideas of governance, inspired by and modelled on the private sector. This thesis focuses on the management accounting changes that have taken place in the Swedish health care sector. It addresses the questions of how different occupational groups have reacted to these changes and what impact they have had on the Swedish nurses' desire to strengthen their position as a profession. Three empirical studies were conducted to answer these questions. The first study focused on an incentive system at a thoracic clinic; the second on nurses in profit centres at a hospital; and the third was based on an analysis of the debate in the Swedish nurses' trade union journal concerning the introduction of purchaser-provider models in the Swedish health care sector. Two different theoretical perspectives on accounting were used to analyse the changes. The first perspective is institutional, viewing accounting as part of rationalised reform. In the second theoretical perspective employed, accounting is regarded as an important aspect of social and institutional practice. The studies showed that the impact of management accounting models on health care practice varied. The incentive system appeared to have no effect on the practices of the occupational groups at the thoracic clinic, whereas the profit-centre system at the hospital had several consequences for the nurses working there. The studies also showed that the new management accounting models both helped and hindered nurses' aspirations to strengthen their position as a profession. While nursing care suffered, formal responsibility for profit helped to reinforce the head nurses' status on the wards and quality assurance programmes made the nurses' work more visible.
27.	Blomkvist, Katarina, 1980- (författare) Technological Growth in the MNC : A Longitudinal Study of the Role of Advanced Foreign Subsidiaries 2009 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract This thesis emphasizes the technological evolution of technologically advanced foreign subsidiaries of multinational corporations, in order to examine specific and related research questions as to what is the nature of the advanced modern MNC regarding technological growth. In particular, evolutionary paths and potential limits to the development of technological capabilities at the level of individual foreign subsidiaries, and to what extent these subsidiaries serve as significant sources of technological capabilities for other actors in the multinational group are highlighted. More specific, longitudinal patterns and pace in the emergence and diffusion of new technological capabilities by advanced foreign subsidiaries are studied. Event history analysis of the complete U.S. patenting activity of 23 Swedish multinationals over the 1893-1990 time period reveals accelerated emergence of new technological capabilities by advanced foreign subsidiaries, but at moderate hazard rates. The results also show that there are substantially different probabilities of introducing new technological capabilities depending on the type of entry mode and that acquired subsidiaries are much more important than greenfield subsidiaries as growth engines for the technological renewal of the MNC. Moreover, the findings suggest the presence of an increased pace in reverse diffusion, hence the later into the time period a technological capability emerges in an advanced foreign subsidiary, the faster it is diffused to headquarters. The results also demonstrate that the type of subsidiary has a significant influence on diffusion patterns of new technological capabilities and thus how capabilities are leveraged throughout the MNC network. To conclude, a balanced view on the creative capabilities of the MNC seems to be called for. The modern MNC does have and display many of the features of the modern MNC as identified in previous literature, but the expectations traditionally and generally expressed in the literature may have been an overstatement of actual conditions and developments. The ultimate technological limits of advanced foreign subsidiaries seem far from reached, and the final word on the ultimate importance of these subsidiaries as significant sources of new technological capabilities for other actors in the MNC is still to be spoken.
28.	Bomark, Niklas, 1984- (författare) Drawing Lines in the Sand : Organizational Responses to Evaluations in a Swedish University 2016 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract As organizations are increasingly evaluated, evaluative practices are becoming central to organization theory. While highlighting how organizations may respond to evaluations, earlier work on organizations and evaluation has been limited to inter-organizational evaluations, such as third-party rankings or ratings. As a consequence, the prevailing perspective on organizational responses has been developed almost entirely based on an idea that what is being evaluated in the first place – the evaluation entities – is unproblematic. Acknowledging that the definition of the evaluation entity may be ambiguous prior to the evaluation, and that this definition might vary over time, some interesting areas of inquiry emerge in relation to current understandings of organizational responses to evaluations.First, it raises questions of how entities are defined in evaluations, and how this can be seen as an organizational response? Second, it raises questions about our current understanding of the dynamics of organizational responses and how organizational responses shape organizational adaptation and change. Third, it raises question about how entity definitions shape how organizations become evaluated. Despite recent interest in understanding organizational responses to evaluations, organizational scholars have largely refrained from entertaining these questions.The objective of this dissertation is to revisit the assumption of the unambiguously defined evaluation entity in the current theorizing on organizational responses to evaluations. An opportunity to investigate this question emerged when the oldest university in Sweden, Uppsala University, decided to carry out two large evaluations of the research activities within the university – in 2007 and in 2011. The evaluation was made public and aimed to identify and evaluate (partly through a rating) the research achievements of the departments of the university. This presented an opportunity to study organizational responses to evaluations in a setting that is different from what has been studied previously. Based on a study of 44 of the departments within the university my main finding show how entities are defined and how this can be seen as an organizational response to evaluations. My findings also show how entity definitions interact with the more traditional responses taken after an evaluation, and that entity definitions shape the evaluation of the department. This dissertation thus lends support for the idea that apart from responding by changing activities or their organizational units, organizations can also respond to evaluations by the way they shape what will be evaluated – the entities being subject for the evaluation. The findings in this dissertation holds consequences for organizational theory and the evaluation of organizations.
