Research at Uppsala University
History of human antibiotic use written in the oral bacteria of wild brown bears
25 August 2021. An international team of researchers used historical museum collections to study the effects of huma ...
How research can encourage us to cycle instead
19 August 2021. How do you get to work in the mornings? Transport currently accounts for 25 per cent of GHG emission ...
Philippine ethnic group has most Denisovan DNA
13 August 2021. The Philippine ethnic group Ayta Magbukon has the highest proportion of genes from our extinct relat ...
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Here you will find all research projects at Uppsala University funded by the main Swedish funding bodies. The search feature is based on the SweCRIS database.
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2019 workshop on New institutionalism in organization theory
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Research project from 2019-03-14 to 2019-03-16
This workshop brings together scholars from different disciplines, countries, and academic systems who share an interest in pushing forward theoretical and/or empirical frontiers of organizational institutionalism ...
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The 3rd Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems (SCIS) and the 35th Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia (IRIS)
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2012-12-31
IRIS (Information systems research seminar in Scandinavia) commenced in 1978 and is the oldest consecutive information systems conference in the world. The conference is organized as an annual working ...
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Aligning industry incentives with AMR control goals: Exploring the feasibility of an antibiotic susceptibility bonus for drugs to treat Gram-negative infection
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Research project from 2017-12-01 to 2019-12-31
High prices create incentives for industry to develop new antibiotics, but also incentivize firms to promote their products to maximize sales volume. This multidisciplinary study explores the feasibility ...
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Application printing costs
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Research project from 2011-11-01 to 2012-11-30
Purpose and goal: The aim is to publish an edited volume regarding the efficiency in Swedish industry from a historical perspektive. Expected results and effects: Approach and implementation: ...
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Managing the digital transformation of physical space
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Research project from 2018-11-15 to 2021-02-28
Purpose and goal: ** Denna text är maskinöversatt ** The research project “Leading digital transformation of physical spaces” was carried out by researchers at Uppsala University in collaboration with ...
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Comparative study of competence development models for increased innovation capacity
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Research project from 2016-06-01 to 2017-05-31
Purpose and goal: The purpose of the project was to identify factors that affect results and ability to implement capacity development regarding innovation in public administration. The project has identified ...
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Data for financial economics
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Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-06-01
Purpose and goal: The overall goal with this project is to provide students and researchers with data related to various corporate governance issues. For insatnce, compared to many other countries, ownershipdata ...
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Mind the risk – Ethical, psychological and social implications of provision of risk information from genetic and related technologies. A joint European research program.
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Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2019-12-31
There is a massive production of genetic risk information by academic- and industry-associated scientists. However, health care systems as well as legislators and society at large seem largely unprepared ...
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The Swedish Patent Database, 1746-1975
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Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31
The purpose of this research project is to build a fully searchable, publicly accessible database for all Swedish patents covering the period 1746-1974 (ca. 400,000 patents). No such database exists today ...
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Evaluating work of comparable worth. The use of job evaluation systems as promotors of gender equal salaries in the Swedish municipal sector
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Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31
The gender wage gap is recurrently discussed in Sweden. The main explanation for the gap is that women and men work in different occupations and with different tasks. To come to terms with the gender wage ...
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Imagination in action – the development of imagined opportunities in corporate venture units
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Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31
This project investigates how new business ventures are imagined and shaped within corporate venture units (CVUs). Whereas there is general agreement that these CVUs are exploratory spaces designed to ...
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Financial and Real Economics
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Research project from 2013-11-01 to 2014-09-30
Purpose and goal: The overall goal with the project has been to undertake a detailed examination of various issues with the ambition to create a database which reflects stockholdings in Swedish public ...
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Global virtual team leaders: unexplored opportunities for multicultural management
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Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2017-06-30
This project is about team leaders of global virtual multicultural teams. My purpose is to carry out analysis of collected data and write an article to present the results. Earlier research has shown that ...
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How can public authorities monitor private social service providers?
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Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2014-12-31
The starting point of the project is the partial privatization of Swedish public services, also in the welfare sector. The entrance of private actors into the welfare sector represents a significant development ...
