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- Grant, Michael
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MAKING ACQUISITIONS
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis examines acquisition-making, that is, activities and events leading up to the completion or cancellation of an acquisition. Acquisition-making involves people, from various areas of expertise, who are managed by and organized in what in this thesis is called a professional acquisition organization (PAO). The PAO is a small task force consisting of people from the acquirer and advisers assigned to make the acquisition. In addition to the PAO, decision-makers are obviously involved. However, the thesis especially examines the PAO’s activities. The setting is serial acquirers in which the PAO is managed by a special group of people appointed for this task.Acquisition-making is examined through a literature review of qualitative process research in M&A and three explorative case studies. These encompass a study of the role of the PAO in acquisition decision-making; a study of how strategic and financial rationales are produced; and a study of the role of management control systems in secret organizations such as PAOs.The findings of these studies contribute to our knowledge about how acquisitions are made in three ways. First, the findings show how the PAO plays a critical role in acquisition decision-making, emanating from a division of labor between the PAO and decision-makers. This enables the PAO to enhance or attenuate the perceived benefits of an acquisition when informing decision-makers. The respective purposes would be to receive approval for the acquisition, or to show improved performance after it is made. Second, the findings show how the key reasons for making an acquisition, through the strategic and financial rationales, are made by judgments based on intuitive expertise. Thus, the study provides an explanation for and understanding of how concepts such as cash flows are used in evaluating acquisitions. This implies that the expertise of the practitioners producing the strategic and financial rationales is of utmost importance for acquisition decisions, probably more so than the tools used. Third, the findings show that management control systems are important for how confidential information is concealed and made visible in acquisition-making, revealing different categories of secrets to different insiders and outsiders throughout acquisition-making.
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- Ahrentorp, Fredrik, et al.
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Sensitive magnetic biodetection using magnetic multi-core nanoparticles and RCA coils
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. - : Elsevier BV. - 0304-8853 .- 1873-4766. ; 427, s. 14-18
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We use functionalized iron oxide magnetic multi-core particles of 100 nm in size (hydrodynamic particle diameter) and AC susceptometry (ACS) methods to measure the binding reactions between the magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) and bio-analyte products produced from DNA segments using the rolling circle amplification (RCA) method. We use sensitive induction detection techniques in order to measure the ACS response. The DNA is amplified via RCA to generate RCA coils with a specific size that is dependent on the amplification time. After about 75 min of amplification we obtain an average RCA coil diameter of about 1 mu m. We determine a theoretical limit of detection (LOD) in the range of 11 attomole (corresponding to an analyte concentration of 55 fM for a sample volume of 200 mu L) from the ACS dynamic response after the MNPs have bound to the RCA coils and the measured ACS readout noise. We also discuss further possible improvements of the LOD.
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- Andéhn, Mikael, et al.
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Facets of country image and brand equity : Revisiting the role of product categories in country-of-origin effect research
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Ingår i: Journal of Consumer Behaviour. - : Wiley. - 1472-0817 .- 1479-1838. ; 15:3, s. 225-238
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The country-of-origin effect is a topic central to the field of international marketing. Country of origin has been found to exert a particularly potent effect on consumer evaluation in situations where there is a strong link between a country and a particular product category. The present study provides further insight into how this particular effect can be understood. Drawing on a novel conceptualization of how country image and product categories interact, this study tested the relative evaluative relevance of product category with respect to estimates of brand equity across a variety of product categories. The findings suggest that facets of a country's image that are more closely related to the evaluation situation exert a greater influence on the evaluation of brands. This result encourages scholars as well as practitioners to re-evaluate which situations might cause the country of origin effect to hold managerial relevance and paves the way for new paths toward a more comprehensive understanding of the effect.
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- Blanco, A., et al.
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Performance of timing resistive plate chambers with relativistic neutrons from 300 to 1500 MeV
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Ingår i: Journal of Instrumentation. - : IOP Publishing. - 1748-0221. ; 10:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A prototype composed of four resistive plate chamber layers has been exposed to quasi-monoenergetic neutrons produced from a deuteron beam of varying energy (300 to 1500 AMeV) in experiment S406 at GSI, Darmstad, Germany. Each layer, with an active area of about 2000 × 500 mm2, is made of modules containing the active gaps, all in multigap construction. Each gap is defined by 0.3 mm nylon mono-filaments positioned between 2.85 mm thick float glass electrodes. The modules are operated in avalanche mode with a non-flammable gas mixture composed of 90% C2H2F4 and 10% SF6. The signals are readout by a pick-up electrode formed by 15 copper strips (per layer), spaced at a pitch of 30 mm, connected at both sides to timing front end electronics. Measurements of the time of flight jitter of neutrons, in the mentioned energy range, point to a contribution of the resistive plate chamber in the order of 150 ps, independent of the neutron energy.
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- Crawford, Jason, et al.
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Accounting and control in banks : A literature review
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Ingår i: Bank Regulation. - New York : Routledge. - 9781138680500 - 9781315563893 ; , s. 15-63
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter addresses the gap by identifying and analyzing present knowledge on accounting and control in banks, examines how this research has developed over the time period studied, and proposes some possible avenues for future research. It analyzes the literature studied by applying the reasoning contained in the Fredrik Nilsson and Anna-Karin Stockenstrand framework. The framework supports an empirical categorization of studies using a top-down perspective of banks from regulation, to governance, to financial reporting, and to internal aspects of banks. The Financial and Accounting Regulation category address several issues affecting accounting and control in the banking sector. E. Bengtsson identifies increased political influences on international accounting standard-setting as well as International Accounting Standards Board governance and accountability structures following the 2007 crisis. The financial reporting and disclosure literature addresses issues surrounding risk assessment, investor decision-usefulness, valuation, and governance. The literature on bank visibility addresses bank architecture as well as bank profits and their influence on legitimacy.
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- Erichsen Andersson, Annette, 1966, et al.
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Understanding value-based healthcare – an interview study with project team members at a Swedish university hospital
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Hospital Administration. - : Sciedu Press. - 1927-6990 .- 1927-7008. ; 4:4, s. 64-72
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this study is to explore how representatives from four project teams understand the concept of value-based healthcare (VBHC), since each representative is responsible for one of the pilot projects implementing VBHC at a University hospital in Sweden. A qualitative design was used to gain understanding of VBHC. Open-ended interviews were used as the data-collection method and content analysis of the transcribed interviews was carried out. Participants’ understanding of VBHC focused on how value was created for the patient and on measuring medical outcomes and costs, although costs were to some extent put aside. To measure value for the patients, it was the health professionals’ perspective about what patient should value that dominated the understanding of the concept VBHC. VBHC was understood as a strategy to strengthen value innovations and to loosen the grip of economic control. Benchmarking was seen as a future possibility to develop value innovations. Changes in organizational culture were understood by participants as a need to change healthcare from being professional-centred to patient-centred. The way the concept was understood omits parts of the original concept. This has implications for whether or not the concept as it is described by the participants should be understood as VBHC according to the intentions of the strategy described. The development of outcome measures was predominantly based on the health professionals’ experiences, which is why the patients’ perspective needs to be strengthened. Further studies of the process of implementing VBHC are needed.
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