29.	Brännström, Daniel, 1978- (författare) Reporting Intellectual Capital : Four studies on recognition 2013 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract This thesis contributes to the reporting of Intellectual Capital (IC) and includes four papers on the recognition and comparability of IC. IC, often called intangibles in the financial reporting discourse, reflects resources which create value in and for organizations. These resources originate out of human knowledge and capacities, which, through their uniqueness, can provide competitive advantages for an organization. As something intangible, IC is a challenge to report as it is not only a matter of reporting value that has been or can be realized but also a matter of reporting the creative processes focusing on present and future value. This challenge is a particular reflection of how and when to recognize IC as something reportable and is intensified if IC needs to be comparable.The thesis draws on the distinction that is made between mandatory and voluntary reporting when discussing recognition and comparability. Three of the studies relate to firms’ practices of reporting through annual reports. Since these reports contain both mandatory and voluntary sections, reflecting reporting both as a requirement as well as a possibility, different aspects of reported IC is emphasized. Using a wider range of documents, the fourth study relates to the enforcement of the mandatory reporting standards which the firms are required to apply in their reporting.As the overall finding in the thesis, three categories of recognition of IC are developed which reflect differences related to whether the reporting is mandatory, voluntary or, as this thesis argues, something in between. Reflected through the categories, comparability interrelates differently with recognition. The thesis contributes with the description of IC as a foundation for reporting which makes the matter of recognition of IC in reporting complex. It further highlights that through recognition of IC reporting is continuously expanding wherefore it is not possible to identify an end of an already expanded and demarcated reporting regime. In this expansion, by settling what is mandatory reporting through requested characteristics, voluntary reporting is defined.
30.	Buhr, Katarina, 1980- (författare) Bringing Aviation into the EU Emissions Trading Scheme : Institutional Entrepreneurship at Windows of Opportunity 2008 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract The present decade has experienced a boom in public and private interest in climate change. A frequently exposed industry in this debate has been aviation, not least international air transport, the greenhouse gas emissions of which have long remained unregulated. This exemption stemmed from several challenges in the search for a regulatory response to target this rapidly growing source of emissions, challenges that involve scientific, political, technological, and economic factors. Following the European Commission’s 2005 announcement of their intention to bring aviation into the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, this particular policy instrument was placed at the centre of the debate. This thesis presents an historical account, to help us understand the emphasis on emissions trading in this first non-domestic regulation to target international aviation’s climate change impact.This thesis offers explanations of the emissions trading proposal by examining the institutional process through which a climate policy for aviation was developed. It guides us through the transnational debate that unfolded across local and global arenas involving a wide range of organisations, not least with reference to the escalating climate change debate after 1997. Particular attention is paid to disputed developments at the EU arena but the study also reveals how significant driving forces to bring aviation into the EU Emissions Trading Scheme intensified in the national context of the United Kingdom. Building on qualitative data including a range of documents and interviews with key players in the field, this study highlights the complexity of the many organising activities involved in policy development. The analysis is largely based on integrating recent developments in organisational institutionalism into the major contours of the multiple streams approach of political scientist John W. Kingdon.The conclusions concern four important themes against which the proposal to include aviation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme should be understood: the institutional context in which it was shaped; the organised collective that promoted emissions trading; the timing dimension of both agency and the process itself; and the significant transnational influences on EU policy. The theoretical contribution is primarily directed towards organisational institutionalism in demonstrating how regulatory processes are situated, not only in an institutional context but also in a powerful temporal context significantly dependent on a window of opportunity.
31.	Burneva, Petya, 1986- (författare) The Future that is my Present : Temporariness and Insecurity in Swedish Academia 2022 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract This thesis explores the question of what it means to be a temporary academic worker in the business studies discipline in Sweden. It presents how academics’ temporariness translates into insecurity and how they respond to it. The research is conducted using an open design, reflexive framework, and an abductive approach. It offers a narrative presentation of the lived experiences of temporariness and a critical interpretation of the multiplicity of the translation of those experiences into insecurity, as well as the responses to it. The rich empirical narrative offers a glimpse into the variety of lived experiences of the temporary academic workers and the multitude of opportunities for social action. It advances an understanding of the relationship of different individual, collective, organisational, and professional aspects with the lived experience of temporariness and temporariness as insecurity and as precarious work. It is argued that temporary academic work can be experienced as job field insecurity – the concern of involuntary exit from the professional field that is fuelled by challenges to professional identity, membership, and organisational citizenship; epistemic uncertainty; social and financial uncertainty, lack of alternatives; and the permeating imperatives for individual responsibility, self-improvement, and forward-living. The work discusses different ways in which the subjectivities of insecurity are navigated. It is argued that temporary academic work can be experienced as precarious work in certain circumstances, but also that some elements of the profession can be invoked in order to challenge precarious subjectivities.