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Innovation management and organization in the network ´Swedish Authorities for Sustainable Development´
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Research project from 2016-12-01 to 2018-11-30
Purpose and goal: The objective; having increased capacity for innovation in their own business, in relation to each other and to their international partners - has been fulfilled. Throughout the project ...
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The influence of international accounting regulations on the control of Swedish banks
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Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31
De ekonomiska kriserna under 2000-talet har ökat intresset för hur banker redovisar och styr sin verksamhet. Banker har stor betydelse för samhällsekonomin i allmänhet och det finansiella systemet i synnerhet ...
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The Intrapreneurship Compass
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Research project from 2018-09-03 to 2020-09-01
Purpose and goal: ** Denna text är maskinöversatt ** The research project has had several initial purposes, the three main ones were to: (1) create an awareness of the concept of intrapreneurship and ...
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Organizational consequences of competition: how do schools change when they are made to compete?
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Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2019-12-31
The purpose of this project is to develop new knowledge on how competition affects organizations. Competition is supposed to improve resource use, innovativeness and responsiveness of organizations, but ...
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MODUFLEX
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Research project from 2011-11-01 to 2012-03-31
Purpose and goal: The Moduflex project aims at analyzing and defining models for improved Swedish competitive advantage in manufacturing. This will be done by researching models for the application of ...
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Management control systems and stress: a cross-discipline field experiment
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Research project from 2009-07-01 to 2012-06-30
Management accounting research has shown that management control systems in companies and other organizations have become more complex. They measure performance on more objects, with new and more measurements ...
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Model Based Systems Engineering as an enabler for management of innovation
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Research project from 2016-11-28 to 2019-08-31
Purpose and goal: The purpose of the project has been to assess the effects of the utilization of digital, model based, tools and methods for systems engineering, product development and manufacturing ...
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Open Innovation Day 2012
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2012-06-20
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The Holy Trinity of Organization: the Changing role of administration in modern universities
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Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31
This project aims to develop knowledge on current changes in administrative practices of public sector organizations, and the implications thereof for the relations between administration, professions ...
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Organized freedom: University governance and the higher education and research reforms in Sweden
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Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2016-12-31
University autonomy is a keyword in current reforms of university governance systems in Sweden and beyond. Through explicit autonomy reforms, universities are expected to become more capable actors, less ...
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Re-Solve: To detect Innovation Challenges
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Research project from 2013-12-09 to 2014-10-15
Purpose and goal: The project´s goal was to locate challenges in the field of environment and sustainable development at Uppsala Knivsta and Heby municipalities. A number of these challenges were described ...
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Social value creation in MNCs: A special attention on social innovation initiatives
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Research project from 2016-02-01 to 2017-02-01
The project “Social value creation in MNCs: A special attention on social innovation initiatives” concerns the development of a research network and a platform for research on how ‘social value creation ...
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Strategic considerations regarding trademarks, patents and designs: Appeals in PBR, 1977-2016
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Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2020-10-31
Purpose and goal: The aim of the project has been to shed light on strategic considerations with regard to intellectual property rights. The interest in appealing PRV´s decision in the Court of Appeals ...
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Technological development in the multinational corporation - Longitudinal studies of the role and evolution of foreign subsidiaries
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Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2013-12-31
Whereas there is general agreement about the increasingly important technological and strategic roles played by foreign subsidiaries of the multinational corporation (MNC), surprisingly little is known ...
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Translation, Technology and Time: Towards an organisational institutionalism that matters
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Research project from 2020-07-01 to 2021-06-30
The aim with this project is to reinvigorate core ideas and themes of institutional theory, particularly those that have been central in Nordic scholarship within organisation studies, in order to develop ...
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Value Creation in the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance: Exploring the roles of Business Actors in International Multi-sectoral Partnerships
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Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2020-12-31
Rapidly increasing anti-microbial resistance (AMR) constitutes a global threat. In combination with a quick decline in antibacterial drug development by pharmaceutical firms, a number of “international ...
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Helpline important for older people during the pandemic
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The national COVID-19 Data Portal turns one year old
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