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- Armbrecht, John, et al.
(författare, redaktör/utgivare)
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Culture and value creation
- 2013
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Ingår i: The Value of Arts and Culture for Regional Development: A Scandinavian Perspective. - London and New york : Routledge. - 978-0-415-63837-1
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt)
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- Lindblom, Ted, et al.
(författare)
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Basel III and Banking Efficiency
- 2012
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The overall aim of the Basel III accord is to minimize and preferably eliminate the risk of a new global financial turmoil in the future. The new accord is particularly emphasising the importance of increasing the capitalization of banks in order to strengthening financial system stability. Basel III requires that banks set aside more ‘core’ equity capital than under the current Basel II accord. Banks are also required to gradually build-up an additional capital conservation buffer of 2.5 percentage units and, if the national regulator so decides, an equally large countercyclical buffer during periods of high credit growth. Besides this, the new accord introduces minimum liquidity requirements both on a monthly and annual basis. In this chapter we study the likely impact of the new regulation on banking operations and efficiency. What is the cost? In the prospect of increased core capital and new liquidity requirements there are already signs of larger Swedish banks reducing their trading operations and widening their interest rate spread differential. Will the new regulation mean a re-shaping of banks and that arbitraging activities move to less regulated parts of the financial industry? What can we learn from structural changes following Basel II when assessing and evaluating the impact of Basel III?
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Local Development and Creative Industries
- 2011
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt)abstract
- The world is becoming increasingly more globalised. That is a big and subtle force often demanding national and local harmonisation. Traditional industrial sectors moves from the western hemisphere to other parts of the world. The need for future oriented, explorative and innovative ideas and studies is immanent. In Sweden and other modern societies there is often a strong belief in reform, that it is possible to change societal structures, processes and ideologies from above by introducing new ideas and financing R & D. This book presents a wide range of approaches to the study of local development and creative industries. Seven authors’ presents a volume organised in three parts. Part I offers empirical studies on a growing experience economy, and also heritage, design and Factor 10 as a resource for development. Part II offers a methodological study on narrative as a force for company development. This part also offers reflections on interactive knowledge and however development is a prerequisite for innovation. Part III covers current conceptual and theoretical reflections on localisation, regionalisation and globalisation, neo-institutionalism and symbolic aspects of policy. Innovation, Triple Helix and the creative industries are often presented as a panacea for local development from above. Rarely has it been shown to be a wave of success. Simple answers to complex problems often houses logical error, which means that everyday development projects often results in errors. This volume aims to illustrate an empirical, methodological and theoretical agenda for local development from the bottom and partially implement a new and interactive role of researchers.
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- Solberg Søilen, Klaus, 1968-
(författare)
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Geoeconomics
- 2012
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt)abstract
- With the shift from geopolitics to geoeconomics the focus is no longer the Heartland or the Rimland, or any coherent geographical region, but the set of all geographical locations containing economically-important natural resources, what we shall call the Nareland (Natural Resource Lands). This new logic of dispersed geographical locations marks the shift from geopolitics to geoeconomics. The centre stage has been taken over by the private-sector organization, the corporation. This means that power has been transferred from the public to the private sphere. It means that the nation state is ceding its power to individuals – less in some countries and more in others, for instance less in Sweden than in the USA; but the trend is clear, and it is global.
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- Berlin, Johan, 1975-, et al.
(författare)
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Models of teamwork: ideal or not? : A critical study of theoretical team models
- 2012
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Ingår i: Team Performance Management. - 1352-7592. ; 18:5/6, s. 328-340
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose - There is a tendency in team research to employ concepts of stepwise models, reachingfrom the primitive to the excellent, to suggest that a higher level of evolution is better than the basic and simple. This tendency includes typologies of teams. This article aims to question the relevance of this view.Design/methodology/approach - Data were collected in three steps. In the first step, articles and books analyzing teams and teamwork from stepwise analytical models were collected. In the second step the collected data were classified into different themes. Each stepwise model was classified into one essential denomination. This classification resulted in eight themes. In the third step each theme was analyzed, which led to the fusion of some of the themes.Findings - The conclusion is that a synchronous, complementary or mature team is not necessarily optimal. Contrary to this, a differentiated, sequential or multi team approach can be optimal for some purposes. Team research needs to establish a more open, inductive and critical attitude than at present.Originality/value - The paper highlights the need to observe and use team theories in a balanced and critical way.