32.	Bäcklund, Jonas, 1967- (författare) Arguing for Relevance : Global and local knolwdge claims in management consulting 2003 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract Management consulting services are often viewed as local in the sense that they are based on knowledge of local conditions, are adapted to those conditions, and build on client interaction. Despite this view, globally active consulting firms continue to increase in number and relative size in national markets. To address this paradox and to understand the demand for globally active management consulting services, the present study investigated the efforts of consulting firms to be persuasive, and the ideational embeddeness of those efforts. This was done by examining how management consulting firms present their services in three media in the Swedish market for management consulting: public tenders, corporate web sites, and a yearly listing of the actors in the market, with special attention to ideas on management and organization drawn upon by the firms in their efforts to be persuasive. Three distinct presentation profiles were identified and linked to categories of consulting firms. Although varying considerably, the profiles drew on common ideas, viz., management as a de-contextualized, global and scientific activity. Offering structured models and standardized tools was seen to provide advantages to consulting firms claiming to be able to do so. Local aspects of management, such as culture, were generally de-emphasized as a source of legitimacy in the presentations.By considering how processes of consulting-firm legitimization through presentations make part of the structuring of non-regulated fields, the study contributes to a discussion of the interdependence of the evolution of the consulting industry and the development and diffusion of general ideas on management.
33.	Bäckström, Henrik (författare) Den krattade manegen : Svensk arbetsorganisatorisk utveckling under tre decennier 1999 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract Many actors in the social environment of companies continually develop normative local models of management and organization. At the same time more general models are presented in the normative literature of management and organization. The object of study are models of work organization from the late 1960s to the late 1990s in (1) normative books, and (2) change programs of social actors. The main problem concerns the relationships between general models, social actors and local models.The study aims to develop modem institutional organization theory in two previously underestimated respects: first, the role of active actors in the development of models, and secondly, the connection between models over time. Two main approaches are used to facilitate this endeavor, (1) models are understood as to be constituted by both an organizational ideology and a set of organizational techniques, and (2) a generation of social actors are analyzed in terms of professional experience, social anchorage and practical connection. Three ideologies - rationalization, democratizationand humanization - and three techniques - horizontal and vertical work specialization and external control - are analyzed over time.Three general models were identified: a structural model in the 1970s a cultural model in the 1980s, and a process model in the 1990s. These models have advocated a variety of ideologies, but the same set of techniques: low specialization and low external control. The ideologies of social actors have varied and followed certain patterns, which is labeled social moulding. The actors have, however, advocated thesame set of techniques from the general model prevalent in the 1970s. The study thus shows that social actors connect both general and local models to each other over time. This phenomenon is labeled sedimentation. In the 1990s new actors connected the set of techniques, advocated by established actors since the 1970s, to a rationalization ideology from the general model. This time the set of techniques achieved a break-through in the field. The established actors had thus prepared the scene, while the newactors managed to take advantage of it.
34.	Caesarius, Leon Michael, 1971- (författare) In search of known unknowns : an empirical investigation of the peripety of a knowledge management system 2008 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract In their quest to secure their level of competitiveness, organizations have turned their attention to a specific type of information technology (IT) solution referred to as knowledge management systems (KMS). Research recurrently views and defines such system as IT-tools that mainly enable the collection, storing and diffusion of knowledge within the boundaries of the organization. Consequently the focus of KMS is believed to be on intra-organizational ‘knowledge’ re-use of ‘known knowns’. However, despite this definition and despite the inherent claim in the very name of such systems research continues to report failures rather than successes. Yet, the occurrence of the phenomenon of IT–based knowledge management (KM) endeavours in organizations continuous to rise. What really is the nature of this phenomenon and what is it a manifestation of? The purpose of this investigation is to explore the nature of IT–based knowledge management endeavours and their outcomes, and to explicate thereby the intricacies that surround them. How can KMS be described? How are they developed? Why are they deployed and what, if any, are the outcomes for the organization using them are the four research questions driving the investigation. Furthermore, it the investigation rests on a theoretical framework influenced by a constructionist perspective on knowledge and builds empirically on a longitudinal case study of a large international pharmaceutical firm’s IT-based KM effort. The empirical findings suggest that the case organization bridged the boundaries with the outside world by using the KMS as a way to establish knowledge exchange relationships with key target audiences. Getting the audiences to use the system meant transforming them to de facto information producers. To enable the continuity in the use of the system, the case organization designed it to provide the audiences continuous knowledge intensive services in return for getting informated. The services centred on supporting the practices of the target audiences by drawing on the automating and informating ability of IT. Granted an interimistic at least continuity in the use of the system by the target audiences meant a possibility for knowledge creation through experimentation for the organization and a possibility for knowledge creation through the enactment of embodied practice for the target audiences. A number of intricacies however, limited as expected the lifespan of the system. The main conclusion drawn from the case study is that the phenomenon has become inter-organizational and instead of simply focusing on knowledge re-use it also focuses, and in the specific case predominantly so, on knowledge creation. This is an indication that the phenomenon can be understood as a manifestation of an attempt to search for ‘known unknowns’ by means of IT. This in turn suggests an expansion from only exploitative to both exploitative and explorative use of IT; an expansion from using IT not only for efficiency-enhancing purposes but for effectiveness-enhancing purposes as well.
