Browsing Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för ekonomi och samhälle by Title
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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 ... -
En industriell reservarmé i välfärdsstaten - Arbetslösa socialhjälpstagare i Sverige 1913-2012
(2015-05-08)This economic history dissertation explores a central contradiction within the Swedish welfare state, the contradiction of the welfare state’s goal to decommodify its citizens from market fluctuations and the constant need ... -
Industry Dynamics and Relatedness of Knowledge – Knowledge Transfer Through Labor Mobility and Entrepreneurship in the West Swedish Textile Industry
(2018-05-02)This PhD thesis investigates how industry dynamics are influenced by knowledge transferred through labor mobility and entrepreneurship by focusing on the role of relatedness of the knowledge. The empirical setting is the ... -
Jordbruksmark i förändring. Drivkrafter bakom och förutsättningar för offentlig styrning i Sverige och Norge
(2014-10-09)With a focus on agricultural land use change, the overriding aim of this thesis is to contribute to the development of a more sustainable use and management of resources. A core requirement for doing so is to develop deeper ... -
Knowledge Creation and Technology Transfer: An Analysis of Swedish Academics
(2013-11-27)This PhD thesis examines knowledge creation and transfer from universities into industry with a focus on academic patents. Academic patents are defined as patents with at least one academic inventor. The thesis presents ... -
Konkurrens, samarbete och koncentration. Kalkstens- och cementindustrin i Sverige 1871-1982
(2015-05-20)This dissertation examines cartels and cooperation. The literature about cartels and cooperation is in many ways contradictory; many of the studies that have been made come to different results. Several of the implications ... -
Lock-in as make-believe – Exploring the role of myth in the lock-in of high mobility systems
(2013-09-06)All human practices are, ultimately, set and defined by limits; be they social, economic, physical, or environmental. Yet even in the face of such realities, practices which transgress the confines of possibility remain ... -
Nothing New under the Sun: Essays on the Economic History of Intellectual Property Rights in Music
(2013-04-30)This thesis consists of an introductory chapter, five separate articles and an article in Swedish which functions as summary. The introductory chapter provides a general background to the economic history of intellectual ... -
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 ... -
Ownership or donorship? Results and ownership in Swedish international development cooperation
(2017-08-16)This thesis is a critical investigation of how the increased demand for results in international development cooperation has influenced relations between donors and partner countries. The increased demand for results, ... -
På väg mot jämställda arbetsresor? : Vardagens mobilitet i förändring och förhandling
(2013-09-24)In Swedish regional policy, regional enlargement, i.e. geographically extended labour markets and associated longer commuting distances, is an explicit goal. This is in order to stimulate economic growth and better match ... -
Ports, dock workers and labour market conflicts
(2014-12-02)ABSTRACT Ports, dock workers and labour market conflicts Gothenburg Studies in Economic History 12 (2014) ISBN : 978-91-86217-11-2 http://hdl.handle.net/2077/37421 Author: Jesper Hamark Doctoral Dissertation in ... -
Regional wages and labour market integration in Sweden, 1732–2009
(2016-11-25)This dissertation consists of an introduction, four research papers and two papers that describe the data collected. Three county-specific data sets were constructed: one wage data set for the manufacturing sector, one ... -
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 ... -
Rural/urban redux: Conceptual problems and material effects
(2017-11-20)Concepts are the basic building blocks of all knowledge, while the strength of the theories that guide any societal project is dependent on the quality those concepts. Contrarily, the utilization of questionable concepts ... -
Social Bodies. Family and Community Level Influences on Height and Weight, Southern Sweden 1818-1968
(2014-03-13)This dissertation consists of an introduction, four research papers and one paper describing the data I collected for the studies and how I conducted the study. I collected information on men from conscript inspection lists ... -
Social Democracy and the Swedish welfare model. Ideational analyses of attitudes towards competition, individualization, privatization
(2015-01-12)ABSTRACT Social Democracy and the Swedish welfare model: Ideational analyses of attitudes towards competition, individualization, privatization Gothenburg Studies in Economic History 13 (2015) ISBN 978-91-86217-12-9 ... -
Taking work home: Labour dynamics of women industrial homeworkers in Sweden during the second industrial revolution
(2015-03-05)The papers in this dissertation explore women’s labour market decisions in the context of an industrializing economy by focusing on female industrial homeworkers in Sweden during the second industrial revolution. Three ... -
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, ... -
The changing role and importance of the built environment for daily travel in Sweden
(2015-05-19)Geography, in terms of the built environment and location patterns, was traditionally, and still is, emphasized by many scholars, policymakers, and planners as greatly influencing people’s daily travel behaviour. However, ...