Coordination incentives, performance measurement, and resource allocation in public sector organizations

Why are coordination problems common when public sector organizations share responsibilities, and what can be done to mitigate such problems? This paper uses a multi-task principal-agent model to examine two related reasons: the incentives to coordinate resource allocation and the difficulties of measuring performance. The analysis shows that when targets are set individually for each organization

From Autonomy to External Control? The case of the Swedish physiciens

Strategies for Integrating Gender Perspectives into Science and Technology Education: Reflections upon the course “Gender relations in the natural and physical sciences and engineering”

Köldbryggors inverkan på energianvändningen

From an Architecture of Participation to a Structure for Nurturing Relationships: Swedish Teacher Trainees’ Informal Learning on Facebook

Rescaling of the commercial property market and changing urban governance in Lisbon

An Object-Oriented Model of a Heat Exchanger Unit

Det finns inga svenska dösar.

Physics and device opportunities offered by semiconductor nanowires

The Determinants of Health in Sweden

Teaching programming to young learners using Scala and Kojo

This paper presents an approach to teaching programming and abstract thinking to young learners using Scala and Kojo. Kojo is an open source IDE for the Scala programming language. The approach is based on Scala APIs for turtle graphics and functional pictures, a process of interactive exploration and discovery, and structured learning material that guides learners. The approach encourages playful

Religiösa organisationer och civilsamhället

I kapitlet beskriver vi religionens plats i dagens svenska samhälle genom ett civilsamhällsperspektiv. Vi börjar med att visa hur civilsamhället beskrivits i förhållande till religion i Sverige samt i internationell forskning. Detta för att ge en bakgrund för att presentera och diskutera olika förklaringar till vad som avses med termen civilsamhälle. Vi tittar även på vad den offentliga administra

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Ett instrument för bedömning och analys av tillgänglighetsproblem i boendet.

Multi-stage deplyoment of robot control software

For future robot control, there is a strong need for tools and methods supporting the development and deployment of control software. To this end, we propose a method for developing hard real-time software based on the standard Java language and multi-stage deployment and verification towards the embedded platform. This allows us to develop embedded Java software on the desktop using standard soft

Sharing the burden of depression: Did the Monopoly keep its promise?

This paper is a chapter draft from my thesis about personnel policy and industrial relations at the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly, 1915-1940. The paper focueses on the importance of short time work as a way of dealing with the severe recession in the early 1920s.

Handling the municipal solid waste in China: case study of policies for ‘White Pollution’ in Beijing

The Fan(g) Community: Social Media and Pop Culture Tourism

Safety culture and proactivity for safety in ground handling

A 3 uW 500 kb/s Ultra Low Power Analog Decoder with Digital I/O in 65 nm CMOS