35.	Casales Morici, Belén (författare) Acting Entrepreneurially and Strategically in Heavily Regulated Sectors 2022 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract This thesis investigates how firms act entrepreneurially and strategically in heavily regulated sectors. Over four studies, the thesis develops a deeper and more empirically grounded understanding of how entrepreneurial and strategic actions are developed and combined. It is examined how firms’ internal organizational resources can prepare the ground for entrepreneurial and strategic actions as these resources can facilitate such activities (Ireland et al., 2009). The literature identifies several internal organizational resources that influence the success of both activities. This thesis particularly examines three of these resources: management support, work discretion, and rewards/reinforcements. In addition, it is explored how firms can use their external embeddedness to act entrepreneurially and strategically through decision-making and networking dynamics. Finally, it is examined how the combination of entrepreneurial and strategic actions is manifested. A mixture of qualitative and quantitative methodologies is used to provide a more comprehensive analysis of the investigated issues. The results show that firms use their internal organizational resources to develop and conduct both types of activities. These internal organizational resources appear to be important organizational antecedents that drive both types of activities. The findings also illustrate how firms use their external embeddedness to identify opportunities, mobilize beneficial resources, secure a competitive advantage, overcome the difficulties inherent to heavily regulated sectors, and create a new market. This was possible through combinations of entrepreneurial and strategic activities conducted through effectual and causal decision-making and network dynamics. Finally, the results show that the combination of entrepreneurial and strategic actions was manifested in different ways. In the examined financial services firms, the combination of both activities was manifested through the design of adapted internal organizational resources that facilitated the development and combination of both types of activities. The combination was challenged by two opposite organizational resources: top-down managerial control (centralized decision-making) and bottom-up freedom (decentralized decision-making). In the case of the new venture creation process, the combination of both activities varied depending on changes in the external environment, and it was sometimes facilitated but at other times challenged by those changes. Overall, the thesis offers several theoretical, managerial, and methodological contributions to a range of scholarly conversations, including the literature on strategic entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial decision-making, organizational preparedness for entrepreneurship, business networks, and the new venture process.
36.	Choi, Soon-Gwon (författare) Knowledge translation in the internationalization of firms 2001 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract International firms work in a complicated business environment that forces them to acquire various kinds of information and knowledge. Firms satisfy their need for knowledge about products, markets and business actors through learning from other firms. Because knowledge of relevance to international business is often tied in with a specific context, new knowledge has to be modified and adapted to fit the new market and organizational context. However, the importance of modification of knowledge is less developed in previous studies about knowledge transfer. Previous studies tend to focus the effects of characteristics of knowledge in the knowledge transfer process. To extend this view, I suggest a new and developed concept, knowledge translation, which is more focused on how knowledge is modified and developed as a firm identifies and assimilates it. The main purpose of this thesis is to conceptualize and describe knowledge translation in internationalization of the firms. For this purpose, I do LISREL analysis of quantitative data from the international project 'Learning in the internationalization of firms' and two case studies. This study shows that the concept of knowledge translation is a good framework for understanding knowledge modification and development in the internationalization process of the firms. That is, it shows that new knowledge is translated into the new context in a process of development and modification that is determined by the firms existing knowledge base. Results also show that knowledge translation is dependent on the firms previous experience and the depth of relationship development with the firm from which they translate knowledge. The results point to the idea that knowledge translation is a path dependent and relationship dependent phenomenon.
