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- Andersson-Skog, Lena, 1959-
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From state railway housekeeping to railway economics : Swedish railway policy and economic transformation after 1920 in an institutional perspective
- 1996
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Economic History Review. - : Scandinavian society for economic and social history and historical geography. - 0358-5522 .- 1750-2837. ; 44:1, s. 23-42
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article the development of Swedish railway policy in the twentieth century is interpreted as a process of institutional change where the effects of real economic development are filtered through the railway's established institutional framework. The change in railway policy is seen as a result of an economic historical process where the industrialisation era's conception of the role of railways in society survives in institutional arrangements, and marks the railways adjustment to present-day economic and soical conditons.
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- Jeding, Carl, et al.
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Regulatory Change and International Co-operation: The Scandinavian Telecommunication Agreements, 1900-1960
- 1999
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Economic History Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0358-5522 .- 1750-2837. ; 47:2, s. 63-77
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article deals with the issue of international co-operation and co-ordination in the Scandinavian communication industries. While many studies have been made of the international organizations regulating these industries, little has been said about the various voluntary, often informal, bilateral and multilateral agreements that exist outside such organizations. Yet those agreements were influential in shaping the international Scandinavian communications system as well as the national systems. In this article we study the evolution of a Scandinavian forum for co-operation in telecommunications and other network industries during the first half of the twentieth century. One important finding is the path-dependent nature of the co-operation. Once the national authorities had been brought together and their co-operation became fruitful, the field for such eciion expanded into other issues. Another finding is that as the Scandinavian authorities became more closely connected, they could use this to their advantage in other international organizations.
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- Ljungberg, Jonas
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The impact of the great emigration on the Swedish economy
- 1997
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Economic History Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1750-2837 .- 0358-5522. ; 45:2, s. 159-189
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the half-century before 1914 wages in Sweden advanced from below the West European average to being at a level with those in Britain. This remarkable record has seldom been addressed, but the very rapid concurrent Swedish economic growth is well known. The present article argues that the increase in wages was not only due to industrialisation, but that another major factor was the trans-Atlantic emigration, which drained the supply of labour. Central to the argument is that this effect of emigration interacted with. a structural change within the Swedish economy. The traditional export industries faced stiffening competition, and could not afford the higher wages. But the newly emerging branches of industry relied on modern technology, could pay their workers more, and grew. The article explores factors of demand and supply in the Swedish labour market, and on the basis ofd~ta at the county level the emigration elasticity of growth in daywages is estimated. A tentative counterfactual case confirms that emigration was a major factor in the elevation of wages in Sweden.
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- Nyberg, Klas, 1958-, et al.
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Trade and Marketing. Some problems concerning the growth of market institutions in Swedish industrialisation
- 1998
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Economic History Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0358-5522 .- 1750-2837. ; 46:1, s. 85-102
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines the role of active marketing and distribution in different branches of industry in Sweden during the nineteenth century. The case studies from the cloth, cotton and metal trades show that successful firms were active during the industrialisation process, and combined production and distribution with marketing activities. The expanding cloth manufactures in Norrköping seem to have combined production with their own selling activities to a greater extent than those operating in the old, stagnating cloth centre of Stockholm. This could have given them the flexibility and special competence to take advantage of the growing home market, at the expense of the Stockholm manufactures which were not able to stay in business. Advertising in local newspapers became more important after the middle of the century. Local shopkeepers, especially drapers, in small towns seem to have played a strategic role in this. The new, mechanised cotton companies also incurred expenses for advertisements and other forms of mass marketing, though only to a small extent. Active marketing also became more important in the expanding metal trade.
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