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The paper analyses the role of ideas, past experience and crises in the process leading to theoretical and political disputes and the changes of monetary and banking policy in Sweden in 1844/45. It also analyses the role of institutional settings and types of actors involved in the decision-making process. A comparative approach is deployed. Policy changes at the time in the poor and peripheral Sw

Seattle is currently the fastest growing city in the United States attracting a large pool of young international professionals – many of whom are working in the IT industry. However, Seattle is also home to a large Nordic community, immigrants once attracted by the agricultural, forestry, and fishing industries. At present however, the city is pulling in a highly educated young Nordic population

Syfte är att belysa posthumanistiska perspektiv i pedagogisk forskning. Vi vill med vidga förståelsen för den förskjutning som de senaste åren har skett från poststrukturalism till posthumanism. Det har bl. a inneburit att forskningsintresset flyttas från språk till materia och andra icke-mänskliga företeelser. Vad innebär denna ontologiska vändning för synen på språket? Hur tänker vi kring subjek

Abstract—Denna artikel beskriver hur undervisningen i grundkursen i mekanik för maskinteknik förändrades för att främja djupinlärning hos studenterna och öka examinationsfrekvensen. Strategin var baserad på utökade möjligheter för aktiv inlärning och styrning av inlärning genom att införa förändringar i examinationen. Under kursens gång implementerades kontinuerlig examination med inlämningsuppgif

Background: Policy implementation in the context of health systems is generally difficult and the Kenyan health sector situation is not an exception. In 2005, a new health sector strategic plan that outlines the vision and the policy direction of the health sector was launched and during the same year the health sector was allocated a substantial budget increment. On basis of these indications of

We made a detailed study of the hoverflies on a small farm in the parish of Stenbrohult, southern Sweden in 2004-2007. The study area is totally about 17 ha, consisting of 9 ha of semi-natural grasslands with both dry and wet parts (recently mainly grazed by cattle and a few horses in late summer-autumn), a few hectares of old deciduous forest dominated by Fagus, Quercus, Betula, Populus tremula,

Title: Internal and external drivers of corporate social performance in developing countries Seminar date: 2009-01-22 Course: FEKK01, Degree Project Undergraduate level, Business Administration Authors: André Agnesson Franzén, Johan Nilsson, Joakim Wikström Advisor: Gösta Wijk Key words: Corporate social responsibility, Environment, Driving forces, Sustainability, India Purpose: The main purpose o

This paper seeks to examine the relationship between intellectual capital (IC) elements – human capital, market capital, process capital and renewal capital – and innovation system models (ISMs), on a national level, to determine if specific IC elements have a higher degree of influence in supporting economic competitiveness, and if both IC and ISM mutually influence and reinforce one another. Thr

The aims of this thesis are to explore the process of (dis) identification considering its influence in securing and enhancing self-identity in the agricultural organization context through patterns of working behaviors. This research underscores negative and positive aspects of professional discourses that influence interpretative manners among organizational members. This study takes hermeneutic