37.	Ciabuschi, Francesco, 1973- (författare) On the Innovative MNC : Leveraging Innovations and the Role of IT systems 2004 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract This thesis deals with the phenomena of development and transfer of innovations within multinational corporations (MNCs), and in particular, with the role of information technology (IT) systems in innovation. The empirical base of the thesis is both qualitative and quantitative. The case studies explore the phenomena of innovation development and transfer, delving more deeply into the use and role of IT systems in the innovation process in MNCs. The quantitative dataset spans a range of industries and captures key aspects, characteristics, and dynamics of the processes of innovation development and transfer at the unit level. Several empirical findings are presented in the five constituent papers. First, concerning innovation development, evidence is provided as to how both internal and external subsidiary’s network relationships are critical for innovation. Moreover, it is demonstrated how external versus internal relationships affect specific dimensions of innovativeness. In other words, internal relationships nurture the importance of the innovation, while external relationships enhance its radicality. Second, the study of a series of innovation transfer projects indicates that innovation characteristics (i.e. innovation complexity, tacitness, specificity) and integrative mechanisms (i.e. HQ involvement, lateral transfer routines, project groups, IT systems) should be considered together when pursuing innovation transfer. Additionally, using various integrative mechanisms incurs trade-offs between the transfer cost, speed, and level of implementation. In particular, it is found that the use of non-hierarchical structures and rich communication media is preferable, and that direct HQ involvement in transfer projects is detrimental for transfer performance. Third, specific research efforts devoted to investigating the role of IT systems in both innovation development and transfer phases, cast light on the potential role of IT systems for innovation in MNCs. Evidence demonstrates, first of all, how a specific IT system’s role in innovation development may vary depending on the innovation object, innovation phase, and context. Thus the interdependencies between innovation phase and coordination of IT tools are found to be key issues in managing the overall process. As for innovation transfer, the role of IT systems and their contribution to the process shifts from those of an efficient “transfer” mechanism to those of a “trigger” for knowledge development—an effect of the kind of relation existing between the units involved and the motives driving the system use. Finally, based on theoretical analysis of the innovation development and transfer process from a business network perspective, specific insights are presented as to the nature and limits of the innovative MNC. The study, which focuses particularly on the impact that innovation development has on the possibilities for inter-unit innovation transfer, leads to the conclusion that knowledge transfer and problem solving are not always either possible or desirable. Furthermore, the relevance of the “local place” for innovation and the “local-to-local” nature of innovation transfer are still so important in today’s global economy as to bring the modern view of the MNC as a transnational organization/differentiated network into question, and to point towards a representation of the MNC as a federation of relatively loosely-coupled entities.
38.	Crawford, Jason, 1975- (författare) Regulation's Influence on Risk Management and Management Control Systems in Banks 2017 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract This dissertation explores regulation’s influence on risk management and management control systems (MCS) in banks. The dissertation comprises of an introductory chapter, two published book chapters, one of which is an extensive literature review, and two working papers, presented at several European conferences. The overall objective of this dissertation is to explore how banks are responding to banking regulation in light of the 2007-08 financial crisis and what the implications of those responses are, particularly in relation to risk management and MCS, and their interactions. The overall research question is therefore: what influence does regulation have on risk management and management control systems in banks over time? The intended ambition is to contribute to existing knowledge on the relationship between bank regulation, risk management, and MCS by providing several practical and theoretical contributions. The dissertation employs an adapted theoretical framework and uses institutional theory and contingency theory to expose tensions between, the demands for uniformity residing in banking regulation, and the demands for uniqueness residing inside banks themselves as they seek to maintain control over the design and use of their organizational controls. The empirical material used in the longitudinal case study is gathered from a large European bank. The main findings of the dissertation are as follows. In Paper I, the findings show that banking regulation’s influence on risk management and management control is mixed, which in turn can influence risk management’s integration with MCS. The paper also finds that very little knowledge exists about regulation’s influence on risk management and MCS. In Paper II, the findings show that while regulatory influence in IT control has increased over time, banks continue to exercise significant influence over regulatory demands. In Paper III, the findings show how regulation’s influence varies considerably over time and that increased regulatory pressure can lead to a higher degree of integration between risk management and MCS across the three dimensions of integration. In Paper IV, the findings show how regulation’s influence is shaping the mental processes of management and employees, and can vary significantly based on several identified factors.
39.	Dahlqvist, Jonas (författare) Knowledge use in business exchange : Acting and thinking business actors 1998 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract How could we describe the process by which business knowledge is mediated, developed, shared, and applied during interaction between business actors? This is the main question around which the discussion in this thesis about industrial business exchange revolves. The purpose of the thesis is twofold. Firstly, to develop a theoretical framework within which business studies could be geared towards behavioural and cognitive aspects of interaction and knowledge use in business exchange. Secondly, to use the outlined framework in order to discuss the behavioural and cognitive factors on which the success of business exchange is dependent.The thesis outlines a theory of business exchange that underlines the need for business actors to make use of knowledge about customers' needs and knowledge about their own production capabilities in order to develop new offerings to the market. It is in the thesis argued that the possibility to achieve this simultaneous use of knowledge is dependent on the way business actors interact during the exchange.With reference to socio-cognitive theory it is proposed that effective use of knowledge is achieved when the interaction between business actors contains task-focused dialogue concerning how to improve the actual exchange, as well as collaborative attempts to realize these improvements. These two aspects of the interaction between business actors are in the thesis labelled task-driven communication and task-driven co-action.Results from two statistical analyses demonstrate that the ability of business actors to make use of knowledge in order to improve their businesses is enhanced when task-driven communication and task-driven co-action is established. More precisely, if the interaction between the customer and the supplier is organized so that frequent contacts between individuals representing different knowledge areas in the companies is secured, and if adaptations between the companies are made, the value created by the exchange is improved.
