Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för ekonomi och samhälle
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The relation between modeled and perceived accessibility
(2024-11-12)This thesis investigates the relationship between modeled and perceived accessibility across different activities and transport modes. Accessibility is important for people’s daily lives as it enables them to reach and ... -
Reweaving the fabric of corporate bureaucracy -The development of organisational control in Sweden 1970-2000
(2024-10-17)This thesis in economic history investigates and analyses how Swedish industrial enterprises changed and developed their corporate bureaucracy and organisational control to become less hierarchical and more flexible and ... -
Technological change, skills, and occupational structure in Sweden, 1870-1950
(2024-05-21)This dissertation explores occupations and skills in the Swedish labor markets during the industrial breakthrough. It encompasses an introduction and four research papers, each addressing issues related to how technological ... -
Disentangling Empire and Decolonization: State and Business Relations in Southern Africa, 1923-1975
(2024-05-06)This dissertation comprises of an introduction and four research articles that study state and business relations in Southern Africa. The core interest is to present and analyse the identification and management of political ... -
Beyond the private car: Managing sustainable mobility in everyday life
(2024-04-19)It is increasingly recognized that private car use needs to be reduced, alongside spatial planning solutions and vehicle development, to realize a sustainable mobility transition. But the fact that the organisation of ... -
Over-design and under-funding: A theory of park (re)development in Gothenburg
(2024-04-19)Urban parks are commonly seen as the panacea for multiple of urban issues. From migrant integration to climate change, urban agriculture to wellbeing, biodiversity to obesity, urban parks are touted as the answer. The ... -
Floods Vulnerability and the Quest for Resilience - Urban Planning and Development Challenges in Matola, Mozambique
(2024-03-18)Increased flood occurrence due to heavy rainfall associated with cyclones is recognized worldwide. Urban environments in developing countries, such as Matola in Mozambique, suffer greatly from the negative impacts of floods, ... -
Engineering lmpact: Analyzing the Scientific and Technological Outcomes of Collaborative Research between Universities and Firms
(2024-02-29)This Ph.D. dissertation analyzes collaborative research between universities and firms in the field of electrical engineering in Sweden. It conceptualizes such collaborations as one form of academic engagement that fosters ... -
Teachers in the marketisation of education
(2023-10-26)In many parts of the world, marketisation processes in welfare sectors like education are mobilised and legitimised through a discourse professing how market competition will bring about accountability, ... -
Exploring the internalization of University-lndustry Collaboration and firm innovation: an analysis of influential roles, problem, and implementation paths
(2023-10-17)The phenomenon studied here is how cooperatively developed knowledge, resulting from knowledge-related interaction in a university–industry collaboration (UIC), is internally utilized by a firm. The purpose of this research ... -
From sedentary behaviors to sedentary moments: what constitutes and shapes children's activities and performances at home
(2022-11-07)The study of children’s sedentary behavior has grown exponentially in the last few decades due to the associations between sedentary behavior and various negative health outcomes and to concerns about children’s increasing ... -
Rural encounters with the city. A study of the gendered livelihood strategies of migrant youth in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
(2021-11-17)More than half of the world’s population growth will be accounted for by cities in the coming decades, with sub-Saharan Africa at the centre of this change. While studies have pointed to the disproportionate effects ... -
The effects of the land tenure reform programme on tenure security and agricultural development in Rwanda: the case of Musanze district, Northern Province
(2021-10-20)This PhD thesis is a compilation thesis comprising a research frame of seven chapters, and four related papers. The overall aim of this thesis is to investigate the effects of the land tenure reform programme on the ... -
Commercialization Done Differently: How Swedish university incubators facilitate the formation of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial firms
(2020-12-11)This PhD thesis investigates how university incubators impact the formation of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial (KIE) firms in Sweden, which is interesting due to its unusual institutional regime for commercializing ... -
Fashioning a Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneur?
(2019-10-15)This PhD dissertation explores fashion design graduates as potential knowledge-intensive entrepreneurs through the relationship between knowledge and other resources, and different pathways post-graduation. Explorative ... -
A Black Utopia? Social Stratification in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Sierra Leone
(2019-03-20)In the present dissertation, social stratification in colonial Sierra Leone is discussed, with the aim of providing novel evidence on the association between ideals, institutions and inequality. The case study of Sierra ... -
Between the devil and the deep blue sea: Trade negotiations between the Western Allies and the Scandinavian neutrals, 1914-1919
(2019-02-22)This thesis analyses the interplay between Western Allied policymakers and the governments of Denmark, Norway and Sweden during the Great War. It explores to what extent Allied economic warfare authorities were able to ... -
I husbondens bröd och arbete. Kön, makt och kontrakt i det svenska tjänstefolkssystemet 1730-1860
(2018-05-24)The aim of this thesis is to analyze the power relations of labour and gender in the servant institution during the agrarian revolution in Sweden. The positions of servant, master and mistress are analyzed theoretically ... -
Development constrained – Essays on land as a factor in nineteenth-century industrialization and trade
(2018-05-18)This dissertation consists of an introductory chapter, four research essays and one essay that describes the collected dataset. The first essay examines how the balance of land embodied in British trade developed during ...
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