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Price display technologies and price ceiling policies: Governing prices in the WWII and Postwar US economy (1940-1953)
(2021)This article explores the politics and technologies of price fixing and price display in US grocery stores in the midtwentieth century. Drawing on the literature on market devices and policy instruments, it complements ... -
An ethnography of Electronic Shelf Labels. The resisted digitization of prices in contemporary supermarkets
(2017)Contemporary retail markets have experienced and are experiencing an important digitization shift in the form of computers and associated technologies. Among a large array of digital innovations, Electronic Shelf Labels ... -
The technologies of price display: mundane retail price governance in the early twentieth century
(2018)How are everyday retail pricing practices and devices linked to large-scale, market wide movements in retail prices? This paper investigates how the development and spread of seemingly insignificant price display ... -
Managing leaks: Shoplifting in US grocery retailing 1922-1969
(2017)The purpose of this paper is to further develop the general program of managing overflows by attending to the managing of leaks. Specifically, the paper explores efforts to manage the problem of ... -
The impact of student feedback on teaching in higher education
(2017)Receiving feedback from students has become a normal part of life for university teachers worldwide. This puts pressure on them from several sides and may be an influential factor that leads them to tailor their teaching ... -
Bundling and diffusion of management accounting innovations— the case of the balanced scorecard in Sweden
(Elsevier, 2005)Most changes in accounting are the direct or indirect consequences of diffusion processes. A study of how management accounting innovations are being adjusted and bundled together with other ideas to facilitate entry into ... -
Human capital disclosures and management practices
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2008)Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the association between annual report human capital disclosures and human capital management practices. Methodology - The paper used two sets of data. Disclosure ... -
The Impact of Competition and Uncertainty on the Adoption of Target Costing
(Elsevier, 2008)In recent years factors which may influence firms´ decisions to adopt target costing have been presented in the literature. These studies generally argue that target costing adoption rates positively correlate with the ... -
Intertwined Coordination Mechanisms in Interorganizational Relationships with Dominated Suppliers
(Elsevier, 2008)Contemporary business society shows many examples of industrial customers that manage their smaller, dependent suppliers by using bureaucratic mechanisms. The restrictions these control processes put on the suppliers´ ... -
The purchaser-provider split in principle and practice : experiences from Sweden
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2004)
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