40.	Dellestrand, Henrik, 1978- (författare) Orchestrating Innovation in the Multinational Enterprise : Headquarters Involvement in Innovation Transfer Projects 2010 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract In the past several decades research has emphasized innovation development and transfer as key issues when investigating the multinational enterprise (MNE). This thesis focuses on the question of what factors make headquarters involve itself in innovation transfer projects taking place between a sending and a receiving subsidiary within the MNE. This relates to headquarters active participation and role in the organization of resources (structure) and flows (processes) within the MNE. Using a database covering 169 innovation transfer projects the empirical analysis reveals that distances influence headquarters involvement, albeit in different directions. Systematic differences based on subsidiary and innovation characteristics and headquarters involvement is found. Not only subsidiary characteristics are of importance for headquarters involvement, but also the embeddedness of the subsidiary hosting the innovation transfer project. More specifically, physical and cultural distance between the sending and receiving subsidiaries influence headquarters involvement in the transfer negatively, whereas linguistic and economic distance between the subsidiaries conducting the transfer have a positive influence on headquarters involvement in innovation transfer. Looking more closely at the innovations subject to transfer the results suggests that innovations perceived as complex and important are favored for headquarters support. The same is true for innovations that are related to the core business of the subsidiary. At a subsidiary level, powerful subsidiaries initially receive more of headquarters support, but as subsidiary power increase, headquarters becomes less involved, i.e., a curvilinear effect of power is found. Acquired subsidiaries tend to become favored for headquarters involvement in transfer relative to greenfield subsidiaries. Finally, the results indicate that headquarters involves itself in transfer projects when the subsidiaries hosting the transfer projects have been relationally embedded during the innovation development phase. Theoretically, headquarters involvement can be conceptualized as orchestration of innovations within the MNE, and as a form of resource allocation. Thus, this thesis contributes to the understanding of what influences intra-MNE resource allocation, as well as what factors capture the attention of headquarters leading to innovation orchestration. Headquarters involvement in innovation transfer has implications for setting subsidiaries on evolutionary trajectories.
41.	Didner, Henrik, 1958- (författare) Utländskt ägande av svenska aktier 1993 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
42.	Edlund, Peter, 1986- (författare) Constructing an Arbiter of Status : A Study of the European Research Council's Emergence in the Field of Science 2018 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract The aim of this thesis is to shed light on how certain actors are constructed into third-party arbiters of status. Such arbiters mediate the triadic relations in which status is created, assessing and suggesting certain candidates as particularly worthy of deference from audiences.While previous literature has provided us with compelling insights into the pervasive authority of status arbiters, less attention has been paid to the ways in which these arbiters reach their authoritative positions. I seek to build new knowledge on the processes through which third-party status arbiters are constructed by exploring how the European Research Council (ERC) was transformed into an authority in science. In a short period of time, the ERC’s evaluations of funding applications and subsequent allocations of research resources came to be approached as a benchmark of scientific quality, which scientists, departments, universities, and countries anxiously compared their research performance with. I suggest that these evaluations and allocations soon became more than instances in which quality was assessed and resources were distributed, thus turning into potent bases for status creation as well.In three empirical chapters, which draw upon documents, interviews, and observations, I place the ERC within the context of a field, showing how its construction into a third-party status arbiter needs to be understood as a process that unfolded over time. First, I look at major tensions and struggles that surrounded Europe-level science in the advent of the ERC’s founding. Then, I examine the active efforts with which the ERC attempted to engender acceptance for its evaluations of Starting Grant (StG) funding applications. Finally, I explore the status consequences of ERC StG allocations for the careers of scientists, the milieus within departments, and the relations between universities in Sweden.My findings contribute to previous literature by demonstrating how arbiters are constructed through mutually reinforcing relations in which the status-creating potential of evaluations is continuously framed and validated. My findings also contribute by showing how the creation of status over time requires constant maintenance efforts to sustain the agreement between arbiters and audiences in terms of candidates that are worthy of deference.
