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Using social responsibility to obtain employees´ commitment
2011
Masteroppgave i økonomi og administrasjon - Universitetet i Agder 2011 I remember the past semester in class of Strategic Marketing Management, the topic of the day was “Resource Dependent Theory” and the professor started to lecture saying: ... “A company is a collection of resource: physical resources, human resources and financial resources. The way how to organize them produce capabilities and the more capabilities in a company the more sustainable competitive advantage. If you need to choose just one resource, which one do you think is the crucial one?” Then after 2 minutes of discussion the whole class agreed on “HUMAN RESOURCES”. Human Resource is the main resource in a company, beca…
Innovative anskaffelser i offentlig sektor : en analyse av anskaffelser gjort i regi av Nasjonalt program for leverandørutvikling
2014
Masteroppgave i økonomi og administrasjon – Universitetet i Agder 2014 Formål et med denne utredningen er se nærmere på hvordan verktøyene til Nasjonalt program for leverandørutvikling påvirker offentlige innovasjonsaktiviteter. Tiltross for internasjonalt fokus rundt "Public procurement for innovation" (PPI), så viser undersøkelser av offentlig sektor at det er foretatt relativt få slike anskaffelser i Norge, og at leverandørmedvirkning i Sverige blir betraktet som en lite viktig faktor når det kommer til innovasjon i offentlig sektor. Disse funnene reiser spørsmål rundt denne typen programmers forventede effektivitet, og er overraskende da leverandører tradisjonelt sett har blitt oppfatte…
Religion and governance in microfinance institutions: evidence from the global microfinance industry
2014
Masteroppgave i økonomi og administrasjon – Universitetet i Agder 2014 This thesis sought to study the influence of religion on corporate governance in Microfinance Institutions. The study uses secondary data on a sample of rated Christian and secular MFIs compiled in rating reports by rating agencies to compare the governance differences and similarities between Christian and secular MFIs. The research uses the random effects General Least Squares and logistic regression models alongside other univariate statistical methods to test for the effect of religious affiliation on corporate governance. The overall findings indicate that Christian MFIs are significantly less-regulated by banking a…
Endring av organisasjonsstruktur : konsekvenser for bygg- og anleggsprosjekter
2015
Masteroppgave økonomi og administrasjon- Universitetet i Agder, 2015 Denne masteroppgaven er en kvalitativ studie som tar for seg forskningsspørsmålet "Hvordan blir prosjekter i en bygg- og anleggsorganisasjon påvirket av å gå fra matriseorganisasjonsstruktur til linjeorganisasjonsstruktur?". Jernbaneverket har vært benyttet som caseorganisasjon ettersom de i 2014 endret sin organisasjonsstruktur på dette viset. Målet for oppgaven har vært å forstå hvilken betydning organisasjonsstruktur har på gjennomføring av prosjekt, og hvilke konsekvenser en endring har. Dette da organisasjoner i dag har begynt å vende tilbake til den tradisjonelle linjeorganisasjonen. Problemstillingen er særlig gjeld…
Presumption of Innocence and Deterrence
2018
This paper deals with the presumption of innocence and the law enforcer's incentives to exert investigative effort. Our main result is that, even if the presumption of guilt maximizes deterrence for a given effort by the law enforcer, divergent objectives between the law enforcer (who maximizes the probability of a conviction weighted by the magnitude of the sanction and the type of the citizen) and the public decision-maker (who minimizes social costs) may lead the latter to prefer the presumption of innocence. Indeed, the presumption of innocence may induce the law enforcer to increase investigative efforts thereby improving deterrence. As a consequence, if the law enforcer's effort is re…
Comparaison Balanced Scorecard - Navigator
2008
Cet article a pour objectif de décrire et de comparer deux modèles de tableaux de bord stratégique : le modèle Anglo-Saxon, connu sous le nom de Balanced Scorecard et le modèle Scandinave, dont l'application la plus connue a été développé au sein de l'entreprise Skandia sous le nom de Navigator.
LES TABLEAUX DE BORD DU CAPITAL INTELLECTUEL
2009
Cet article a pour objectif de présenter et d'analyser les tableaux de bord du capital intellectuel qui constituent un modèle alternatif au Balanced Scorecard. Dans une première partie, nous retraçons les origines et les fondements des tableaux de bord du capital intellectuel. Puis dans une seconde partie, nous décrivons les différentes façons d'appréhender le capital intellectuel pour dans une troisième partie analyser des exemples de tableaux de bord du capital intellectuel.
The Balanced Scorecard as a Knowledge Management Tool: A French Experience in a Semi-Public Insurance Company
2008
International audience; In this paper we present the Balanced Scorecard, a Strategic Control tool, which is quite famous all around the world and in the European countries. Its principle objective is to articulate planning decisions with control ones thanks to non-financial indicators. The Strategic Control and the Agency Theories constitute the foundation of this tool. But in Northern Europe, some specific Balanced Scorecard have been designed in the framework of the Knowledge Management Theory. To work, the Balanced Scorecard needs a sophisticated information system support. Using two theoretical backgrounds, the Strategic Control approach and the Knowledge Management Theory, we analyse t…
Federalism, Proportionality, and Popular Will in US Presidential Elections: Did Colorado Have the Right Idea?
2015
As is well known, the United States is a federal country composed of 50 states plus the District of Columbia, where the individual states and the country as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. This is reflected everywhere in its political-administrative structure, including the election of the US President, who is elected by the Electoral College and not directly by the people; an issue that provokes a confrontation between abolishers of the Electoral College and supporters of the current system each time a candidate not winning the most popular votes is elected President (last time in 2000 elections). Between both extremes, there are intermediate solutions that, while continuing to r…
Theoretical Old-Age Pension Benefits and Replacement Rates in the Baltic States: A Retrospective Simulation
2016
Abstract The author presents a comparative analysis of old-age pension systems in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania using a method of retrospective simulation run on a self-developed model. The model baseline case is a person retiring in December 2014 after 40 years of service with nationwide average salary. Other cases include low and high-earners, funded schemes participants and simulations for modified notional capital valorisation formulae. Three study countries return very dissimilar results, which is caused by differences in their pension systems’ designs. Lack of non-contributory element (basic pension) in Latvia leads to a low degree of progressivity, with inexcusably low pensions to lo…