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- Brink, Johan, 1976-
(författare)
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Accumulation, Boundaries, Capabilities and Dynamics - Explaining Firm Growth
- 2007
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt)abstract
- The aim of this thesis is to further develop the theoretical understanding of the growth of knowledge intensive business organizations. The overall aim is to understand the growth challenges of emerging firms in the knowledge-based economy. In particular this thesis addresses several aspects of the growth of small bioscience based firms. In a world characterized by global markets and rapid information transfer, the existence of firms can no longer be justified by established products and defence of old positions. The traditional logic of economic activities and industrial organization has instead increasingly been replaced by dynamic Schumpeterian competition in which firms compete based upon knowledge and innovations. This thesis depart in the emergent theories of evolutionary economics which focus on economic action and firm behaviour in a restless disequilibrium and endogenous technological change (Nelson and Winter 1982). Within such a restless capitalistic society, new firms play a central role in economic development. As a consequence, economic as well as management researchers has increased their interest in entrepreneurship and industrial dynamics. The emergence and growth new firms have been found to relate to both the introduction and diffusion of new knowledge, innovations, as well as generators of new employment. The growth of new firms is hence vital to understand from the perspective of industrial dynamic throughout the process of Schumpeterian competition and technological evolution and in the longer perspective, economic growth. The thesis is structured around the general, puzzling phenomenon of the relative absence of growing firms within this specific technological and industrial context. In order to investigate the research problem a theoretical framework is put together along two main dimensions. The first consists of a review of the research field of firm growth including such as entrepreneurial and organizational aspects. The second dimension provides a theoretical outline regarding the specific industrial and institutional environment and thus presents a context in which these new firms evolve. The focus within this thesis is primarily on the growth of the individual business organizations. The initial research problem centres around the empirically evident relative low growth rates of bioscience based firms. As a consequence of this low growth rate of firms, the industrial dynamics is instead shaped by entries of new actors, creating a highly turbulent industry. According to the dominant theories of the firm, the reasons for performing activities within the institutional form of a business organization, resulting in economic advantages of being inside the boundaries. Such knowledge and innovation based competition should be seen in the context of the firm’s unique trajectory and as a process of accumulation of associated specific capabilities and distinctive competences. Innovation is thus a process of knowledge accumulation of both internal and external learning, influenced by the specific context in which the firm resides. The lack of growth of new knowledge intensive firms within this specific industry is thus found in the complexities of knowledge accumulation as generating firm capabilities for further actions. The pressure on innovativeness and the ability for firms both to foster and take advantages of knowledge raises several issues regarding growth of knowledge intensive business organizations. Altogether understanding firm growth within this context might potentially be seen as role models for increasingly knowledge intensive firms within other industries. Even with more modest implications such findings might have profound effect when limited to the studied industrial context.
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- Brink, Johan, 1976-, et al.
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Why do firms change? Sequences of opportunity and changes in business models and capabilities in bioscience firms
- 2007
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Ingår i: RIDE working paper series. ; :84426-015
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Our paper sets out to explain how firms change and acts upon additional opportunities by analysing the development of three young bioscience firms by focusing on the relationship between experimentation of their business models and the capabilities that these firms gradually develop over time. We show that only by combining the initial technological capability with a more generic business capability, these firms were able to fully develop and pursue the initially perceived opportunity. Our analysis of these bioscience firms also reveal that the linkages between the initial technological capabilities that these companies develop are only indirectly related to subsequent opportunities acted upon. As the initial opportunity increasingly becomes economically or technologically irrelevant, the more recently acquired generic capabilities provided the firms with the ability to act upon new technological opportunities. That is, the initial technological capability of the firm is frequently not directly linked to the second pursued opportunity. We infer that as these initial capabilities generally are very technologically based they are also rather specific. Instead the link is by the necessary creation of the additional, and indeed more generic, capability within the firm. As these firms develop they are hence continuously leveraging only parts of their accumulated capabilities, meaning that they are both path-dependent and path-breaking in their development. The paper argues that a firm-based analysis of the development of capabilities and business models is warranted as a complement to the numerous sector-level studies of the biosciences. The internalist perspective of the co-evolution of capabilities and business models developed here cannot be substituted by industry or environmental explanations.
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- Johansson, Daniel J.A., 1975-, et al.
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A scenario based analysis of land competition between food and bioenergy production in the US
- 2007
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Ingår i: Climatic Change. ; 82:267-291
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Greenhouse gas abatement policies will increase the demand for renewable sources of energy, including bioenergy. In combination with a global growing demand for food, this could lead to a food-fuel competition for bio-productive land. Proponents of bioenergy have suggested that energy crop plantations may be established on less productive land as a way of avoiding this potential food-fuel competition. However, many of these suggestions have been made without any underlying economic analysis. In this paper, we develop a long-term economic optimization model (LUCEA) of the U.S. agricultural and energy system to analyze this possible competition for land and to examine the link between carbon prices, the energy system dynamics and the effect of the land competition on food prices. Our results indicate that bioenergy plantations will be competitive on cropland already at carbon taxes about US $20/ton C. As the carbon tax increases, food prices more than double compared to the reference scenario in which there is no climate policy. Further, bioenergy plantations appropriate significant areas of both cropland and grazing land. In model runs where we have limited the amount of grazing land that can be used for bioenergy to what many analysts consider the upper limit, most of the bioenergy plantations are established on cropland. Under the assumption that more grazing land can be used, large areas of bioenergy plantations are established on grazing land, despite the fact that yields are assumed to be much lower (less than half) than on crop land. It should be noted that this allocation on grazing land takes place as a result of a competition between food and bioenergy production and not because of lack of it. The estimated increase in food prices is largely unaffected by how much grazing land can be used for bioenergy production.
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