43.	Eiríksdóttir, Lovísa (författare) Being at home in business education : ... with sustainability 2024 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract This inquiry is about business education. At first, the intention was that it would be about sustainability in business education, but the engagement with questions of sustainability left the idea of business with deep wounds that opened up for new questions of how to take care of them.With post-qualitative inquiry I embark on a journey, along with educators working at Stockholm School of Economics, Copenhagen Business School and Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki. These business schools have committed to be in leadership of sustainability education through PRME (Principles of Responsible Management Education). Subsequently, we together reflect on possible ways to work with business and sustainability, simultaneously, in education.One critical discovery in this (re)search is that most of the business educators, including myself, were educating students for something we did not want to be part of, once sustainability became a frame of mind. In thinking with sustainability, we got reminded of all the darkness of our common world through exploitation, inequity and inequality. What does it mean to educate others for something you do not what to be part of?Through reading the work of Hanna Arendt, in particular her notions of evil, thinking and love, I use essayistic writing and poetic inquiry to inspire for ways in which business education can co-exist with sustainability. In other words, to search for possibilities where we can educate into a common world. I argue that active attention towards the practice of thinking will help us connect differently through our education.This different connection I ally with a homecoming process with business education that requires an ontology of immanence; a one-world-ontology, where we become aware of our earth-bound relational existence and consequently where it becomes impossible to educate as something we fundamentally are not.This thesis’ aim and its contribution to the field of business studies is to lay bare and consider dangerous questions about business and its response-ability to serious sustainability troubles. Education might be the only place where those questions can thrive without the anxiety of needing to know in advance what the alternative should be.
44.	Ek, Peter, 1989- (författare) Managing Digital Open Innovation with User Communities : A Study of Community Sensing and Product Openness Capabilities in the Video Game Industry 2019 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract Digital and open innovation has changed how product innovation occur and how it is managed by firms. Digital technology as an enabler of increasingly distributed innovation processes has in particular impacted firms’ abilities to draw on, and leverage, large numbers of external users and user communities to develop their offerings. In the video game industry, firms have developed and honed capabilities to utilize user communities as sources of information and modular user innovations. Empirical evidence of the performance effects in product innovation as well as conceptualizations of these capabilities is however lacking in extant research. Grounded in a dynamic capability perspective, this dissertation puts forward two capability concepts and tests their effects empirically in the context of the video game industry. First, the concept of a community sensing capability captures the firm’s ability to identify and internalize innovation-conducive information from user communities. This capability entails managing openness in the firm’s innovation processes. Second, the concept of a product openness capability relates to the firm’s ability to create and manage products functioning as platforms for continuous development and coupling of internal and external innovation. This, in turn, involves managing openness in individual products. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, these capabilities are examined at the project level of analysis in relation to the financial performance of products and the speed of development processes. The findings show the capabilities to be indirectly related to the financial performance of products. The application of community sensing capabilities in development of video games increases the amount of information about user needs, demand and product use possessed by the firm, which in turn positively impacts performance. Designing products open to external innovation by users in turn increases the development speed of products, which positively impact the financial performance of products. The two capabilities are also shown to be interlinked as community sensing has a positive impact on product openness. The dissertation contributes at the intersection of open and digital innovation in addition to previous work on sensing capabilities. The work also holds practical relevance by showing the potential of utilizing user communities for digital product innovation.
45.	Elbe, Jörgen, 1959- (författare) Utveckling av turistdestinationer genom samarbete 2002 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract In this thesis tourist destinations are considered as networks of business actors inside and outside the destination, such as producers of attractions or supporting services and different kinds of intermediaries. These actors are interdependent, since they provide the different components of a generic tourist product. Cooperation between the actors in the network is seen as a way of achieving destination development. Three cases of different forms of cooperation within destinations are studied and analysed. The first case concerns permanent cooperation within a tourist destination (Småland), and the other two cases deal with temporary cooperation. The studies of temporary cooperation concern two public events, one of which was performed on one occasion within a specific destination (O-Ringen in Gästrikland), whereas the other one is performed recurrently in another destination (Dalecarlia Cup at Borlänge). A network perspective constitutes the theoretical frame of reference. Interdependencies and relationships between business actors are seen as important. A model for analysis is developed where the structure of every instance of cooperation is identified using the concepts activities, resources and actors. The development process of every instance of cooperation is captured and analysed using the concepts mobilisation, interests and coordination. Data were mostly gathered through personal interviews, and the different forms of cooperation and actors were identified through snowball sampling.The case studies indicate that cooperation in a destination creates a destination development process. In the case of permanent cooperation it is observed that limited cooperation, such as exchange of information, often leads to moderate cooperation, like joint marketing, and even to broad cooperation, such as the creation of a new business actor for joint production or distribution. In this process, small actors create alliances and these alliances become actors in the destination network. The motives of the actors for participating in cooperation are mainly their material interests. Through the development process, the destination network becomes more integrated, and its functions are improved. In the instances of temporary cooperation (events), new actors and resources controlled by them become connected to the network. These resources are defined as marginal community resources that can be mobilised. Such resources can be mobilised if the actors controlling them have an idealistic or emotional interest in the event. It was observed in the case of the recurrent event that relationships with actors controlling such marginal community resources got more strongly established over time. In the destination development process, the tourist organisation can play an important role. It cannot control the process, but it can influence it, if it is perceived as an actor with moral and pragmatic legitimacy. By influencing the development process the tourist organisation is not just fulfilling a role as coordinator within the destination; it can also be considered as an actor with a significant entrepreneurial role in the destination development process.
46.	Engzell, Jeanette, 1989- (författare) Intrapreneurship as an Engine of Corporate Renewal : Exploring the Intrapreneur and How Corporate Conditions Influence Intrapreneurial Behavior 2021 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract The aim of this thesis is to explore the characteristics of the intrapreneur and subsequently probe the question of how various internal corporate conditions influence intrapreneurial behavior. Using an evolutionary framework as the overarching theoretical point of departure to understand the core phenomena, the questions are tested on a comprehensive dataset of employees in the private sector in Sweden. The analyses are conducted in four individual papers following a quantitative research design. The thesis expands the classic intrapreneur stereotype “a dreamer who does” by offering a more comprehensive perspective of an intrapreneur and showcasing various types of intrapreneurs such as resilient intrapreneurs, neglected intrapreneurs, and privileged intrapreneurs. Additionally, the findings reveal a set of corporate conditions that influence employees’ intentions to become engaged in intrapreneurial behavior. They also open up the relatively unexplored gender perspective on intrapreneurship, showing that some components of corporate culture can encourage intrapreneurship and that these components relate to existing gender roles within the corporation. Overall, these findings contribute to prior research on the intrapreneur and intrapreneurship in the Swedish context.
47.	Eriksson, Kent, 1964- (författare) The Interrelatedness of Environment Technology and Structure : A Study of Differentiation and Integration in Banking 1994 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
48.	Eriksson Lindvall, Carin, 1961- (författare) Föreställningar och värderingar in organisation under förändring : en studie av identitetsuppfattningar inom konsumentkooperationen 1995 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
49.	Eriksson, Mikael, 1977- (författare) The complex internationalization process unfolded : The case of Atlas Copco’s entry into the Chinese mid-market 2016 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract Despite its contemporary relevance, we still have limited empirical knowledge about the forces underlying complex internationalization processes as when multinational corporations (MNCs) seek to enter new growing markets. Based on a real-time process study comprising ninety interviews and two hundred hours of observation made between 2009 and 2012, Atlas Copco’s entry into the Chinese mid-market was investigated. The intra-organizational analysis showed that three inter-related processes were underlying Atlas’ market entry and the results suggest that multiple interrelated motors may drive many contemporary internationalization processes. The processes identified are a sequential strategy process, an evolutionary process which shows that routines changed, and a political process. A somewhat surprising finding is that the main driver of internationalization according to received theory, the firm’s accumulated experiences, not only can drive internationalization, but may also hamper MNC managers’ possibilities to enter many of today’s new and growing markets. The findings add to our knowledge of the internationalization process in an increasingly complex international business setting, and especially highlight the need to distinguish between the sequential strategy process – more in line with received theory – and the other processes, in order to get a more full-fledged picture of what internationalization in large MNCs is all about.
50.	Ersson, Sofi, 1979- (författare) Indicators in Action : Development, Use and Consequences 2007 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract The increased attention to performance measurements is evident in both private and public sector organizations and among both academics and practitioners. Although there is a strong belief in the possibilities of using measurements for managing organizations, both academics and practitioners have questioned measurements potential. This thesis takes part in debating the potentiality of performance measurements by attending to the development, use and consequences of non-financial indicators that are considered a specific form of performance measurements.When investigating the development of indicators, it became evident that several of the new indicators developed proved to be reformulations of non-financial measurements already used within the organizations before the development work. What had changed was primarily the meaning ascribed to the measurements. As a consequence of this ‘re-cycling’ of measurements, it is concluded that the meaning given to specific non-financial indicators change over time. The present investigation also reveals that three shifting rationales are informing the development of indicators. This finding contributes with insights into the construction of indicators and how the link between indicators and action are conceived and established in a development process.A main finding of the investigation concerns how indicators are used. In contrast to previous studies, the results show that indicators can have a negative impact on performance unless the indicators are used in a sophisticated way. Based on these results it is argued that it is insufficient to attend solely to if indicators are used, i.e. greater attention needs to be paid to the question of how they are used. The investigation also presents evidence suggesting that the often used adage “what gets measured gets managed” needs to be revised. It is argued that measuring is not a means to activate the organization per se. Rather, measurements support those issues that are already mobilized within the organization.In conclusion, this investigation suggests that the potentiality of indicators depends on the meaning ascribed to indicators, how indicators are assumed to link to action, how indicators are used and how indicators are related to other organizational activities.

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